Forewarned Nancy Drew: "So let me get this straight, I'm somewhere I WOULDN'T call America, I'm seeing freaking gondolas, and OH YEAH, I'm talking to a CHESS BOARD. Yeah, that's just something I do now. I stalk my neighbor. Go eat gelato. I'll probably get stuck in a boiler room and almost drown next."

The binary code from the office translates into "I love cute little fuzzy animals."

Me: put the skirt on, it’s cute! Gab, almost immediately: the skirt is not even an option

I don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but Nancy saying “cheeseburger” is a reference to Joe Hardy in Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon. During a conversation in the museum in Copper Gorge, there’s a moment where the camera zooms in super close on Joe’s face, and he says in a very serious voice, “Cheeseburger.” It’s one of my favorite moments from any Nancy Drew game, I quote it all the time. Lol

I'm Italian and sometimes when Nancy moves from place to place, there are people chattering in the background and in two istances, their lines were so funny, I can't AHHAH One time someone said that their brother's getting married and another person asks "is it with a man?" and the first person answers with "no, it's a woman called Maria" lmfaooooo (it's also cute because, as I understand, these games are pretty old, but I felt no kind of "disgust" or homophobia). Another time, a man is saying that his sister had a child and the baby was born weighing 30 kg HAHAHAHAHA

Wait, 19mins in and I'm shocked at how they're already talking about issues in Venice such as high rents and general cost of living due to also rich foreigners moving there. Quite impressive to be honest

I love that this game starts with a *record scratch* "I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation..."

I’m an art historian and have been to the mosaic conservators workshop at St. Marc’s basilica in Venice and Jesus, the amount of research these game developers do is crazy. I’m seriously impressed.

Gab shading Nancy's poor undercover work with "I'm not American but I have an American accent", then realizing that it's a perfect description of her is the highlight of this whole video 😂

Those shots of Piazza San Marco without a single pigeon are the most unrealistic thing about this game 😂 I remember when I was in Venice we had to fight them off with an umbrella.

I nearly had a heart attack when she started translating Helena's German notes. "You can read that?! How many languages do you know?!?" But then I remembered...she's Dutch. I imagine German and Dutch aren't that different.

I looked up the voice actor for Nancy, and thought it was so cool that she also does voices in God of War (and a ton of other huge games)! Her name is Lani Minella!

It seems that whenever I think to myself, "I wonder when Gab is going to play more Nancy Drew?" You'll upload a new one 😍 I'm ready to binge this while I do my assignment!

Welcome to the traditional "Lizzie talks about Nancy Drew too much" comment! :D - You can interrupt Nancy's intro spiel if you click on the case file or other things on the desk, though it's also fun and kinda comforting to hear it. - The team that made these games was pretty small and never made very good profits from this series. Combine that with their two-games-per-year schedule and I would be shocked if they ever physically scouted locations. Plus, they used to talk about what they were up to and give us hints about upcoming games so I feel like I probably would've heard about cool trips abroad. You should absolutely start a vlog series where you visit the places Nancy has been, though! - I love Nancy's blurry-but-clearly-MAC makeup in her bag, lol. And maybe a Bobbi Brown something? Hm. And of course she brought Mr. Woogle Woggle, the bear! - One of the background songs sounds kind of like a cursed version of Happy Birthday. - If you tell Margherita that you're birdwatching, I think I remember a Red Knott reference happening. You can also straight-up tell her you're spying on someone and I think she says something to the effect of "uh...okay, weirdo" and your ca-mates later assume that was a joke. (I could be misremembering; I chose the architecture answer on my most recent playthrough and since this one was never a favorite of mine, it's been years since I heard the other options.) - Fango's musical horse is Glory from The Haunted Carousel! (I took pictures of each set of notes instead of frantically writing them down like I had to as a kid, heh.) Glory's head also shows up in Tazza's dumpster. I hope Joy is okay. :| - Fango has a computer science degree from the University of Bologna. Seems legit. And the tiny robot in his cabinet is a little version of the ~futuristic~ robot from Josiah Crowley / Richard Topham's house in Secret of the Old Clock. - Something something Colin wants Nancy to touch his equipment ;) - The Her Interactive site used to have a downloadable version of Scopa you could play in case you didn't find that game to be torturous. Also, saving the game while you play scopa will keep your scores, so you can save if you have a good round and reload if things go badly! Of course, I only realized that *after* losing to that smug punk like five times in a row... ugh. I swear, 20% of my playtime on Steam was spent on Scopa. -_- Stupid heart of the cards... - You can use your computer's keyboard to dial the phone numbers! I think that's usually the case for the later games. - You never asked Margherita about the flowers on the roof, but they're from the Hilihili in Hawaii and "grow like weeds" so you're allowed to pick them! If you can puff all the bees to sleep, that is. You can buy a fumigator thingy at the market and give yourself war flashbacks to the loquat tree in Crystal Skull, then sell the flowers for 30 (I think) at the market. The flowers regrow as often as you sell them. The bees seem to get angrier the more you take their flowers, though. Thankfully, this game gives you enough money that you don't *need* to face the bees (or do questionable dancing) for extra money as long as you just buy what you need. - Samantha Quick is voiced by Nancy... in this game. ;) - I'd absolutely pitch in for a Kickstarter to get a new ND game, *but* only if it would be made by the old employees who all got fired or left around 2015. They did have their own in-house game engine. At one point, they said Salem would have to take a bit longer because they were switching to Unity. It turned out that the huge slowdown was mainly caused by Penny Milliken destroying the company so there was nobody left to actually make the game. The reason Salem seemed like it was made by outsourcing everything to people on Fiverr is because it basically was. (They did once do a Kickstarter for... I think a mobile port of Ghost of Thornton Hall? but it failed.) - Punchy LaRue is the name of one of the voice actors who plays Bess! Presumably she was okay with letting Nancy borrow her name for her, uh, debut in Venice. - If you dance well enough, you can earn 32 Euros per round! There are only three songs so I had the patterns kind of memorized at one point. The music in the club shows up as a ringtone option sometimes and a song on the Jukebox in the remastered Secrets Can Kill. - You can use your arrow keys to navigate the laser Roomba maze! And that area that you said you couldn't do when approaching from the bottom - you can do it, it's just annoying. You gotta wait for the one at the bottom to start going up and then run for your life around that bottom left corner, then dodge the roomba in the top left area as you try to go to the right. It took me several attempts to get the timing right. - You missed a silly side plot about food poisoning from sausages! At one point, you can find a basket on the table with the "interactive guidebook" in your room. It's full of sausages and has a note from Colin. If you choose to eat them, Nancy passes out when she leaves the room (and Helena says you're turning green, even if you're fully leathered up at the time). When you wake up, you can ask Colin "hey man, wtf" and he claims he doesn't know anything about any sausages. But you can match the handwriting from the note to a note in his book when he's gone later and if you confront him again, he apologizes and says he didn't mean to make you sick. (Maybe don't leave meat out at room temperature then?? C'mon, bro.) - The kanji book has the symbol for fire twice. And some of the symbols in there were also part of Message in a Haunted Mansion! The ones for daughter/woman, fire, dragon, and maybe road (I forget) should seem familiar. - Major props for dealing with that end water puzzle! It's a huge pain. And on senior mode, you don't even get that map! When I was looking up the differences between junior and senior before starting my recent playthrough, that was a deal-breaker, lol. Junior mode and no regrets!! - The gondola guys that require payment will sing for you! Sometimes it sounds pretty good, and other times... it sounds like you paid one Euro for it. :D - There's a second Easter egg you can get if you buy a gelato with the colors of the Italian flag. (I think the order matters.) - If you get all the achievements, you'll get the full set of "outtakes" after the credits. Those are worth watching, honestly. It's like the fake bloopers from old Pixar movies! - Nancy does say something about "this place will be useful if I ever need a book" when you first check out the kiosk. - When I watched the VOD of the streams, I was so proud of chat getting excited about the Crystal Skull mask in the costume shop. I love seeing other people get enthusiastic about these games! They (clearly) mean a lot to me.

idk if anyone else noticed but all the things you pulled from the dumpster were from past nancy games i think, which is pretty cool, i love a call back, especially in a nancy game

I want Gab to make a cameo in a new Nancy Drew game. I feel like her life would be made if that happened.

28:11 lol imagine someone behind her waiting in line to get their money from the ATM but Nancy is reading a whole manuscript 😂

Evelyn, it would be so fun if you could get Sean to play Castle Malloy with you! It would be so hilarious! Aww man no poisoned sausages! Evelyn moved too fast! 😂😝

Next Nancy game is Haunting of Castle Malloy which takes place in Ireland! I saw a comment somewhere before that mentioned that Gab should invite Sean to play a bit of that one with her and I want to reiterate it because what a fantastic idea! Sean's most likely very busy, but it would be so fun to see his take on a bit of that story and how Ireland is interperted, even if it is just for a little bit!

I just started but I’ve gotta stop and highlight something Nancy does at the very beginning. Stained glass guy is upset because he thought he had found someone he could share his passion with, and Nancy very earnestly tells him that she wishes she could stay and she thinks what he’s doing is super cool, she just really has somewhere to be. And he believes her and continues talking to her. Now in other games she’s done something similar to this, humoring someone so she can get more info out of them, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. Nancy just met this guy, and I think she meant every word of what she said to him. I just love it because it highlights how kind and polite she is (when not being Nosy Nancy lol), and it also shows how she loves to learn. Nancy is an information vacuum, she can’t get enough of it, and I’d bet she really would be thrilled to learn about stained glass from someone so passionate. Idk I think those are two traits of Nancy that get lost in many adaptations, but she’s had them since Secret of the Old Clock.

YAY!! I was just thinking to myself, "I hope Gab plays a Nancy Drew soon!" Lo and behold! I'm SO excited. These are my fave for cozy YouTubin' . YOU are already cozy vibes just because you seem like a very kind and very chill person, and you're extremely smart so YOU mixed with mystery-puzzle games, especially a super cute one like Nancy Drew, is a magical combo. YES. Saving this for later tonight with some cider!

These make me so freaking happy because I grew up playing the Nancy Drew games, and it seemed like NO ONE knew about them! To watch someone love them and play them for the first time is so much fun!

Can't wait for Gab to play "Warnings at Waverly Academy" and "The Silent Spy" 🤩😝

I misread that as “Nancy Drew and the Phantom Menace” and immediately started wondering when Darth Maul was going to show up.

I read the title as "The phantom Venice" and now I just picture italian starwars

I totally relate to the whole "languages don't come easy to me" thing from Colin at the start of the game. I worked hard to try and learn French in school, but it just never seemed to stick in my head for more than a couple of days! I love the idea of being able to speak more than one language, as I know it makes such a difference when visiting a place, and is so much more respectful, but I just find it so hard to learn and retain language information, my brain just does not seem to work that way.... now, tell me random facts about moments in history (particularly classical history) and I will be able to recall it 10 years later! (Fun, but not as useful in everyday situations.)

Tis a sad day that I’ve reached the end of the Nancy drew playlist. I’ve taken to watching them every night. Can’t wait to see the next one come out!

I loved visiting Venice. We went in April, so it was a less busy time and didn’t really smell because it wasn’t hot, which I understand to be what causes bad odors. Really a beautiful place, though they have their struggles especially with cost of living, excessive tourism, and ya know the rising sea level threatening to completely consume the place. It’s so so so easy to get lost or wind up at a dead end. I wish there were a way to minimize the negative effect of tourism while still allowing tourists to experience Venice.

OMG Duolingo German reared its head when you looked at that notebook LMAO. I was like "hey I can understand some of this!" XD

When I was in Paris, I did a side by side of all of the places in the Nancy Drew games in real life! Pont Neuf Park looks almost exactly like the game.

This could not have come at a better time! I'm actually going to Venice tomorrow :)

Prudence sounds like Graham Chapman doing his 'housewife' voices in Monty Python 🤣🤣

Me:*in the middle of piercing my ear Gab: 🎵this is dangerous🎵

2:54:54 Putting on cat ears is vital. Cat ears make it a Carnevale (or Halloween) costume. Without the ears, Nancy would just look like a criminal to the general public. You can’t innocently wear a full-coverage mask unless it’s a kink or a holiday.

Oh my gods I just realised, if every month gets a new Nancy playthrough, there's only a year left of Gab's Nancy content

"Ouuu chocolates!" my brain anytime I'm at a Christmas party and someone's got a pack of those bad boys out on the table but 99% of the time it's only the dark chocolates and coconut left so you keep awkward eye contact with the box the entire night, until you eventually give in and eat the last hazelnut filled dark chocolate and feel immediately disappointed

MORE NANCY YESSSSS, this is literally my favorite part of each month

It took me like 4 rewatches to actually see the story start to finish because I kept falling asleep in the middle and missing the plot! Listening to you read about chess peices and strategies was just too cozy :D These Nancy Drew games are so fun, Gab, I can't wait to watch t he next one!

Gab not getting the 7 and 2 when she had a 9 had me screaming at the screen 😂 I went from not knowing what the heck is going on (adhd too) to cheering like a football fan 😂😂😂

1:29:03 “Do you want some lippy with that?” followed by “Operation Blonde” made me smile and giggle

Gab with the ultimate shade: "THIS is what you're wearing??"

You can tell Gab has a language brain. I think of languages the same way. Brains are so cool.

Around 2:32:00 when gab is talking about the fandom - Yeah, the following is really pretty large, it's pretty niche but it's generally all very nice people who just like mysteries! I dont think they meant to change it up so much, but they spent like five years on midnight in salem, so when the trailer came out and they hadn't even painted walls and stuff yet, it was really disappointing, and then it wasn't received very well by longtime fans. It is the only one of the 33 games I haven't played, I bought it but I'm too afraid I'll hate it. But from what I've seen, it really wasn't that bad, just different. And people don't like change. The company has been struggling, but seems to be hiring new people and is still really active on all their social medias, AND they just copyrighted/trademarked (I forget and I'm tired) a name for a possible new game, although we've seen no official news about it from the company. As a lifelong fan, and true (self-proclaimed) Nancy Drew Expert™, I'm excited at the possibility of a new game, and I really hope it happens eventually 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I'm Italian I can't tell you how proud this made me feel!! Also you must play the sequel with Sean!!!! Would love to see you two solving the case together

I got so excited when you said you wanted to play them all again on senior. I hope you will stream/post those playthroughs as well!!

You got me into Nancy Drew games. I started with ghost of Thornton Hill and i love it :)

I grew up playing these games with my sister sister so I am a huge fan of the Nancy Drew series. I have even rebought them and replayed them recently so I would love a new game.

All I remember from Venice was that the gondolas costs 80 euros during regular times and 120 euros during the evening because it's more romantic XD.

Gab talking about a potential new Nancy game, and HeR Interactive announcing ND34 a few months later. Thank u queen for putting it out into the universe

03:47:51 - Okay, I would LOVE to learn another language THIS way! I'm absorbing these words WAY quicker than other courses I've tried. 😂

In case some didn't get it Fat Tuesday is the direct translation of Mardi Gras (Mardi = Tuesday, Gras = Fat)

Gab's giving me life rn with the nancy videos

It's been... About a decade since I've taken a German class. I'm so thankful for those years, though, because even now I find myself able to follow along more than expected with German text. How cool. Also yay, Nancy Drew!!!!! Love these vids.

Melting Justin Timberlake flirting with Nancy is kinda adorable

My comfort games ❤️❤️ reminds me when I played them with my sister when I was a little kid. (24 now almost 25 now..I feel old.)

i keep trying to watch this but it's so cozy and relaxing i fall asleep every time!! 😂

I’ve been so incredibly well fed with Jack’s God of War series and your Plague Tale and now you drop this??? I feel like a spoiled kid 🥰🥰🥰

Gabs + Nancy Drew = wholesome company whilst doing work / assignments 😄❤

BABE WAKE UP- NEW GAB NANCY DREW VIDEO

Gab, I just recently started following you and I have to say that I LOVE your videos! Whether it's a horror game, Minecraft or anything, your videos are always so laid back and fun to watch! 🖤🖤🖤

I get so excited every time you post one of these! Its sooo fun to watch someone solve these games (that I know inside and out) for the first time and have fun doing so :) Also, I love your Nancy drew game travel plan idea!! someone needs to do that and vlog the experience!!!

is it weird that Eveline playing Nancy Drew is the highlight of my whole month? No, I think not :D

Honestly Nancy Drew has been to more places than the Scooby-Doo gang lmao I was so excited to see you had uploaded another! Love the series!

Yes! New Nancy Drew! I just started watching these a few weeks ago and flew through them, lol. Love your content, Gab!

Ooooo yehhh, it's time for warm blanket, hot cocoa and Nancy Drew!

Game: *mentions Comedia dell 'Arte* Me, who has a theater degree: *TRAUMA FLASHBACKS*

I can't believe no one in chat told you that arrow keys work for the sapphire theft. I'm so so sorry!

I'm starting to realize there is a very clear pattern to who the bad guy is in all the Nancy Drew games, but I love watching Gab play them regardless 😄

The characters 壹、貳、參、肆 are nothing but different versions of 一、二、三、四. As far as I know, the first ones are used in like bank checks, so that, for example, it's harder to add a line or two on 一 and make it look like it's a 三. It's an anti-fraud tactic. This, of course, explains the numbers from 1 to 3, but I don't know why other numbers have the other version too. All numbers have these versions, 5 is 伍 and so on :3

hearing one of the most basic card games (scopa) from my childhood being explained in english feels kind of weird. but it's good that it gets exported with Nancy Drew games. SCOPA!

Oh my goodness another Nancy game!!!! My absolute favorites and at such a good time since I’m so sick today. Ready to cuddle up with a blanket and watch the whole thing! Thanks Gab!

For someone who went to Venice Italy and has gone the Gondola Rides the smell isn’t that bad. It’s a must see and do while there. It’s beautiful. I spent 2 weeks in Italy during Spring Break. You can walk through the Bridge of Sighs and look through the last small window before the Prison.

I remember when playing first time this game I made terrible mistake by spending my money in gift shop and gondolas. I couldn’t afford later the useful stuff like books and dictionary. As a result I was dancing in the club the shit out of me. Seriously, most of my gameplay was dancing for the money. I learn a lot about finances from Nancy Drew :D

Just so you know blackmoore is really hard without a checklist. I played senior on my first go.

I always hate doing the diamond stealing part but loved watching you do it 😂 so funny Also whenever you go "hm" thoughtfully it sounds like something Nancy says sometimes, like a sort of the dialogue

These playthroughs make me so happy :D can't wait for you to do Haunting of Castle Malloy and Warnings at Waverly Academy!

Its my day off, i got a nice glass of pinot and a cozy gab game. Perfect.

Rutherford's caricature falsetto tone is such a hilarious direction in these Nancy Drew games

I think my favorite you played was Ghost of Thornton Hall. Shadow at Waters Edge was very immersive and I loved that you knew Japanese. You were giving lowkey mini lessons and I enjoyed it.

there's way to unlock some dialogue with colin/justin that leads him to give you basket of sausages. and if you eat those sausages, I believe someone poisoned them & you get sick lol idk how to unlock that storyline though, I've heard it happens if you continuously go into your room and/or audition for the dancing place early

You should definitely play "Castle Malloy" with Sean! That would be so much fun! Great playthrough, BTW.👍💚

Been to Venice, it smells like the sea, it's not bad and is a beautiful place! Should go to a winery too, those are amazing with these sweet Moscato, meats, and fruits. Would suggest going to Sorrento as well and look for these lemon drop candys they sell in the main street market. They have pure lemon juice in the center and are amazing!

The music in the tunnels is so soothing

That castle in the next game looks like it's probably based off of Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland! I visited a few years ago and it was beautiful.

Catching up on the Nancy Drew I missed! I'm so glad you're playing more Nancy Drew!

the noises you made when sneaking past those security robots took me out 🤣

I haven't watched the whole thing yet but I got major sentimental vibes from the music box playing saint lucia's song!

Fun fact! Sinister actually comes directly from sinistra (left) in Latin! The reason for this is that in much of the ancient world and well into the modern period in some cases/places, left-handedness was considered aberrant, with many theories abounding around the cause of it. This association with the left side being evil, aberrant, or unclean led to the meaning of sinister as 'evil' rather than just 'to the left'.

You can dance, if you want to! You can leave your friends behind! 🤣

As an Italian hearing you speak Italian bright my day 😊

If Gab is doing a KZfaq series to travel where Nancy has gone, I will be there first line. Maybe we should start a kickstarter to make it happen! :D

I'm a huge fan of the incorporation of the passanger/carrier pigeons because that's a huge plot point in my favorite classic Nancy book, Password to Larkspur Lane. That's one of the few I don't have in the neon yellow hardcovers because it's from my mom's childhood. It's the first one we read together when I was a kid. All the Nancy Drew games are based on one of the books but not many reference the classic Secret of the Old Clock to Thirteenth Pearl run. It always makes me happy when I recognize something that's from the originals. Also, the task list is some major ASMR super satisfying.

I just started watching, but I am so excited! This is one of my favorite Nancy games, that I played often when I was younger, and actually is one of the things that heavily inspired me to study abroad there. I lived there for 4 months, and it isn't actually too smelly. It was beautiful, filled with art and history, and one of the best things I have ever done. You can take a tour of the Doge's Palace and see the Dungeons, for sure. Also, if you do ever get to Venice, the best gelato in town is at Suso near the Rialto Bridge. Can't wait to watch!

I have been rewatching the other nancy games all week. I got my tea and my cat and my big blanket I am ready for a new cozy mystery!

Gab, I am ill and home alone and this is literally the best gift ever! Let the cosy night in of puzzling begin! ❤️

I know Lani Minella's voice so well from watching and playing these games. It's scary. I was watching Bijuu Mike play the Bendy sequel and she was a voice for under five minutes and i knew it was her.

I would love to see Gab and Sean play the next one together!

Not me thinking it was daleks when I saw the Lazer robots when gab was robbing the diamond

2:33:09 A secret “angel investor” is the only reason HER is (or was) afloat, literally a random rich person who “believed in their mission” making edutainment for girls gives/gave them money and that’s how they made ends meet on roughly a 6 month release schedule. Their releases slowed down after massive layoffs and then the pandemic happened about a year after they shipped the most recent game almost 5 years after the previous game. I would not recommend donating to them if they were a random team pitching a game for crowdfunding, to me, they just aren’t trustworthy creators if we apply standards expected from even small teams of indie devs. Compare them to the people (maybe even a single person alone) who remade most of TRT in 3D/Unity and uploaded it for people to try for free or the team working on Amelia Darnell who post updates regularly on YT? We don’t get that anymore from HERinteractive but I swear we used to! A little demo or minigame with flash on their website, forums to interact with people behind the scenes and fans alike, content that was engaging and wasn’t just a holiday coupon code or memes made by fans reuploaded without credit. TLDR; HERinteractive changed a lot, they aren’t the same now and no amount of money is bringing back what was lost. Whatever they could do now, there are several fan run projects doing more with less funding and better communication (no albinism fakeouts from them)

I actually love chocolates that have a fruity flavored cream in them. White chocolate raspberry cheesecake is my favorite. White chocolate can only be eaten in small doses or it makes you sick, same with butterscotch. I love caramels more than anything and the Halloween seasonal Werther's soft caramels that are Cinnamon Creme and Caramel Apple are addictive. Milky Way had caramel Apple flavored minis for only one year for Halloween that were the best things ever that were chocolate with apple and caramel. I have literally written several letters to them begging for them to come back.