I dunno, it’s not like HER’s ever attempted to actually fix their depictions of other countries, so it’s like they want points for being self-aware without ever actually taking the criticism into consideration. What’s funny is that I think that’s the exact phrasing someone used in a criticism of the Nancy games, so I imagine this is HER’s little dig at that. She shrugs that he seems all right, if a little “culturally tone-deaf” - this whole lederhosen-and-dirndl thing isn’t what Germany is really like, it’s a “theme park” version of history. Tell us all the gory details of your relationship, Anja! Anja’s all, “What’s his name? Markus, right?” like she didn’t used to bone the guy on the regular. Now! “What do you think of the castle’s owner?” Nancy asks. Anja is lenient with him because she thinks he’s lonely, as he doesn’t seem to have many friends at school. Lukas is very much a troublemaker, but a good kid under it all. So Renate is actually pretty creepy, but then again, we kind of knew that.Īnja tells us that Lukas is her nephew - his security guard dad is her brother, which is interesting. Anja adds that the last time Renate was here, she told a story that terrified the castle and made everyone scared to go outside, and then she took the opportunity to snoop around the castle. Anja thinks people are too hard on Renate on the other hand, she does admit that Renate has a suspicious tendency to show up whenever the monster does. What are her thoughts on Renate? Surprisingly, Anja loves Renate - they spend hours talking together, although I really can’t imagine about what. She offers us a shoulder to cry on: “Us girls have to stick together.” #Sisterhood! That’s nice and all, but let’s pry some more information out of Anja first. I go to Anja to talk to her about the monster, but she ropes us into talking about our boy problems instead. As for Markus, Lukas doesn’t know him, but he thinks his dad doesn’t like him. Lukas thinks she steals or something whatever is up with her, no one here trusts her. We can ask him about the rest of the suspects, since we’ve met them now: he’s not a huge fan of Renate, and neither is his dad. “I’ve got a lot of time on my hands.” Heh. “I’m only allowed to watch two hours of television a week,” Lukas says. Anyway, this is his fault, since he put that bucket of water over our door. “Your outfit is pretty weird too,” Nancy says, because I’m not about to take shit from a snotty 9-year-old in lederhosen. When we’re done reading it, we’ll pick up this weird plug-looking key thing. We go back down to the foyer, and we can read a book about the Brothers Grimm on the coffee table. So we got a bucket of water dumped on us, and naturally Nancy’s suitcase has been lost (just pack a carry-on, Nancy!), so we’ve had to borrow some traditional German clothes, and now we’re wandering around the castle dressed like a 19th-century Bavarian. Then we got into a fight with Ned, who’s developed some level of self-awareness and is starting to notice how often Nancy ditches him in these games. Apparently this is terrifying, and all the villagers are freaking out. Said monster “attacked”, by which I mean started a fire in a trash can and then left.

Several German detectives are rolling over in their graves. Enter Nancy Drew, who’s going to bust this case open in one night. Previously on Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse: A monster has been terrorizing Castle Finster for centuries, and people have been trying to capture it for about that long, but to no avail.

Nancy drew the captive curse color code