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portico aaaaaand we're back! i forget how to write these.
castle malloy sees nancy in ireland to serve as maid of honor to kyler mallory, a brit who stayed with the drews as an exchange student some years before. nancy doesn't really understand why she's been asked to do this, as she and kyler are not close and seemingly have not kept in touch. but far be it from nancy to say no to something, so now she's outside a falling-down castle after wrecking her rental car outside the gates, throwing rocks at kyler's window because the old man who answered the door told her that the wedding was cancelled and to go away. fortunately for nancy's sunk costs, the wedding isn't cancelled it's just that the groom's disappeared. which is great for nancy who, like a herding dog, needs constant enrichment or she'll chew a door.
the facts are these: kyler inherited castle malloy (and simultaneously learned she was irish and that her grandfather had changed the family name to mallory) and was assured that it was habitable. which very well might be true but what is definitely also true is that half of it was exploded in WWII. like...literally.
it never rains in ireland so this is fine. nancy is going about, doing maid of honorly tasks for kyler (like printing the programs on a little letterpress, which is fun, and arranging the reception seating based on a set of logic problems, which is not), and also keeping an eye out for matt, the disappeared fiance. this eventually involves solving the mystery of what really happened in the 1940s, and what's that strange noise everyone keeps hearing? is there a ghost? (major spoilers follow)
no. in the greatest twist produced by any game ever: there's an old lady with a jetpack. truly great stuff.
nancy finds the jetpack at one point (she steals it from this poor woman's home in fact) so you spend the back half of the game zooming around yourself. nobody in this small irish town ever looks up so that's fine too! i like nearly all of the games and puzzles in this one. there are darts and "difference detective" games played at a local pub, you can do stints as a "mix maid" (concocting mocktails for the locals, who are all teetotalers i guess), play a bodhran with a local band, translate ogham runes on standing stones, arrange dolls in a house following a series of prompts (less irritating logic puzzles), and shear sheep using a huge, terrifying machine that requires you to feed in each sheep's mood as well as its bloodline before it will work.
naturally, the story resolves happily for all involved, although i'm still not sure if we're supposed to be happy that kyler and matt get married. you kind of get the sense that maybe there's a reason that the only person kyler felt she could invite to be her maid of honor was a random american that she briefly knew some years ago. anyway the moral of the story is always suspect an old lady with a jetpack.
castle malloy sees nancy in ireland to serve as maid of honor to kyler mallory, a brit who stayed with the drews as an exchange student some years before. nancy doesn't really understand why she's been asked to do this, as she and kyler are not close and seemingly have not kept in touch. but far be it from nancy to say no to something, so now she's outside a falling-down castle after wrecking her rental car outside the gates, throwing rocks at kyler's window because the old man who answered the door told her that the wedding was cancelled and to go away. fortunately for nancy's sunk costs, the wedding isn't cancelled it's just that the groom's disappeared. which is great for nancy who, like a herding dog, needs constant enrichment or she'll chew a door.
the facts are these: kyler inherited castle malloy (and simultaneously learned she was irish and that her grandfather had changed the family name to mallory) and was assured that it was habitable. which very well might be true but what is definitely also true is that half of it was exploded in WWII. like...literally.
it never rains in ireland so this is fine. nancy is going about, doing maid of honorly tasks for kyler (like printing the programs on a little letterpress, which is fun, and arranging the reception seating based on a set of logic problems, which is not), and also keeping an eye out for matt, the disappeared fiance. this eventually involves solving the mystery of what really happened in the 1940s, and what's that strange noise everyone keeps hearing? is there a ghost? (major spoilers follow)
no. in the greatest twist produced by any game ever: there's an old lady with a jetpack. truly great stuff.
nancy finds the jetpack at one point (she steals it from this poor woman's home in fact) so you spend the back half of the game zooming around yourself. nobody in this small irish town ever looks up so that's fine too! i like nearly all of the games and puzzles in this one. there are darts and "difference detective" games played at a local pub, you can do stints as a "mix maid" (concocting mocktails for the locals, who are all teetotalers i guess), play a bodhran with a local band, translate ogham runes on standing stones, arrange dolls in a house following a series of prompts (less irritating logic puzzles), and shear sheep using a huge, terrifying machine that requires you to feed in each sheep's mood as well as its bloodline before it will work.
naturally, the story resolves happily for all involved, although i'm still not sure if we're supposed to be happy that kyler and matt get married. you kind of get the sense that maybe there's a reason that the only person kyler felt she could invite to be her maid of honor was a random american that she briefly knew some years ago. anyway the moral of the story is always suspect an old lady with a jetpack.
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