Monthly Wrap Up: January 2022

It's the end of the month and I can't believe how fast everything has been going. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been streaming, working on my Instagram photos, and working on a secret project which was just revealed! This month has been a whirl wind and I feel like there's just so much to do. Which is also another reason why my blog has been super quiet. I haven't had very much time to write any review or posts but I'm here now and hopefully I can figure out a schedule to do a little bit of writing. So let's get started!

Happy 2022 Flourishing Retrospect

It's the beginning of a New Year and this year I'm determined to be successful! Or at least work towards some fun goals that I've set for myself this year. Yup, this year I have some New Year resolutions that I have planned that I'm hoping to complete this year and hopefully all my dreams and goals will come true! So let's get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: December 2021

It's the end of the year and I though the best way to end the year is was to talk about all the games that I've played this month! This month I've tried my best to play a many games this month as possible and with what I accomplished I'm pretty happy with it.  Since it's the end of the year, this means that there will be no more posts until next year!  (I wrote this post in advance and just updated at time went by).  Now without further ado, lets get to what games I've played this month!

Monthly Wrap Up: November 2021

It's December and you know what that means! It means we're less than 24 days away from CHRISTMAS!! It also means that we have less than 30 days before the end of the year.  It also means that Daniella and I are closer to announcing our secret project!  But before we can get to that, first we have to go back and look at all the games that I played in November!

Happy 7th Birthday to My Flourishing Retrospect

It's been 7 years since I started blogging.  Back on November 29th, 2014, I was just a simple game enthusiast who sat in their room and debated on starting a blog.  Who knew that 7 years later it would lead to everything that I've accomplished and done.  So for todays post I think I'm going to look back at the last seven years a just take a trip down memory lane.  So let's get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: October 2021

October and Halloween are at an end, and that means its time for Christmas!  Oh, wait, I forgot we still have Novemebr to go through before December and Christmas.  Le sigh...  Oh well, I can still start early on the Christmas spirit!  However, before I can pull out the Christmas decor, I must first talk about all the games I played in October!  So let's get started!

HeR Interactive Mystery of the Seven Keys?

A click bait title? I know, it's not the best, but when you find out that HeR created a new trademark for a new video game called Mystery of the Seven Keys, you know that at least half of the Nancy Drew fan based will go bonkers over it. After all, HeR hasn't trademarked anything for a while. Midnight in Salem isn't trademarked so that begs to questions, what is this mysterious trademark for? Well, there's only one way to know and that is by creating our own theories about what this could be. WARNING everything in this post will be focused on not confirmed information. This is only a theory about what I think this game could be.  So, let's get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: September 2021

Oh... hello... it looks like I forgot to finish my blog post for last two week and now its October. Oops... I guess thats what happens when one gets busy and lacks the motivation to write. A lot of my energy has been put into my Instagram page, which still have my blog blocked over there (I'm still fuming about that after 7 months). But enough of my grumbling as you are all here to hear about all the wonderful and lovely games I've been playing! So let's get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: August 2021

Wait what happened, first I just turned August now its September!  What the heck is happening to time!  It's going to fast that I cant keep up with whats happening and its making it difficult to get anything done.  But then I guess that means I need to plan better and figure out whats the best play to play all the games!  So let's get started!

Assassin's Creed Valhalla PS4/PS5 Custom Controls Updated August 2021

Earlier this year I have uploaded a set of custom control that are supposed to mimic what I find to be the best control settings based off of Assassin's Creed Odyssey. However with this came the fun bug that limited some of your game play. Now, the first set of custom controls still works perfectly fine other than the odd pop-up of a torch while calling your horse and the fact that your can throw or fish. Well now I have one that will fix your ability to throw items and it will allow you to fish too! Sadly can't figure out why the torch keeps popping up my its fine it not like your going to call everyone to your immediate locations if they see the light... right? Anyway, here's the up dated version of control that will allow you to fish and throw items!

My First Impressions of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Over the last couple of months, I've been exploring the Norwegian and English countryside in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. With everything that I have seen and done so far in the game I really wanted to share my first impressions about the game before I write my official review of the game and since I'm about 80% through the main storyline of the game (I think?), I feel like I'm at a great point to discuss what I think of the game so far.  This is not my official review of the game that will come after I finish the main story which will hopefully be soon.  So let's get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: July 2021

Where has the time gone! It felt like it was July 1st a week ago and now we're into August!  Time please slow down, I don't want to loose the free time I have just been given before I have to start working! Anyway, enough with my complaining. July was filled with games and I am so happy that I've basically caught up to everything that I've been lagging behind in.  However, this gave me the perfect opportunity to try out some new games and finish some old one!  Shall we begin?!?!

Marcella Moon The Perfumed Ghost Book Review

Hello everyone! I'm sharing something a little different than my usual video game review. Today, I'm going to be reviewing the newest book Marcella Moon The Perfumed Ghost. Since the creator of the games decided to make a book based on the game series, I was super excited to read it since I love the games. I want to thank the author and the creator of the Marcella Moon Mystery game series, Alice Undergrove, for gifting me a copy of her book to review. The Perfumed Ghost was released on June 1st, 2021. So let's get started!

About the Book:

Title: The Perfumed Ghost

Author: Alice Undergrove

Release Date: June 1st, 2021

Series: Marcella Moon Mysteries

Genre: Mystery

Pages: 42

Book Description

"When Marcella is called to the eerie old Misty Rose Inn to look for evidence of hauntings, she’s skeptical; this isn’t her typical case. But she’s drawn in as she uncovers more and more reasons to believe in the so-called “perfumed ghost”, a spirit who wanders the halls, filling guests’ rooms with a strong scent of roses as she passes by. 

Is this a prank being played by one of the other guests? Or is it something that can’t be explained away so easily? As usual, Marcella is determined to leave no stone unturned."

My Thoughts

*In my review, I plan to go spoiler free. If you want to know more about the mystery, then I would highly recommend you check it out!*

I absolutely loved this story!  It was a perfect sweet and short mystery which had me on the edge of my seat.  Throughout the story, I really enjoyed how we got the chance to listen to Marcella's thoughts on the case and how she analyzed each piece of evidence and how it's related to the mystery.  This gave a fresh breath of fresh air to the mystery stories that I've read in the past.   I really enjoyed how we were able to look at all the evidence in the story so that we, along with Marcella Moon, were able to piece together what really happened at the Misty Rose Inn and the ghosts that haunted its grounds.  It reminded me as if I was playing a Marcella Moon game!  Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I look forward to what comes next!

Thank you everyone for reading!  I really enjoyed The Perfumed Ghost and I'm excited for what will come next!  If you want to get the book for yourself, then you can The Perfumed Ghost on Amazon for Kindle.

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Monthly Wrap Up: June 2021

Hello... its been a while.  Well maybe not for you since my post were schedule out every week but for me its been like 3 weeks since I've even though about my blog.  Was this done on purpose?  Nope!  That just happened because I was stuck finishing up exams pretty much every other week.  Well now I'm back and I'm ready to roll!  So last month was so small in terms of game play that this post will probably be pretty short but I still want to talk about a few things that have been going on in the background.

Monthly Wrap Up: May 2021

This last month has basically been chaos with all the has been happening.  First I get two weeks off where I can do basically anything that I want and then I get to foster some feral kittens that were found in my backyard.  I was still trying to solve the mystery of why I couldn't put my blog link in my Instagram bio, and then my college classes started which means trying to complete what would normally be two 16-week classes in 6-weeks.  So you could say that I've been super busy.  But then thats what planning in advance helps and its also another reason why my post for this week is early!  So shall we get started!

Monthly Wrap Up: April 2021

Wait no!  April come back!  Well it seems time decided to fly by again without my permission and it just seems to be a super fun and chaotic month.  Especially with my college classes ending on the last day of April.  But I'm just happy to be done for a little bit before my final two classes starting later this month.  This month has been an absolute blast since I've been able to do so much this month.  However, I think it's now time to share what I've been up to and what games I played last month.  So let's get started!

How Nancy Drew Has Inspired Me

To end my month of Nancy Drew posts, I thought it would be fun to share how Nancy Drew, or should I say that Nancy Drew game series inspired me to start my own blog.  Before I started writing this post, I actually had a few other ideas for what I wanted my last ND post for my blog this month.  I had it all written and prepared but I felt that it was too much of a filler post and decided to kind of get back to my roots of how HeR's Nancy Drew encouraged me to start blogging. So let get started!

My Top 10 Hardest Nancy Drew Puzzles

I seem to be in a Nancy Drew mood, where basically everything I think about is Nancy Drew related! Well this month, I think I’m going to indulge myself by having all my posts this April focus on the Nancy Drew games. I have always wanted write a post sharing what I think are some of the most difficult puzzles to solve, however, it wasn’t until I happened to see HeR mentioning that post idea when I decided to dust off my old collection of drafts to share what my top 10 hardest Nancy Drew puzzles. So let’s get started!

My Top 5 Tip For Playing Nancy Drew

Back on March, 8th, I was mentioned in the Press Any Button Podcast!  I'm super honored that my little old blog was mentioned in Episode 6: Nancy Drew The Captive Curse, where they talked about my theory on my blog post, "Nancy Drew Game #34 Teased" or possibly my "What Do We Know about Nancy Drew #34."  Over on the Press Any Button Instagram, they shared their friend Mallory's top 5 tips for Nancy Drew.  With this I was asked by one of the listener, @Lady_Tater over on Instagram about sharing my own top five tips for play Nancy Drew.  So here are my top 5 tips for playing Nancy Drew!

What’s Going on at HeR Interactive 2021 Update

There's been a lot of speculation going around in the Nancy Drew community over the last week or so and with everything that I have learned and seen so far, I thought I'd take the time to share my thoughts on what is happening with HeR Interactive and what could possibly be happening. Originally, I wrote a post last year talking about the changes that we'd been witnessing and this year there seems to be another update on a rumored end of an era for Nancy Drew.  This is all speculation right now since nothing is confirmed, so please be warned.  So let's get started.