Someone pointed out something rather itneresting. In Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge, there is a scary sequence where someone tells Yumi that her secret is known.
It's in 0:48 of this video:
...Did we ever find out what Yumi's secret is? I don't remember finding out any of Yumi's secrets.
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Oh yeah! I remember that! I was wondering that too. Her Interactive really should tell us!
That's weird... 0.o That's going to be bugging me now.
Nancy should of really picked up on that.
Either she has a secret or the 'bad guy' made it up to scare her.
I've always wondered about that... The makers of the game never fully developed that plot line. I wonder why...
If you really look at the plot of the game, you could basically cut Yumi out completely and it wouldn't make any difference. This scene is just another example of that.
Wow that was really interesting! I never thought of that.
There is a thread on the HeR boards discussing this.
http://community.herinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=1224064
Some quotes from the users:
"I think Rentaro was responsible. :)
Yumi was the first one to find her mother unconscious in the baths. That may have caused her a lot of grief and guilt. She was also adamant about taking over the ryokan against Takae's wishes. Based on her actions, she did appear to be somewhat superstitious and I believe that Rentaro played on that.
Rentaro was pressuring Miwako to move to the city and he didn't want Yumi to possibly change her mind about coming back, so perhaps he felt the best course of action was to make sure the ryokan shut down entirely.
Remember, Rentaro mentioned that he frequently visits the city including Yumi's bento stand so it's not impractical that he'd often stay over and have access to Yumi's apartment as well. I think HE's the one who left the mysterious CD and the book on shadow puppets at her place. He'd have had plenty of opportunity to rig the window message, but he probably wasn't expecting Nancy to stay over that night.
When Nancy told Yumi about the message, she automatically fell for the trap and her own superstitions ("It means my grandmother was right..") played off the guilt she never overcame from her mother's passing.
If I recall, the last text message Yumi sends Nancy was of her and Rentaro together at one of the purikura booths so he may have been IN the city at the time before catching a train back to the ryokan before closing time.
That's just my theory anyway. :P"
"I think Rentaro was trying to scare Yumi. As far as what her secret was, well, that could have just been a shot in the dark. After all, everyone has some secret, and by leaving it unnamed, it leaves room for a guilty conscience to assume the worst."
I think these two people have the best reasonings. :D
After reading Philip's comment, I think that perhaps, along with hiding the video and book on shadow puppets in her apartment, Rentaro wrote the message to pin suspicion on Yumi. After all, he was obviously already nearby (hed would've had to be to rig that message, right?) and likely saw that Nancy was staying at Yumi's instead of Yumi herself, then decided to put that on the window to make Yumi look suspicious - after all, if she has a secret, she must be up to something right?
Ya, I wonder? All i know is that scene always scared the he'll out of me! Creepiest ND game by far. Personally, I think it's way scarier than curse of BlackMoor.
I noticed this from the first time I played through SAW, and it thoroughly bugged me. -_- I remember being really excited that my favorite character had a dark secret, but once I found out the HerInteractive failed to explain it, I was disappointed. However, a lot of the reasonings people have came up with on the message boards make sense.
Maybe...
Yumi was in love with Rentaro!!!
Uh, yeah, probably not.
How would Rentaro have known about the letters though?
can you figure it out for us
Which part did this scene happen on youtube?
There is noticeably big money to understand about this.
*RAGE!!!* WHAT WAS YUMI'S SECRET?! Is HerInteractive TRYING to make us wonder untill we DIE?! SERIOUSLY!!
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