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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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Stardew Valley's great, especially if you're like me and got burnt out on modern Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games being kind of soulless compared to BTN/HM64/FOMT. I think the last HM game I played and didn't burn out on before the first summer was Magical Melody.

SV's not without its faults(that fishing minigame is awful and I refuse to defend it), but it's definitely worth picking up at some point.

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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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Quantum Toast posted:

I think the way Joja works is they're more expensive on seeds/saplings, because they don't want people growing their own stuff, but cheaper on everything else. Could be wrong though, I almost never go in the place.
The prices turn the same as Pierre's if you go the sellout route and buy a membership. I think it's also implied that they're really cheap on stuff your character can't buy in the first place, like industrially processed foods(take a walk through Joja and check out all their shelves to see the sorts of things they stock).

Unfortunately, the way it's implemented is some serious gameplay/story non-integration, since the only advantage the player sees over Pierre is better operating hours, making you wonder how they're destroying all the small businesses in the first place.

(The real advantage to Joja is that the sellout route is much easier to complete than the community center route, but at the cost of being a corporate shill & not getting all the smaller bundle bonuses.)

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 13, 2018

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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Sam works at Jojamart too, although it's easier to forget that.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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Gully Foyle posted:

Surprised you are selling almost all the Salmonberries. I found them super handy for eating for health/energy while mining, and they are probably the cheapest gifts in the game - there are like 8 or so people who like them (not just Linus/Leah). Not sure if 5 gold a pop is worth selling for.
:same: to both

Something you can effortlessly have huge stacks of makes the perfect energy recovery item, even if each one doesn't restore much at a time.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Did you know you can put chests/drum blocks/etc anywhere you want? As in, they don't have to be on the farm?

In most cases it's kind of useless(especially since if something's built in the path of a villager, they'll destroy it forever. Including whatever's inside a chest.), but it's handy for the mines because you can safely keep a chest on the entry floor and use it to go back and store stuff whenever you hit an elevator floor.

It hurts seeing you throw out so much stuff because your backpack's full. :saddowns:

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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There's a way to get around it, but you're not likely to have it unlocked before the first thunderstorm hits.

Lightning's also more likely to hit trees than crops if the wiki's to be believed, so don't clear-cut your farm I guess.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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Leal posted:

A game over for putting something poisonous in the soup would have been great.
There is precedent for it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-sIRFT7gAw
(skip to 2:35 for actual mushrooming)

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
I'm pretty sure the 'your reading preferences come back to haunt you later' thing you guys were thinking of is part of Elliot's events.


Tenebrais posted:

I like that that Pierre heart scene starts with your character doing stuff you have definitely been doing with all the other characters in-game.
Except this time, the character you're doing it to cares! (Because he's an uptight jerk who doesn't want anyone finding out he has porn)

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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Johnny Joestar posted:

with every update that comes out i'm reminded of how much i enjoy stardew valley's music. fall and winter's, especially.
All of its music is super good, which adds another layer of impressiveness to this one-dev game.

It would have been easy to make some of the stuff like, say, the seasonal songs boring and forgettable, but they're not. And the fact that it's seasonal songs, plural, is something I never realized I wanted in an HM-alike until SV - you're going to be playing each season for a couple hours, why listen to the same song over and over?

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Haley and Alex both feel like CA was struggling to characterize them beyond "the archetypical Meathead Jock and Popular Girl Who Wouldn't Date You In High School". At least Alex gets a tragic backstory, I guess.

I'm not even sure why he put them in if he was that short on ideas - the other bachelors and bachelorettes don't always have the deepest stories, but at least it feels like he was trying with them.

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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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And this is a complaint? :colbert:

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