Re: Kiir's Gaming Topic (Reply #249 on: September 22, 2017, 09:35:40 pm)

i finally played STARDEW VALLEY and it is the best harvest moon game i've played in years. i legitimately have no desire to go back to harvest moon / story of seasons aside from some old favourites. it reminds me of said favourites (a wonderful life & ds) because it got that sleepy valley setting! i am so happy to finally be able to marry a cute girl (i picked penny) after being swindled out of good marriage candidates due to harvest moon games generally having terrible boys and of course no ability to be gay.

honestly my only problem with the game is that i feel the characters don't have enough personality or development. they all have their tropes and some characters reveal hidden depths through events, but you have to be interested enough in a character to raise their relationship up to actually see any of that, and even then not every character ends up being anything more than what they originally seemed to be. the game also flat out copies and pastes lines between different characters, which amplifies how same-y their writing voices are. thankfully this doesn't happen too often, and there's enough to make all the characters feel pretty alive, but i'm hoping whatever game the team works on next improves on this. one of my fav characters in the game was someone i didn't give a dang about at first, but in my quest to seduce all marriage candidates (he also tempted me with blue chickens...) he had this whole character arc and it was super cool! i wish more of the characters were like that.

i'm not done the game yet (will be once i reach the third year) but i probably won't have any other opinions on it once i finish it. there are my thoughts. it is Great but it falls short on my character writing standards. but at least i can be a gay. (also the lack of "secret" or weird/advanced marriage candidates kinda bums me out but thats just a minor thing ok now i'm done)