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[Mephansteras]

Nah, sounds like it is lack of sleep. Which means you need to lay on the bed.

[Vector]

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[Girlinhat]

Don't play games in bed.  It makes you not want to sleep in bed.

[Glloyd]

I dunno, I think Leah's got the best personality of the girls, she actually reminds me so much of my ex it's kind of eerie. But all the girls except Penny become a lot more interesting as you go through their heart scenes.

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Haley has a great arc. You find out that she's a lot more chill than she seemed at first. She's actually super into photography and there's a cute scene in the darkroom she has in her place. Abigail just wants to go on adventures and fight monsters and play her flute, so I'm not sure which high school stereotype that is. Monster hunter I guess? There's a few good scenes with her as she tries her hands at adventuring. Maru is actually super fucking smart alongside being a nurse, and builds robots in her basement. She doesn't have as much of a story arc as Leah or Haley, but her telescope scene is awesome, and she's definitely more than a stereotypical nerd. Leah's arc is great. While it doesn't reveal much more of her personality, you help her get the confidence to put on an art show and you learn about her history and her ex. Her reasons for coming to the valley are pretty much the same as the player's. Penny is the worst, because all you learn about her is how much her home life sucks. But even her, I'm not sure what stereotype she would be. Nerd? Well, she's a second grade teacher who loves the outdoors and apparently climbs trees with guys.

I dunno about the guys because I haven't gone through all their scenes yet, but I feel like the girls are designed to seem like a specific archetype until you get to know them better.

[Fikes]

I went for Haley because I figured that would be what I would do in real life; try for the most attractive person. As Gllyod said, she gets a lot better as time goes on.

[Mephansteras]

I ended up going for Abigail, since the adventurer/gamer combo appeals to me. Maru seems interesting, but I had a bad habit of guessing the exact wrong gifts to give her early on and got annoyed with her. (Seriously, what kind of science-focused person thinks a geode is a terrible gift??)

Eventually I started using the wiki and that made things easier, since figuring out gifts for people if frustrating and expensive otherwise.

[MaximumZero]

Hopefully, it won't be super difficult to add characters to the game eventually. I'd like to add about 100 people to Stardew Valley. Even the crappy little farming town I lived in in the middle of nowhere was still 500+ people strong.

[Criptfeind]

I hope for mods that add depth to characters instead of just more. Especially your spouse.

Edit: Reading what I wrote... That sounds somewhat wrong. Ah well, that too, erp mod when?

[Moghjubar]

Once I finish my playthru I'm kinda thinking about modding in some characters. Like say... the cast of Street Fighter. 

[Solifuge]

I like how most of the date options are sorta nebulously-aged young adults; leaves player some wiggle room to read them and the player-character as different ages. Good design for minimizing date-creepiness IMO!

As for dates, Harvey's sorta cute and dorky, but he showed no appreciation for a gift of opium poppies, which I thought was rather clever. Penny's got a good heart, but she's a bit of a passive sad sack with her resignation to her shitty home life. Abigail's fun, but she seems a bit too Manic Pixie Gamer-Girl, and that sends up red flags. Elliot is just a walking Romance Novel Cover, and his huge and beautiful hair intimidates me. Leah would be fun to hang out with, and I appreciate her artsy side, but she seems judgy and buys into the whole Pastoral Superiority thing. I like technology too much to be happy there, I think.

Maru, however, is my dude. <3

Maru seems interesting, but I had a bad habit of guessing the exact wrong gifts to give her early on and got annoyed with her. (Seriously, what kind of science-focused person thinks a geode is a terrible gift??)

Eventually I started using the wiki and that made things easier, since figuring out gifts for people if frustrating and expensive otherwise.

Yeah, that Geode thing weirded me out too! She seems like some kind of rockhound, since she likes the crystal and mineral samples that come out of them well enough. I thought it'd be like a little self-wrapped gift; hell, we could even open it together and it would be all cute and shit. But no. Still, we can chat about the scale of the universe and stuff while she's looking through her telescope.

Speaking of which, I'd love to be able to do Date-ish things as part of winning someone over, like stargazing or going caving, or even fiddling with robots. Also, I'm curious to see if your relationship with your sweetheart's family influences things. Just to be safe, I worked hard to win over her Dad with a bunch of cool botany samples, after an ominous warning about getting in the way of her bright future. Excuse me Demetrius, but Agricultural Science is a real science!

P.S. Anyone else start giving Linus food gifts after he was rummaging through the town's trash? I'd pay to build him a coop-sized shack or something if I could. Dude's gotta get cold in the winter, and I worry about him. ><;

[Mephansteras]

P.S. Anyone else start giving Linus food gifts after he was rummaging through the town's trash? I'd pay to build him a coop-sized shack or something if I could. Dude's gotta get cold in the winter, and I worry about him. ><;

Yeah, I usually give him some bit of forageable that I find walking up to the mines when I see him.

[ThtblovesDF]

Linus hangs out in the hot-bath in the winter, to stay warm.

[Ibid Straydrink]

P.S. Anyone else start giving Linus food gifts after he was rummaging through the town's trash? I'd pay to build him a coop-sized shack or something if I could. Dude's gotta get cold in the winter, and I worry about him. ><;

Yeah, I usually give him some bit of forageable that I find walking up to the mines when I see him.

Based on my interactions with him, I get the impression that it's less that he's desperate, and more than he's chosen to separate himself from others to appreciate life on his own terms. That said, it would be nice if there were an option to convince him of a kind of compromise, and let him live on your farmstead and perform some very minor chores in return. Still. as he says, I think he's chosen to live the life he does, despite the hardships.

[variablenonsense]

I would definitely have to say that Linus enjoys or at least chose his life - considering he says as much. I still gift him good stuff though. He's my wildbro. 

[Mephansteras]

I just appreciate that he's easy to please with a little bit of food.