u/Pingy_Junk

so before I completed the CC I would give claire her apricot when she was getting off the bus or when she got out of her job. but for some reason claire has started teleporting to and from her job. I have the mod that shows the locations for NPCs on the map and I watch as claire suddenly appears at 7 am at the movie theatre and vanishes at 9:30pm off the map entirely. because you cant enter the movie theatre without a ticket this prevents me from really talking to her more than once a week. she was working fine the first day after I built the theatre but has not walked since. I havent gotten her to 6 hearts so I cant ambush her on tuesdays either. I really want to marry her (her sad wet cat vibe entices me) but I cant get her friendship up at all now.

I downloaded ridgeside, east scarp, SVE, and sunberry for my first modded run (tbh I may have overdone it getting excited at the idea of modding) and I feel kind of frustrated with sunberry. I feel like one thing that struck me about stardew is that while it definitely has supernatural elements outside of krobus and the wizard most of the residents are just normal guys. a lot of whom you could meet in a small town, and are impacted by general rural struggles.

sunberry village on the other hand feels like its a fantasy world before its a real one, magic being commonplace makes it feel less special when it does happen. and a lot of the characters feel like the person writing them has never really had experience with a small town at all, every character gives me the vibes of someone id meet in upperclass suburbs rather than a small town that hasnt been doing well financially for a while. it feels like whereas stardew valley is a story that while fantastical manages to be very grounded in reality, sunberry is trying overly hard to be fantastical with no actual thought put towards making the characters realistic.

if Stardew is like a ghibili movie and sunberry is like a really mediocre "cozy" fantasy novel that is trying to go for the vibes of ghibili but ignoring anything but the base aesthetics of the movies.

im also not really a huge fan of how it adds a bunch of stuff to SDVs existing lore, it kind of feels like they wanted to make their own completely seperate lore and did basically nothing to try and make it mesh .the accidental demon summoning and subsequent new characters got on my nerves especially. it just clashes so much with the general vibe of stardew.

I have not found him after fishing at ginger island in the ocean all day. am I just unlucky or is it a low luck chance?

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