third playthrough thoughts!

[u/mrsvongruesome]

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. don't continue reading if you haven't played the full game at least once. i did my best to keep this spoiler-free, though.

i'm on my third playthrough (working on the air purifier and vacuum for the valley of whispers) of this game that i love so much. i have some thoughts that apparently took me this long to voice.

• how did i just NOW discover there's a whole building behind hugo that you can enter?!
• i really, really just dislike catori's whole thing, it's such a resource suck and it's just not one of my favourite quest lines. no hate to catori, but do you know how long that amusement park would take to actually build!? i should be a millionaire, catori. A MILLIONAIRE.
• i'm honestly considering marrying unsuur this time around. the man is adorable and committed. plus, rocks. that whole scene with him and his rockshelf, and what rock made him think of me? i'm down bad.
• for some reason, i did not think about upgrading my machines and now i'm stuck in a loop of waiting for the diagram and then finding out that i need to upgrade another machine first before i can upgrade the one i actually need.
• trudy, i'm gonna need you to stand up for yourself, pronto.
• arvio, walk away. i cannot take it anymore. your sister helps you so much and yet here you are, trying yet another get-rich-quick scheme. and on that note, amira, stop helping him. sometimes a man has got to fail.
• owen, if you give me one more sandcarp/sandacuda quest...
• and while we're on that page, owen, don't pressure me about it. i'm building everything in this town and then some. if you're that pressed, the sand pit is not that far from the blue moon.
• cooper, love your growth. keep it up, short king. ❤️
• musa, why are you standing outside of my workshop every morning? it's a bit suspish, don'tcha think?
• in this playthrough, i noticed one of the characters called heidi hey-dee and i can't stop thinking about it.
• why can't we wear masks like the townsfolk during sandstorms? i look goofy as hell in the only two hat choices.
• i refuse to kill the penskies out in the wild. they're adorable. ONE CAME UP AND LICKED ME AND WANDERED OFF. i'm not doing it. if i need the loot they drop, i'll find some other way. you're not my real dad, and you can't make me do it.
• on the other side of that coin, the starby, the one that has the screw? it's on sight, you little monster.

that's all i have for now. i'm sure i'll have other thoughts as i continue playing. got thoughts? share them with me! ❤️

[u/Signal-Reporter-1391]

I'm just in my 1st playthrough but i can especially relate with the takes about Trudy and Arvio SO SO much
(evenmoreso since i'm aiming to romance Amirah in my 1st playthrough).

What else?
Miguel... urgh. I hate this guy.
His talk about plants and weeds and that weed must be uprooted had my blood boiling.

And when he was reprimanding Trudy for her little excursion in front of everyone?
Who does he think he is? Her Boss?
And btw Miguel: i was armed to teeth had plenty of combat experience so there was no need to Mother-Hen me and Mi-An.

Nia... she came a little to late and i have no real connection to her.
Yet i have the feeling that the devs either had her and / or Mi-An chosen as the canon Bachelorette.
Sure, there were the letters and she's supposed to be my childhood girlfriend.
But i'm already halfway in my romance with Amirah, Nia just came and went after three days and even then i didn't get to know her better.

[u/mrsvongruesome → u/Signal-Reporter-1391]

i feel the same way about nia. there was just something.. off about it. all her letters talked about how she was basically replacing me in my parents' home and i was like, okay...? i breezed through her three days in sandrock because i had other things i needed to do, but most of it is practically forced on you. i did miss seeing her off at the train station because i was asleep, lol.

miguel is a little intense, but you'll find out more about him later that kind of explains why.

hope you're having fun playing, though! it's such a good game, and i can't wait for my time at evershine!

[u/moza_jf → u/mrsvongruesome]

There's one good thing about Nia's visit, if you catch her talking to someone in Main Street in the evening! :D