![]() You can probably guess how that went.Įventually I’d exhausted my options, so I told the Mayor to go ahead and start the dance. Now desperate, I asked all the other girls to dance, even though I hadn’t given them the time of day up until this point. I wasn’t prepared for rejection, particularly not rejection prefaced with an “Ew.” I’d assumed… well, I’d assumed that because this was a video game, I’d be totally able to focus on one girl from the outset, win her heart in time for the big dance, and make a splash in my new town by tearing it up at the Flower Festival. Not only did I genuinely not expect to be so flatly, coldly rejected, it actually hurt my real-life feelings a tiny bit. I got to the festival and found Haley warming up in the middle of the dance area. I’d been giving her daffodils as often as possible (which is twice a week) to make her like me (increase my heart score) as much as possible (to as high a score as I could get) and figured that if I asked her to dance, she’d totally say yes (because I’ve been conditioned by decades of video games to expect this). I was new in town but even I knew this would be my big shot at getting a dance partner. Not too long after that came the spring Flower Festival. I wound up brokering an agreement, but couldn’t help feeling like Haley was kind of being a brat about everything. Turned out they were arguing about cleaning duties. Oh, you mean the guy you’ve been hanging out with on the reg, who keeps asking about your day and giving you flowers? And who remembered your birthday like four days after he met you because that’s not weird that’s charming and, uh, sweet, and anyway, “that new farm boy”? Really? I’ll admit, her greeting threw me a little: This was still going great.Ī few days later, I stopped by her house, where she lives with her sister Emily. She seemed into it, but not that into it? Nah, I was probably imagining things. On her birthday, I was sure to give her another daffodil. …so, naturally, I took the Lloyd Dobler approach and started standing outside her house in the morning with a daffodil over my head. I’m not some entitled city bro expecting all the women to pay attention to me all the time! I’ll talk to her when she’s not busy. I tried to ignore some possible warning signs, like the times I’d try to talk to her and she’d completely ignore me. ![]() One of the first times I saw Haley walking around, I gave her a daffodil I’d picked. “I will win your heart through the time-tested practice of giving you the same gift over and over again until your love meter maxes out, then completing whatever arcane quest is necessary to obtain the unique item that allows me to marry you.” When I arrived in Pelican Town, Haley was one of the first people I met. It’s a Harvest Moon-like life sim where, in addition to farming, crafting, secret-hunting and dungeon-crawling(!), you can romance any of the ten bachelors and bachelorettes living in your small town. Stardew Valley is the hot new sensation tearing up the Steam charts.
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