LogFAQs > #932353756

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Vincent

Alright, I'm gonna try to get this batch out of the way pretty quickly. There's a couple of characters, like the child characters, who don't particularly have any great scenes or lines, or many scenes or lines at all, but they still play a very vital role of adding depth to the world. Opposite of someone like Marlon, where you could remove him and Gil could run the adventurer's guild alone, you can't really remove the fact that Jodi is raising two boys.

I rate Vincent on the lower end of this group because it's annoying to find decent gifts for him. He likes some stuff you can pick up off the ground, but not just anything. He has specific tastes. And unlike most villagers, who can be won over by giving them 'anything you grow on the farm' he doesn't really like most of the crops you can grow because ew vegetables gross. He shares this trait with Jas. It gets a bit easier in Fall since Vincent really likes Grapes and those are easy to find.

Don't have anything else to say about Vincent.

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Kent

There is a LOT of cool stuff to say about Kent, so let's start with the positive. A character who isn't in the village immediately but joins in the second year is pretty cool. His reason for being away is interesting, and it provides for the dynamic of Jodi being almost essentially a "single mother" when you first meet her. When Kent returns, it 'probably' makes things easier for the family as a whole, and while it's hard to say this FOR SURE there are daily routines where Kent actually spends time with Vincent so it's clear he's at least helping watch the kids sometimes.

I also think he has a pretty good track record of showing shitty behavior in some of his scenes, but also apologizing for it pretty easily -- especially so if the player tells him that he's in the wrong. His behavior isn't really super shitty and his apologies are pretty sincere, a solid combination in the world of stardew valley where a LOT of the characters are intentionally written to be flawed.

Okay, the bad. The guy is boring and doesn't have many lines that don't feel generic. And I mean, really generic. Hey it's a good day for fishing. Hey how are you doing today. The idea of having a new person around for the second year of festivals is REALLY cool, but you talk to him and... holy crap. His festival dialogue might be among some of the worst of any character in the game. He 90% of the time he just makes a really generic statement that doesn't even acknowledge whether he's at the festival or not, or what's going on around him. Cool idea, but it really comes across like ConcernedApe worked on Kent last, ran out of time on him, and just never went back to add more depth to a lot of his stand in lines.

The guy is so boring that there's almost no fan art of him that I could find. People just do not give a shit about Kent.

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Jas

Jas is very similar to Vincent. She's a child character, not many lines, not many scenes that focus on her. She has a more interesting family dynamic with Shane and Marnie. Most important is that common trait I mentioned about them where they don't like the crops you grow on your farm. However... Jas likes most of the flowers you can grow, I think all of them, and she also loves the Fairy Rose.

Since I normally am growing flowers for the sake of producing Honey anyway, it's much easier to befriend Jas than Vince.

Credit to SuchiOv on deviant art for the Jasmine and Vincent arts. Normally I just grab random unsourced stuff from google, but since I ended up picking multiple art pieces from the same person I figure I'd look them up and give them a shout out. Especially if anyone saw these and was wondering who drew them.


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