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to relate them to the paper, or at
the very least to one of the soon-to-
be-published articles that caught my
eye during my Sunday night edits.
That plan is now entirely
off the table. Here’s why.
All that my life has been this past
weekend can fit snugly within the screen
of a Nintendo Switch. I discovered Stardew
Valley after stumbling upon it in the
online shop, and, as I could swear that I’d
maybe heard something good about it in
a YouTube video and, oh, what the hell,
it’s only $15, I decided to download it.
Flash-forward two days, and here I am,

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anxiously typing this Lettitor as fast as my
fingers will possibly allow me so I can get
back to harvesting, fishing, mining, wooing,
and generally living my virtual farmer’s life.
I get it, it sounds kind of silly,
and I would have been saying the
exact same thing three days ago.
I’ve never played Harvest Moon
(a game that I hear is similar in design
and goal) and usually stick to the shoot-
bad-guys-in-the-face games—which
could be why, once I finally got started
on this time-suck of a conquest, Stardew
Valley seriously surprised me.
There’s no big goal or final boss you
need to beat. This is no Breath of the Wild

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where “Destroy Ganon” constantly looms
over your head, urging you ever onwards.

This game is literally just about
being a farmer in a small town, the
people who live there, and all the things
you can do—or choose not to do,
because it really is entirely up to you.

I think that’s what hooked me so
hard over the past two days (in which I’ve

 

way) has unveiled avery real picture of
why games like this can offer something
of an escape—a world where everything
is relatively simple, where spending every
other day fishing is very much in the
cards, and where it’s encouraged to lose
yourself in an honest day of hard labour.
Ifyou can call “pressing A to
swing an axe” hard labour, that is.

marathoned through half the first in-game

“year”); just the idea that the day, which

Cheers,

is roughly 15 minutes in real-world time,

can be spent doing any number of things.

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That choice, to me, is a valuable one.

Recently graduated and launched into a

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