Favorite Festivals?

Rotan

Rotan

Sodbuster
Both the fall festivals are the best, hard to pick a fav from the 2, but to me the fall fair wins. I love me some
Stardrops.
 
Boo1972

Boo1972

Farmer
My favorites are the moonlight jellies and spirits eve. I’m pretty serious about Halloween in real life. I always attend the SDV fair so I can crush Pierre.
 
ShneekeyTheLost

ShneekeyTheLost

Farmer
Eh, most of 'em are copy-pasted from real holidays with a thin veneer of rephrasing which I find to be entirely uninteresting.

  • Spring Dance, and in no way is it at all related to High School Prom, is a purely useless waste of a day. Boring, bland, uninteresting.
  • Egg Festival is a blatant rip on Easter, only use is Pierre's stand for Strawberries.
  • Luau is the only one that has a mechanical impact, toss in a gold-star Cauliflower saved over from Spring for maximum friendship with the whole town with a single gift.
  • Moonlight Jellies is beautiful the first time you see it, okay the next half a dozen times, and makes you question why you're doing it yet again after that. See it once for the beauty, I suppose, but otherwise it's just a pass.
  • Fall Festival is your typical State Fair style harvest bash. It's entire worth is in the stardrop available. You can do the garange display if you want, with... certain underhanded ways to manipulate your results from it... but honestly just buying some points to get yourself started and gambling with smart money on Green (60% chance of landing on Green).
  • The... hell, I forget what they actually call it in game, so I'm just going to call it Halloween because that's what it is, has a Golden Pumpkin worth a bit of change, but at the end of Fall, it's not worth the timesink involved in getting it. Fortunately, they patched out the arbitrary amount of cash you can get from it.
  • I often miss the first winter festival, whatever it is called, because I just don't much care for the fishing minigame, which is the sole reason this holiday exists.
  • The Christmas clone holiday is... bad. Just plain and simple. It's insulting to everyone who plays the game and isn't Christian, the mechanics are dodgy at best... it just doesn't work. The only reason for this season is pure capitalist greed. Hell, I'd have flipped this one around on its head and made it a JojaCorp thing, with Joja branding all over the place, and leavened heavily with 'special sales' to 'buy gifts for friends and family so they will love you' sort of marketing. I mean, if Joja is going to hang a lampshade on corporate greed, I'm surprised he passed on this opportunity to highlight the single most egregious example of corporate exploitation and most profitable quarter of the year for retail.
tl;dr: Festival? Hard pass. I gots me some chorin' ta do.
 

Ereo

Helper
I think they are cute the first time, but after that, it get's kinda boring.

- the flower dance (I don't think it's highschool, it reminds me more of some swedish spring dance, especially with the white dresses): I think it's sad only the bachelors get to dance, and then only in a predetermined combination. Really makes it sad when you ask someone to dance and their partner just stands there, watching you. And why can't the other villagers dance?

- The egg festival is obviously easter, just with all the religion taken out. The egg hunt is a fun idea, I just wish it would be more random who wins it each year. (I mean, you can't pitch me and Abigail against Vincent and Jas. They just don't stant a chance)

- The Luau: I don't get the concept of making a soup and everyone can throw in one ingredient. That recipe is bound to come out disgusting. And why do we need to impress the governor with a soup? Shouldn't he support our great community work?

- The moonlight jellies are pretty, but it gets boring.

- The fair: Again, I'd like the winner to be more random. I don't really like the minigames, but I guess it could be fun if you like that type of game.

- The Halloween one: We don't celebrate Halloween here, so I don't really know what to do with it. I now have 3 golden pumpkins and I don't know what to do with them.

- Ice fishing: More random winner would be nice, although Willy winning every time is probably realistic. That's why you don't grade professionals and casuals the same way ;)

- Winter Star: It's not as blatantly corporate as christmas ;) At least, they only do a secret santa and the gifts are kinda...useless? I've gotten fertilizer two out of three times. To be fair, I gave Lewis a pepper, but I knew he'd love it.
Also, I think a festival where you get together, eat a lot and exchange gifts can be found in most cultures.


I'd like more random dialogues, maybe if each charakter had a couple of lines instead of just one, maybe if it changed according to your relationship to them, I'd be more interested to go after the first couple of times.
 

Zaphira

Sodbuster
I skip the flower dance, after doing it once with my fiancé/husband. Sebastian doesn't like it. ;)
Egg festival for the rewards and once for strawberry seeds. The hat is kind of cute, after that 1000 gold for winning, if needed.
Luau is only good for the friendship with everyone, if the right things are put in the soup.
Moonlight jellies are boring, but Sebastian likes it. Sometimes I forget about it.
Harvest Fair: good for Stardrop, after that no need.
Halloween: Gold pumpkin for 2500 gold, good for beginner year, after that for decorating in the house.
Ice fishing: for the loot. ;)
Winter Star: it's okay
 

Lorekeeper

Farmhand
I don’t normally care much about the festivals, but the Night Market is a definite exception to that. The music is beautiful, it’s great having access to out-of-season seeds, and I adore the deep-sea fishing. My only issue is that it doesn’t last longer, or freeze time. I get why it doesn’t, it’d just be nice to appreciate it for a little longer.
 
Odin

Odin

Moderator
Staff member
ShneekeyTheLost said:
The Christmas clone holiday is... bad. Just plain and simple. It's insulting to everyone who plays the game and isn't Christian, the mechanics are dodgy at best... it just doesn't work. The only reason for this season is pure capitalist greed. Hell, I'd have flipped this one around on its head and made it a JojaCorp thing, with Joja branding all over the place, and leavened heavily with 'special sales' to 'buy gifts for friends and family so they will love you' sort of marketing. I mean, if Joja is going to hang a lampshade on corporate greed, I'm surprised he passed on this opportunity to highlight the single most egregious example of corporate exploitation and most profitable quarter of the year for retail.
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I imagine part of the reason there isn't a Joja holiday is because it would have to stop when you complete the community center. And just because Christmas in the real world is very capitalist doesn't mean it needs to be in Stardew! After all, you only have to give one gift.
 
One More Day

One More Day

Farmer
After you've done them all two or three times, I think there's little to keep coming back to in most instances, and I don't bother. The only regular exception for me is the Egg Festival, for strawberry seeds obviously if I'm doing them, and I actually still enjoy the egg hunt. I'm still trying to improve on my PB of 15 eggs; I think 16 might be possible if I improve my pathing.



SDV should have a New Year's Eve party in the CC, once you have completed the bundles, and if you attend, you get a friendship boost with all the NPCs, but as a trade off you then have to spend the whole of Spring 1 with half of your max energy, and a -3 debuff on speed and all skills.
 
ShneekeyTheLost

ShneekeyTheLost

Farmer
Odin said:
I imagine part of the reason there isn't a Joja holiday is because it would have to stop when you complete the community center. And just because Christmas in the real world is very capitalist doesn't mean it needs to be in Stardew! After all, you only have to give one gift.
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I would disagree because
JojaCorp still exists, even if the local branch closes down. This is more of a national ad campaign, and many levels of executives above Morris's head
.

Not going to go into a critique of the many failings of the Christmas holiday, both from a Comparative Religions perspective and from a Corporate Greed perspective, simply because this is neither the time nor the place. However, I don't really like how this holiday got shoehorned in and I don't especially like how it mechanically forces you into particular actions in a game normally built around the concept of choice.
 
Mcwhalen

Mcwhalen

Farmhand
night market was a great addition.
But it's always fun to crush pierre in the display.

Without being too negative, I really agree with some of the posts regarding "so so, and meh" after the first year.

The golden pumpkin shouldn't be too hard to hide in different locations...
 
Person090

Person090

Planter
ShneekeyTheLost said:
I would disagree because
JojaCorp still exists, even if the local branch closes down. This is more of a national ad campaign, and many levels of executives above Morris's head
.

Not going to go into a critique of the many failings of the Christmas holiday, both from a Comparative Religions perspective and from a Corporate Greed perspective, simply because this is neither the time nor the place. However, I don't really like how this holiday got shoehorned in and I don't especially like how it mechanically forces you into particular actions in a game normally built around the concept of choice.
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IMO, the christmas clone holiday is pretty decent, you have the choice to leave the festival as you please and I feel like it isn't that capitalistic. I think it would be better if we could have a bit more details from holidays like hunnukah so that it feels like a new holiday instead of a blatant clone of just christmas.
 
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