Stardew Valley: learning how to fish

Fishing is the worst part Stardew Valley.

All right, because Stardew Valley is too much good game. On the plus side – or maybe worse -, it has a 12-minute day / night cycle that always seduces me into playing longer hours than I intended. It has the perfect sound, the music is soothing, and the storytelling is touching. Being a part of an almost endless game is not a bad thing to be.

But, still. Fishing.

I just bought one Stardew Valley of Nintendo Switch, after playing for the first time on PlayStation 4. I don't like to play like I do in games, but that's not a problem, because I have some stupid answers to doing it the way you like. You may have heard of my favorite avatar.

His name is Ernest Hemingway, and he taught me how to fish.

Ernest Hemingway is a perfect video game character

Here are the reasons that Ernest Hemingway is the ideal video game avatar:

Different matches:

Photo by Ernest Hemingway. Maybe what do you think of a middle-aged man with fantastic heftiness about him, dark brown hair, and a big mustache. Maybe you think of an old man with a big, but still handsome, shaft, and white beard.

Either way, Ernest Hemingway's brand is solid, lightweight, and iconic. And there it is nothing It's easier to duplicate in a video game than a white-haired man with facial hair.

And yet, the Hemingway model remains flexible. Give him a break, and that little Hemingway in Paris! Vessel outfit? He made love for the sea! Find me a video game that doesn't allow you to customize the beautiful Ernest Hemingway feature, and I'll give you, maybe, no returns. Don't leave me.

Visual features:

Ernest Hemingway is a complex character who has been reduced to stereotypes, and that makes him the perfect video game.

If I were to ask you to play the role of Ernest Hemingway, I'd bet you knew how to do it. He takes the form of an asshole playwright, an avid genius, a playwright, the man of man. Admittedly, I play a much better version of Hemingway than I described here, because I know him better and I love him more than anyone else. That's my right.

Relevant functions:

Here is a Venn diagram that I did with the interests of Ernest Hemingway and regular RPG activities.

Graphic: Simone de Rochefort

You may notice something about this Venn drawing:

That's right, 100% correct.

Ernest and I play

The first time I establish Ernest Hemingway's similarities is where I play Dream Daddy. It was 2017, I was starting to get serious about liking Ernest Hemingway, and I needed to create an avatar that didn't know, me.

Photo: Simone de Rochefort / Polygon

There is something sweet and rebellious about it making Hemingway a good father, again leaning on the vertical line in his book. There is a side character to this game named Ernest Hemingway – which is going to be amazing.

Next I've played Monster Hunter: Earth, where I made the buff, the Ernest Hemingway comedian who had a successful career doing what he loved: killing large animals. I called my black and white Palico "Boise," in the background Hemingway's favorite cat.

Recently, I dipped my toes inside Stardew Valley, and he apparently chose to live in Persona of an ancient writer born 121 years ago. His name is Ernest Miller Hemingway.

There is so much we can work with here. I can't make my cat black and white, so I call it Izzy, by Izzy Cat, who was a bear. My farm is called Lookout Farm, after Hemingway's beloved home in Cuba, Finca Vigia. I give him a mustache. Everyone tells me that looks like a colleague.

What I wouldn't do is fish.

By fishing

It is a console type of Stardew Valley, the fishing minigame consists of pressing a button to control the scroll bar until the catch meter is completed. The bar needs to be kept behind the disgusting fish image, which goes up and down and makes me scream.

Image: ConcernedApe / Chucklefish by Polgon

When I first started playing my switch switch, I fished once to see if it was as bad as I remembered.

It was !! Filled with rage and frustration, I put my fishing rod in the box and said goodbye to Ernest Hemingway the way he liked. He has written well about fishing on subjects such as “The Great River With Two Hearts, ”When lead actor Nick Adams cooks healthy food and fish and camps, he does things just like that. The story's underconger, snow, how to do things right is the solution to the shellshock.

In The Sun Appears Again, Hemingway describes packing trout into ferns, putting "three trout in ferns, then one side of ferns, then three other trout," etc.

He has also written an article called The old man and the sea. There is some fishing in that, too.

But I couldn't fish. I shifted my focus to Hemingway's insight into the care of my farm. I planted clean rows of crops. I bought a chicken coop, and it turned out to be a pig. I named all my animals after Hemingway's cats (she had about 40 cats). I made a lot of beer. Fighting I came, I came down, to the mines. With a bus heading to the Calico Desert, I opened the site, and returned most of the Community Center.

But I did not remove the glowing light, which is the reward of filling the piles of fish.

The sea change

The other day – I can't remember if this was a game day, or a day in my life – I didn't have any fears left to win. My farm was starting to run. The in-game winter was about to start, and the real winter was here.

There was no question what to do.

It was time to learn how to fish.

Anyone who has ever complained about fishing on Stardew Valley be told this: It becomes easier when you do it. That is not just for practice. Technically, fishing becomes easier as you climb because the green bar itself becomes larger, and you can buy rods that accept combat and betting. But you have to set time, and that time is misery.

Image: ConcernedApe / Chucklefish by Polgon

I'm so bad at fishing that I can't catch a single dollar fish. But there was a glimmer of hope: People on the Internet say it's possible digest points of ability by holding the trash. All game days, I was catching a little trash in the pools on my farm. From time to time, I would jump fish! But I couldn't catch those sparks. I cracked the Y button, gritted my teeth, tried my best, and lost everything.

Walking by the river? I tried fishing. Getting out of the mines and walking around the lake? Let's draw a line. Hunting for oysters on the beach so I can accomplish it Crab Pot lump without fishing? However, I did do a little fishing.

I narrowed my way to fishing level 2. And even though fishing didn't seem so easy at first … Me it had changed.

Suddenly, I caught a fish. And then another. Heavy fish had not yet arrived, but I was swimming perch and baking and playing with my eyes sardines, they don't need heaps of Public institutions, what's the point. But they were for me. I had he held them.

Image: ConcernedApe / Chucklefish by Polgon

The desire to hold a big home eatery in Jodi's house – a desire that I was determined to never complete – could come true! Me you did it eat with Jodi and Kent. I made the rest of my role as Sashimi for Sebastian. I caught Willy squid. I don't see if it was a Mid-squid, so the demand is not yet complete, but it will be all right. I could catch more.

Knowing that I can fish it feels – no joke – a relief. When I stop at a fish pond, there is no temporary outing to build XP. It's a choice. I find time to tap on the push button to give it a strong push. I stop the bar from crashing down. I win a fishing race at the Snow Festival.

And for fuck's sake, I'm enjoying it now! Who am I ?!

However, we both know the answer to that question. It was never a question at all.

I'm Ernest Hemingway.