Love Stardew Valley! Even from your brief scan over the map I think there have been additions since I last played - I must make time to pick it back up again.

I love the different "Eureka!" moments in this episode.

"You think killing folks is counter-productive, so these land-mines will only throw a bunch of dirt up, to scare them off" - this is why when at the starting screen, you walk across the minefield, you survive all the explosions. Funny way to combine game design and lore

I suspect the race with Hildi is the training wheels for the actual race against the drill.

Woohoo! It's a new lorgon111 series and it's Stardew Valley!

Real talk, this is the most boring story I've ever heard. Maybe it gets better once you have invested enough time and energy into it to say "If this story sucks, then I just wasted all of that time. This is unacceptable. Therefore, the story is amazing, and people just don't get it. Because they're ugly."

I'm really excited to see your perspective on this game. I've enjoyed playing it myself and it's been a ton of fun. One of these days I'd love to see your impressions of the other Stardew Valley-alikes, such as Littlewood and Fields of Mistria, who seem to have a different twist on things. ETA: Edit however you feel! I'm happy for seeing you get through the game. Editing out tedium is perfectly fine; I know how games work out. Also I appreciate you using cheats. You should be allowed to curate your own experience, and a game should respect your time. (These kind of games only save at the end of the day which can make them difficult for going casual).

I love the comment "this could be a puzzle element" from analyzing what is happening around you, when it was, in fact, a puzzle element 15 seconds ago. (Not intended for new players in the tutorial, of course)

Oh, you even played my favorite! Time to rewatch it.

Honestly one of my favorite games of all time. You ever considered a nodded Stardew playthrough? Stardew Valley Expanded adds a fair amount to the game, including new farms, characters, areas, monsters, fish, tasks, and a whole lot more.

Whoah, it's this game. Sounds like some very reasonable usage of cheats you've got planned. I feel like the routine parts of this game also usually don't take very long, so it's probably not entirely necessary to cut them out, but do what you want. I guess if you get really into preserves jars and kegs it can take a while to deal with them all, but if you're not planning on the golden clock money grind then there's probably no need to get making extreme amounts of money. Looking forward to seeing what the community center rolled.

Like, I do get the message of this game that we are too caught up in the hyperindustrialisation, manufacturing and measuring everything in unseen before ways and so on. But come on, if I received THAT MUCH LAND as an inheritance, I'd sell it and proceed to redistribute it into my current style of life. That isn't even remotely fair, you inherit more land than the entire village combined

Is the black glowy God thing Dis? Well, you merged with it. I guess you are Add. 😂

Its the episode that shows your brain did not like those sections in Void Stranger 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Well, that first puzzle is certainly different with the cape. ...and that second puzzle is certainly different if you don't know yet that you can re-summon shadows whenever there aren't any shadows. 43:37 I think this puzzle is actually much cooler without the cape, due to the added difficulty of getting the silver bell rung. Good solve with your current tools though. 47:46 Hooray for science!

3:45 "There's no coming back from the gold bell" You found an interesting alternative solution, but there is a way back from the gold bell. Step on the top left crumbling tile then down, then left to the bell. On the way out you cape-jump over the gap to the bottom right crumbling tile and leave without issue.

So much progress today, and you also managed to get to the 'Running Man' on the ice! I have tried figuring it out since I first saw it, and I simply could not. Congratulations!

I laughed so hard that at the end so did ths same setup the you quit at last time because to did not remember you can be wooshed jumping over the hole.

16:53 Yeah, that looks way easier than never realizing that surrounding yourself with two air elementals lets you use one to start a whoosh chain. I mean, getting to the bell is still easy enough, but I remember spending a lot of time going for that gem in the upper-left. I'm sure your earlier realization about air elementals will help.

The "running man" icons are almost certainly the Eye of Horus from Egyptian myth. A mystical all-seeing eye representing (as Wikipedia has it) well-being, healing and/or protection, if not also ritual, fits reasonably well with special-move secrets that lead to good things.

Yeah, this mimic crate's color is a little weird, but I think it's just a metal crate for all intents and purposes.

Love the breakthroughs you're getting in this. Enjoying this puzzle game so much.

15:00 Dang, this whole screen sure is easier with the cape. ...actually a lot of things here are easier with cape, huh?

Oh man, you had it, you just mimicked when you could have just waited...

These videos are fantastic! Thank you so much for making them!

Thanks for the vid! I absolutely loved this game but had trouble piecing all it's divergence plots together and beating some of it's harder modes. KZbin lore videos are essential for me for these esoteric games.

This game is seriously interesting. Wowww...that undo mechanic is wild.

I wonder if just the end locations would work for the dragonflies? As you say, its a little much to replicate the "path" but easier to replicate the endings

I think when you try to hit the ball with your boomerang, you were forgetting that grapple hook exists.

Unrelatedly, does the dwarf who's home not want coffee?

Hm, at 7:40 I guess it isn't possible to dive and drop out of the waterfall?

maybe the (X) in a circle is a sleeping spot? Instead of a digging spot. After the bear discovery, I would myself try sleeping in every circle spot, especially the suspicious one

The breakthrough I had with Tidal Reef is that getting the blue runestone from the boss room is solvable without unlocking the specific elemental. Cause you can't get access to any other blue gems in the map since they are all gated by the runestone locks

At this point I'm guessing that the arrow puzzles are somehow overlapping. You overlap start/end arrows that are the same, and end up with a longer total combination. Like the invisible line instructions end with left up, main instructions start with left up, end with up right, and flags instructions start with up right.

So the dwarves discovered the black gem, fought over it, died, the black gem awakened into a tentacle monster, dwarves made the keys to lock it up, packed their things and left

There is so much game in this game

You probably should have tried the other arrow password, but actually starting with going up in the room that says left. (since that's where the code really starts)

"Why can I dig in other spots but not this one?" maybe because other 8 furnaces are hot, and the top-right one doesn't work. So the rest of the ice melted.

I have a suspicion that two identical 3x3 square grids are somehow related.

You saw Zst Ranger, i saw OST Ranger. We know what ost means

I want to say that your mapping tool is amazing. Just "I am keeping notes" is already something not everyone does. But this is just beyond compare

I'm not familiar with any Clyceer who made progress early in the water area, but hey, whatever gets you back here and making progress. :) 7:32 I just now understood that the water switches have a moon on them because the moon controls the tides. I'd been wondering why the one with the water down didn't have a sun on it. I dunno, maybe I realized it before and then forgot later. 12:20 I wonder if there are any elementals you can get active without the corresponding runestone. I feel like runestones/elementals block too many gems, but can't say I've counted it up. While giving up here wasn't great for immediate progress, it's at least interesting. 47:01 Ah, a guess for where the water elementals will form. That's a useful thing to do.

10:43 Oh, this move where you use the cloud to get the top part done with only one elemental makes me realize that there are a lot more holes in this puzzle now. It used to be possible to simply jump to the green switch with the cape. There are also four more holes in the top section to make the complete path holes, instead of just blocking off the first two tiles. Also, now that I'm comparing side by side with an old version, the walls all look different: less purple, more blue. Anyway, there definitely used to be more solutions, but it seems at least more like you have to do it the intended way now.

I enjoyed the Lawnmower Updates

I'm pretty sure I saw a solution to that last problem before you reset it... Yes, it was there. The one before that, you seem to have found the most convoluted path to a solution.

Honestly all the connections with norse mythology etc there is the biggest connection, the one to zero ranger and how the story is essentially the inverse of it

Love the insights you're getting here. I think this game is waaaaay too hard for me to play but it's a joy to see your logic. Also curse those lawnmowers!

The wooshies, sliding mechanics, cape, and clouds all combine to make some pretty hard to visualize puzzles in this area. Good progress! Seems like the large water island is the big problem area at the moment - I wish I could say I saw how to proceed last time you were there, but I'm at just as much of a loss, so instead I will say good luck!

Has the solution and just gives up without following through the last step. 😮‍💨

Lava, Crag: There was a clue on the lava that a secret was there. Orange on orange, so as hard to spot as other things like the notes.