Letters from Casey issues.

[Daltura]

It may be that I am a bit older then most people playing this game or perhaps I've had too many bad experiences. But as I have recieved more letters from Casey , they began to seem more and more obsessive. I'm sure this isn't intended by the Dev's as that wouldn't fit the mood of the game, perhaps it is just the way the letters are worded and the fact we do not see how Bea responds. I however now wince everytime I see the letter icon now because for me it means more milding distrubing words from my new stalker. Thus I now ignore the icon and go about my day. This of course is just my opinion and I am not demanding a change , just letting the Dev's know that some might see the letters in a light they did not intend.

[Panic Fire]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Leudic:

The notes from the old man around the island seem kind of wistful, but overall, they're not too down or anything. It's just the Casey letters for me.

I found the notes from the old man to be creepy once they started addressing my character by name.

[Nens]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Panic Fire:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Leudic:

The notes from the old man around the island seem kind of wistful, but overall, they're not too down or anything. It's just the Casey letters for me.

I found the notes from the old man to be creepy once they started addressing my character by name.

I'm speechless.

[Pietoro]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Leudic:

I'm not saying it ruins everything (maybe Daltura is) and I don't care about playing a female, but the tone of the game ends up clashing. Is it so much to ask for a game that is just happy. Everything has to be so dour and cynical these days. I play video games to escape from the real world, not to feel awkward second-hand embarrassment.

Yeah, it's more of the tone feeling weird in this game, more than anything else.

I found the notes from the old man to be creepy once they started addressing my character by name.

My only question about the old rancher letters is, how does he know Bea's name? But maybe that will be explained later on. For some reason I'd assumed the two of them didn't know each other. Or is it like in Stardew Valley, where he's a relative or something who left the ranch to her? If so, maybe I missed that.

[Clueless]

I'm so confused about both the letters and the old man's messages, they're out of the blue right now with no real background or flesh to go with it.

I hope they incorporate it better, I'd never forgive myself for falling in love with this game and then having this blow it all away.

[Leudic]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Clueless:

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I wouldn't say that this would ruin the game for me. But it certainly is a bit of a damp blanket.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Pietoro:

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He sold the ranch to Beatrix, He probably knows her name from the time leading up to the transaction. (I'm assuming that the sale goes directly from one to the other instead of 7Zee acting as a realtor of sorts.)

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I'm just sitting here being barely past 10.


I have no idea what any of this is.

[Arrietty]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Pietoro:

The thing is, if I were Bea, I'd find Casey's letters incredibly annoying, exactly -because- that's what they are. I mean like, dude, why are you unloading this stuff on me now after you basically went off and did your own thing instead of confessing your 'hidden feelings' (bleh), and then wait til I moved literally millions of miles away and (obviously) am over my past life and making a new one as a slime-farming hermit? =P

I just wanna raise cute slimes, man. Casey can keep his baggage to himself.

My husband and I had a similar take-away. Maybe it is past experience/history, but his letters dont read as romantic to me. If I were Bea, he would be out of my inbox.

[yimimoto]

I got the creep vibe too. I didn't know if was just me or not but now I see I wasn't the only one. Right now it sounds more and more like a guy who never actually talked to a girl in real life.
I love the idea of the starmails but not the execution at this point.

[charming_little_egg]

I personally read them as love lost. You can see in a couple letters it states RE: - Casey is replying to an email Be sent. Having 8 of the letters they read like regret. Choices were made and this Casey (and perhaps Bea) is feeling nostalgic. It kind of explains why Bea would travel so far away.. Haven't you ever had a breakup so heartbreaking that moving to another planet would be easier than seeing the other half again? I have. And to be second choice.. An afterthought in someone else's life when you have given your whole heart to them is a very powerful sadness.

I think these read as sad memories of what used to and what could have been as they were obviously together for some sort of time.

The same tone is found in one of Hobsons notes.. Where he sat in a beautiful place and let his heart fill with sadness as he thought of someone he presumeably lost.

Maybe i am just a hopeless romantic but i have had this happen to me.. And I moved away from that city at the first oppritunity.

[Leudic]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย JalapenoBrews:

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I know what they're supposed to sound like. But it's a happy sunshiney game about ranching gelatinous slime blobs with melodrama suddenly thrown in the mix. it doesn't gel.

[Clueless]

It doesn't mix well at all.

[Sammarald]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Clueless:

It doesn't mix well at all.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Leudic:

I know what they're supposed to sound like. But it's a happy sunshiney game about ranching gelatinous slime blobs with melodrama suddenly thrown in the mix. it doesn't gel.

Huh, the devs expected this to happen.

[Jet]

I don't think the Casey letters should be changed. I like them, and I believe they are optional so for people who find them unnerving, they can ignore them. Perhaps the devs can give you the option to turn off starmail notifications.

Edit:

This goes for the Hobson messages as well.

To elaborate further, I can relate to what these two characters are going through and I find it a little rude that people are so quick to say "change it!" without considering the other players. I do enjoy the overall very happy tone of the game, but the game got SO MUCH better for me when they added the messages and letters. I like to feel like I can relate to people, I like to walk through familiar experiences and reflect, I like to know that I'm not the only one who feels nostalgic and ponder on how things could have been different. It's refreshing and immersive to have a little taste of reality in the game. The conversation that Bea and Casey are having is very similar to how I talk to my closest friends. We think back on the past and explain how we were feeling or talk about what lead us to make certain decisions. It's not obsessive or stalkerish, it's not dumping your emotional problems on someone, it's just reflection.

It's very easy to ignore the letters. For the sake of the people who actually enjoy them, please don't take them out. I'm a little disappointed in how overwhelmingly judgemental some of you were...

[Leudic]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Pomkeki:

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I'm not saying to change it. It's their damn game, they can do with it as they please; I paid to be along for the ride. I'm just providing feedback, they can do with it what they will.

[yimimoto]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Pomkeki:

It's very easy to ignore the letters. For the sake of the people who actually enjoy them, please don't take them out. I'm a little disappointed in how overwhelmingly judgemental some of you were...

I'm pretty sure you are the one judging us. i don't want them taken out at all. I just don't like them the way they are.
If you read them they are just all about super unhealthy talk about the past. There is nothing forward moving about them at all. Why would I want someone filling up my mail with that all the time when I am trying to do something with myself?
And it is silly to think I wouldn't read them if they are there in the game. I am not going to just ignore them if they tell me more about the world.