Vale Stardew
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Stardew Valley takes place in either the late 80's or the early 90s.Consider the level of everyday technology seen in various places in the game. The player and a few of the other people in the valley have chunky cathode-ray TVs (though the presence of a Plasma TV as a furniture item helps place the game somewhere in the early 90s), Sebastian can be seen using a computer that also has a CRT display, a couple people have consoles not unlike the Sega Mega Drive or SNES, there's a couple of arcade machines in the saloon, and Joja's building style evokes a sterile, modern-for-the-time style in comparison to the other, older buildings in Pelican Town. Consider also on a more meta/design-based level, \"The Wind Can Be Still\", one of the tunes that plays during the Winter. There's certainly a mix of 80's synthwave and Earthbound-style tunes. Overall, the design within the game helps give the idea that Pelican Town is a rural settlement in a time where big corporations and modern technology (in the form of Joja) are starting to take a hold, and it seems like the late 80s or early 90s would be a perfect fit. The internet is mentioned in in one of Leah's heart events, but it is said to be expensive. Mid to late 90s seems fitting in this case, since the internet was just starting to become more commonly used, but still a bit pricey for use in smaller towns. On the other hand, a common junk item fished out of waterways is an \"old JojaNet 2.0 trial CD\", with the flavor text commenting they \"must have made a million of these things\". Note the past tense. Said CDs were the way many people hooked up with their first ISP in The '90s, and they were still being manufactured and distributed as recently as 2006. It's probably expensive because they're in the middle of nowhere. To get internet, they'd have to dig up a lot of land to put the cables down. In terms of sociopolitical trends, the Green Aesop messages of the game (especially with the emphasis on pollution, littering, and habitat destruction) feels much more 90s than the present environmentalist emphasis on global warming and climate change. On the other hand, same-sex marriage is both legal and socially acceptable enough for the entire village to attend a wedding (albeit there are hints that it's considered a fairly new thing - Lewis seems pretty bemused as he's performing the ceremony; George, Alex's grandfather, believes marriage should be between a man and a woman because he's \"old-fashioned\"; and Leah says \"Oh! you're... (blushing) Me too. That's good to know\" in her two heart event if the female farmer hits on her). The first country in the real world to legalize same-sex marriage was The Netherlands in 2001, and the push for it was very much considered a radical fringe movement in the United States until the mid-noughties. Sam seems to be ripped straight out of the eighties, being a skateboarding slacker rock musician who's only missing the sunglasses. None of the genres presented during his heart event are especially modern either. There was a Reddit post that asked this same thing. One of the comments noted that since it's a rural village, modern technologies might not catch up to them as fast as in an urban area, meaning it can very well take place in this decade, but the locals just haven't caught up yet. Then again there's magic and alien species in this game, so who knows - maybe it's an Alternate Universe and anything goes. In other words, Pelican Town is the video game equivalent of Napoleon Dynamite in terms of most (but not all) things being Two Decades Behind Another possibility is, because of the game's extremely long development cycle, adding novel inventions like smartphones to the mix would have been seen as chasing infinity. It's worth noting that inspecting Maru's computer reveals it still uses floppy disks, but presents it as being dated for the time. Early 2000's seems to be a possible setting based on this and other factors. The consoles are described by in-game by the player as old-school, so maybe Pelican Town is a bit behind the times, or the owners can't afford newer consoles Alternately, the owners are retro gamers.
This kind of leans on some fanon/fan interpretations of his character in art, but many people seem to interpret him as half-Asian or having Asian heritage (or the Stardew Valley equivalent of Asian). If the Gotoro Empire is the Stardew equivalent of Japan, like some theorize.... 59ce067264
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