Listen, I know what you’re thinking: why Elliott when there are so many better bachelors out there?
Dear reader, I get it.
He looks like an old man crossed with a Christmas elf and speaks like that guy from college who thought he and the prof were best friends. I get it. Unfortunately, that’s my type. And he was in fact my first Stardew love.
He definitely could use improvements, though. And where better to find them than mods?
This expansive mod adds over 130 new lines of dialogue for Elliott, including new seasonal dialogue that doesn’t repeat in years one through four – plus better flirting at ten hearts.
Overall, the dialogue is really well written. And it does a great job of maintaining his diction and character too, with lines like “Rapturous life – it springs from all around us, if we have the eyes to see.”
Here’s a pretty simple mod that just replaces the original vanilla portrait with a new one.
But the art is honestly gorgeous.
Elliott looks softer and so much less pompous than in his original vanilla portrait.
The mod creator still keeps his recognizable features, like blocky chin and air of intelligence. But now Elliott doesn’t look like somebody you’d want to fight at the bar just because.
Don’t you hate when you’ve been married for five years and your spouse still says the same three things to you every day?
This mod adds around twenty lines of extra dialogue for Elliott, and tweaks some existing ones to give you better conversations with Pelican Town’s best (and only) writer after exchanging your vows.
He’s pretty cheesy, just as an FYI.
Now, if only you could update your spouse’s usual voice lines IRL.
Not everyone adores the pixel art style of Stardew Valley.
I was used to really beautiful games like Dragon Age and The Sims 4 when I started playing Stardew. And it took me a while to wrap my head around the graphics.
I love the game now, obviously. But I do understand the appeal of mods like these, that make Elliott a bishounen looking beefcake.
He looks like a totally different character with this reskin, and it’s honestly kinda fun.
People already say Elliott looks too old fashioned.
So let’s just go full ham and transport him back to the 19th century.
This mod really only tweaks his portrait, but I think it’s fun and clever.
He now has sideburns and his face no longer looks like he’s jaundicing, which is a good thing. The mod also tweaks his coloration so it looks more natural.
One of the biggest pitfalls of Stardew, in my opinion, is how methodical and finite the game is – for something that’s literally infinite. By which I mean, once you’ve buddied up with the townspeople, that’s it.
There’s nothing else you can do with them.
It takes away a lot of the immersion for me that once I’m at ten hearts with someone, they’re kind of obsolete now.
Well this mod adds another event at 12 hearts for Elliott, which allows me to feel something a little extra.
It doesn’t fix the problem. But it delays it – and I will take what I can get.
