[upbeat folk music]
Ha! Did you really think The Sims Team would let this month go by without a new Stuff Pack?
It seems someone woke them up when September ended and as a result we have
The Sims 4: Spooky Stuff, the fourth Stuff Pack for the game.
This time around it's a very straight-forward, easy to understand theme,
Halloween!
Except it's not, because "The Sims," so it's Spooky Day instead.
And even though there are still no seasons in the game, dang it,
you can go ahead and decorate your homes and lots accordingly and just pretend.
There are just shy of 40 new Create a Sim items to apply to your Sims,
most of which are holiday appropriate.
Pirates, Romans, Zombies and Fairies, Skeletons, Witches, Ninjas, Pumpkin Heads (minus the revenge)
It's a pretty decent assortment really,
and you get stuff for both adults and children,
although the quantity is backwards if you ask me.
I guess I would just expect to see more variety for kids costumes instead of adults.
I mean, I dressed up as a Sim City 2000 box for Halloween when I was 8 years old
but I don't see 'that' option here.
Lack of DOS game outfits aside, there are a little over 30 new build mode things
to plop down and simulate the non-existent season.
You get some spooky lights, a spooky curtain,
spooky tables, spooky Jack-o-Lanterns, spooky candy bowls,
spooky lamps, a spooky skele-bear,
spooky ghost lights, spooky hologram pot, spooky headstones,
spooky spiders and spider webs, spooky portraits that change faces spookily,
a spooky chair and spooky sofa, a spooky rug,
and five spooky wallpaper patterns! [deep inhale]
You also get a pumpkin carving table
which ties in with the handiness skill
and lets you carve Jack-o-Lanterns of various shapes, designs and colors.
You can then light these up or just stomp on them.
Stomping is more fun.
Oh, and the candy bowl is pretty neat in a gimmicky way.
It'll do things to scare your Sims and stress them out.
Nothing too drastic. It's not gonna like punch 'em
in the balls or anything, but it's silly fun.
There's also a few spooky recipes to cook up, though sadly these aren't concocted
in a steaming, bubbling witch's brew, and are instead made using mass produced
consumer kitchen appliances.
To top off the atmosphere, you have a new radio station for appropriately spooky music,
and lastly there's a new party type, Spooky Party!
[unenthusiastically] Wahoo!
Does anyone actually enjoy these?
because I know I couldn't care less.
It's the same exact thing as the costume party you already had...
except this time you can do things like perform tricks or treats on people,
discuss costumes and stare at static objects...
And I don't know what the deal was but I was never able to pull one off successfully.
It always ran out of time before I did enough arbitrary interactions and then everyone got depressed.
I know The Sims 4's big party trick - pun intended - is performing multiple social interactions at once
so parties are the obvious way to exploit that,
but do they really need to take this obvious approach so freaking often?
Parties don't even work that well in my experience and half the time you can't
get Sims to do what you want them to anyway because they're too busy
doing three things at once that you didn't tell them to.
Well anyway, minor rant aside, is this Spooky Stuff Pack worth buying?
As usual they cost $10, so... yeah I dunno.
I do like the stuff on offer this time
and I appreciate that it's a clear-cut easy to understand idea for a pack
instead of something vague like Cool Kitchen Stuff that hardly includes anything cool for your kitchen.
Even though without the autumn season it feels a bit empty,
Halloween is awesome and I find these things charming.
Yeah, that stuff is cheesy and dumb, but I still like it.
The problem for me is that other than the month of October, I don't exactly
keep this stuff around in my house and...
I don't in my Sims game either.
So, by its very nature, the appeal of this pack is limited to a season, which doesn't even exist yet in The Sims 4.
But then Halloween stuff in real life is limited to seasons too and I always look forward to going out
and buying up some new horrifying crap every year.
By that logic, Spooky Stuff is probably not going to get much use from me year-round, but it is right now
and I'm kinda glad that it's there for the month of October.
Eh, I dunno, I guess it just makes sense to me to make holidays into their own packs because they fill the exact
same role as overpriced holiday junk you find in every retail store in the country this time of year.
And like all those chachkies, I know I'm getting ripped off and this will probably
just get packed up in a few weeks until next year,
but sometimes I just want to let that go and surround myself with some
grimacing pumpkins and paranormal paintings.
Ha, did you think I forgot Ralph?
Nope. Sorry buddy, but this fourth Stuff Pack means you lose your fourth body part.
I hope you weren't too attached to that leg.
[paranormal sounds]
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