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0:00This is my brutally honest review of The
0:02Sims 4 Adventure Awaits, a past for
0:05series where I review every pack for The
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0:27have to support my channel. Adventure
0:29Awaits is about going on getaways and
0:32adventures with your Sims with an
0:34emphasis on childhood coming with quite
0:37a few new gameplay objects this time
0:39around. So, taking a look at Create a
0:40Sim mode, I don't think the hair meshes
0:43are very memorable and the men just get
0:45the women's hairs predominantly.
0:47Although men actually got better CAS
0:49than women's this time around, I think,
0:51in a worldwide first. I used to complain
0:53all the time that men's CAS was just so
0:56bad in The Sims 4. I can definitely see
0:58that they've been trying harder to be
1:00fair. It's not pretty stuff. It's purely
1:02functional CAS that makes sense for the
1:04pack. For example, it comes with new
1:06swimwear and a life jacket because
1:07there's kayaking and diving in the pack
1:09and a lot of summer camp style clothing
1:11and uniforms. I don't think anyone in
1:14their right mind is buying this pack for
1:16the CAS choices. Who needs sloppy head
1:18when you can have a literal sloppy head
1:21on your head? The Sims 4 is at a weird
1:23stage right now where they've added so
1:25much stuff they couldn't possibly add
1:26any more even with the brand new kits
1:28they're releasing. It feels very
1:30recycled. honest, I actually think I
1:32prefer them cutting back and solely
1:33focusing on functional CAS that makes
1:36sense within the boundaries of the pack
1:39and I wouldn't mind them doing it more
1:40often. They did make some questionable
1:42choices with the object categorization.
1:44Like, why is the swimming cap only
1:46available to female Sims? Men wear
1:49swimming caps. I also think a lot of the
1:51men's CAS suits female Sims, but they
1:54didn't apply it and also there was a
1:55couple of stuff from female that could
1:57have suited men. They did add a lot of
1:59stuff I think for kids and toddlers this
2:01time around, which is good. I don't
2:03really have anything good or bad to say
2:05really about the CAS in this pack. I
2:07think the Sims team have run out of
2:09ideas because they've pretty much done
2:11everything, but I think the pack is
2:12sufficient. It comes with a good amount
2:14of stuff that is useful for making
2:16summer camps and retreats. So, I'm going
2:19to be giving it a seven out of 10. So,
2:21I've seen a lot of Sims creators bash on
2:23the build stuff. So, I went into this
2:26expecting disappointment to await rather
2:29than adventure, but I was actually
2:31mostly content with it. I like the build
2:34stuff. I think it's nice, better suited
2:36to building a summer camp. You can also
2:38use it for maybe some kind of beach lots
2:40or shabby homes, I would say. They're
2:42definitely are not enough objects to
2:45make any kind of build you want. I tried
2:47to build a log cabin only using the pack
2:49without base game and I really struggled
2:51to furnish even half of the build. You
2:53really need stuff from other packs to
2:55make up the difference. Architecturally,
2:57the pack is great with the windows and
2:58doors and wallpaper swatches, but not
3:00enough stuff. the star of the show with
3:03build mode is the new playground
3:05equipment. It's modular and you can slot
3:07all of the jungle gym pieces in any way
3:09that you like to build your own, which
3:11by the way, I recommend doing with move
3:13objects off. There's also some new
3:15swimming pool stuff, too, and a new hot
3:17tub that sits in the floor, which I'll
3:19probably use all of the time. I feel
3:22like an expansion pack should expand on
3:24the game enough in build mode so that
3:27you can make as many builds as you want
3:29within the boundaries of the pack and
3:31the whole point of this was like log
3:32cabins, retreats, and I just don't feel
3:35like it came with enough stuff to do
3:36that. I think maybe a kitchen set would
3:38have been nice, making the bathroom set
3:41actually matching, perhaps having an
3:43outdoor movie projector that was smaller
3:45than the one that came with outdoor
3:46retreat in that random kit, maybe some
3:48cute outdoor lighting, more functional
3:50objects for each room of the house. I do
3:52like the stuff and the design aesthetic
3:54they went for. And to be balanced, I do
3:56also admit it actually came with quite a
3:58lot of new gameplay objects this time
4:00around, which I'm really happy for
4:02because they've traditionally always
4:04lacked with gameplay objects in The Sims
4:064 and finally we actually have a lot
4:08more. I think a balanced and honest
4:10score of the build mode here is a seven
4:12out of 10. So, the new world is called
4:14Gibby Points. There are 13 lots across
4:17three neighborhoods. All of the pre-made
4:19lots look perfect this time around. A
4:21couple of the lots are waterfront, which
4:22is the first time they've done this
4:24since Island Living, which is nice to
4:26see. On the direct contrary of something
4:28that's nice to see, a prolapsed anus.
4:31Not only is it prolapsed, it also
4:33squirts cumfarts every now and then for
4:36your Sims to enjoy watching. But no,
4:38this prolapsed anus is not going to
4:39[ __ ] for you for free. No, no, no,
4:41no, no, no. Apparently, you have to do
4:43some questline in order to actually make
4:45the geyser just squirt. And then after
4:47finishing it, it finally does what it's
4:49supposed to do. I mean, this is why I'm
4:51not straight, okay? If it takes that
4:53much effort, I'd rather be gay. So,
4:56aside from jumping to an anus metaphor
4:58to a vagina metaphor, being Okay, being
5:00serious now, sorry. There was
5:02apparently, like I've just heard that it
5:04squirts if you do a quest, but here's
5:07the issue. There are NPCs around the
5:09world, I believe, who are supposed to
5:10give you the quest, but I could not find
5:12them anywhere. I did find like the
5:13weird, crazy looking bird and I tried to
5:16get it to give me quests, but I think it
5:17glitched or the interactions failed
5:19because it just didn't work. Because of
5:21that, I was unable to make the geyser
5:23squirm. I mean, okay, no no more jokes,
5:26I'm sorry. It's disappointing that I
5:28couldn't do the quests this time around
5:30because I wanted to include them in the
5:31review, but I couldn't even after trying
5:33really hard. If I'm trying that hard to
5:35do it, then maybe there's an issue with
5:37the way it was implemented. There's a
5:38few rabbit hole buildings here where you
5:40can do stupid random things like
5:42checking weather conditions if you own
5:44Seasons. You can also use these
5:45buildings in order to locate different
5:47notable places. I think it's a nice
5:49first step towards navigating these fake
5:52open worlds slightly more tolerable,
5:53although it does force constant pop-ups
5:56and, you know, like and just annoying
5:57notifications when you do. I found a
5:59collectible trader here who can trade
6:01your duplicate collectibles with you and
6:03sell them to him for a higher price than
6:05selling it from your inventory. There
6:06are also festivals in each neighborhood.
6:08I saw a spin class once, but that's it.
6:10The Sims 4 does a really bad job with
6:12festivals. Either you're constantly
6:14being notified of them everywhere or you
6:16don't hear about them at all or you hear
6:18about them at the wrong time. And when I
6:19did hear about them, I was unable to
6:21find them. And honestly, I have a
6:23feeling that they may have been glitched
6:25because apart from the spin class, there
6:27was absolutely like nothing I could
6:29find. I just feel like maybe they were
6:31just completely broken because I was
6:34looking very attentively. I just
6:35couldn't find anything. And even when I
6:37did find the correct location, there was
6:39no festival going on. So, I'm assuming
6:41it's just corrupted. The world is a
6:43normal boring Sims 4 world. There's a
6:45huge expansive area to explore, but
6:47nothing to find other than a few
6:48butterflies here or there. Why am I
6:50collecting butterflies, by the way? I
6:52don't know. And I'm sure the side quests
6:54were lovely if it was even possible for
6:56me to find them and accept them in the
6:58first place. I'm going to give
7:00constructive criticism to make the world
7:01more fun. Why not add a butterfly
7:03sanctuary where you donate the
7:05butterflies to them, kind of like the
7:07Animal Crossing museum where you also
7:08donate fossils and maybe you get some
7:10rewards each time you do it. That way
7:12you are adding some kind of story
7:14progression into the game. This is kind
7:16of like a basic fundamental that exists
7:18in video games, story progression. The
7:20Sims 4 doesn't know it too well. How
7:22about quest givers who turn up? How
7:23about unique stuff and quests for
7:25children to do in the world seeing this
7:27is a kid-friendly focused pack. There
7:30are playgrounds in the world, by the
7:31way, but you'll never see random kids
7:33actually playing in them because every
7:34single Sims 4 world is a ghost town.
7:36Gibby Point is great for screenshots,
7:38but nothing else. It's getting a three
7:40out of 10. Taking a look at the
7:42gameplay, the most important thing. This
7:44pack is all about kids. I want to say
7:46from the off-step before we go into
7:48getaways, custom lots. Playgrounds are a
7:51brand new base game update alongside
7:52this pack, although in true EA fashion,
7:55they don't really do anything unless you
7:56have this pack. The new playgrounds are
7:58really cool. play around in the
8:00different pieces of equipment, fine.
8:02There's also hide and seek in the game
8:04now, which is a passive thing that you
8:05watch as a player, but you can also do
8:08some interactions, although it actually
8:10glitched for me, so I'm unable to show
8:12you any footage of me doing it
8:13successfully. That was after trying it
8:15several times, by the way. Paper crafts
8:17are also a new thing in the pack. You
8:20don't do them on the ordinary activity
8:22table, it's a separate object that you
8:23can place on any kind of desk or picnic
8:26bench or anything. You can craft origami
8:29and paper planes and paper mache stuff.
8:31It's fine, whatever. What's the point in
8:33making paper craft? I don't really know.
8:35It just feels like a filler feature, but
8:37at least kids have something new to do.
8:39I just don't think it's that different
8:41from the base game activity table. I'm
8:44just not convinced by it, especially
8:46given that it's a level 10 skill, which
8:48is just so dramatic. Archery is another
8:50skill in this pack up to level five.
8:53It's a lot more boring and repetitive
8:55than I thought it would be. It branches
8:57off into bow fishing at a higher level,
8:59but other than that, I think it's a very
9:00minor feature. With the bow fishing,
9:03you're more likely to catch rare fish,
9:04which I think is useful, but I don't
9:06really understand why I'm doing archery.
9:09The game doesn't come with archery
9:10competitions or anything. So, I just
9:13feel like they didn't expand on this
9:15expansion pack feature. And I'll be
9:17real, the animation for bow fishing is
9:20really creepy. I can't tell if it's a
9:22glitch or intended. Please tell me you
9:25see what I mean. Simmers have been
9:26catching bugs in The Sims 4 for years
9:29now, but now your Sims themselves can
9:31catch bugs. And no, I don't mean doing
9:33press-ups or T-posing, I mean literal
9:35bug catching. That is different to the
9:37bug catching that came with the Outdoor
9:39Retreat game pack. Confusing, I know.
9:42Butterflies and moths are a new
9:44collectible and you have to look in the
9:46collections menu to get hints about
9:48which ones are where and at what times
9:50and you have to fulfill certain
9:51conditions to get some of them. Okay,
9:53that's lovely, but as I said before, why
9:55is there no butterfly sanctuary to
9:57donate them to or something? There is a
9:59large insect prison object that you can
10:03capture them in, but why am I doing
10:05that? Insectology or I I It's not called
10:08insectology, it's some other name. But,
10:10there's a skill that comes with it
10:12associated with this up to level five.
10:14Again, I don't really know what the
10:15skill is for. I don't know why I'm
10:17catching the bugs in the first place.
10:19Again, so many issues with gameplay
10:21loops with this pack. There is a new
10:23reward trait for the bug catching
10:25aspiration which I went through. It just
10:28comes with some random romance
10:30interactions. I believe it comes with
10:31three that basically just show
10:33butterflies above your head when you do
10:34them, but that's pretty much it. There
10:36is also, by the way, a new aspiration
10:37for kids this time around which is good,
10:40which is about being the cool kid on the
10:42block. In fact, kids get a brand new
10:43feature called formative moments. It's
10:45basically a secondary type of aspiration
10:48that you can have on top of your normal
10:49one, and you can stack a lot of them at
10:51the same time. They're more like mini
10:53aspiration goals, and they have some
10:55minor effects on the kids when they grow
10:57up. For example, your Sim could have a
10:59formative moment about being in the
11:01water, and the goal is to swim for 6
11:03hours and use a kayak three times. And
11:05after you do this, your reward is to
11:07lose energy slower whilst kayaking as an
11:10adult. Bit weird. What's the point in
11:12these kinds of rewards? They don't seem
11:14meaningful to me, and I don't see the
11:16point in having a formative moment, to
11:18be honest. Bit fine, it's a filler
11:20feature that gives you more missions to
11:22do. I just don't really know why I'm
11:24doing the missions, so that I can kayak
11:26with a slower energy need to decay. But,
11:28sorry, why am I kayaking again in the
11:30first place? I would like to say this
11:32also a new trait called competitive,
11:34where it actually splits off into two
11:36branches. Your Sims can either be
11:38healthily competitive and a good team
11:40sport, or they can be really atrociously
11:43competitive and have like a really
11:45negative team spirit. From my
11:47experience, every single Sim geared
11:49towards having a very negative
11:51competitive spirit regardless of their
11:53other traits, and regardless of what I
11:56did with them, they just all
11:57automatically became negative for no
11:59reason. It changes the way that they
12:01react to winning or losing somethings,
12:04which is cute, but I don't think it's
12:06that substantial in terms of giving your
12:08Sims more personality. It is randomly a
12:11very in-depth trait with a lot of
12:14interactions for it. It just doesn't
12:16make your Sims feel like they have any
12:18more personality, so it defeats the
12:19point of being a personality trait. So,
12:21the moment you've been all waiting for,
12:23getaways. What is a getaway? It's
12:26basically a schedule. You assign people
12:28roles, and at set times, you decide what
12:31these Sims do. EA have created a list of
12:33template ideas, so I tried the outdoor
12:36kids camp getaway to start with, and the
12:38roles were campers and camp director.
12:40So, at 6:00 a.m., the camp director is
12:42scheduled to cook breakfast and clean,
12:44and the campers are scheduled to eat. At
12:469:00 a.m., the campers are scheduled to
12:48do physical activities, and the director
12:50looks after and mentors them, etc.,
12:52etc., throughout the day. At each
12:54scheduled time, you set a main
12:56overarching activity, and then you set
12:58some sub activities. Although, I found
13:00they did the sub activities more than
13:02the main overarching activity, so I
13:05don't really know if they're balanced
13:07correctly. Surprisingly, Sims mostly
13:10seem to know their place and will do
13:12things correctly, but they do also
13:14retain some autonomy, which I actually
13:16like because they're not all just moving
13:19and doing the same thing like robots. It
13:21feels like some Sims will go off and do
13:23their own thing, which I actually do
13:24really like about it, and I think it was
13:26done mostly well. I would admit, though,
13:28whilst playing with the getaways, I did
13:30think, what is the point? Like, I just
13:32got a bit bored of the kids camp within
13:34the first 24 hours. I'm watching other
13:36Sims, the other NPC townies around me
13:39doing what they're supposed to do, which
13:41is kind of the bare minimum, and I'm
13:43scheduling my Sim to do the same things
13:45with them. Okay, but why is that fun? I
13:48do think it's cool that you can change
13:50up the schedule activities at any time
13:52that you like. So, if you get bored of
13:54the kids camp, you can actually add
13:56cross-pack activities from other packs
13:58you own and schedule them in. So, I
14:00definitely think you can make it more
14:01interesting. It just requires a lot of
14:03creativity. The pack also comes with a
14:05pre-made love island style romance
14:07competition where singles mix and
14:09mingle, and at the end of every day, a
14:10Sim is supposed to be eliminated. How
14:12are they eliminated? On what grounds?
14:14Why? I don't really know. What's the
14:16consequences? I don't really know. In
14:19fact, this getaway was utter [ __ ]
14:21hell. Sims 4 Sims are so incapable of
14:24interacting with each other, that's why
14:26it just didn't work. At least in the
14:28kids summer camp, they were just kind of
14:30doing their own thing, but next to each
14:32other. Try to have these Sims interact
14:33with each other romantically just wasn't
14:35working. I feel like the whole
14:37competition aspect was not thought
14:39through very well at all. It just feels
14:41like they kind of threw it in at the
14:42end. It's been my dream for ages to have
14:45a reality TV show for the pack for The
14:47Sims 4, and I just don't feel like this
14:49cut it. I didn't find it enjoyable. It's
14:52not really reality TV show. It just
14:55creates the illusion. You can kind of
14:57add reality TV show elements, but it's
14:59not the same thing. You're just kind of
15:01playing pretend. There's also a pre-made
15:04fitness retreat, and this is obviously
15:05to show off the new exercise bike and
15:07dumbbells in the game. For this one, I
15:09mostly just let my Sim do what she
15:11wanted, and she basically did what she
15:13was supposed to do within the schedule.
15:16Although, again, I didn't really find it
15:17that enjoyable. And something that I am
15:20a little bit annoyed about with this
15:22pack, despite coming with eight template
15:24getaways, there are only pre-made lots
15:27for three of them. What they used to do
15:29in The Sims 2 and 3, if you didn't play
15:30those games, is every time a new pack
15:32came out to your lot library, they would
15:34actually add several different types of
15:37lots that you can replace with the other
15:39lots, which was really cool. But, with
15:41this pack, they didn't really do that. I
15:42feel like they should have added a lot
15:44for all of the other different
15:46activities that you could do. I tried
15:48making a daycare, a boarding school, and
15:51a retirement home. The retirement home
15:53was [ __ ] hilarious. But, as it's just
15:55a getaway, they don't live there, and
15:56Sims can only do a getaway for maximum
15:58of 6 days. So, EA implemented an old
16:02people's home template that I got a lot
16:05for, but you can't actually make an old
16:06people's home cuz it's only a getaway
16:08for 6 days, which makes no sense. I then
16:10tried to make a daycare and a boarding
16:12school. They both went absolutely
16:14terribly. They were hell. Sims were not
16:16doing what they were supposed to. It's
16:17impossible to have like a
16:19teacher-student dynamic with getaways,
16:22so I wouldn't really set it up that way.
16:25Just to confirm, this is not a hotels
16:27pack. You cannot make hotels. You could
16:29try and kind of make a hostel, but it's
16:32not the same as a hotel. Another issue
16:34is how much getaways cost. They are
16:36really expensive to visit one in game.
16:39EA did not balance the cost very well at
16:41all, and I feel like as a player, you
16:43should have more autonomy over how much
16:45they cost. You can also make custom
16:47lots, which follow the exact same
16:49mechanic as getaways, where you schedule
16:51certain roles and certain times people
16:53do interactions. It's just it's applied
16:55to the lot itself. So, when you visit
16:57one of these lots, you'll find Sims
17:00doing the activities at the set times.
17:02Although, you can't join in, by the way.
17:04The only way you can join in is if you
17:05join it as a getaway. So, I don't really
17:08understand what a custom lot is. I don't
17:11think anybody really understands what it
17:13is. What is the difference between a
17:14custom lot and a getaway? Nothing, but
17:16everything. Who knows? Anyway, the first
17:19thing I tried to make on a live stream
17:21was a mental asylum, and I just want to
17:23say it was really hard finding all of
17:25the activities that I wanted. There is
17:27no search feature to scroll through all
17:30of the activities. It made it really
17:32cumbersome trying to find what I wanted
17:34with all of the packs installed. Why
17:36didn't they add a search feature? They
17:38did the same mistake with The Sims 4
17:40Businesses with no Hobbies Pack. Why is
17:42so EA search bar phobic? So, I tried my
17:45best to find the activities and
17:47eventually got there. I couldn't figure
17:48out how to assign all the specific roles
17:50to specific Sims on the lot,
17:52particularly for my Sim. So, I assigned
17:54the role of patients to be infected,
17:57just like the Sims from Strangerville
17:59that walk around possessed. None of them
18:00in the lot were actually infected, so it
18:03was glitched. And as I said before, if
18:05you visit a custom lot, you can't
18:06actually see the schedule or participate
18:08in the lot activities cuz you aren't
18:09assigned a role, but it's impossible to
18:11assign a role. So, what was the point in
18:12making the custom lot? I don't know. You
18:14can just make one using activities and
18:15schedules, but can't participate unless
18:17it's a getaway, so it's not a custom
18:19lot, it's a getaway lot, which I feel
18:21like if they just called it a getaway
18:22lot, it would have made more sense. So,
18:24what's the purpose of a custom lot where
18:26you have townies that spawn in doing
18:28certain behaviors at certain times, but
18:29your Sim is not directly involved, and
18:31there's no gameplay loop? I don't know.
18:33I don't get it, and neither does EA
18:34apparently either. I think getaways and
18:37custom lots were a cool idea with a lot
18:39of possibilities, and I definitely will
18:40be spending a lot of time messing around
18:42with the feature. I think it's cool,
18:44just like how I thought businesses and
18:46hobbies was cool with the brand new home
18:48business feature. But, I also thought to
18:50myself, realistically, am I going to be
18:52making all this effort to build a
18:53getaway lot and set a schedule and staff
18:55and everything just to see if it could
18:58actually work or not, because this is
19:00still The Sims 4, and most things don't
19:01work. And also, what's the difference if
19:03I make a custom lot that has set
19:06activities? What's the difference
19:08between a home business lot that has set
19:10activities? I don't know. What's the
19:11difference between that and a getaway
19:13club at a set lot with activities? I
19:15don't know. Especially seeing as
19:16Businesses and Hobbies was only two
19:18packs ago. It just seems a bit weird
19:20timing. Imagine a new friends come with
19:22the pack. There are four dolls to choose
19:24from, and your child Sim can play with
19:26it and turn it into an a real-life
19:28imaginary friend, and other Sims don't
19:30see it. Hilariously, the Sims around the
19:32child will actually get really
19:34uncomfortable because they think the
19:35child's talking to themselves. And once
19:37your Sim turns into a teen, they can
19:39actually turn their imaginary friend
19:41into a real Sim and add them to the
19:42household. On paper, that is. I was
19:44unable to do it. It took me a good few
19:46times, due to bugs and glitches, to make
19:49it happen. Honestly, I think imaginary
19:51friends are absolutely hilarious. They
19:53are so [ __ ] ugly and creepy-looking.
19:56I really like it. Weirdly, all four of
19:58the imaginary friends are girls. There
20:01aren't any boy imaginary friends, which
20:04I didn't really understand. I think it's
20:07a really fun concept, but when they
20:08become human, they're just pretty much
20:11human. Also, they don't really do
20:13anything. They don't really have super
20:16special interactions that are going to
20:17change the game. I think Sims 3
20:20imaginary friends were a bit more fun,
20:22but I think this is a nice quirky
20:24feature that they added, and I'm glad
20:26they put it in there. The pack also has
20:28a weekend job at summer camp. I haven't
20:30really seen anyone else talk about it.
20:32It's weird because you only work Friday,
20:33Saturday, and Sunday, but it is
20:35technically a full-time job. So, the
20:37gameplay of this pack is essentially
20:38being able to make your own summer
20:40camps, whether that be a kids camp or an
20:42adult one. Not that they're actually
20:44camping, by the way, because this pack
20:46doesn't come with camping tents, even
20:47though I think it should have done. You
20:49instead just have them live in log
20:51cabins for up to 6 days and do set
20:54scheduled activities at set times over
20:56that 6-day period, and then they go
20:58home. I would call getaways an
21:00interaction scheduler rather than a
21:03getaway. You force Sims to do certain
21:06things at certain times, but it's not
21:09really brand new gameplay. You're just
21:10scheduling a time in which they perform
21:12pre-existing interactions. I've said
21:14this in all of my recent Sims 4 pack
21:17reviews, they don't really come with new
21:18gameplay, they just come with new ways
21:21to use pre-existing gameplay. The
21:24problem is you just don't really get
21:27what you want with it. You only get a
21:28small taste. You can kind of make a
21:30retirement home, but it's not actually a
21:32retirement home. You can kind of make a
21:34kids summer camp, but it's not really a
21:36summer camp. You can kind of make a
21:39reality TV competition, but not really.
21:42This pack allows you to schedule events
21:45to create the illusion that you're kind
21:47of doing something, but you're not
21:48really doing it, and there's no gameplay
21:50loop, and it's not very satisfying or
21:53rewarding as a player to do any of these
21:55things. To highlight some positives
21:57though about the pack that I do like, I
22:00think it's really great for kids. It
22:02comes with a lot of cool new gameplay.
22:03Adults can do archery, paper crafts,
22:06even hide and seek, but I think it is
22:08more geared towards kids, and I think
22:10family players will really love this
22:11pack. It's a much better alternative
22:13than outdoor retreat in order to go on
22:16mini vacations. I think because you can
22:19actually schedule I didn't say this
22:20before, but you can actually schedule
22:22getaways to occur once a week every week
22:25on only one specific day. So, maybe you
22:27could do like a weekend kids book and
22:29reading club or kids crash or something,
22:32whatever they're called, where they go
22:33once a week on a Saturday or Sunday. I
22:35just feel like there is definitely a lot
22:37that you could do with a pack like this,
22:40and I do think it takes a very creative
22:42mind and somebody who has a lot of time
22:44and patience. Most Sims 4 players are
22:45casual players, so I don't think it's
22:47suitable for most, but I think for
22:49family players and legacy players, you
22:51will get a lot of enjoyment out of the
22:52new activities, and also being very
22:55clever with the new getaway system. I
22:57just feel like the pack was a little bit
22:58overhyped. Fundamentally, watching Sims
23:02do set things at a set time is not
23:04gameplay, and there's no gameplay loop.
23:06It's just me watching. I can schedule a
23:08chef to cook dinner at 5:00 p.m. Sims in
23:11other worlds, even though they're not
23:13assigned the role to cook dinner at 5:00
23:14p.m., they will still autonomously cook
23:16for themselves, even though the chef is
23:18assigned to cook. So, Sims are scheduled
23:20to do things, but they also do things
23:22that don't make sense cuz they're dumb
23:23Sims 4 Sims. I just feel underwhelmed
23:26with the gameplay of the pack. I'm
23:28sorry. I'm giving this pack a five out
23:30of 10 for gameplay. Sims 4 packs are
23:33often extremely buggy and glitchy, or
23:36even if they're not buggy, there's often
23:38just some annoying oversights that exist
23:40or poor implementation of features,
23:42which I think are so important to look
23:44at. So, the rehome butterfly mechanic
23:46doesn't work very well, and you often
23:48can't rehome one, even though you should
23:49be able to. And if you accidentally
23:51place a butterfly spawner in a public
23:53place, you can't always pick them up
23:55back again, so they're stuck there
23:56forever. Archery competitions barely
23:59work. Good luck trying to get two Sims
24:01together to do it. This is more of an
24:03oversight than a bug, but kayaks are
24:04constantly going missing or spawning in
24:06random locations. Random Sims are
24:08constantly using random kayaks, and it's
24:11all just a mess. Whenever I tried to
24:13play hide and seek, my Sims just got
24:15stuck indefinitely counting down or
24:17trying to look for Sims that weren't
24:19actually hiding. It just didn't work for
24:21me 100% of the time. There is a new
24:23interaction called call getaway Sims
24:26here in order to make them group up, but
24:28it didn't work all the time for me.
24:30There's a bug in the world where Sims
24:32will actually swim through the
24:33waterfront lots indoors, and it's been
24:35happening to me. It happened in the
24:37official Sims 4 livestream, too, and
24:39also some other people. As I said
24:41before, I honestly think festivals were
24:43broken, because when I was told there
24:44would be them and where they were, I
24:47just didn't see them. The imaginary
24:49friend doll is broken and sometimes
24:50won't turn human. In fact, mine just
24:52disappeared then reappeared after I
24:54tried to do it, and then the action miss
24:56went missing. It was just a bit strange,
24:58and the game seems to really struggle to
25:00perform the interaction in other times
25:02when I tried to do it. I also think the
25:04new rabbit hole career is glitchy, you
25:06know, because as I had camp counselor,
25:08my Sim was earning 12,240
25:10Simoleons per shift, which is just
25:13insane. Of course, that's wrong. The
25:14role requirements also don't always
25:17work. As I said before, when I tried to
25:19make my asylum, I needed all of the
25:21guests to be possessed, but they
25:23weren't. Also, in my boarding school, I
25:25set my Sims all to be children, but they
25:28were only teens that turned up. They did
25:31start off as children, but they
25:32literally all aged up at the same time
25:34for no reason, which is clearly a
25:36glitch. Sims don't always wear their
25:38fitness clothing when using the exercise
25:41bike, they just use their everyday wear.
25:42I also found the custom lot Sims don't
25:44always wear the outfit they've been
25:46assigned for their role. There are also
25:48draw distance issues with the world with
25:50certain scenery and buildings, like the
25:51watchtower not loading properly. Almost
25:54every single feature of this pack bugged
25:56out in some way, whether that be major
25:58or minor. It's not acceptable at all.
26:01They should have tested this pack
26:03thoroughly before release, and it's very
26:05evident they didn't do a good enough
26:07job. It is getting a three out of 10 for
26:09performance. In my pack reviews, I like
26:12to discuss cross-pack features.
26:13Obviously, the main cross-pack feature
26:15here is the fact that it comes with
26:17getaway activities that come from all of
26:19the other packs, and they covered pretty
26:21much all of the major bases. There were
26:23some random activities that they didn't
26:25cover, or some that are kind of hidden
26:27and not covered very well, but I think
26:29there's a lot of possibilities. You
26:31could make a farm retreat where guests
26:33come and look after and play with the
26:35horses. You could make a vampire blood
26:37bank. There's a lot of different
26:38activities that I think would be really
26:40fun to try out. They didn't think of
26:42everything, and usually when EA releases
26:45a Sims 4 pack, they never end up getting
26:47updated with brand new activities. So,
26:50if they missed one, they won't come in
26:52in the future and add another. That's
26:54not how they do things, unfortunately.
26:56So, you're going to have to rely on
26:57modders for a lot of things, but in
26:59general, I actually think they covered
27:01cross-pack play very well here. It
27:04doesn't feel like you require other
27:06packs in order to make this pack fun,
27:09but it is most certainly enhanced by all
27:11of the other packs, which I think is
27:12really cool. So, I'm going to give it an
27:14eight out of 10 for cross-pack play.
27:16This is where I give an overall average
27:18score of the Sims 4 Adventure Awaits,
27:21which should be taken with a grain of
27:22salt, because everyone plays the game
27:24for different reasons, which is why I do
27:26the more kind of modular pack reviews.
27:28So, in all, this is getting a 5.5 out of
27:3110, which I think is a fair score for
27:34the Sims 4 Adventure Awaits. Mediocrity
27:37Awaits would be a better pack name. I
27:39don't know if that's a real word. I just
27:41feel like it lacks a gameplay loop, and
27:44it doesn't go in depth enough. I'm sure
27:46it was, you know, a nightmare for them
27:48to code in getaways. I'm sure it was a
27:51very intricate thing, but that doesn't
27:53necessarily reflect good gameplay loop
27:55as a player. I had similar feelings
27:57about the Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies
28:00pack. I thought it was such an excellent
28:02idea on paper, but similarly, it just
28:05doesn't really have a great loop. If you
28:07enjoyed this pack review, you might want
28:09to check out another pack review here.
28:11Thank you so much for watching this
28:12video. I will see you in the next one.

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