My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Growing Together

The Sims 4 Growing Together Gameplay Review! I reviewed The Sims 4 Growing Together.

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00:00 Pack Overview
00:24 CAS
02:55 Build Mode
04:51 World
06:51 Gameplay
19:38 Performance
20:18 Cross Pack Play
21:24 Pack Conclusion

[_xander_x]

"the pack makes The Sims 4 feel like a good base game" NAILED IT

[alex_is_out]

I find it SHOCKING how empty the new world is. Even for EA it's unbelievable. Why even bother designing such a nice looking café, dock and subway if there's no reason for players to be near them in game? Why not make the subway a way to travel between the worlds? Even putting a food stall near the café or a fishing spot at the dock- hell throw a tree house or a chess table somewhere- anything would have been better than it being completely barren

[estefaniaavalos]

I love your take: "I do not buy a bag of pencils and feel extremely grateful to the pencil company", the sims is a product and not a cheap one.

[caseyzimba]

The Sims 4 has taught me the skill of managing my expectations 🙂

[nickysbookclub]

Growing Together could’ve and should’ve been an update to Parenthood and I’ll stand by that

[louisarosina]

What annoys me about this pack, apart from the underwhelming world, BB and lack of shoes, is that they designed a changing table to match the base game crib! Makes me think it was meant to be in the base game update but they changed their mind.

[hesterwright]

Does anyone else feel like tweens would have made more sense as a new life stage? Like, babies needed to be more interactive, but going from baby to toddler was way less weird than going from a child of about 6 or 7 straight to looking basically like an adult as a teen. They obviously chose infant because it meant they had to make less new animations for a little baby. If they'd made tweens there would have been sims of a new height and size to animate for, for every single object in the game

[aurelia]

The world being so barren is a huge letdown. Looking at the pier area, it looks like it would be such a nice spot for a seasonal festival. Perfect for something like a craft fair -- I was picturing there being a long row of vendor stalls, and Sims could shop there, or crafty Sims could rent a stall and sell their Nifty Knitting merch, or their woodwork, or their cupcakes... but alas. :(

[tuffdude]

From watching this it seems Growing Together's biggest issue is that anything good it does are things that should be base game.

[thebeachisdark]

i’ve watched a few reviews of this pack, your honestly makes me realise how fearful other sims youtubers are to criticise ea

[tassey]

I think you nailed it when you said that you couldn't find a theme, that it looked like an enhanced version of the base game. This pack is an update/upgrade of the base game. It doesn't have toilets because we already have enough of them. Lots of stuff, including CAS, reminds me of older versions of Sims. I quit playing about a year ago because I got bored with gameplay. Watching you and others to see if this adds enough to come back.

[rosiebratz]

been waiting for this I love how genuine and trustworthy your reviews are.

[eizthetics]

I have been waiting for your take on this EP because you don't sugarcoat things, which I like. Thanks Satch!!!

[sheerechoes]

2:05 You mention that characteristics clash with traits like having an active characteristic but the lazy trait. This is because the characteristic menu isn't actually YOUR characteristics, but instead ones that your Sim likes or dislikes (depending on your selection) in other sims. So if in CAS your lazy sim selects the happy smiley face under active that means even though they're not active, they like those who are.

Great review as always just wanted to clarify that! <3

[littlejoh]

I am a family player so I did get the pack, but it's so accurate that this should have been basegame. I feel like we're all addicted to this drug, and because there's no legit sources to get it we're getting the back alley supply while wishing we could have better.

[phoebevaughan]

Basically, you pay £40 for babies - and a treehouse! They should have just combined Growing Together with Parenthood as one pack! Edit: If they expanded on sleepover and baby shower stuff adding things like gender (or life state) reveals with either party poppers, a cake or fireworks each with a different colour (blue, pink, green - for aliens, etc), children messing around at sleepovers e.g. watching horror films, waking parents, and stealing snacks from the fridge. Also, the ability for adult/elder sims tend to sick Sims with soup or ice cream - along with hot chocolate/lemonade at sleepovers - with teenagers having the opportunity to "sneak some nectar" to their friends. Also the water park should have slides and a surf station - not just some fountains. That'll make up for the price!

[Hansueli.]

The only channel I trust for Sims reviews nowadays! You never disappoint, Satch!
You and Cindy (Pleasant Sims) are the only Sims content creators that I trully like (even if she doesn't do The Sims right now, she's amazing!)

[blackIisbunny]

I swear the sims mod community is literally holding this franchise together.

The whole pack just wonderful whims, mod babies and activities on base game.

[kerriesherrard]

I agree, I find the fiancé situation ridiculous too; I couldn’t believe that I couldn’t choose dynamics because my Sims were “only” engaged….. 🙄

[barbezlova]

Thank you for the overview, I’m so tired of these over hyped Sims videos where these game changers lie and make it seem like everything is perfect. We need more folk like you telling it like it is. I wonder why EA does not reach out to content creators as yourselves and ask what can we fix about this game 🤨