How Corrupt is Strangetown Anyway? (Part Two) || Sims 2 Corruption Chronicles

Hi! I'm Tanic Sims 2 but you can call me Tanny and welcome to Part Two of the third instalment of the Sims 2 Corruption Chronicles. Join me as we seek the answer to a question as old as time: just how corrupt are the Sims 2 premade neighbourhoods anyway?

In the first part, we covered the corrupted dead sims in Strangetown – now it’s the living residents’ turn. They can’t all possibly be borked too, surely? Well… let’s just say that, if they weren’t, this video would have only needed to be one part long.

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SOURCES AND RECOMMENDED READING!

MUSIC & SOUNDS
↳Kristen Dez - Come On Come On (Intro & Outro)
↳Sims 2 Theme
↳Sim Time Sim Place
↳Depeche Mode – Suffer Well (Simlish)
↳Oops A Sim
↳Good Evening Bella
↳Sims 2 DS - Aliens

VIDEOS

MORE SIMS SHENANIGANS!

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00:00 Intro
00:40 MIA DNA
04:36 Nervous Subject(s)
07:20 Strangetownies
10:42 Schrödinger’s Bella 2: Electric Bellaloo
14:14 We are Family
16:41 Checking the Hood
22:29 Verdict
24:59 Outro

[MayLina]

let me just say that alien baby being born cut scene alone has more life, emotions and story than the whole Sims 4

[fishsona]

The worst thing about Bella is that out of all the townies she should be the least buggy one, as the devs would expect players making her playable. Instead she's a walking timebomb

[lulaellie]

My child self going up to Bella Goth as soon as I spotted her in Strangetown: 🤡🤡

[so_qp]

Benjamin Cho: **works 24 hours each day**
also Benjamin Cho: 👍👍

[KatJustice]

Every time I see the footage of Nervous getting crushed by the satalite, I just imagine him regularly getting into near-death situations so he has an excuse to see his dad

[Honeywell]

It was so funny'' He is employed in a job that doesn't exist and works 24 hours per day... and then that smile! Omg... I am crying from laughters

[helenaww]

how the hell did they actually manage to fuck up this many parts of the game?

and how did i manage to have a 10 year old strangetown hood with next to no problems?

[SofiaH]

for some reason these corruption videos freak me out even when nothing freaky is happening? love the slightly unhinged vibes of sims 2. and i know nothing about coding or making video games but the way they made the game is so interesting to me!

[karoublue]

I don't think nervous having no ties to Olive was a mistake. I think the developers didn't want players to know right away that nervous was olives son. It's not until you dig through memories that you learn, so it doesn't show up in the family tree.


So the dead nervous is the one tagged as olives son. And the playable nervous isn't so players can learn later when they start reading characters memories

[maxhadanidea]

the second nervous subject might be grim going "no" after he dies

[byanca]

I consider not listing Chloe and Lola as Curious siblings, a feature and plot device, not a bug lol. The Curious brothers are really into aliens, heck two of them even pregnant with one. Learning that their hot alien wives are actually their half-sisters, really thickens the plot lol.

[therotryzit]

The more i think about it, maybe the Curious Brothers weren't intended to by related at all, or at the very least Vicund and Jenny weren't supposed to be related to Pascal and Lazlo. Apparently the Curious Brothers were a reference to the Lone Gunman, who weren't related to each other. Adding to this Vidcund and Jenny look nothing like Pascal and Lazlo. Probably they were hastily rushing the family relations in Strangetown before releasing, since they didn't bother doing it for most of the development phase.

[shyhistorian]

I had the weirdest experience a few years back, where I married Vidcund to Chloe and then Lazlo to Lola (not realising that they were actually siblings) and both produced children.
Even more bizarrely was the fact that the “cousins” didn’t even recognise each other as family. Yikes.

[wingsofzero]

Unrelated to the corruptions, but oh no, my head hurts from reliving the Curious/Smith family tree. That's some TV soap opera stuff that Jenny just straight up married and had kids with her father's lover, ensuring that she became the stepmother of her half-siblings and Johnny and Jill both having their aunts as their half-siblings too. Only in The Sims 2 lmao

On the Nervous theory, I like to take the path of least resistance and say that both the hidden Nervous and the playable Nervous are the same person. My only justification is that the devs applied this logic to ST and PV Bella; even though they obviously look different, canonically they're the same. If you wanted to weave some messed up lore into it, you could say that Nervous was revived after the 'Friday the 13th' video but had to go through a face reconstruction due to the accident. That's why everyone, even the Beakers, has memories of the old Nervous because no one else had seen him after the surgery (assuming Nervous had met Pascal before it happened).

I like the clone theory though (and I think it was a minor plot point in 'Strangetown, Here We Come') because it seems more mad scientist and totally what the Beakers would do just for shi's and giggles.

[iwakeupandboomimarat]

i love the fact that without any mod fixes, bella can hypothetically introduce your sim to a fucking rc car??? thats iconic behaviour good for her

[solanita]

In my current Strangetown, Bella Goth works in the military career, and when General Buzz brought her home from work and wanted to become best friends with her I was like "ehm no thank you, I'm fine without that corrupted lady"

[dinealone]

i heard the weird clones were because the original story for strangetown was that aliens crash landed and took on human forms, and you would have to figure out which ones are aliens.

[raffit]

Okay, it's actually so interesting that Strangetown Bella Goth is considered a Curious sibling by the game : in the french version of the Sims 2, Strangetown Bella Goth is actually named Kathy Lalouche (to my knowledge, the french version i's the only version where her name is different in Pleasantview and Strangetown). And in the french version, the Curious family's translated last name is... Lalouche. So french Strangetown Bella Goth has the same last name as the Curious siblings !! Coincidence ? (God I love this broken game)

[RedxRiot]

Can’t wait for veronaville, I feel like no one really talks about that neighborhood???? 😅

[existenz_]

These corruption videos are so interesting