Finally we are getting into the meat and potatoes. A divine course of DLC that’ll make even the most serious dollar sign min-maxxers shudder in fear.

Ring ring, who’s calling? Oh, that guy you met once and never again. He wants to know if you’ll go to GeekCon with him and dress up as Star Wars characters. A random townie just crashed the rocket ship there and literally exploded (didn’t die), so you bought the festival related SWAG to commemorate this fine afternoon. They’ve concocted the perfect sample of stupidity to coax my Sims out of their house. Apparently it’s karaoke bars and dumb little stupid events that happen every other week. There is nothing like getting a bunch of Sims together and watching them interact on their own, whether it’s bettering their lives or destroying them. This is why I play the stupid, haha funny gibberish game.

The bulk of this pack is stored within a new city, which you can travel to at any time. Living there will require you to foreclose your house and gulp.. become a renter instead. Unfortunately, you cannot edit the foundation of the pre-made apartments, but most of them are rather lavishly gigantic. We’re talking sitcom levels of large, despite being the cost of a pair of shoes per month. Video game escapism, my beloved. It does however come with the added addition of shitty annoying neighbors. Video game escapism, denied. I like the busyness of the city, but I still prefer to just travel there instead. With it having 4 districts of different things to do and an assortment of foods to eat from different cultures, I’m still slowly working my way through the Collectibles that it added. There’s just a lot to do in the city, baybee. I barely go to the other towns in this game, San Myshuno is where it’s at.

I haven't really talked about the furniture in these packs and that’s mainly because it's.. well, just chairs and couches and whatnot. I do not claim to be or even exist on the same level as Bob from Bob’s Furniture. I’m much more the type of person that just kinda throws things I like together. Orange walls with green couch cushions, ya know? One look into my Sim’s house will make even the most sane individual break. But, guess what you sicko Animal Crossing enjoyers, this pack includes a gigantic superstore’s worth of furniture, not to mention the added abilities to perform street art to scribble all over your walls and lawns with. And don’t even get me started on Lot Traits man, give your house a literal personality so that it’s easier for your Sims to learn certain skills or encourage certain behaviors while they’re there. There are now more than a million different ways to make money that aren't just going into a rabbit hole and disappearing for 8 in-game hours. I would consider this to be a pretty big root for the tree that is this game as each pack created after this one just adds more oomph to it.

The only thing that genuinely annoys me is that they added a Singing Skill. It’s not the skill that annoys me really, but my Sim just loves to whip out her best Ariana Grande impression whenever there’s nothing to do. It’s like she’ll die if she doesn’t do it once every two hours. But other than that, this is a beefy hamburger of an expansion pack that adds a ton of content from aesthetics to actual gameplay. I don’t think I go a single session without using it, so I would think this one is pretty bang for your buckaroos.

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Part 1: The Sims 3 nostalgia is tiring at times
Some people look at The Sims 3 through rose-colored glasses, and say that the Late Night expansion was incredible because it came with "New York city" + night clubs + the fame system + vampires, and therefore The Sims 4 is a total scam for making us pay for those separately. But in reality the amount of content is not that different. What I do agree with is that living in Bridgeport (the Sims 3 world) felt more like living in a city, due to its huge size, the lack of loading screens, and having to deal with transportation. However, as far as I can recall, it felt rather empty.

Part 2: Apartments are great!
Some people are upset that you can't build or place your own, but I don't really care (and there's a new pack for that now). The apartments available are a great time and feel completely different to houses. I love that each neighborhood basically has a community lot in the center so you can hang out there as if it was an extension of your house. Especially the poor one has a lot of stuff to do with no loading screens required, like the basketball course, street vendors, and random artists that you can tip, plus the usual fishing, and plus 2 of the festivals that happen rather frequenty (but I haven't figured out when, lol). The cheapest ones come with additional problems in case you want an extra challenge, and the interactions with the neighbours are better than ever before. Half the nights they don't let you sleep because they are making love or listening to music too loudly, and sometimes there's a special event, and one of them shows up at your door in a towel asking to use your shower because they don't have water at their place. I don't know if there's more that I haven't experienced, I wish there was an option to "join the party" when you hear the loud music. But overall, great stuff.

Part 3: The festival and other activities
I love the introduction of basketball, though I wish there was a proper way to play it in teams and shit. There's also karaoke bars, ideal for a girls' night out. And then there's the festivals. There's a sort of comic con, a flea market where you can buy things for cheap AND sell your own stuff, one about spicy food, one about humour (?), and a weird one where everyone drinks ruffies to get horny (???). Overall, you can still get a lot of use for this pack even if your sims are not living in San Myshuno. You can have young sims raised in the suburbs excited to spend their weekends in the big city and stuff like that.

Part 4: Politician Career
This pack came out a few days before Trump became president and we got the politician career, weird stuff. Anyway, it's a pretty nice addition to the game, I love that it gives you the option to work from home (was this the first time they introduced that system?).