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this isnt to the fault of sims 2 but after my dad died, me and my siblings each made households of our family with our dad included and he kept dying to everything like immediately. we all kept remaking our us sims families and our sims fathers just kept dying to mostly fires, but also somehow drowned with the ladder in the pool and one time i think he died to a ghost of a previous dead dad. it was a lot to handle

The creepiest memory I have from the Sims, was when I once tried to customize a racoon with cheats- the menu opened up and there was the racoon, with it's body stretched into the adult sim model, the limbs long, skinny and twisted. And then my game crashed. 12 year old me was terrified lmao

If your make Dina grieve her late husband's tomb, she'll just shake her head. That is a very important detail, as sims who had low but not negative relationships to the past sim will act confused, like their death doesn't matter to them. Shaking head means the sims were on bad terms.

As someone who lives in Nevada, it's so funny to see people freak out about normal desert stuff on the DS game. "The hotel is 70s, the saloon and jail are cowboy western, the shop is modern, and the road stops in the middle of nowhere" Yes, yes, welcome to Everywhere But Vegas.

This game also had the most terrifying burglar music. I remember every time it would suddenly start playing my little 10 year old self would be sent into an absolute panic.

The sims 2 for the ds was so scary to me as a child. Some of the features were real time sensitive (like "You have to wait 3 real irl hours before this hotel room is built) so naturally I thought I could just change the time on my DS and it would skip forward. It does work, but you only find out about it after receiving a frantic phone call saying OH GOD WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?? and you find out that while you were time skipping, a bunch of aliens have invaded the town and the scariest music plays regardless of where you are and all the townspeople are loopy or angry or just generally unhappy and I remember when I first saw it I closed the game and didnt play it for a while

One of my absolute favorite creepy Sims 2 things comes from the Finnish version of the game. There was a hilariously dark translation mistake in the initial release, though it got patched out. With service NPCs such as maids and babysitters, you have the option to fire them. But the Finnish version had translated it as the wrong kind of firing. Not as in "fire from the job" but as in "fire a gun". People were absolutely baffled when the Finnish version of the game had the option to *shoot* a service NPC.

The creepiest thing about Sims 2 for me was the feeling of isolation. Sure, you played in a city, and technically your neighbors were just meters away, but it never felt like that. Plus we had a slow PC as kids, so loading into a new lot took ages, making it rather hard to get anywhere. So it felt like a small island in a sea of nothing, with all kinds of horrors about to lurk in

The Grim Reaper from Sims 2 was unironically my first crush. Something about that mysterious face and those boney hands had 11-year old me foaming at the mouth.

I wish that the Sims 4 had the personality of the Sims 2! They actually LOOKED like they loved each other.

“Sims 2: Baby on the Grill” had me dying

Mrs Crumplebottom getting bitten by a vampire crashing the game left me beside myself why is that so fkn funny 😂

I played the sims 2 for a long time. I had a family of two vampire girls living in a big mansion. I left the upper floor completely empty with all the walls painted red. I would lure any neighboors that came by and then try to kill them by removing the pool ladder, locking them in a glass room with no doors, locking them in a room filled with fireplaces and wooden furniture, or any other ways I could think of. Then I would wait to the moment death showed up and make one of my girls start a painting capturing the exact moment of death, and that painting would go on the upper floor. At some point I had to start making more walls into that floor, because there was no more room for my macabre gallery. Good times.

Omg. I NEVER realized Olive was a serial killer. Just thought she was old so all her friends/family were dead 😬

Fun Fact: Nervous Subject has major bladder problems because The Grim Reaper does as well in the Sims 2. You can also notice the many bathrooms in the household as well.

If you look in Cassandra Goth's memories it does actually say Bella was abducted by aliens as well lol

Sims 2 is such a masterpiece. Being 12 and having my sims making out on the couch in their swimwear on the family computer while nervously listening for my parents. Building self sustaining death houses with my best friend. Absolutely fucking the game with cheat codes and having one of those fire jugglers permanently swimming around on my lot. I honestly think The Sims 2 helped shape me into the person I am now.

The sims 2 ds feels like a cheesy creepypasta version that someone bought at a sketchy yard sale but it's the official game. Strange town DS is like the rawest example of a liminal space I've ever seen and it gives me the same vibes I get looking at like, pictures of abandoned malls

Sims 2 taught me the very valuable lesson to save and pause your game before getting up to leave. Had gotten up to use the bathroom came back to find my youngest sim sweeping up the ashes of everyone else in the house, than social workers showed up and I had to got back hours to an earlier save

The sims 2 traumatized me when my pregnant sim randomly died and I think her abusive ex boyfriend was to blame. I saw her through the window lying on the bathroom floor and my heart stopped. I remember the image exactly and I freaked out and cried. Then I saw that little thing pop up that someone was outside our house and I see her abusive boyfriend walking out from the side of our house like he’s never been more impressed with himself. Days before this he kept harassing her and knocking over her trash can and leaving her letters with flowers at her doorstep. I’m traumatized.

What’s depressing is that in one of the sims 2 spin-offs, we find that Nervous Subject died and his girlfriend never found out about his death and she thinks he abandoned her :(

I was hoping you'd bring up the creepy DS game! That was the only version of Sims I played as a kid and it was totally creepy, especially the part where the longer you stay in the desert the weaker you get and then you either get abducted or pass out and end up back at the hotel and the sim character seems super sick. It made me so nervous I would just spend hours vacuuming or collecting stuff off the ground LOL on the bright side though this game is where I learned what "magnum opus" means

I think this video just made me realize why the vibes in Sims 4 feel so off to me -- it's like they kept the goofy "haha aliens and superheros" stuff but completely forgot the underlying creepiness that made that stuff more interesting. The vampires do a creep-walk everywhere, the werewolves look Disney-fied, everything is so bright and cartoony and non-threatening... Maybe it's just because I haven't played 4 nearly as much as 2 and 3, but Sims 4 feels so shallow in comparison. Even Sims 3 had it's share of secrets (Fish Kid my beloved) and interesting family storylines. Meanwhile whatever mysteries they may have added into Sims 4 just seem silly and surface-level because the Sims themselves act like cartoon characters. Anyway I'd love to see you tackle the other Sims games as well, if you like! I feel like the Sims 3 evil doll mod fiasco could probably be a whole video all on its own.

Knowing that Bella eventually got her memories back makes me feel even sadder for her. She _knew_ that Dina had separated her from Mortimer on purpose, but there was nothing she could do about it, and she could never see her family again. Meanwhile, her son didn’t even know she was alive the whole time.

i started playing the sims 2 just this year and "liminal" is possibly the best way to describe the game. the 2004 graphics combined with the creepy lore and glitches make it feel like i'm the protagonist of a horror arg. i have a lot of fun with the game, but it's definitely unnerving at times

"The kite will become evil and attract lightning" was a sentence I thought I'd go my whole life without hearing.

Fun fact: skip broke, Micheal bachelor, and nervous subject all have Dopple gangers hidden in the games files. There are also three social bunnies.

If we don't know the order in which the Tricous died, it's possible that the two teens died first in fire, then the Grey Woman was so wary of fire that she wouldn't let anyone else cook, leading to the rest of the family dying by starvation.

Actually, the reason rain was removed from the Sims two base game *is* known. You can even activate the original base game rain code- they couldn't get it to stop raining inside!

This reminded me of my most terrifying memory of the game. I installed the expansion allowing you to manage stores/markets. When my sim worked on the lot, I saw a completely blacked out sim, T-posed and sliding towards my shop with no animation whatsoever. They'd turn back normal when entering the shop, and return to the creepy motion-less shape as they went out. I think from that point I just uninstalled the expansion and never played it again. Lmao

Now i understand why I'm so nostalgic over sims 2. My creepiest memory is one of my Sims dying out of the blue. I made an enemies to lovers story, they were incompatible but i made them get together, marry, etc. When she was about to give birth, she started coughing desperately and died. I couldn't stop it, i could only take screenshots and that was it. I'll never forget how realistic her desperation looked.

I always felt so bad for Nervous that any time I played the game I'd move him out and then do everything I could to ruin Circe and Loki's lives. I've actually been replaying the game this year, and I had both Circe and Loki get fired, Loki died from a fire in a tiny doorless room, and Circe gave birth but immediately had the baby taken away because she kept having breakdowns. Meanwhile, Nervous got together with Pascal and, many days' worth of playing later, they have their own huge house, 5 kids, are both at the top of their careers (Nervous becamse an Oceanographer!) and have adopted Big Foot into the family. Good times!

The messages that you got when every adult on the lot died and a social worker came to pick up the child really creeped me out. And after the child had been taken, you were left with an empty lot. It was really eerie for the 12-years old me.

When it comes to Bella Goth - there's also this weird time machine in TS3 which can be obtained from the ambitions expansion pack i believe. While using it there is a slight chance that you'll get the notification about your sim seeing that Bella has been chosen the queen of Aliens which also confirm the theory.

My first sims experience was watching my dad play Sims 1, when he made our family. My mom died in a kitchen fire and became a ghost.

My friends and I came up with so much back story for Olive. We believe that she had an extremely abusive childhood. She met Earl as a young adult who was a popular stand up guy and the two fell in love despite many believing the couple was strange because Earl could have whoever he wanted. Olive is extremely insecure about losing him and had become almost completely emotionally codependent on him. Without his input she had trouble connecting to anyone at all. Earl’s brother never really liked her and felt he was making a mistake when they got engaged. Only a few weeks before their wedding they ordered a pizza for dinner and the delivery driver happened to be an old close friend of Earl’s. An old flame in fact. They spoke for some time very very passionately and Earl ends up inviting her to the wedding. Feeling very uncomfortable about this woman with so much history and chemistry with her fiancé Olive ends up following her outside to her car and tells her not to come to the wedding and to stay away from Earl. The pizza girl tells her that unless Earl tells her not to come then she’ll be there and then makes an empty threat of speaking out against the marriage at the ceremony. Olive impulsively abducts and locks her away so this won’t happen. But she isn’t a good caretaker. The woman dies of starvation. This is Olive’s first encounter with the Reaper who shows her sympathy but tells her if she truly loved Earl she should tell them or else their love will be cursed. Fearing this curse she tells him on his wedding day. He doesn’t believe her but seeing Danielle isn’t there he realizes it’s true. He leaves her at the alter making Olive snap and she kills him. The Grim Reaper again shows her sympathy and spends as much time as he can speaking to her. Olive finds herself falling in love with him because he’s so kind to her. She kills Earl’s brother for the soul purpose of stopping Reaper from leaving and so begins their love affair. She kills her parents who abused her and then anyone else who she sees fit. All to continue her relationship with the Reaper. She kills her sister and brother in law because she saw them continue the cycle of abuse to their own child, which is why she lives with the child. She doesn’t know where her son is but when she finds him those scientists will be toast.

There's the PSP game too, which actually continues Bella's story and that she tries to escape from the town. The game is extremely bonkers, I managed to complete it despite the awful loading times. Dancing cow cult, aliens, zombie bashing, and ghost maid are just scraping the surfaces of weirdness. Absolute favorite.

This is a really weird compliment but my guinea pig absolutely loves your videos. I think its a combo of the bright colours and your soothing voice. He loves watching cartoons with me but gets upset when there are loud noises like people fighting. I love to watch your videos with him on my chest, its a mother son bonding moment fr. Your videos are great Izzy!

I kinda like the idea of ghosts randomly reenacting their deaths, especially if they died from something other than old age.

My absolute favorite theory is that the military in Sims 2 time was trying to exterminate the occults and the aliens started fighting back, abducting sims and replacing them with copies. This theory is based on the fact that many sims have 2 different character files in the game. Strangetown Bella was a clone, but because the ship crashed, the cloning was not complete. This is corroborated by Lunar Lakes, a world in Sims 3 where the real Bella Goth appears. She's dead by then, and it could mean that she never returned to Earth.

It was just so full of personality and fun quirks and you could feel that the people who worked on it were really passionate!

I've expirienced a creepy moment in Sims 2 when my family got a visit at 2 am. At first glance it was just a neighbour, but she was a sim from the other family that I've created and deleted (!) before. So technically she didn't exist in the game anymore, but she went to see my other sims at the night followed by the creepy music (like when the ghosts appear). As a child this shit has scared the hell out of me lol

Hey I think I spotted a reference from watching your vid! I think the House of Fallen Trees house may be a reference to the book "House of Leaves" that released in the year 2000. The story follows a family discovering their house itself is haunted and acting strangely, measuring an impossible length inside vs outside, creating new rooms, and eventually creating an impossibly long hallway that takes literal days to move through and goes impossibly deep, similar to the strangely deep basement under the Sims house. I can't find anyone making that connection yet and I could be wrong but seems like something they would do

I wish the sims had decided to fully embrace all of the strangeness, it's the one thing that makes sims so fun but they always seem to pull back. Edit: Also I rely hope you cover the rest of the main games! Maybe even some of the side ones!

The eeriest part about the DS game was how if the game caught you time traveling it would yell at you and spawn a bunch of aliens around town as a punishment, which often caused so much lag that the game and music would run in slow-mo and make it extra creepy Discovering this as a kid who did a lot of traveling across timezones was legit nightmare inducing lmao

For the Bella Goth lore, I like to think that the Lunar Lakes Bella is the real one, while the Strangetown Bella is a fake/imposter (or perhaps clone?) sent to take her place, hence the slightly different facial features.

My sister once left me to watch her sims for her while she went into the bedroom for... five minutes? I watched as one sim caught on fire. Then another. Then another. I yelled for her and she was so upset- I was just "What am I supposed to do!?" Because I didn't know you could pause the game!

To be honest Bella Goth's storyline always fucked me up. I always, without doubt, made Cassandra break up with Lothario, and always ended up the Caliente's realtionship with Mortimer bcs it creeped me out too much lol Also, Sims 2 PSP was... a thing. The "Dark Secrets" in that game were absolutely effed up. Vidcund Curious, the blonde guy from the Curious family in Strangerville, sold his brother's alien son to "the Dudes in Black". Circe Beaker was mind controlled into an affair and Loki Beaker met her by "lurking in an online chatroom". Nervous died in an experiment bcs of how miserable he was, and the Beaker's then went on to kidnap some random dude, AND for some reason Nervous is buried in Bella's property, Espiritu Estate. And Buzz Grunt, another Strangerville resident, has IMPRISIONED the Smith family under the guise of "keeping them safe". Sims 2 was effed up, but Sims 2 PSP just upped the ante to never seen before levels. The only semi-normal thing the Sims 2 had was Veronaville, and even that neighbourhood was rife with betrayal and murder bcs it was based on Shakespeare's plays lmfao

I know it's grim but "while the Grey Woman was baking a turkey, she got a phone call from a long lost cousin and accidentally forgot the turkey was in the oven. This cause her house to catch on fire, and tragically the turkey was burned. Also, the woman died" sent me

In Russian version Strangetown is called Kitezhgrad, which is a mystical magic city from Russian folklore. Legend says, it appears and disappears randomly, periods of it’s disappearing can last for years and decades.

The reason that rain was removed from the base game was because they couldnt figure out how to get it to stop raining outside. Also btw there is a lot of misinformation on the sims wiki about corruption, the corrupted sims are 100% corrupted. But doing things like deleting sims or moving bella goth to pleasantview are not technically going to cause corruption, April Black made a long video about corruption that is very well done, I'd recommend anyone who still plays TS2 to watch it to avoid any anxiety you might have playing.

I love that the stamina gauge in the DS game is labelled "sanity". It's just hilariously dark.

When I was 8 years old I saved up my allowance for months and months to be able to purchase the Sims 2 and when I had finally saved up after almost a full year I ran out to the store to buy it, immediately opened everything and put it in my PC.... Turns out I had bought the Mac version and bc I had already opened it they wouldn't take it back. I learned a very valuable lesson that day and had my heart broken but when I was finally able to get it it made the experience so rewarding. Thank you for the nostalgia trip 💚

The hours I spent playing the Sims 2. So much of my teen life was spent on that game. You already know you're a fashion icon but this look is next level!!

Man that's really bummed me out and upset me that Bella was abducted and was never reunited with her family again 😭

Not the point of the video, but I truly love Sims Medieval. Wish more people know about and love it like I do. So much charm and humor!

I have too many memories of the Sims 2 crashing *JUST BEFORE* something crazy was about to happen lol

I was most terrified by the burglars that spawn at night. The sudden loud sound announcing their presence plus the introduction of a scary situation that could happen in real life into my safe space got me every time. I really liked this one and would like to see you cover 1, 3, and 4!

The Sims 2 for the PSP was an excellent game for macabre and weird lore, and it was incredibly creepy playing it as a young teen at 2am! I'm unsure how canon it is considered, but it is incredibly story-driven, and builds on the Sims lore really well. It starts off with encountering a lost and confused Bella Goth at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, and dives right into a story about ghosts, zombies and aliens that you have to figure out through mini-games and missions. It even lets you know the fate of Nervous Subject!

Sims 3 also had this self-cloning thing. Man, was it scary to just meet YOURSELF in town 😭😂

This could not have come out at a more perfect time. I literally JUST *illegally* downloaded the Sims 2 Ultimate Edition this week and have been playing nonstop.

The Sims 2 was hugely ambitious for the time but with that came a lot of instability. I find it hilarious that all the pre-made neighborhoods start off corrupted already (unless you fix it with mods). So it's not a question on if creepy stuff will happen in your game but WHEN.

I'm sooooo glad you covered this, as a fellow Sims 2 enthusiast! By the way, something worth noting about the starvation deaths that occurred among the sims buried in Olive's backyard; Olive has a small room in her home with nothing in it, so people theorize she would lock sims in there until they eventually die, hence the starvation deaths!

To TS2's credit: most of the supposed corruption is just hearsay and speculation, it has now been shown that the game is much more robust than previously believed. Moving Sims and lots between neighbourhoods, deleting Sims, deleting tombstones, etc doesn't cause corruption. It might bloat your neighbourhood, but that's it (unless you're playing the base game, you'll be fine). Check the Sims wiki for the updated corruption info we have.

"It's unclear why they removed seasons from the base game..." "Maybe in an alternate universe we wouldn't have to pay for snow and rain" There's your answer right there

I believe that the House of Fallen Trees may be a reference to the book "House of Leaves", which was published in 2000, 4 years prior to the release of Sims 2. The book essentially documents how a family moves into a seemingly normal house, but upon further inspection notes how the interior dimensions are larger than the exterior dimensions, and things just get more uncanny from there. I don't want to say more, as it is a great book, but it seems like a possibility that someone at Maxis was possibly inspired by "House of Leaves".

The sims 2 is my favorite sims series from my childhood. What I love about these mysteries is that it creates that feeling of realism, think about it, every neighborhood has those type of stories and gossip about other weird neighbors so this game created that old neighborhood vibe where every family has stories and mysteries that some speculate about

The DS game was definitely a weird experience. I wanted a sims game but only had a DS so I didn’t know that it was any different. It was unsettling, the desert would slowly kill you and we had to collect radioactive rods to keep the electricity on, there was a lucrative gambling game in the casino, and we talked to a literal mummy for one quest. I finally figured out when in the story there was a break between the ‘villains’ and I could pretend that I lived in the penthouse 😂 Yeah, it was kind of a concerning game for kids but I was addicted to it! Rivaled only by nintendendogs and animal crossing wild world!

i can't believe i never knew the sims had lore, i love that there's an interview with bella goth on the sims website 😭

GURL the DS game is something I still come back to even to this day. I love everything about it. I still hear the voice clips rattling around in my head. I know this is way too late, but if anybody else reading the comments wants to hear about weird stuff in the game here's a little list - Your stamina bar is called "sanity". When you are in the desert, your sanity constantly ticks down. If it reaches zero, you get abducted by aliens. They beam you back down into the town square and you have to waddle very slowly until you can raise your sanity again. I accidentally clipped through the ground in the desert somehow and had to wait for the aliens to save me, once. If you raise your relationship with the characters, they will eventually tell you their "secret". Mama Hogg is as irradiated as she is busty. Yet another unrealistic standard for women. The DS clock directly translates to the in-game time. If you change the clock to go back in time, there will be a large-scale alien invasion you have to deal with and you will be admonished by the concierge who somehow knows that it is your fault. If you can find a video, I highly recommend you watch what the alien invasions look and sound like. My child self was shitting at 300 miles per hour when I heard the music and saw the aliens running at me. PLEASE look at the unlockable concept art. The ghost is by far one of my favorite reaction images. Such an emotion. There is a basement squatch that you should feed daily. You have to literally excavate the entrance to his room. I have no idea how he survived and his only company is that fortune-telling robot, whose fortunes have a suspiciously similar appearance to the mysterious notes you are given at the beginning of the story. Every so often, you have to vacuum up mice by the dozen to appease your guests.

Bella’s story is so sad like can she even get justice?

The Sims 2 nearly traumatized me as a kid. I made a single female sim and I had her marry an NPC, but he was super glitchy and so was their baby. One time I tried giving the baby a bath in the sink and he just. vanished. gone. His icon vanished like he was never there. And my sim stayed with her arm stretched like she was trying to hold a baby that was no longer there. I deleted that family. I stopped playing The Sims.

No one's gonna mention that the best way to maintain your Sims' sanity in Sims 2 DS was to go into the basement and punch a side of beef? Beating the meat? Well, I certainly will, and I beat that meat hard and often after trips into the desert. I played a ton of Sims 2 DS and went back and 100% completed it not too long ago. You could wander out farther than you were supposed to in the desert and it was just a constant sandstorm with a lunar lander somewhere. Never liked staying out there for long. Really, the eeriest thing for me is kinda just the fact that after you beat the campaign, the game just kind of stops. You can still check hotel guests in and out, make money, improve things, but you'll run out of new stuff to put in pretty fast. At that point, it really does feel like purgatory, with no way forward or out. Everyone just kind of wanders around in a personality-free state, checking in and out of your hotel with no rhyme or reason.

Can we just talk about their make-up??? They put so much effort in it in each video, and it's so clean and smooth! I love it each time! ❤️🤍🤎💚🧡💛💜💙🖤

There were so many things about sims that really creeped me out as a child 😂 But one of the creepiest things definitely happened in a sims mobile game I played. As I wanted to have a nice house from the beginning I let my sim move in with a sim that already lived in a big house in the neighbourhood. I don’t remember everything but while playing I started to notice that this was some kind of Hannibal Lecter murder house with a hidden dining room 😅

A friend of mine actually worked on the Sims 4, and he has a great story about a horrifying bug that existed for a while that he helped fix: In certain cases, a female sim with a male imaginary friend could get pregnant from the imaginary friend. As the pregnancy progressed, the game would become more and more corrupt with behaviors breaking down, textures going all freaky, and eventually the sky just going black. When it was time for the sim to give birth to the half-imaginary baby, the whole game would basically brick, corrupting beyond repair. It's a hell of a thing, it makes me imagine the Sims universe as a cosmic horror setting.

as an avid sims 2 player i'm genuinely surprised you made this video! it's such a shame that ea no longer sells the game or even gives it for free.

ngl I kinda like the idea that olive is meant to be a undertaker. a bunch of people in her "yard" that appears to be just a cemetery, creepily just sitting in her yard like she's watching the graves. the bio is probably a reference to how in horror media its rumored that undertakers/ grave diggers/ coroners... heavily influenced the people to come to rest in the cemetery, lets say. though they're usually massive walking red herrings and just are kinda creepy but ultimately harmless people who happen to work around bodies.

When I was a kid playing Sims 2, I had this creepy moment where my 2 Sims were asleep and dreaming and suddenly both Sims had this statue of a woman with no arms (I forget the name) in their dream bubble at the exact same moment, but crossed through. The bubble also did not go away immediately and when I then looked through the property, the statue was next to the house, although I could swear that I have never placed there.

A series where you go over the dark little corners of the Sims or other games that shouldn’t have those creepy parts would be the best thing ever

When I was little and playing Sims 2 DS, I just didn’t question the alien parts thing. Like, you’d go out in the desert with your metal detector, find mummified aliens, go into the hotel basement to remove their organs in a mini game, and then you sold them. I never gave it a second thought, but hearing it out loud sounded really bad 😬

The Sims 2 will forever be my favourite game. It was something about the atmosphere and the overall vibe of it. I will always remember the fun times I had creating Alien families and getting abducted from the telescope. Thank you for reminding me

A little bit of fan trivia about me that nobody asked about: I have no idea what Izzzy's videos titles are, I recognize them in my mind by the makeup she uses

There is honestly something very sad about the environmental storytelling told in that one sim in the sims 3 who’s description says her husband died, and there’s an empty room in her new house that just has a crib. Like they were gonna have a kid ;-; Edit: Agnes crumplebottom in the sims 3. This is why she hates romance, bc she had hers stolen from her

Dude you don’t even know how happy this made me. I’m literally obsessed with the sims 2, I’ve been playing it almost daily for nearly 10 years and nothing has ever brought me as much joy as this lovely game. It’s truly the best in the series (in my eyes at least!) and I’m beyond excited to see you cover it in your video! I’m also glad it’s getting more mainstream attention lately, we’ve gained so many new players in the fandom. ❤️ Let’s NEVER allow this game to die!

9:47 Ok, THAT is just beyond terrifying. I’d hate it if a vampire in a future sims game can do that.

by the mere mention of sims castaway a lost memory has been unlocked

I always have a story to tell whenever someone says that Sims games cannot be completed, especially Sims 2. I had a simple family - parents and 2 children. One time the kitchen caught on fire because the mother just couldn't learn to cook even after trying countless times. The fire spread pretty quickly and while I was doing everything in my power to stop her from burning into a crisp a spark from the fireplace in the living room started a fire as well, this time catching the father in flames. Suffice to say I wasn't able to save them from the whole house turning into ashes. The kids made it outside before the situation got out of hand so they survived. I could control them for a little while before social services arrived and took them both away. Upon being left with no sims to control, this weird purple-ish light appeared on the lot and then the screen froze. Everything was working, the time went on, I could hear the game's ambient, but with no sims at all I couldn't even control the camera anymore. So that was it, the end, I completed the game lol

If you follow up with Sims 3, imo you have to look into 2 pre-made sims: Katarina Stewart from Midnight Hollow and Anna-Liza Riddle from Twinbrook. Katarina is described as a doll obsessed young woman, who "underwent plastic surgery in order to resemble her beloved doll, resulting in an almost expressionless face". Her only relationships are 2 npc (mailwoman and baby sitter) and a low-level relationship/romantic interest with a toy collector pre-made sim called Jack Limb. In her household description, it's explained she's pursuing him due to his hobbie as "she thinks only a toy collector like him could appreciate her perfect upkeep of a doll". Anna-Liza is a retired "nosy" old writer of thrillers and blogger. Her household description brings up the fact that she "has a taste for the increasingly deadly, unhealthy and gloomy things in life", while her own biography states that she "has left some of her own personal mysteries unanswered". She lives alone in a huge house meant for several people, including children. In her cross-shapped attic, there's only a telescope to spy on her neighbors, and a single urn belonging to a woman named Di. L. Emma Riddle. It might just be a nod to murder mystery writter Aghata Christie, but there's something creepy with playing that household the first time, expecting smiling grandma only to discover the urn in the attic

the sims 2 was definitely something special. even now i find myself wanting to play it again. it just has something special about it that you don't find in the other main sims games. i remember absolutely hating the social worker for taking away my kids cuz i didnt make them do their homework cuz it was stressing them out so badly. the noise when the social worker appears elicits immense fear and rage in me to this day. i also loved the storylines the premade houses and towns had; something that just isn't really in the other main sims games (to my knowledge)

The Sims Castaway!! Gosh I loved that game, I remember I got it used from GameStop for my birthday! I was so excited to start up my wii and play it, and I always loved looking through the manuals of every game because I was a strange (and granted, undiagnosed autistic) kid. While scouring through the manual, a folded up piece of paper fell out! It was a hand-written list of cheats for the game! It was one of the coolest things ever, like finding a little secret note in a library book hehe :3

If Izzy were a Sim, how many characters would she trap in her ladderless swimming pool?

Maybe she fell in love with the reaper by meeting him when that pizza girl died (not her fault) so then she started killing people to see him and then she had a kid with him?

7:05 just describing me with my chronic illness 😂 Any EDS-ers JHS-ers out there?? 🙌💁‍♀️

Your videos have convinced me to buy this game plus five expansion packs. I regret nothing.

I played The Sims 2 DS when I was 10 and I’m GLAD I wasn’t the only one who thought it was absolutely eerie. As a little south asian kid with my first DS I just thought video games are just like this. 😭 Still have vivid memories of burying a wriggling suitcase in the dessert and assisting the creation of a cult in that game. Spooky times!

Never in my life did I think I would hear about a canonical plot involving murdering the mayor and hiding his body in a Sims game but I guess the world is truly stranger than you would ever think.

Sims Castaway was one of my favorite games ever. I don't even know why. I was so proud of my leaf mansion on the beach hahaha. I think I remember crying when I actually got the Sims off the island - I only made it by fixing the radio and by making a canoe off the island - because I was so sad the game was over lol

The sims 2 on DS was my childhood game and i still consider it one of the best games i’ve ever played. I think the creepy ambience is sort of comforting in a weird way?!