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HuFe shelved The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories
https://www.backloggd.com/u/HuFe/list/the-sims-4-add-ons-ranked/

Part 1: Backlash
This is the most hated game pack, so far. It had a staggering amount of bugs on release, and, if the gameplay works as intended, what it offers is basically just aesthetics and a bunch of tiny animations related to rich people’s weddings, so it’s going to resonate more with micro-managing players that like to make sims pose to record videos and stuff. I personally pause the game a lot to take pictures and I put them together in what I call “seasons” and “episodes”, so it’s nice to have new things to photograph. There was also a weird marketing stunt where EA pretended that they were not going to release the pack in Russia due to LGBT censorship. In actuality it was not illegal to release it there, as long as it’s only available for adults (just like the rest of the game).

Part 2: The world
Not all Game Packs come with worlds, but this one came with the Mediterranean-inspired Tartosa, which is twice as big as the standard size. It’s a residential world, so you can live there if you want, but the main point is to have a beautiful destination for a wedding and or honey moon. In the town square there are some wedding-related stores. There’s a stand to buy those flower bouquets that you throw at desperate people, and a stand to buy one of the new ostentatious cakes. There’s a stand to buy regular food (the only one that has nothing to do with weddings). There’s also a clothing store to try on wedding dresses, but it’s a rabbit hole, so it’s useless. If you want a functional one, you have to buy the Get Together expansion. There’s also a city hall rabbit hole if you want to get married instantly (even though you can still do that anywhere).

Part 3: CAS and Build Mode
As expected, there’s a considerable amount of cute new dresses with a white swatch, there’s even some with pants and some rainbow-clored ones for gender-bending sims. The male sims get those weird chest leaf things. There’s lots of new wedding arches too.

Part 4: The wedding events
There’s now a lot of shit that you need to do (although you don’t have to) before a wedding. You can travel to Tartosa to buy the previously mentioned stuff (dress, cake, and flowers). You can “announce your engagement” to other sims (that doesn’t really do anything) and you can assign wedding roles (the sims get very excited if you pick a role for them and they perform a new animation). You can pick the wedding officiant (the priest guy), the Sim of Honor (the only thing they do is a weird walk, they don’t even stand on the side during the ceremony), the ring bearer and flower pal (cute roles for children, pets can be ring bearers too). During the wedding you get a special micro-managing tool to control all the guests at once (please sit down! Please throw rice!). The usual wedding event with random goals is replaced by a new one similar to a holiday, and they are customizable (you can have a wedding where the only objectives are to cut the cake and drink tea, for example). There’s a weirdly long list of other parties outside of the actual wedding (is this what rich people do with their time?) but there’s nothing interesting going on there. Most notably, there’s no strippers for the bachelor and bachelorette parties, it’s just a regular party with customizable objectives like “drink”, “dance” and “eat desserts”. This is part of the usual Sims 4 child-friendly bullshit. We all have Wicked Whims installed, let’s stop pretending. The best new event might be the vow renewal ceremony, I always wanted to have that.

Part 5: Other gameplay stuff
Your sims can now slow dance at any time (the interaction later stolen by High School Years), this is used for the “first dance” goal at weddings. There’s some new gameplay items, also intended for weddings, that can be used out of context. These are the buffet table and drink fountains stolen from the Luxury Party Stuff Pack, a toasting celebration bucket, and a tea set. They also expand the beach gameplay a tiny bit. There’s a new message in a bottle collectable where you find romantic poems (this is only available in the Tartosa beaches), and sims now have the ability to draw things like hearts in the sand. You can also draw in the snow, which is a nice (and rare) cross-pack compatibility.

Part 5: My experience
Well, I just finished my first wedding and honeymoon. The main event was very cute but pretty stressful. I recommend doing the rehearsal if you don’t have things figured out, I also recommend leaving some of the objectives (the first dance, making toasts, etc.) to the reception, which is an event that happens after the wedding (apparently things like that exist in real life). That way you don’t have to hurry to complete all of the objectives at once, which is surprisingly hard. I don’t actually know how long the weddings are, I couldn’t find a timer so all the events ended out of nowhere. I made several mistakes:
1. I had a cake in my pocket but I didn’t know that I had to select it as the official wedding cake for it to show up in the wedding planning menu (that doesn’t actually matter, they can still cut it).
2. I didn’t know that there was a tool to make the guests sit down until it was too late, so all the guests were standing in my photos.
3. I couldn’t figure out how to do the bouquet throw, my sim would stand there for hours. I thought it was a bug, but you actually have to select a sim to throw it to.
Having said all that, I didn’t experience any bugs except for people walking up or down the aisle backwards (and you can simply ask them to do it again), It’s a shame that the pack is considered bad due to its initial release. It came out on February 23rd, so it’s likely that EA wanted the pack to be ready before March (and ideally on Valentine’s Day), so they chose to release an unfinished pack, as always. As for the quality it has right now, I personally enjoyed the content. I could live without it, but it adds a bunch of cute stuff that I will use in most of my saves.

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