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Things that should've been in Snowy Escape
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I like Snowy Escape as a pack, it's been a concept I've been wanting for a very long time but I just feel like there's a lot of missed opportunities with this pack and things that could've been better or could've been added. Some of these things not being included are just big missed opportunities which could've really improved the pack
- Being able to ice skate on frozen ponds
- Ice Fishing - We already have the ability to fish, just place a hole in the ice, it wouldn't be hard to add
- The train should actually be functional and take your sim to the mountains
- The empty buildings in the town centre area should've been turned into shops similar to the ones in the Magic Realm. They added the option to buy supplies for your rental with the pack, so it would make a lot more sense to go to a rabbithole store for these items rather than ordering them from the mailbox and they just appear out of nowhere. Plus it would encourage travelling and give a purpose to this neighbourhood.
- The cave in the mountain should've been a hidden ice cave lot with a yeti living in it. They could've made an interesting story around it aswell, maybe if you talk to locals there can be a whole rumor around the yeti and then you have to go up to the mountain to discover it and befriend it. That would add some more culture and backstory to the world and add some actual depth and lore rather than it just being a pretty place to go snowboarding
- Linking the above two points, maybe they could add a souvenir shop aswell and from that you can buy Mt Komorebi memorabilia and yeti memorabilia to remember your trip by.
- The winter sports should have more player interaction, maybe you have to press a certain key at a certain time for your sim to make the jump. Something other than just watching them go down on a loop until they get it right
- Toddlers can't use the new table even though it's on the floor and they already sit on the floor to eat food. If you do hot pot on the table, you can invite a toddler to join but they'll sit on the floor next to it or on the couch instead which makes zero sense when they can easily sit at the table
- Being able to ice skate on frozen ponds
- Ice Fishing - We already have the ability to fish, just place a hole in the ice, it wouldn't be hard to add
- The train should actually be functional and take your sim to the mountains
- The empty buildings in the town centre area should've been turned into shops similar to the ones in the Magic Realm. They added the option to buy supplies for your rental with the pack, so it would make a lot more sense to go to a rabbithole store for these items rather than ordering them from the mailbox and they just appear out of nowhere. Plus it would encourage travelling and give a purpose to this neighbourhood.
- The cave in the mountain should've been a hidden ice cave lot with a yeti living in it. They could've made an interesting story around it aswell, maybe if you talk to locals there can be a whole rumor around the yeti and then you have to go up to the mountain to discover it and befriend it. That would add some more culture and backstory to the world and add some actual depth and lore rather than it just being a pretty place to go snowboarding
- Linking the above two points, maybe they could add a souvenir shop aswell and from that you can buy Mt Komorebi memorabilia and yeti memorabilia to remember your trip by.
- The winter sports should have more player interaction, maybe you have to press a certain key at a certain time for your sim to make the jump. Something other than just watching them go down on a loop until they get it right
- Toddlers can't use the new table even though it's on the floor and they already sit on the floor to eat food. If you do hot pot on the table, you can invite a toddler to join but they'll sit on the floor next to it or on the couch instead which makes zero sense when they can easily sit at the table
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Some more recipes could have been welcome (Gyoza, Okonomiyaki.....)
I'm expecting them to come with a gamepack at some point, like restaurants, so I'm not that mad about it.
Also, tea ceremony, like others have said.
Overall this is still a solid pack tho.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
This would be very troublesome for anyone who takes a larger group of sims there. Let alone if you sent more of them doing winter sports.
I also like wandering the hills.
Updated with Werewolf Diaries (1)
Once again, you can't interact with almost anything in the pack apart from the montain. The whole two other districs are plain boring.
There's a beautiful little traditional place with stones in one of the districts but you can't interact. It would have been nice if proper sims could show their respects, and leave some flowers or light a candle.
Maybe, if you have flowers or some flower arraging, or a candle in your sim's inventory you could offer it and leave it at the stone.
Japanese culture is so rich, but the pack fails at portraiting it, and the gameplay just feel empty as usual.
There are no futons, any theme related game, only one or two new recipes I think? There's no tea?! Some tea ceremony would be nice, or at least a traditional tea pot with a cute animation while serving it...
The river - canal crossing one district make me feel depressed every time I look at it. It's just a plain blue line that doesn't even move. They could have added some koi fish at least or some animation...
The festivals were a huge dissapointment...
At the snow festival, the ONLY activities there: Two single food stands, and spaceship jungle gym (lmao). Can you tell me what does this have to do with a snow festival at first place? There are fireworks comming from the rooft of a bulding that you can't interact with or even watch the 🐸🐸🐸🐸 fireworks... Can you explain me what does a spaceship jungle gym do at a snow japanesse traditional festival and why there are cero activities related to anything sigthly cultural or wintery at least?!
Some many opportunities for great things missed...
More theme related objects
- Traditional japanesse table games as shogi instaed of chez. New tea pot's and maybe a tea ceremony animation. Japanesse beds. I mean they added a new table with new animations, it wouldn't be so hard to aslo design a futon.
More theme related activities at festivals.
-Fireworks, ceremonies, music, traditional dancing, mask, craftings.
More interactions/animations with the surroundings in general...
To develop a deeper sense with the mointain, the snow, their home, the festivals. The trailer talks about all this and talks about its meaning but the actual gameplay is empty and it has nothing to do with it, it's only a marketing strategy: they talk about meaning and dept and you actually get a spaceship jungly gym as only activity at a snow festival. The audacity.
I guess we can build snowmen at the snow festival but it would have been nice to get to make other snow sculptures as well, silly ones like a snow arm chair and a coffee table.
Ice skating and ice fishing would take barely any effort to add though, we already have all the animations they'd just have to tweak it. With the items in debug you can already place down a fishing post and they'll do the fishing animation wherever
Is just that if u have season, it doesn't really add anything new, you can already make a snowman in your yard. I was really hoping for some other activity related to winter. Maybe a sample table with food, like winter cakes or hot food to warm up, similar to the festivals in San Myshuno. Snow statues would have been cool, and if it was for me, some ceremony for the spirit of the montain for attracting good fortune haha😍
Um because we want new things to be introduced??
I feel like some of the shells should have been rabbit holes especially the ones in the town square of the bottom district there are i think for “buildings” around and i would have loved for these to be useable. Something like a grocery store,sport supllies store,restaurant these would be rabbit holes so for some they wouldn’t add much but i think it would make the neighbourhood a lot more playable
More gameplay objects like a tea table and a japanese rock garden (we got a flooring for this but your sims can’t use it it’s purely decorative)
This one might be random but it’s something i would really like and that is a way for hiking to go wrong. By this i mean when you finish a hike the leader of the hike gets a moodlet saying they organized an amazing hike. I would love for them to be able to get lost while hiking with some funny animations like looking at their map scratching their head.
The abillity to hang snowboards and ski’s on the wall
Hiking for more worlds especially granite falls
A functional train nothing special just your sim gets in the train and it drives off
Functional ski lift i really don’t like how your sim just teleports right up i would love if your sim actually got on the skilift (you would see their plumbob above the cart) this way it would take a little longer to get sims up there
A sidenote to the last two when sims enter a rabbit hole building can they please enter trough the door instead of just vanishing i cant imagine this being to hard to animate since door animations are already there and it really takes away my immersion when they don’t actually go in
more things for the festivals. Festivals are a great idea but in the sims 4 there really boring and there isn’t that much to do at them
And lastly there should have been a mt komorebi culture skill i loved this skill from jungle adventure and feel like they should implement this type of skill more often especially for snowy escape but also island living such a missed opurtunity
Because it's completely different from a regular table and it actually makes sense for this table? The seats are literally cushions on the floor, toddlers can already eat sitting on cushions on the floor. There's no physical reason why a toddler wouldn't be able to sit on these cushions and eat instead.
At current my toddler sim will get food from this table, and then go and sit on another cushion to eat it. It would make perfect sense with this table for the toddler to just sit on the cushion and eat. Plus it'd be pretty cute and make them feel like they're actually part of the family!