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With this game pack getting so many negative reviews I was wondering if I should even give it a try, but now that I have it, I'm actually enjoying it a lot.
The main selling point for the pack is weddings, but now that I've given it a playthrough for a while, I think that's selling it short, because you get a lot more stuff than just weddings, and I think that this other stuff easily makes this pack worth it even if you aren't that interested in weddings.
Tbh I primarily bought it for the world. Tartosa is beautiful and fun to play in. I like to go on vacations with my sims, and Tartosa is a great vacation spot. Porto Luminoso is a cute little town with several beaches (they aren't as gorgeous as Sulani's, but still very pretty and your sims can have a good time swimming and sunbathing and making sandcastles). The town itself has a variety of stores where you can buy wedding related goodies (or not, if the stores are closed, which they often are, which, realistic honestly). The whole thing is very quaint. You get several beautiful premade lots (the Old Nectary in particular really gets the Mediterranean vibe IMO) as well as several empty but scenic looking spots to build on. In the Porto Luminoso neighbourhood you can stroll through the town, in the other one you get more of a park/natural landscape with waterfalls and a few scenic spots your sims can walk to. Lots of pretty good photo/screenshot opportunities if that's your thing. If you have Seasons, the weather seems to be warm and sunny for the majority of the year from what I saw (in case you want to do a vacation to escape the cold and rain for example).
In terms of gameplay, first of course you get a lot more wedding related activities. You can now go to buy wedding cakes, bouquets and clothes with your sims, you get new socials where you can ask your friends to fill in some roles at your wedding (sims of honour, officiant etc). There is a lot to do and if you actually want to do all of it it'll keep you right busy for a while. (You can also just not do any of that if you find it tedious btw. But there really is a lot to do so if you're looking for gameplay stuff that'll keep you busy for a bit that's definitely there.)
Additionally, I was honestly really surprised how much more than weddings you get? In your calendar, you get a new category of events to add, titled Wedding Events. This category contains several different types of social events your sims can host now, the actual wedding of course, but also things like "family dinner" and "bach party". All of these events function more like the Seasons holidays than basegame events, aka you get a couple of event activities to choose from and can thus make up your own event with activities you like. This is a very flexible system, and if you're creative with it you can get a lot of fun out of it. I played like, one wedding, which was fun and worked as intended, but I've been hosting several family dinners and other parties since, because while they are called wedding events and intended to be done in preparation of a wedding, no wedding is required to host them, they're separate events you can very well host on their own. A "family dinner" doesn't need to be family, you can invite friends and whoever else you want, and it doesn't have to be a dinner. My sims held a summer garden party with cold drinks and muffins earlier today that was technically a family dinner. If you stop seeing the events as parts of a wedding preparation and instead use them as stand-alones, you get a handful of different, customisable social events you can do.
A good indicator if this pack is for you might be if you enjoy the clubs and partying gameplay of Get Together and if you like the holidays from Seasons. If you like those, you'll probably enjoy the various "wedding" events, because they're kinda a mix of those.
Other things you get:
- new group dances that are different than the dances from Get Together
- slow dancing for couples (very cute and romantic and definitely something I thought was missing from dancing as an activity in Get Together)
- a lot of formal wear, the majority of which is wedding dresses of course, but also formal clothes from a variety of cultures which are fun if you're looking to make a more diverse population for your world IMO
- some new jewellery
- build mode items for fancy parties (decorated tents and trellis, fancy tables and chairs, and decorations) that will also work if you're building a high class restaurant maybe or an exclusive lounge or want to furnish a castle or something
I feel like I'm gonna get a lot more gameplay out of this pack than others I also own in this price range, so, yeah, recommended. If you like socialising with your sims, it's a fun pack that can do a lot more than get your sims married.