If you didn't catch my first Sims video, check it out here! th-cam.com/video/aGP_TPebrV4/w-d-xo.html And if you want to see my video on the strangest Sims games maybe ever made, I've got another one on The Sims 2 for DS, PSP, and GBA - yes, they're all different games! th-cam.com/video/bbRJv50EThQ/w-d-xo.html
Vegas Pro doesn't care how good your PC is sometimes, it just decides to choose chaos. (I'm probably just outside of current top-end, I haven't kept up with the new GPUs since I don't need to upgrade anytime soon, but I'm a 3070 enjoyer.)
@@TheGoldenBolt Ah yeah, definetly the software being doodoo. A 3070 is more than enough for this kind of thing, maybe try messing with Premiere Pro and see how it likes your computer
I've got Premiere on here as well, actually, but I appreciate the shout! I just went with Vegas this time because that's the one I'm more comfortable with, and given that March and April have been lighter video months I didn't want this or the next couple projects to get caught up with me going slower. But sometimes I pay the price, and today was one of those lol
@@TheGoldenBolt I saw a rumor online that said MySims was leaked for a Nintendo Switch remake/rerelease. If these turn out to be more than just rumors, will you be covering that?
MySims Kingdom is literally one of my favorite games from my childhood. The characters were hilarious and I have very fond memories of jumping from area to area.
MySims Kingdom and MySims agents legit raised me. I still go back and play every few years just for the nostalgia, but they’re also just legitimately enjoyable relaxing games!
Same, I played MySims Kingdom and MySims Agents SOOO much! I think I was obsessed with them the same year my grandma died so it was kinda like therapy for 9 year old me. Legitimately great children's games!
Thank you for bringing MySims back into the spotlight, MySims Agents is so good and I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. It is of course a real shame you have to grind out the Dispatch Missions for the true ending (I still have never seen it, but maybe on my next playthrough). I never heard about a MySims Agents 2 being in development but that is a crying shame it got cancelled.
Man, I loved the MySims games too, played all but Sky Heroes (which I want to do one day). I tried to grind out all the missions myself but it just got too tedious, so I just watched it on youtube since it's barely any change lol. Not worth the effort
Are you serious?! I can't believe I'm only just hearing there are multiple endings to the game that was my whole childhood. How did I never figure that out?!
I read through the plot Brian Kaiser posted on twitter and honestly, it made me so sad that it was canned, it sounded so cool! This is officially the bad timeline.
Getting to see someone actually give these games a fair shake after a decade and a half really warms my heart. I kinda hope we can get a video on Sims handheld games at some point so I can find out if any of the DS MySims games were actually good.
I played both when they came out. As far as I recall they were pretty good. They were very different from the console games. Both were a bit of a money grind, but both were plenty charming.
me too!! i was never able to complete it as a child. i haven't played it in over ten years and i have no idea if i have the ds game floating around somewhere, but im tempted to buy a new one and try to complete it as an adult.
I LOVED these games too, I would play the sky heroes with my neighbor. My Sims, in general, was so fun. I have the discs for pc, and the wii still lol. I might actually try to fix my wii to play them again 😩
ill never forget my playthrough of mysims agents. it was one of this first games i actually finished as a kid and i can still remember some of the puzzles and areas- especially the snow one. thank u for bringing these memories back!
As far as MySims stuff being used in modern Sims games, I like that in 4 they come in the form of some collectible trophies and some posters for an in-universe tv show along with some actual officially downloadable Sims based on some of the MySims characters, although a couple of them are a little bit off from their usual characterizations and backgrounds. There ARE some elements that I DO find interesting, although the only one I like is the new connection for Candy and Yuki where they turn them into sisters otherwise some of the character personalities are a bit mixed up. I honestly wish MySims made a proper return in some way, like at least maybe a full MySims expansion story pack or something. Loved MySims Agents (Wii) and it makes me sad that it kind of stops there.
@@Ranixo286 Didn't know about Chaz, and I'm finding it weird they turned him into a black guy when ALL of his other appearances are a red headed white guy as a thrill seeker. The pirate angle KIND OF makes sense from that perspective, but turning him black...I don't know. Some of the decisions, at least to me, feel kind of like needless changes to well known characters. Yes technically the MySims characters work off of a "multiverse" logic, but aside from the first entry, they sort of had a "settled" design at one point or another.
@@TheGoldenBolt I hope you do! My sister and I played the DS version of MySims all the time. I also remember playing the DS version of Racing a lot and it had the Diddy Kong Racing overworld that you were expecting, funny enough. Though, it's pretty barebones. Only thing I liked about it is that they included a "stunt park" where you can free roam and do car tricks.
I only ever played the one where you manage a hotel, but that was absolutely wild! I remember it being one of my favorite games for a time while also having nightmares of it.
Mysims kingdom holds such a special place in my heart because it was the only game I owned that offered a lot of different language options, and thus it helped a LOT in my learning of Polish when I was a child :)
I would say the My Sims's handheld version are *wildly* different from their Console counterparts, to the point that the odd boardgame-esc overworld in the Wii version is outright replaced with the exact system you described, where you instead drive around on ground level and interact with folks there. I would be highly interested in another video that covers the handheld versions, I've enjoyed this video immensely and would love to see you cover the handheld versions of the game!
I loved both the Wii and DS games as a kid, but agree. The DS games held even stronger onto the whole animal crossing inspo but also did it better than the MySims original wii game. Best games were kingdom and agents on the wii
i had my sims kingdom on ds, and my sims and my sims kingdom on wii. imagine my surprise when i played kingdoms and they were both completely different! still loved each one individually and each felt like a different game. tho i occasionally mixed up both the wii sims storylines… wondering why i couldn’t find certain areas in the wrong game
I snapped awake from sleeping to this when you started talking about my sim agents. That game has owned Ocean Front property in my frontal lobe rent free for YEARS. about to word vomit how much i love it- but first mentioning quickly, your scripts are so well constructed and your editing is absolutely lovely. Ive been binging through your stuff and every video is a treat. Ok now to the brain rot I have the most vivid memories of the intricate evolution of the storyline. The murder mystery level and snowy mountain areas, hell the one with candy? The urban city area one? God I replayed it several times. The furniture mechanics for the spy base later on had me relapsing to the hundreds of hours i put into the first my sims I loved the yeti. I loved the pipe puzzles. RAHHH MY SIMS AGENTS MY BELOVED
MySims Agents is AMAZING. The most nostalgic Sims game after The Sims 2 Pets for PS2, to me. I'd play it so much during summer holidays, it was such a fun experience
MySims! I have so much nostalgia for this series. I wish they made a new one or an HD collection. I like the first one for its simple plot. But Kingdom was a lot more fun because there were stories you played through. But you still build stuff. Racing was different but still fun. Agents was the best one but needed more post game content. Or any lol.
I got My Sims Agents on the Wii for Christmas in 2009 and it was THE game that started my love for detective games. I feel like I've played every title in the genre since. So happy to see a video that features it!
growing up i played every mysims game (except mysims party) and i loved them all. i remember being so surprised by how much i loved mysims skyheroes, i've never been a fan of dogfighting/plane games but skyheroes was different. i really liked the story and characters, and the plot twist toward the end blew my mind
Seeing the town in Agents brought back some old memories, I remember after finishing the game just going back through all the levels and taking it all in. Appreciating all the characters and areas, and the stories it told. So many little details that made the world feel lived in too, in a sense, like the trains driving by far off in the background that I hadn't even noticed before. It wasn't until I was in college I'd thought about those MySims games, and wondered what ever happened to that series. I was so upset when I found out they cancelled the Agents sequel, remembering how much I really wanted to re-experience the first one. Nowadays it's just frustrating, seeing how much utter trash gets to keep going and thrive when for over 20 years we've seen great ones get left behind and forgotten.
MySims Agents is genuinely up there with some of my fondest childhood memories, i loved the mystery and the suspense, the characters and the world they created, i remember being enthralled by the ending for months after beating it, i genuinely used to have dreams about the ending being fully resolved, i would daydream about a sequel so long i convinced myself the sequel was coming, and it was exactly what my 10 year old brain had imagined- upsettling that story never was resolved, but i think it never would have had its effect on me if it was, it’s forever one of maybe 5 games over my entire life i’ve had a genuine obsession over and that i still think about into the modern day, coincidentally another is the sims 2 on DS, the linear sims game were unrivalled in my opinion, they had such fully formed character that for the time just wasn’t normal, it’s a part of me and i’ll look back at those days where my only serious conflicting thoughts were about how a problem in one of them would be resolved, and asking myself where i missed the proverbial clue that would let me advance, was one of my first ever rl examples of how important stepping away from a situation and employing an actual problem solving mindset was both beneficial and rewarding- these games can NOT be slept on
It would be nice if some of The designers for Agents maybe went and made their own game and IP based on the concept? The aunt as many good detective/ espionage games as one might think.
Man, you are an insane man in the best way. You literally research way to fuckin much, I was rewatching your R&C series and man, you know how to be informative and funny.
I loved My Sims so much as a kid and I still love them. It's such a charming, cute and wholesome game that's perfect not only for kids but even for adults who just want something nice and heartwarming. I still adore these games and playing them when I'm feeling down always makes me feel better
Bro I LOVED MySims agents, there was one time I couldn't figure out one of the lab puzzles and looked up the answer to it in the computer lab at school the next day. First time I ever used a walkthrough.
I'm in my middle 20's and I love MySims, especially the first/original one! It kinda became one of my comfort games and I loved playing it as a kid back then so much and I still do
Oh my God, I loved the MySims games! I think the only one I didn't play was Racing, but I loved playing Kingdom, Agents and Sky Heroes. I thought these faded into obscurity, but it made me really happy to see you talk about them and enjoy them. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories I have of these games.
I actually love and loved My Sims as a kid. There was a also a big desert area and the people that you invite to your town can give you new things! Like a salon gives you more hairs and such! Maybe I just like it a lot cause of nostalgia. You are so right about the essence thing though. When I replayed a couple years ago I seriously had to grind for those metal detector essence, took a long time.
My Sims is actually the reason why I wanted the Wii. I was a massive Sims and Animal Crossing fan at the time, so My Sims looked perfect for me! Receiving the Wii that Christmas is one of my fondest memories from my childhood.
I just wanted to say that Ive been greatly enjoying your side series looking into the odd Sims console games. You made this legitimately fascinating even though i’ve never been interested in these titles before. You might even have convinced me to check a couple of then out! GREAT script and editing, really appreciate what you’re doing :)
Looking back, it’s kinda crazy that all 6 came out so quickly because I remember eagerly awaiting the next ones along with my sister after Kingdom came out. Glad you enjoyed Agents so much though. It’s a genuinely great game that truly deserved its sequel. The missions and stories were always so fun and they used the characters so well. Nova and Madame Zoe were my favorites.
I have so many nice memories of My Sims Agents. It was one of the first wii games I would actively play and be invested in. I never finished it as a kid (I think I gave up at the beach?) but I actually went back to finish it as a teen~ Still have great memories of it
I played MySims on the DS as a kid, and for a long time I couldn't remember the actual name of it. I had no idea there were so many other games in the series ! Great video
this was a really great trip down memory lane, my big sis had ALL the games on wii and most of the nintendo ds ones. these were my mario kart wii and mario party back in the day! so glad someone covered these games and their many flaws.
The level of warmth and nostalgia I feel seeing these games is overwhelming. I LOVED MySims and MySims Kingdom so much! I have the My Sims game on PC and I'm fighting the urge to find and buy a wii and the games as we speak XD
Oh, I am on the PULSE of MySims content!!! Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough breakdown of the game and its history. This was a great watch, and made me so sad I haven't had a Wii since 2012 haha!
An hour long video on My Sims? This is the best day ever 😫 I had probably had 100+ hours in both My Sims and My Sims Kingdom spent decorating over and over as a kid. I was obsessed, and I still have a thing for decorating in Sims 4, Animal Crossing, and other games.
MySims Agents was my favourite Wii game of all time. I can’t begin to tell you how many times 10-year old me replayed that game over and over. Now that they’ve announced the MySims Cozy Bundle for Switch, I hope we’ll get a remake of MySims Agents in the future.
Man, my sibling and I used to play MySims so much. We even made it to a 5-star town once or twice, I think. Though MySims Agents was my favorite. 11:03 that's why I used to keep an empty lot next to my house lol. You move someone into the close lot, fulfill all of their requests, and then move them to a lot further away from you, rinse and repeat. It helps a little bit with the amount of walking/loading, but still doesn't solve the issue. Though when I played as a kid it didn't feel like that big of an issue to me 13:14 With the plant essences, if you ran out, you could water the plants and they would regrow immediately.
i remember actually really loving mysims party because you could make custom characters to use in the minigames. my sister and i would make mysims versions of our pc sims characters and have them battle it out there. i never did care for the "story mode" though and always rushed through it to unlock all the minigames
Yessss my sibling and I made a bunch of sims on that game lol. Also, our neighbor came over all the time and we let her make her own sims on there and we would play through the festivals together. Never cared for the story either though, I thought it was boring and the whole monument thing didn't make much sense to me.
Thank you so much for making this video, man! I love your video on the sims console games, which were the games I played up until the Sims 3 PC came out in ‘09. I’ve always been curious about MySims, having been a heavy Wii player. I love having another retrospective I can watch again and again. Bravo!! 🎉😊
Man, I remember playing the first game as a kid. I haven't thought about these in years. That said, I feel like a new game in the style of the original could actually do really well these days. It feels like a more extreme version of the direction Animal Crossing has gone in - focused more on customization than the social simulation aspect. And because of that, perhaps a lot of people would enjoy something like it now.
I was a big fan of the DS version of My Sims. I played it all the time and the racquetball minigame took up so much of my time. It was so fun. Ive never played any of the others but I still really loved your video!
The MySims Racing on DS was completely different, you actually could get out and walk around and do tasks for the people in the town, and there was more than one town. There were also mini games you could do too. That was my shit back in the day
mysims kingdom is one of my all time favorite games and I'm so happy I finally get a video talking about the recognition it deserves!! I am a huge fan of city builder adventure games, and no other game has scratched the itch quite like kingdom did. It has one of the most in depth customization systems I have seen for a game of its nature and the characters are so charming. While I agree the ending was kind of anticlimactic I did love the sandbox mode where you can decorate your own castle with the hundreds of items you unlocked, and go back to re-customize islands with new requests from the villagers. It is such a surprisingly in depth and well thought out game for a spin off intended for children, and it was only ruined a little by playing the first MySims after it hoping for the same quality and finding out it was practically unplayable haha oops
Omg I didn’t even know they were on the wii but I had a couple Mysims DS games and was obsessed. I still hear the angry conversation music in my head whenever I’m talking to someone
what you said about the sims 3 for wii is so true! my Wii would most of the time sound like it was using all of it's power just to load in a few sims and would somehow drain my wii remote battery to nothing in like an hour from a new battery
Wow, this brought me back. I remember I had Agents on the Wii YEARS ago as a kid, but it seemed so strange and it was in such a unique part of my life that I thought it was a dream until I saw this video.
Sim Animals was one of the only Sim games my family got. The Africa one even had a *Story Mode* where you played as both Prey and Predators, completing tasks to gain Magic Tree Power to go to the next levels. You have come *way* too far. You NEED to play this! XD
Thanks so much looking at these games, they were the highlight of my childhood/early teen years! I really loved the way it would just activate your imagination and run with it, like in MySims even though your sim had no needs I would always send them to sleep at night and eat food during the morning/evening, and take walks through the forest admiring the scenery. They might get a bit repetitive playing them as an adult, but I love them and I was glad you had a fun time playing them! Have a lovely day ❤
I can't tell you how many times I've 'completed' MySims, I remember sitting down with a note book to write down all the tasks I needed to do and sketching designs, definitely a personal opinion that it wasn't as fun as could be
My Sims and My Sims kingdom are literally up there as two of my favourite games ever from the Wii era and honestly i think kingdom would make it into my top 20-30 somewhere. I think it's genuinely such a good game and improved/built upon everything that made the first one incredibly fun. When they announced the my Sims cozy bundle for switch i bought cake to celebrate ahaha
My sister and I LOVED the mysims franchise! We played mysims kingdom, agents, and racing all the time! On agents, it always irked us that we couldn’t revisit the mountain land lol. Thanks for this throwback!
I only ever had MySims Racing and MySims Agents but i loved them both! I honestly had no idea they were related to the regular sims franchise until I saw the sims 4 ornaments for the first time, I just assumed it was unrelated due to how different they were. I always wanted MySims Kingdom so bad after playing Agents, so thank you for finally letting me see what it was all about lol! I loved the video, can't wait to check out the rest of your channel
Weow. As someone who is a MySims Fan, this video was really well researched and documented. It gives off, as one of the best ways to have a overlook to the franchise. I Love it! Whaq a great constructed video that is ..and I didn't know the they were planning on a MySims Animated Series, but the MySims Lore is just deeper than we thought I guess.
I just bought a used copy of MySims DS recently because I remembered how obsessed I was. I loved MySims Party DS and have been replaying that! My sister likes to tease me because they're obsessed with the OG Sims and doesn't seem MySims as valid Sims hahahaha. I hope you'll cover the DS versions sometime in the future!
Loved the review but just 1 or 2 things to note about the first game. The thing about the trees is that you can water and fertilize them for more essences. That option is always available. The essences also grow back in a matter of seconds so you don't have to leave and come back. And you also don't have to waste loading screens when you want to give items to sims if they're not home. They will appear in a few seconds after you entered the house.
i remember renting mysims kingdom from blockbuster when i was a kid and immediately falling in love with it and begging my mom for the game HAHAHAHA even now as a 22 y/o i still love returning to it occasionally, it's such a good game unironically
I've been waiting for a video of this quality on the sims-related DS games, please cover them too! Especially the absolute acid trip that is the sims 2 (weird alien one)
13:05 I feel like I should clarify here because it's not described well in first game or online either. The process of gathering essences dosen't really evolve as the game progresses; only new ones get gradually introduced. YET, you can speed up the process for harvesting tree based essences by watering the trees; or straight up using pesticide to get a burst of essence; alongside a dead tree you need to chop and replace with another tree based essence, but by that point you already have enough. Sims can even host picnics, book clubs, or seance on the overworld to casually gain specific/rare essence as well.
mysims agents was my introduction to youtube walkthroughs/lets plays!!! i needed help during the murder mystery mansion part of the game and had to watch someone do a puzzle for me. great game, loved the character creator too
You have no idea what this video means to me!! Mysims Kingdom on the wii was the game of my childhood, and I'm an avid simmer but there are literally almost no videos ever talking about Mysims extensively. I was like- "I can't be the only one who remembers Buddy the Bellhop, right?"
omg i nearly forgot abt mysims!!! i have the pc version and used to play it all the time before i was allowed to get my own actual sims game. i dont know how i acquired the game (maybe some sort of kids meal thing?? idk) but this made all my memories of playing the game come FLOODING back
I played the DS version of My Sims Agents as a kid which has a completely different story and gameplay in another town. Every citizen had a minigame for you to play and you had to scan objects across town to collect essences which you could use to craft stuff iirc
MySims are probably one of my favorite spinoff series from my childhood, so I'm happy to see it get more attention. I played them both on Wii and DS, and I gotta say, they're different enough on both platforms to actually warrant playing both. Never played MySims on DS, but Kingdom focuses more on town building than the console counterpart. Party is also not completely awful, it has a proper free roam world and the story and minigames were a lot better. Racing too was a lot different, it actually had a proper free roam world and a pretty cool story. Don't remember if the courses themselves were any good though. Agents is also pretty different. It does focus a lot on the mystery part, but socializing with other Sims was a lot more important. Sky Heroes is pretty similar to it's console counterpart though.
This is the first video of yours I've ever watched, I love your humour and dedication to the deep lore. I can't wait to watch your sims console ports next😂
Was waiting for someone to do a my sims video. I pray everyday they bring back the my sims series because it was such a big part of my childhood buying every instalment and meeting all the colourful characters
Strangely, the SkyHeroes game reminds me of a trailer where Snoopy from Peanuts was in some sort of dogfighting game... What a weird thing to remember. Anyway, it was nice to hear about this spin-off of the Sims series.
I think it was called Snoopy VS the Red Baron! From what I remember it was really fun and had a decent campaign/missions and fun power up weapons. I would recommend it over mySims Sky Heroes tbh. I think there was a gun that shot pumpkins??
I never finished Agents or Sky Heroes, but those games along with Party are so nostalgic to me, I’m surprised at how much I remember while looking at these clips considering I haven’t played them in something like 10 years.
I have this game on my PC and currently playing it. I like the fact that TS4 pays tribute to MySims by having figurines of MySims characters that can be found through digging up those rock thingys throughout the world. I remember one time I had a sim die because of too much hilarity cuz of the figurines. The figurines have a funny emotional aura on them and I should've turned it off😆
MySims was a huge part of my childhood. I played the original on Wii, Kingdom Wii, Racing DS, Agents Wii and a tiny bit of Sky Heroes on the Xbox. I adored this franchise too much, even if most of the game aren't that great. I went back to revisit them last year and even played the games I haven't played like Party and Racing on the Wii. Here comes my huge opinions on each game after these revisits. - The Original MySims was a game I 100% completed as a child. Making it the first ever game I ever did so. Revisiting it on the PC was a great time. There was even features in that version that is not on the Wii like exclusive Sims and a separate online area. I made a sim from my "THE Sims" playthroughs, who was named Horatio, into this game and the others moving forwards for my revisits. I really liked his cutesy counterpart in these games. My playthrough ended when my game sadly broke after I got to the end. Which crashes the game before I can even complete it to 5 stars. Which sucks but other than that and a few grinding sessions being rather boring, the game was still solid and meant a lot to me looking back. - Kingdom was and still kind of is my favourite in the series. I enjoyed going through different "kingdoms" and solving their problems. The completion reward you get is your own "kingdom" where you can make your own house in a HUGE grid that takes most of the island. I really enjoyed this game and revisiting it was a amazing time. - Party is.. eh. If the series felt like shovelware, this one is the only one I can consider the worse case for that shovelware title. It's just a Mario Party ripoff and you can make buildings like in the original but the entire game is catered towards the lackluster mini-games. Probably the worse in the series for me. - I only had the best experience with the DS version of Racing as a kid. And looking back, in my opinion it's better than it's console counterpart. You could drive around the hub world instead of the map shown in the Wii version and it gave me the same connection I had with Mario Kart on the DS. This is literally the only time I prefer a DS version of a MySims game than it's console counterpart. - Agents is arguably the best in the series. The style is absolutely perfect and characters had 2D renders, introducing this nice art style that complements the style of the 3D models. I never touched the soundtrack of these games but the original MySims' soundtrack was nostalgic heaven for me, but Agent's soundtrack is a bop at the time and it suited the style of the game completely. - Finally, if we're not counting that weird MySims Camera on the DSi, we get Sky Heroes and well.. I didn't really like this upon revisiting. My favourite thing about these games is the freedom of making things such as the furniture in the original. This game lacks that besides making your own plane and your character. Also the serious tone was NOT suitable for the series, like at all. Agents kind of had these lack of creativity and somewhat serious tone but it was fun to solve mysterious and it even had fun puzzle mini-games. This.. all you do is go into dogfighting and that's really the meat of the game. I lost interest the same way I did with Party and Racing (Wii) and It's a shame that the series ended on this note. I don't think EA will EVER bring this game series back anytime soon but if they do like.. on the Switch or something. Or they just remaster the first game and add new features, I'd be down for it. I honestly love this series as a childhood staple and revisiting it with my boy Horatio was a blast up until Sky Heroes.
If you didn't catch my first Sims video, check it out here! th-cam.com/video/aGP_TPebrV4/w-d-xo.html
And if you want to see my video on the strangest Sims games maybe ever made, I've got another one on The Sims 2 for DS, PSP, and GBA - yes, they're all different games! th-cam.com/video/bbRJv50EThQ/w-d-xo.html
What's your PC rig like my man?
Vegas Pro doesn't care how good your PC is sometimes, it just decides to choose chaos. (I'm probably just outside of current top-end, I haven't kept up with the new GPUs since I don't need to upgrade anytime soon, but I'm a 3070 enjoyer.)
@@TheGoldenBolt
Ah yeah, definetly the software being doodoo. A 3070 is more than enough for this kind of thing, maybe try messing with Premiere Pro and see how it likes your computer
I've got Premiere on here as well, actually, but I appreciate the shout! I just went with Vegas this time because that's the one I'm more comfortable with, and given that March and April have been lighter video months I didn't want this or the next couple projects to get caught up with me going slower. But sometimes I pay the price, and today was one of those lol
@@TheGoldenBolt I saw a rumor online that said MySims was leaked for a Nintendo Switch remake/rerelease. If these turn out to be more than just rumors, will you be covering that?
MySims Kingdom is literally one of my favorite games from my childhood. The characters were hilarious and I have very fond memories of jumping from area to area.
I have such vivid memories of this game and I didn’t really played enough but it was so impactful and one of my favorite memories
I loved the opportunity to create ur own island!! It was my fave as a child and my very first Wii Game 🥺
Me too! I never finished the game but I kinda wanna find my old wii and finish it lol
I remember building custom furniture it was the most fun part!!!!
I honestly remember being the kid who would try to do the dumbest things and failing miserably
MySims Kingdom and MySims agents legit raised me. I still go back and play every few years just for the nostalgia, but they’re also just legitimately enjoyable relaxing games!
Same, I played MySims Kingdom and MySims Agents SOOO much! I think I was obsessed with them the same year my grandma died so it was kinda like therapy for 9 year old me. Legitimately great children's games!
@@gagecat I'm just playing them now for the first time for the release of switch and I'm 23 lol
Thank you for bringing MySims back into the spotlight, MySims Agents is so good and I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. It is of course a real shame you have to grind out the Dispatch Missions for the true ending (I still have never seen it, but maybe on my next playthrough).
I never heard about a MySims Agents 2 being in development but that is a crying shame it got cancelled.
THERE’S MULTIPLE ENDINGS??
Man, I loved the MySims games too, played all but Sky Heroes (which I want to do one day). I tried to grind out all the missions myself but it just got too tedious, so I just watched it on youtube since it's barely any change lol. Not worth the effort
you have to WHAT?! immediately time to play again
i was so proud of myself for finally finishing this game during covid… back to the drawing board i guess😭
Are you serious?! I can't believe I'm only just hearing there are multiple endings to the game that was my whole childhood. How did I never figure that out?!
i wish Agents got its much deserved sequel… it was a pretty fun game
same😭 it sounds like the sequel would’ve taken the player to the nightmare realm to defeat morcubus. they left us on a cliff-hanger and everything!
One of the people who worked on mysims revealed the plot of mysims agents 2 a few days ago :]
@@pkspsilver where!
I read through the plot Brian Kaiser posted on twitter and honestly, it made me so sad that it was canned, it sounded so cool! This is officially the bad timeline.
@@mariogalaxyfan1 I Googled "brian kaiser my sims agents 2" and the first result is a Reddit post containing the tweets he made about it.
I loved MySims as a kid, but never knew there were other games in the series til I got older. I definitely have some to try now!
Kingdom and Agents were my favorites out of the Wii games (I may have actually bought them again as an adult too ha)! But I honestly loved the em all.
Getting to see someone actually give these games a fair shake after a decade and a half really warms my heart. I kinda hope we can get a video on Sims handheld games at some point so I can find out if any of the DS MySims games were actually good.
If you are that desperate you could just emulate it on your phone (so long as it is an android).
can't speak to mysims but if you have a ds emulator and haven't played the urbz port for it, you're doing yourself a disservice
I played both when they came out. As far as I recall they were pretty good. They were very different from the console games. Both were a bit of a money grind, but both were plenty charming.
I used to play mysims kingdom sooo much back in the day. I loved it
me too!
me too!! i was never able to complete it as a child. i haven't played it in over ten years and i have no idea if i have the ds game floating around somewhere, but im tempted to buy a new one and try to complete it as an adult.
Before I watch this full thing, I loved "MySims: Secret Agents" and sky heroes so much. Hoping for nothing but good things being said about them
My sims secret agents isn't a name for the games
@@RizPlaysYTgaming they meant mysims agents, it's close enough
Wait secret agents I think I saw a ad for it once
I LOVED these games too, I would play the sky heroes with my neighbor. My Sims, in general, was so fun. I have the discs for pc, and the wii still lol. I might actually try to fix my wii to play them again 😩
@@kutyhooves8804 you can get the wii sensor and wiimote recognize on a pc to play them on there
ill never forget my playthrough of mysims agents. it was one of this first games i actually finished as a kid and i can still remember some of the puzzles and areas- especially the snow one. thank u for bringing these memories back!
You have been summoned with My Sims re-releases.
As far as MySims stuff being used in modern Sims games, I like that in 4 they come in the form of some collectible trophies and some posters for an in-universe tv show along with some actual officially downloadable Sims based on some of the MySims characters, although a couple of them are a little bit off from their usual characterizations and backgrounds. There ARE some elements that I DO find interesting, although the only one I like is the new connection for Candy and Yuki where they turn them into sisters otherwise some of the character personalities are a bit mixed up.
I honestly wish MySims made a proper return in some way, like at least maybe a full MySims expansion story pack or something. Loved MySims Agents (Wii) and it makes me sad that it kind of stops there.
And Liberty, Sumner, and Travis are roommates. Chaz is also there but he's a pirate.
@@Ranixo286 Didn't know about Chaz, and I'm finding it weird they turned him into a black guy when ALL of his other appearances are a red headed white guy as a thrill seeker. The pirate angle KIND OF makes sense from that perspective, but turning him black...I don't know.
Some of the decisions, at least to me, feel kind of like needless changes to well known characters. Yes technically the MySims characters work off of a "multiverse" logic, but aside from the first entry, they sort of had a "settled" design at one point or another.
Love the video so far, but it would be AWESOME if you cover the ds games some day. Those were my childhood
If there's enough demand for it, I'm probably curious enough to dive back in with those versions down the road!
@@TheGoldenBolt To be fair, I would listen to you talk about the mysims camera dsi app for an hour.
@@TheGoldenBolt sanity be damned.
@@TheGoldenBolt I hope you do! My sister and I played the DS version of MySims all the time.
I also remember playing the DS version of Racing a lot and it had the Diddy Kong Racing overworld that you were expecting, funny enough. Though, it's pretty barebones. Only thing I liked about it is that they included a "stunt park" where you can free roam and do car tricks.
I only ever played the one where you manage a hotel, but that was absolutely wild!
I remember it being one of my favorite games for a time while also having nightmares of it.
Mysims kingdom holds such a special place in my heart because it was the only game I owned that offered a lot of different language options, and thus it helped a LOT in my learning of Polish when I was a child :)
Ah yes, the classic MySims games with the classic MySims character Goth Boy.
I hold these games in such a high nostalgic regard it's insane.
Turkey on a fork moment
fun fact, he only has a name in french.
I would say the My Sims's handheld version are *wildly* different from their Console counterparts, to the point that the odd boardgame-esc overworld in the Wii version is outright replaced with the exact system you described, where you instead drive around on ground level and interact with folks there. I would be highly interested in another video that covers the handheld versions, I've enjoyed this video immensely and would love to see you cover the handheld versions of the game!
I loved both the Wii and DS games as a kid, but agree. The DS games held even stronger onto the whole animal crossing inspo but also did it better than the MySims original wii game. Best games were kingdom and agents on the wii
i had my sims kingdom on ds, and my sims and my sims kingdom on wii. imagine my surprise when i played kingdoms and they were both completely different! still loved each one individually and each felt like a different game. tho i occasionally mixed up both the wii sims storylines… wondering why i couldn’t find certain areas in the wrong game
mysims always has a special place in my heart. I love the mysims series so much.
I snapped awake from sleeping to this when you started talking about my sim agents. That game has owned Ocean Front property in my frontal lobe rent free for YEARS. about to word vomit how much i love it- but first mentioning quickly, your scripts are so well constructed and your editing is absolutely lovely. Ive been binging through your stuff and every video is a treat.
Ok now to the brain rot I have the most vivid memories of the intricate evolution of the storyline. The murder mystery level and snowy mountain areas, hell the one with candy? The urban city area one? God I replayed it several times.
The furniture mechanics for the spy base later on had me relapsing to the hundreds of hours i put into the first my sims
I loved the yeti. I loved the pipe puzzles.
RAHHH MY SIMS AGENTS MY BELOVED
MySims Agents is AMAZING. The most nostalgic Sims game after The Sims 2 Pets for PS2, to me. I'd play it so much during summer holidays, it was such a fun experience
MySims! I have so much nostalgia for this series. I wish they made a new one or an HD collection.
I like the first one for its simple plot. But Kingdom was a lot more fun because there were stories you played through. But you still build stuff. Racing was different but still fun. Agents was the best one but needed more post game content. Or any lol.
I got My Sims Agents on the Wii for Christmas in 2009 and it was THE game that started my love for detective games. I feel like I've played every title in the genre since. So happy to see a video that features it!
i was so obsessed with mysims kingdom
I genuinely loved the MySims games so much, they were so good and a big part of my childhood
growing up i played every mysims game (except mysims party) and i loved them all. i remember being so surprised by how much i loved mysims skyheroes, i've never been a fan of dogfighting/plane games but skyheroes was different. i really liked the story and characters, and the plot twist toward the end blew my mind
I feel so validated for playing the heck out of Agents and Kingdom as a kid, those games slapped
Seeing the town in Agents brought back some old memories, I remember after finishing the game just going back through all the levels and taking it all in. Appreciating all the characters and areas, and the stories it told. So many little details that made the world feel lived in too, in a sense, like the trains driving by far off in the background that I hadn't even noticed before.
It wasn't until I was in college I'd thought about those MySims games, and wondered what ever happened to that series. I was so upset when I found out they cancelled the Agents sequel, remembering how much I really wanted to re-experience the first one.
Nowadays it's just frustrating, seeing how much utter trash gets to keep going and thrive when for over 20 years we've seen great ones get left behind and forgotten.
MySims Agents is genuinely up there with some of my fondest childhood memories, i loved the mystery and the suspense, the characters and the world they created, i remember being enthralled by the ending for months after beating it, i genuinely used to have dreams about the ending being fully resolved, i would daydream about a sequel so long i convinced myself the sequel was coming, and it was exactly what my 10 year old brain had imagined- upsettling that story never was resolved, but i think it never would have had its effect on me if it was, it’s forever one of maybe 5 games over my entire life i’ve had a genuine obsession over and that i still think about into the modern day, coincidentally another is the sims 2 on DS, the linear sims game were unrivalled in my opinion, they had such fully formed character that for the time just wasn’t normal, it’s a part of me and i’ll look back at those days where my only serious conflicting thoughts were about how a problem in one of them would be resolved, and asking myself where i missed the proverbial clue that would let me advance, was one of my first ever rl examples of how important stepping away from a situation and employing an actual problem solving mindset was both beneficial and rewarding- these games can NOT be slept on
It would be nice if some of The designers for Agents maybe went and made their own game and IP based on the concept? The aunt as many good detective/ espionage games as one might think.
I loved the MySims games but Agents always held a special place in my heart! Glad to see it getting a little more recognition 😊
I started playing the orininal MySims again sometime last week, I'm so glad to see this video!! Super nostalgic, thanks for all your hard work! :)
Man, you are an insane man in the best way. You literally research way to fuckin much, I was rewatching your R&C series and man, you know how to be informative and funny.
I loved My Sims so much as a kid and I still love them. It's such a charming, cute and wholesome game that's perfect not only for kids but even for adults who just want something nice and heartwarming. I still adore these games and playing them when I'm feeling down always makes me feel better
my sims kingdom and agents still hold up so well too, i LOVE those games to this day beyond nostalgia
Bro I LOVED MySims agents, there was one time I couldn't figure out one of the lab puzzles and looked up the answer to it in the computer lab at school the next day. First time I ever used a walkthrough.
I'm in my middle 20's and I love MySims, especially the first/original one!
It kinda became one of my comfort games and I loved playing it as a kid back then so much and I still do
I grew up with My Sims Kingdom on the DS I still have it! I miss the My Sims era that brings me back to simpler times.
I still vividly remember how frustrated I would be trying to build furniture with the Wii motion controls
Oh my God, I loved the MySims games! I think the only one I didn't play was Racing, but I loved playing Kingdom, Agents and Sky Heroes. I thought these faded into obscurity, but it made me really happy to see you talk about them and enjoy them. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories I have of these games.
I’m 25 and still go back to MySims Kingdoms and Agents when life gets a bit too rough. Pure joy
I had so much fun with mysims kingdom, still have that ending tune stuck in my head.
I actually love and loved My Sims as a kid. There was a also a big desert area and the people that you invite to your town can give you new things! Like a salon gives you more hairs and such! Maybe I just like it a lot cause of nostalgia. You are so right about the essence thing though. When I replayed a couple years ago I seriously had to grind for those metal detector essence, took a long time.
My Sims is actually the reason why I wanted the Wii. I was a massive Sims and Animal Crossing fan at the time, so My Sims looked perfect for me! Receiving the Wii that Christmas is one of my fondest memories from my childhood.
I just wanted to say that Ive been greatly enjoying your side series looking into the odd Sims console games. You made this legitimately fascinating even though i’ve never been interested in these titles before. You might even have convinced me to check a couple of then out! GREAT script and editing, really appreciate what you’re doing :)
Looking back, it’s kinda crazy that all 6 came out so quickly because I remember eagerly awaiting the next ones along with my sister after Kingdom came out.
Glad you enjoyed Agents so much though. It’s a genuinely great game that truly deserved its sequel. The missions and stories were always so fun and they used the characters so well. Nova and Madame Zoe were my favorites.
I have so many nice memories of My Sims Agents. It was one of the first wii games I would actively play and be invested in.
I never finished it as a kid (I think I gave up at the beach?) but I actually went back to finish it as a teen~
Still have great memories of it
I played MySims on the DS as a kid, and for a long time I couldn't remember the actual name of it. I had no idea there were so many other games in the series ! Great video
mysims was one of the games i grew up with and my love for it is still there to this day. i actually got some of them just to replay c:
this was a really great trip down memory lane, my big sis had ALL the games on wii and most of the nintendo ds ones. these were my mario kart wii and mario party back in the day! so glad someone covered these games and their many flaws.
The funniest part of the first MySims was how hou'd often get sims brawling with each other because of having different interests.
The level of warmth and nostalgia I feel seeing these games is overwhelming. I LOVED MySims and MySims Kingdom so much! I have the My Sims game on PC and I'm fighting the urge to find and buy a wii and the games as we speak XD
Oh, I am on the PULSE of MySims content!!! Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough breakdown of the game and its history. This was a great watch, and made me so sad I haven't had a Wii since 2012 haha!
An hour long video on My Sims? This is the best day ever 😫
I had probably had 100+ hours in both My Sims and My Sims Kingdom spent decorating over and over as a kid. I was obsessed, and I still have a thing for decorating in Sims 4, Animal Crossing, and other games.
MySims Agents was my favourite Wii game of all time. I can’t begin to tell you how many times 10-year old me replayed that game over and over. Now that they’ve announced the MySims Cozy Bundle for Switch, I hope we’ll get a remake of MySims Agents in the future.
Man, my sibling and I used to play MySims so much. We even made it to a 5-star town once or twice, I think. Though MySims Agents was my favorite.
11:03 that's why I used to keep an empty lot next to my house lol. You move someone into the close lot, fulfill all of their requests, and then move them to a lot further away from you, rinse and repeat. It helps a little bit with the amount of walking/loading, but still doesn't solve the issue. Though when I played as a kid it didn't feel like that big of an issue to me
13:14 With the plant essences, if you ran out, you could water the plants and they would regrow immediately.
Oh yeah, before I forget, the DS version of MySims Racing has a Diddy Kong Racing style overworld. Thought you might like to know.
Son of a bitch, I'm gonna have to make another one of these at some point aren't I?
@@TheGoldenBolt Probably lol, the ds versions are extremely different compared to the console ones.
i remember actually really loving mysims party because you could make custom characters to use in the minigames. my sister and i would make mysims versions of our pc sims characters and have them battle it out there. i never did care for the "story mode" though and always rushed through it to unlock all the minigames
Yessss my sibling and I made a bunch of sims on that game lol. Also, our neighbor came over all the time and we let her make her own sims on there and we would play through the festivals together. Never cared for the story either though, I thought it was boring and the whole monument thing didn't make much sense to me.
Thank you so much for making this video, man! I love your video on the sims console games, which were the games I played up until the Sims 3 PC came out in ‘09. I’ve always been curious about MySims, having been a heavy Wii player. I love having another retrospective I can watch again and again. Bravo!! 🎉😊
Thanks for the video, it's always fun to learn about some old video games I never would have heard of otherwise.
and now, in 2024
we are gonna be able to replay the original and Kingdom on the Switch
I can't wait for the Cozy Bundle to be released
Man, I remember playing the first game as a kid. I haven't thought about these in years. That said, I feel like a new game in the style of the original could actually do really well these days. It feels like a more extreme version of the direction Animal Crossing has gone in - focused more on customization than the social simulation aspect. And because of that, perhaps a lot of people would enjoy something like it now.
I was a big fan of the DS version of My Sims. I played it all the time and the racquetball minigame took up so much of my time. It was so fun. Ive never played any of the others but I still really loved your video!
The MySims Racing on DS was completely different, you actually could get out and walk around and do tasks for the people in the town, and there was more than one town. There were also mini games you could do too. That was my shit back in the day
mysims kingdom is one of my all time favorite games and I'm so happy I finally get a video talking about the recognition it deserves!! I am a huge fan of city builder adventure games, and no other game has scratched the itch quite like kingdom did. It has one of the most in depth customization systems I have seen for a game of its nature and the characters are so charming. While I agree the ending was kind of anticlimactic I did love the sandbox mode where you can decorate your own castle with the hundreds of items you unlocked, and go back to re-customize islands with new requests from the villagers. It is such a surprisingly in depth and well thought out game for a spin off intended for children, and it was only ruined a little by playing the first MySims after it hoping for the same quality and finding out it was practically unplayable haha oops
Omg I didn’t even know they were on the wii but I had a couple Mysims DS games and was obsessed. I still hear the angry conversation music in my head whenever I’m talking to someone
i recently revisited pbg’s mysims videos, i had to watch this one too. i really like how in depth you’ve gone here, great video! :)
what you said about the sims 3 for wii is so true! my Wii would most of the time sound like it was using all of it's power just to load in a few sims and would somehow drain my wii remote battery to nothing in like an hour from a new battery
Wow, this brought me back. I remember I had Agents on the Wii YEARS ago as a kid, but it seemed so strange and it was in such a unique part of my life that I thought it was a dream until I saw this video.
Mysims Kingdom is one of my favorite games of all time. I recently replayed it and it was just as good as I remembered it being
Sim Animals was one of the only Sim games my family got. The Africa one even had a *Story Mode* where you played as both Prey and Predators, completing tasks to gain Magic Tree Power to go to the next levels.
You have come *way* too far. You NEED to play this! XD
Thanks so much looking at these games, they were the highlight of my childhood/early teen years! I really loved the way it would just activate your imagination and run with it, like in MySims even though your sim had no needs I would always send them to sleep at night and eat food during the morning/evening, and take walks through the forest admiring the scenery. They might get a bit repetitive playing them as an adult, but I love them and I was glad you had a fun time playing them! Have a lovely day ❤
Finally Golden Bolt is covering Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
Holy fuck. Imagine that game having a Wii homebrew port in the future
The goat is back with another video.
I can't tell you how many times I've 'completed' MySims, I remember sitting down with a note book to write down all the tasks I needed to do and sketching designs, definitely a personal opinion that it wasn't as fun as could be
My Sims and My Sims kingdom are literally up there as two of my favourite games ever from the Wii era and honestly i think kingdom would make it into my top 20-30 somewhere. I think it's genuinely such a good game and improved/built upon everything that made the first one incredibly fun. When they announced the my Sims cozy bundle for switch i bought cake to celebrate ahaha
My sister and I LOVED the mysims franchise! We played mysims kingdom, agents, and racing all the time! On agents, it always irked us that we couldn’t revisit the mountain land lol. Thanks for this throwback!
I only ever had MySims Racing and MySims Agents but i loved them both! I honestly had no idea they were related to the regular sims franchise until I saw the sims 4 ornaments for the first time, I just assumed it was unrelated due to how different they were. I always wanted MySims Kingdom so bad after playing Agents, so thank you for finally letting me see what it was all about lol! I loved the video, can't wait to check out the rest of your channel
Weow. As someone who is a MySims Fan, this video was really well researched and documented. It gives off, as one of the best ways to have a overlook to the franchise. I Love it! Whaq a great constructed video that is ..and I didn't know the they were planning on a MySims Animated Series, but the MySims Lore is just deeper than we thought I guess.
I just bought a used copy of MySims DS recently because I remembered how obsessed I was. I loved MySims Party DS and have been replaying that! My sister likes to tease me because they're obsessed with the OG Sims and doesn't seem MySims as valid Sims hahahaha. I hope you'll cover the DS versions sometime in the future!
We need more people to remember mysims. It's such an underrated series
My sims Agents was honestly one of my favorite Wii games. It was Spy themed which was my drug of choice as a kid and the characters hooked me.
Loved the review but just 1 or 2 things to note about the first game.
The thing about the trees is that you can water and fertilize them for more essences. That option is always available. The essences also grow back in a matter of seconds so you don't have to leave and come back.
And you also don't have to waste loading screens when you want to give items to sims if they're not home. They will appear in a few seconds after you entered the house.
I was not expecting the punk AEW pipe bomb at 15:46 🤣👏
my sims kingdom and my sims agents are some of my favourite games of all time honestly. especially agents it’s so good!!
i remember renting mysims kingdom from blockbuster when i was a kid and immediately falling in love with it and begging my mom for the game HAHAHAHA even now as a 22 y/o i still love returning to it occasionally, it's such a good game unironically
I've been waiting for a video of this quality on the sims-related DS games, please cover them too! Especially the absolute acid trip that is the sims 2 (weird alien one)
13:05
I feel like I should clarify here because it's not described well in first game or online either.
The process of gathering essences dosen't really evolve as the game progresses; only new ones get gradually introduced.
YET, you can speed up the process for harvesting tree based essences by watering the trees; or straight up using pesticide to get a burst of essence; alongside a dead tree you need to chop and replace with another tree based essence, but by that point you already have enough.
Sims can even host picnics, book clubs, or seance on the overworld to casually gain specific/rare essence as well.
mysims agents was my introduction to youtube walkthroughs/lets plays!!! i needed help during the murder mystery mansion part of the game and had to watch someone do a puzzle for me. great game, loved the character creator too
The MySims era of the dill sims was certainly a fascinating one
You have no idea what this video means to me!! Mysims Kingdom on the wii was the game of my childhood, and I'm an avid simmer but there are literally almost no videos ever talking about Mysims extensively. I was like- "I can't be the only one who remembers Buddy the Bellhop, right?"
omg i nearly forgot abt mysims!!! i have the pc version and used to play it all the time before i was allowed to get my own actual sims game. i dont know how i acquired the game (maybe some sort of kids meal thing?? idk) but this made all my memories of playing the game come FLOODING back
I played many of these games as a child, and simply seeing them lights a warm flame in my heart. Loved them, made me very happy
I played the DS version of My Sims Agents as a kid which has a completely different story and gameplay in another town. Every citizen had a minigame for you to play and you had to scan objects across town to collect essences which you could use to craft stuff iirc
MySims are probably one of my favorite spinoff series from my childhood, so I'm happy to see it get more attention.
I played them both on Wii and DS, and I gotta say, they're different enough on both platforms to actually warrant playing both.
Never played MySims on DS, but Kingdom focuses more on town building than the console counterpart.
Party is also not completely awful, it has a proper free roam world and the story and minigames were a lot better.
Racing too was a lot different, it actually had a proper free roam world and a pretty cool story. Don't remember if the courses themselves were any good though.
Agents is also pretty different. It does focus a lot on the mystery part, but socializing with other Sims was a lot more important.
Sky Heroes is pretty similar to it's console counterpart though.
This is the first video of yours I've ever watched, I love your humour and dedication to the deep lore. I can't wait to watch your sims console ports next😂
Was waiting for someone to do a my sims video. I pray everyday they bring back the my sims series because it was such a big part of my childhood buying every instalment and meeting all the colourful characters
Strangely, the SkyHeroes game reminds me of a trailer where Snoopy from Peanuts was in some sort of dogfighting game... What a weird thing to remember.
Anyway, it was nice to hear about this spin-off of the Sims series.
I think it was called Snoopy VS the Red Baron! From what I remember it was really fun and had a decent campaign/missions and fun power up weapons. I would recommend it over mySims Sky Heroes tbh.
I think there was a gun that shot pumpkins??
I never finished Agents or Sky Heroes, but those games along with Party are so nostalgic to me, I’m surprised at how much I remember while looking at these clips considering I haven’t played them in something like 10 years.
I literally watched this entire video to see you talk about my Sim animals, and the end was heartbreaking 🥲
I have this game on my PC and currently playing it. I like the fact that TS4 pays tribute to MySims by having figurines of MySims characters that can be found through digging up those rock thingys throughout the world. I remember one time I had a sim die because of too much hilarity cuz of the figurines. The figurines have a funny emotional aura on them and I should've turned it off😆
MySims was a huge part of my childhood. I played the original on Wii, Kingdom Wii, Racing DS, Agents Wii and a tiny bit of Sky Heroes on the Xbox. I adored this franchise too much, even if most of the game aren't that great. I went back to revisit them last year and even played the games I haven't played like Party and Racing on the Wii. Here comes my huge opinions on each game after these revisits.
- The Original MySims was a game I 100% completed as a child. Making it the first ever game I ever did so. Revisiting it on the PC was a great time. There was even features in that version that is not on the Wii like exclusive Sims and a separate online area. I made a sim from my "THE Sims" playthroughs, who was named Horatio, into this game and the others moving forwards for my revisits. I really liked his cutesy counterpart in these games. My playthrough ended when my game sadly broke after I got to the end. Which crashes the game before I can even complete it to 5 stars. Which sucks but other than that and a few grinding sessions being rather boring, the game was still solid and meant a lot to me looking back.
- Kingdom was and still kind of is my favourite in the series. I enjoyed going through different "kingdoms" and solving their problems. The completion reward you get is your own "kingdom" where you can make your own house in a HUGE grid that takes most of the island. I really enjoyed this game and revisiting it was a amazing time.
- Party is.. eh. If the series felt like shovelware, this one is the only one I can consider the worse case for that shovelware title. It's just a Mario Party ripoff and you can make buildings like in the original but the entire game is catered towards the lackluster mini-games. Probably the worse in the series for me.
- I only had the best experience with the DS version of Racing as a kid. And looking back, in my opinion it's better than it's console counterpart. You could drive around the hub world instead of the map shown in the Wii version and it gave me the same connection I had with Mario Kart on the DS. This is literally the only time I prefer a DS version of a MySims game than it's console counterpart.
- Agents is arguably the best in the series. The style is absolutely perfect and characters had 2D renders, introducing this nice art style that complements the style of the 3D models. I never touched the soundtrack of these games but the original MySims' soundtrack was nostalgic heaven for me, but Agent's soundtrack is a bop at the time and it suited the style of the game completely.
- Finally, if we're not counting that weird MySims Camera on the DSi, we get Sky Heroes and well.. I didn't really like this upon revisiting. My favourite thing about these games is the freedom of making things such as the furniture in the original. This game lacks that besides making your own plane and your character. Also the serious tone was NOT suitable for the series, like at all. Agents kind of had these lack of creativity and somewhat serious tone but it was fun to solve mysterious and it even had fun puzzle mini-games. This.. all you do is go into dogfighting and that's really the meat of the game. I lost interest the same way I did with Party and Racing (Wii) and It's a shame that the series ended on this note.
I don't think EA will EVER bring this game series back anytime soon but if they do like.. on the Switch or something. Or they just remaster the first game and add new features, I'd be down for it. I honestly love this series as a childhood staple and revisiting it with my boy Horatio was a blast up until Sky Heroes.