With each pack The Sims 4 adds to its ever-expanding collection of temptingly-priced DLC, the more I am enabled to do astoundingly dumb things. Things like using The Sims newest content pack, Werewolves, in conjunction with the Vampires pack, to recreate the greatest love story ever told: Twilight.
You see, after attending a press event detailing the Werewolves pack and discovering that werewolves and vampires would have an immediate distaste for one another, I knew I wanted to explore that relationship a bit–to see what kind of supernatural troubles I could stir-up in the small town of Moonwood Mill. While I was never a Twilight person (which I can now say without feeling like a complete snob because it’s become cool to like it), after reading a book-and-a-half of the series back in 2006 and watching two of its movies one particularly desperate night, I knew if there were a way to inject drama into my game, it was by introducing Edward, Bella, and Jacob.
While I had to forgo importing the entirety of Forks, Washington into my game, I decided to recreate the iconic love triangle. I then forced the three of them to live in a two bedroom home together, kindled a bit of romance between Bella and her two potential suitors, then allowed the game to (mostly) run by itself. What came next can only be described as a fatal fiasco of supernatural proportions.
