It makes the series look fresh and young once again, doing so with polish, style and even a little subtlety. In many ways, the game is a confident step forward. At night, interiors can sometimes appear a little too gloomy. Seizing them in The Sims 4 isn't always easy. In Kevin Smith's film Dogma, the angel Loki suggests that all life is is a series of moments, moments to be seized. It takes time to be able to afford that new oven. ![]() Just a day or two into their final age bracket, apparently healthy Sims can croak with no warning. Bills are high, progress is slow and life can be short. While the fourth Sims game is still a fair one, it can also be tough. The series has always been a capitalist fairytale, a world where hard graft always wins out, where there is no privilege or prejudice or patriarchy and where everything can be earned in the end. There's a lot that is prosaic along the way, although its Sims are also smarter than ever, more articulate and even a little bit moodier. ![]() Life in The Sims 4 can be routine and repetitive, a slow if comfortable accumulation of capital and possessions that act as a sort of consumerist compensation for the labour your Sim devotes to the unseen gods of employment, all resulting in a slightly bigger house, a slightly shinier kitchen, a slightly higher income. While you will never find yourself in another part of the world or behind the wheel of a large automobile, you may at least ask yourself, how did I get here? Caught up in the details of the mundane, the prosaic, you can have your head down for far too much of it until, all of a sudden, it's your birthday and you're an Adult, or even an Elder. If there's one thing that Maxis' life simulation The Sims 4 captures better than anything else, it's that sense that life flies by all too quickly.
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