The Sims 2's Even Weirder Handheld Games - The Golden Bolt
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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The Sims 2's Strangetown Saga: Three completely different handheld versions of The Sims 2, all set in the same town, all made by the same studio - in the same year. And somehow, each one of these fever dreams gets weirder than the last.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro & Development History
2:56 Sims 2 PSP: A Meta 4th Wall Adventure Game
22:41 Sims 2 GBA: Redefining Reality (TV)
37:21 Sims 2 DS: The Myth, the Legend
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For more Sims handheld chaos, check my pal minimme's excellent Sims GBA descent into madness - rumor has it if you annoy him enough about Sims 2 DS, he'll make a Sims DS games video so that you can stop asking both of us ua-cam.com/video/RsB6glqZIx0/v-deo.html.
I was wondering why your voice was so different at the start XD
The intro was when you had a cold
I like how ‘murder by removing the pool ladder’ is actual canon within the Sims universe, and not just a weird gameplay quirk.
Yeah I mostly remember it from TS2 (PC base game) the "Broke" family had a "accidental death in a pool" (the husband, forgot his name) where the bio of the family I think mentions how it is really suspicious of someone taking the ladder away on purpose and wasn't a accident. I think there are even few suspects mentioned or you get to know through gameplay but yeah, it was the 1st time it made me notice it and made me laugh and cringe at the same time, since it's kinda a joke in a really bad taste. Dark humor I guess....
Either way I forgot which one is canon but then again I don't want to spoil it for others anyway read or play and find out what the actual full story is.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy basically it was supposed to be you the player who killed her husbands.
She says she feels like someone has been controlling her actions.
@@Gamesta100
I am not sure what version of the game you speak of but in the PC version of TS2 her husband already passed away and he is only mentioned in memos and bios and other means in the gameplay data. He basically doesn't exist as a sim.
This woman only had him and no other husbands. So again sorry I am not sure where you pull this info from.
They had 3 kids together, the baby (3rd kid) is about to be born when you start playing the Broke household in TS2 (PC).
If you revive the husband then the game save data will break because his sim data is incomplete so I suggest not doing it.
I did it once only because my game was already broken completely, to satisfy my curiosity and then deleted the game, never to go back to it.
Sadly TS2 doesn't work well on new systems and I wont waste my life trying to endlessly fix this thing ... I wasted away my life enough to know better.
I just hope I can source one day a old gaming PC that can run TS2 normally again like I did back in 2004 up to 2010. Soon as I moved to Dual Cores and from XP to Windows 7 that is when all hell broke loose and I was like f--k this Im out.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy I'm taking about this PSP version which I thought you were too seeing as you commented on a PSP version video
I sadly never got to play the PC version of Sims 2. I love the PS2 version but I wish I could have also played the PC version.
Especially seeing as the Sims themselves were all ugly on the PS2 version lol
@@Gamesta100 Ah that makes sense then, I forgot half the things about the PSP version.
Each platform had different stories and universes. Only the PC version story is canon so I tend to stick to that.
But yeah doesn't mean other version are not interesting.
So even tho by what you wrote she broke the 3rd wall and is kinda a joke (dark humor) still sounds like she in that version is a serial killed skizo XD
I will have to check out these spinoffs again.
Yeah I like the PS2 era games too. When it comes to ugly sims, I think nothing beats TS3 sims, they downright creep me out ...
TS4 is close second that I find irrelevant sims or lets say the graphics are also just meh due to small resolution looking compressed crunchy textures. TS4 just doesn't look nor play like a AAA modern game at all.
The PS2 graphics are still good for what they are :D
when i was a kid, the sims 2 ds gave me so many nightmares for the eeriness and the frequent (for me) alien invasions that i never finished it and it still feels so freaky to me even now
It gave me a fear of aliens, and I’m not talking about xenophobia, I mean a fear of aliens that have green skin and black eyes. I got over the fear after playing Alien Isolation for a while, but even to this day, the music will actually play in my dreams. The alien music still freaks me out and I’m a grown adult. I have beaten the game, but it took me a long time and the rat suit because aliens are apparently terrified of rats. I learned to turn the music down so I can play without hearing that terrifying dreadful music every time an alien walks in my vicinity.
yesss omg the aliens and goon attacks still scare me! every time they happened i would either try running past them or run straight to the manager’s suite lmao
I was literally about to comment the same thing. I remember having one nightmare when I was about 8 where the goons invaded, including the one that rides in a shopping trolley. But they wouldn't go away and just kept multiplying, and I was obviously stuck in the town with no way out. Everything about that game felt so secret and isolating.
I need to play that game!!!
Same I've never finished the game for that reason, the music alongside an alien invasion at night scared me. I was not expecting that in a Sims game.
Sims 2 ds has an almost ethereal soundtrack to me. It’s bitcrushed to shit, yet sooooooooo catchy.
Its composer Ian Stocker had uploaded a remastered version of the ost here on YT! Feels weird to hear it uncompressed 😅, just adds to the feelings it envokes
That’s wild. Didn’t expect sims2 psp to be a slice of life rpg
Creating Akiyama in The Sims DS,The Golden Bolt is a man of culture indeed.
The Sims 2 PSP was the only Sims game I've ever played. Imagine my shock when I tried Sims 4 on the PC.
I LOVED these versions!
Fun fact: Tycho Curious (which is what Pascal’s alien child’s canon name is in The Sims 2 for PSP) is officially canonically connected to The Sims 4!
how
@@wig.snatcher through dialogue from Tycho’s cousin, Nova in her own personal storyline… and because the Curious brothers (and Tycho via Pascal) were remade by Maxis in March 2019.
@@brandoniswhoiam Damn, I was like Maxis closed down in 2014, now looking at the EA page seems like their hamster wheel studio who make TS4 content still uses that name. Oddly I never seen the name mention in any official promos, just EA and the Sims dev team being called simply just that, Sims Dev team XD
Either way interesting trivia I guess about the aliens. And kinda makes sense, TS4 is a spinoff / reboot and it's interesting that they give nods to old spinoffs.
Oh man The Sims 2 PSP, I got obsessed with studying everything about this game lol. They really went a bit off the deep end with it. The Sims 2 DS is awesome too, spent a lot of time playing that as a kid and loved it!
This dropped exactly when I needed it.
Yeah bro, perfect timing for me too.
You didn't need it 😊
@@shaunbeckett9475yes i did
Man i love Sims 2 on the DS. I played this game so much and had a great time with the whole alien stuff, the weird music, it was just an experience.
Having a look back on the Sims 2 DS made my little happy brain explode with a wave of fun nostalgia and how much I played that card game
So, awkwardly, Sims 2 DS was the only Sims Game I ever played...
Don't know if I ever finished it, never time skipped it either (No, seriously! XD)
It was so weird, and I never quite knew what was going on, but it definitely felt unique in how mysterious and bizarre it was.
People just appeared, and you just had to accept that most of these people are weird lol
A neat thing that nobody else has pointed out (as far as I can tell) is that TS2 on PSP is the only unique port of a Sims game that looks just like the PC version. The game actually uses scaled down versions of the PC models and reuses the animations. It's honestly surprising that not even the home console ports did this, but the PSP one did. (EDIT: IIRC, Castaway actually did that as well.)
It's the only one that uses the actual characters from the PC instead of relying on made-up characters.
Well, there are made-up characters, but they're to add variety. Although the Singles and Ajay Loner are absent...
I actually still have my copy of the PSP Sims 2. I bought it on a whim many years ago and have no regrets. I love it so much, it's a great little gem.
i was so obsessed with the sims on the game boy advance but i could never progress in the story because of the alien on my toilet 💔
sometimes it feels like a fever dream until i see someone else mention it 😅
Yes!!! Sims 2 for the PSP!!!
To this day i still have my original copy and i unironically adore and cherish that game to pieces ♡♡ yeah the game is sorta jank and the loadscreens are SUCH a pain but this in my opinion is one of the most unique Sims games ive personally ever played besides Castaway, my second favorite ever. It was a sort of RPG lite and i wish we had more like it
I only ever completed the story one time but have been going back to it in recent weeks for nostalgia and to do a dedicated runthru of it.
Also, Emily is best girl ♡ sorry Bella Goth!
if u install custom firmware on your psp you can load it from a memory stick to cut down on some of the loading, that how ive been goin back to it! makes it much more tolerable
Sims 2 PSP is one of my favourite games of all time. I love to go back to it every few years after I forget the plot enough.
I was obsessed with the DS version of this and the Sims Castaway, finished the Sims 2 but got so stuck on Castaway that I never finished it
I remember the bug with having too many aliens in your pocket, and trying to autopsy them... then your pockets freeze.
Being a connoisseur of the handheld Sims/Urbz games, it hit me with a big surprise to know that there was a PSP game too that I've never known about. It looks just about as weird and wacky as the other ones and I can't wait to play that one too. Also, great to see Sims 2 DS pop up in videos like these. It was always such an unsettling, yet captivating experience to replay. The alien and goon invasions in particular always terrified me in a way that I still don't quite know how to describe.
The PSP game really impressed me because usually the spin off games don't use the characters from the main games. I love seeing Sims 2 townies in a more wacky portable game.
Hello, I’m the guy who mentioned the insanity of the Sims 2 on PSP long ago. You’re welcome for the rabbit hole I dragged you into.
I absolutely adore the Sims 2 PSP- I've replayed it I don't know how many times, and each time I discover or re-discover something that makes me laugh. It's an incredible game with a wonderful meta twist and the classic Maxis sense of humour.
i grew up on the sims franchise and the story/spin-off games were always my favorite. i had sims 2 for psp and ds, along with mysims party and kingdom for the ds. i recently played the psp and gba versions on an emulator and finished the psp one rather quickly, i don't remember finishing it as a kid but it was really fun and weird and i miss when the sims had games with lore.
This was hilariously interesting. I'm not even into The Sims but I woulda bought all of these if i knew what they were
I was hoping that you would make a video on these handheld versions, sims 2 on ds and gba were my childhood and were so batshit crazy it takes me back. Amazing video!
I used to grind so hard for furniture in the GBA sims game as a kid... I loved this game so I kind of want to replay it and look if the story has a few more jokes, insiders, etc that I didn't get back then
before watching through, I know for a fact you're gonna enjoy this, I have nostalgia with The Sims 2 on PSP despite never getting far in it, super weird game
Just found your channel a week or 2 ago and was looking forward to this. I like your cadence and style so I’d like if you did more videos like this covering weird games from popular series or retrospectives like the Tak one which is how I found you
Good news, not counting my R&C PSP video, I've got at least one more longer one like this hopefully planned for later in the fall if all goes well! More in the Tak vein than Sims, in fact it's very close to Tak. I've got other longer ones that could crop up too depending on if I need or want to flip around plans some more, but it's gonna be a strong mix of shorter and longer stuff to close out the year.
@@TheGoldenBolt Thanks for the reply! Keep up the good work you've got great content
@@TheGoldenBoltidk if you need more weird ps2 games to play but Robot Alchemic Drive would be awesome. Then you could tangent into Earth Defence Force lol
Solid video as always! I had the DS port as a kid; it was interesting to see the PSP port. I can’t even imagine variations between ports nowadays, but that’s likely due to the parity between hardware
Was waiting for this! Thank you for covering these!
I loved this, so thorough and so well researched! The sims 2 was my childhood and these games had such an impact on me somehow lol
I remember when I got the original PC Sims 2 for Christmas, when it was brand new. I couldn't even tell you how many hours I spent on it. I was obsessed 😅
Finally got to finish this video and it’s dope that you know Minimme! He’s great and he deserves more attention like you
These handheld ports sound freaking wild
In the process of getting myself some older consoles, and your Sims series is giving me so much to look forward to! 🤩
So far I've only ever played Sims 3 and 4 for PC. These are so different from those that I kinda want to play them all.
the sims 2 ds was literally my favorite game growing up and i’m so happy people are acknowledging how it just perfectly it captures strangeness as a concept. i still have the cartridge but sadly it doesn’t fully work anymore (the game bricks the moment you open the inventory menu) 😭
I remember playing this weird sims game on my DS as a kid. I think it was called the sims 2 apartment pets? I have literally never heard a single soul mention the game. Which just proves to me how many Sims games they really made that there's still likely so many more we just don't remember or never saw. EA must've been working their sims teams to the bone in these eras.
Thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it!
Sims 2 DS I loved playing in the casino a lot. Also, trying to see what I can get away with in the art gallery (found keep painting it one color was more likely to make the characters like it)
Not gonna lie.
The GBA Sims 2 is still my favourite entry across the entire franchise and its spinoffs.
The DS version comes in clutch for Ratman.
I've played both the PSP and the DS versions, but I loved the DS version the most.
I didn't find the story really interesting but the thing that I really loved was everything that's surrounding the story. The music that fits so well with the location you're in, the little secrets in every location you visit, the way the hotel rooms are located, and the child me also really loved how every place was bigger on the inside (Like the hotel, it seems tiny from the outside).
It all felt mysterious and, as said in the video, unsettling.
It's really a great gem of a game.
Very excited for this video! And can't wait for mysims ds ports!
Ok and NOW you have to somehow play the weird phone ports and the ports that were on the iPod nano. REAL obscure shit.
This'll be a thing not many who played the DS game would've known back in the day and even now. There was some form of connectivity that was unlockable if you had both the DS game and the GBA game on the same system at the same time. Forget what it unlocked though.
It at the very least unlocked another card minigame in the casino, if you had Sims 2 GBA in the slot while playing Sims 2 DS. I don't believe it's a game you can make money in, just a little bonus game they threw in.
Yesterday i asked you in the comments to make this video and today you droped it. Love you ❤🤘🏻
I cannot even count the amount of hours I put into the Sims 2 DS game. I played it over and over. I feel like my love of liminal spaces and RPGs were created by this game! Edit: woah you mentioned liminal spaces so I'm glad I'm not alone in the association!
The Sims 2 on DS was such a gem.
It really was. Such a distinct, yet indiscernible vibe
Sims 2 DS was my first ever DS game so its kinda nice seeing it pop back up after so long. I actually booted up my old copy when you started talking about it and I think I'll chip away at this odd janky little game I used to spend way to much time on.
Yaaaaay, finally a video on these versions of the Sims 2 :3
I've become obsessed with these weird games and wish the series had more stuff like it. Urbz is especially nostalgic as also a good time capsule into city 2000s hip hop inspired culture.
How dare you interrupt my Golden Bolt rewatches with more Golden Bolt content >:(
/j
Ah hell yeah ! Perfect at 5am to watch
Very wow. I'm shocked how many of the characters from these were in the GBA Bustin' Out. Daddy Bigbucks, Giuseppi Mezzoalto, Dusty Hogg, Misty Waters. A lot of unexpected overlap. Bustin' Out is really the only handheld Sims game I ever had, and entirely for the connectivity with the GameCube version.
I spent sooo many hours in Sims 2 on my PSP and loved it 😍 later i also bought the PS2 version wanting to play it on the big screen but got disappointed since its such a different game over there 😅
This is making me want to play the portable Sims 2 versions. That stuff is gold.
Only with some cheats though. Infinite money would make the GBA one a blast.
these games have a really special place in my heart honestly
sims 2 ds was like a fever dream when i played it as a kid. Strangest experience i didn't want to leave.
The DS version straight up gave me nightmares as a kid. Now I just wonder what the devs were taking when they made it.
I remember WAY back then, my cousin gave me the sims 2, 3, and castaway for ds cause they knew I loved games.
Because of that, I assumed the sims 2 was a narrative game until I looked it up. I even have their original save files still on it.
I played the DS and PSP games extensively as a kid. The PSP one was a wild ride, but it was plagued by constant loading times that would interrupt gameplay. Simply telling your sim to sit down or perform any other basic function would make you wait like 5-10 seconds while it loaded the action from the UMD. The DS version was my favorite handheld port by far.
I love this! The sims ds i played a lot until the weird robot guy shown up in the penthouse and I couldn't work out what to do lmao (i was a kid). Me and my sis tried the urbz ps2 game but couldn't get on with it but the gameboy urbz was rhe absolute best and we both played it to completion! I dont know if youve covered it either but i have a lot of fond memories of playing sims castaway on ps2 - always seemed like an overlooked game!
I grew up playing the sims and was a fan since my eldest brother got the original base game as a Christmas present in 2000. I was only 7 but was hooked and loved the idea of what looked like a virtual doll house.
Fast forward to December 2005. I had moved on to the sims 2 and had spent most of the winter break playing it. We were about to head to grandmas house for Christmas so I would be without my precious sims but my middle brother did something super sweet. He saved all his extra lunch money and did some work for extra money to buy me the sims 2 for DS and wanted me to open it as an early Christmas present. As the youngest and only girl, I couldn’t believe one of my brothers would do something so nice.
Imagine our surprise when what that game was was nothing like the game I loved. It felt like a fever dream.
To this day, while at family events or just hanging out we will look at each other, and just say “remember the sims 2 for DS… what the freak was that!?” It has become my favorite inside joke within our family.
The sims 2 DS was one of my favorite games as a kid. Honestly id just spend hours making paintings and waiting for them to sell.
Man, I remember playing Sims 2 on my DS.
What a fever dream.
I love the sims 2 for psp in a way that words cannot describe and I've been replaying it at least once a month on an emulator since I igured out how to use one during lockdown
gotta say I didnt sleep with that many people in the psp game, but it probably speeds up the grind. Also the 6-7 hours you too are wild, I played it as a kid and it took me ages because i never really cared about skills and spent so much time just sims roleplaying
Ready for the madness!
I love this game so much!
This is similar to The Sims Bustin' Out in that the GameCube version is very different from the GBA version. The best part with those is that they were connectable. You could use a GC/GBA link cable and move your character between versions, and Skill Levels you earned stay with your Sim on transfer. The GBA version is a great way to Skill grind your GameCube character.
When Himbo Ganondorf is basically a Don Lothario on FULL BLAST 🤣
It's important to mention that Sims2 for psp is in the same verse as the PC version, something even the "home" consoles don't do. While the GBA/DS versions are part of the same verse as Bustin' Out and Urbz of the same ports (which aren't part of the same verse as their "home" console counterparts)...
I loved sims 2 on the DS as a kid, so much so that I got it off eBay last year so I could replay it as an adult
I've been waiting on this one for so long. I somehow stumbled across the Sims 2 on PSP as a teen, and it turned out to be one of my all-time favorite video games
I remember loving sims 2 on DS and feeling so disappointed with Sims 3 for DS thinking it'd be the same XD still had fun with it and it was my first real experience with how the sims usually plays
Ive been waiting 😌
I always loved Sims 2 Pets on DS.
You get to run your own Veterinary Office :D
i grew up playing the sims 2 DS… it was a ride thats for sure lol
I had the sims 2 gba game as a kid and i loved it but it was one of about 5 games i owned so that could be why
Those were my childhood 😭
Thank goodness they are not long games, encouraging carpel tunnel is not a good idea...
Also, these versions of the originals were indeed a strange surprise. Interesting move, not just porting a copy of the original. I kinda like it but making a game like this for every console & hand held device isn't good for the pocket.
I had two Sim DS games. Was good for the small amount of time we had spare while camping as a pre-teen.
I had The Sims 2 on ds and omg everyone I talk to about it they look at me like I'm nuts
Oh jeez I totally forgot the GBA Sims game existed till I saw it again. Now I want to search my house to see if I still have it somewhere.
What I wouldn't give for a modern interpretation of Sims 2 DS or PSP on something like the Switch T_T
8:59 it only goes back to sims 2, not sims 1, and it happened because they accidentally deleted/lost Bella’s file, so they made it into lore lmao.
Also Strangetown is a premade neighborhood in the sims 2 (you could make your own neighborhood), and the occults you mentioned in the start are in the pc version of the sims 2 too.
But this sounds awesome, I never played this version, but I definitely want to now haha
The DS sim could have been a Kazuma since kiryu did run a real estate agency in yakuza zero.
Urbz sims in the city had a clutch on teenager me. I loved my little trash apartment 😂❤
There are 4 parallel universes ? *Pannenkoek's theme intensifies*
Sims 2 on PSP is easily one of my favourite Sims games.
I generally hate building in Sims so this game having barely any house customisation isn't a negative for me instead it's a positive lol
I totally didn't gain an obsession with Ava Cadavra and i totally haven't commissioned multiple pieces of art of her
I havent dont look at my icon doNT LOOK A
I loved sims 2 on the DS so much as a kid yes it was weird and random but I think that’s why I loved it
I LOVE the psp version i know the game like the back of my hand I couldnt tell you how many times I played
I wish I could play it for the first time again 😅
Loved the ds version too
Oh the nostalgia 😊
The Sims Handheld games are so much better than the console versions. Open world combined with the sims like urbz is so perfect. So much things to do in the game and all the mysteries to solve. Love it
alfred is my favourite sims character, hes so cute
Sims 2 psp was so good lmao, legit the only sims game i have ever enjoyed. Im replaying it right now after like 8 years
I see Vidcund survived Kevin.
I used to play a version of the first Sims game on mobile, on my dads sony eriksson. Those were the days, impossible to play but fun af.
39:18 He's... just from the base game of the Sims 2.
My favorite sims