EVERYTHING in the new world from The Sims 4: High School Years 

I got a kick out of James Turner talking about the library and how it seemed too small. All I could think of was "for once, Lilsimsie isn't going to try to make it smaller." (Although I can't wait to see how she re-does the high school. It's very grand but it seems too big for the number of students who will be attending.)

I love how most of the clothes in this pack would get dress coded at my school

The way Lilsimsie hasn't talked about round walls yet is mesmerizing.

The High School is for sure wayyyy less cool looking compared to the one in the reveal trailer. In the trailer the hallways looked so much more lively and... welcoming. So like you said, thank goodness we are able to edit it!

This pack’s townies are also the first to have their sexualities customized by the developer team; they confirmed Molly is a lesbian, Sidney is bisexual and Savannah is asexual in the livestream

You're correct about the weather playing a major role in how a school is built. I live in Colorado and every school I've seen here (and I've seen a lot cause I'm a teacher) is one building because having to traverse in the cold and snow is just...no. Also, it's MUCH easier to heat one building than many. I grew up in Arizona though and I distinctly remember having a building for science, another for English, one that was just the gym and cafeteria, etc. when I was in high school.

This world is really pretty, they’ve improved sooo much with the look of their worlds

EA love the name Scott. We had Travis Scott in basegame, the Scotts in Cottage Living, the Wainscotts and now the Prescotts.

I hope someone makes a monster high school building build 😭if not im gonna do it 😀

I really wish they would have added a theater elective in this pack as well as food fights for the cafeteria. Also pranking teachers would have been a nice feature

The names reminede me of Life Is Strange characters: Prescott and Price. Which is really suspicious considering pack being school and teen theme.

i like the style of the world a lot. it feels like a mix between moonwood mill and del sol valley, dsv is inspired by LA (santa monica, the pier and waters). it’s really cute.

i love how theyre starting to make the world more open!!! the closed world can feel so confining so i think it's cool what theyre doing with this pack

Looks to me like the room that's attached down the hall belongs to Savannah. She's a programmer, and there's that huge fancy monitor and video game and programming posters on the wall. Right?

Hey Simsie! In Prescott Square there is an abandoned cottage that I believe used to be owned by the founder of the Prescott family. The Sims team said that teens can hang out there but in the night its pretty scary and the ghost of the founder may appear there.

i really like how this world feels like it’s own full town, and not just a word only focused on around the school

I don't know if the lighting is deliberately so harsh but I like to think they did that to kind of mimic Riverdale's dark-ish vibes. Yes, it's a high school town but it's also an old copper mining small town that's probably fallen on hard times before so maybe it's supposed to have this mysterious feel. But I'm probably just reading way too much into this ;) Also the gazebo and the town square is giving me major Gilmore Girls vibes, same with the space above ThrifTea which could be used for dance (cheer) practice. The mentioned they did research by watching current teen shows but also older ones, so I definitely feel like GG and maybe OC were part of that :D

I have to stay seeing the school car park having a disabled spot, even if it appears to be the furthest from the entrance, made me so excited as Sims isn't exactly known for disabled inclusion in game.

I feel like this pack has the potential to turn the teen lifestate from (in my opinion) useless to one of my favorites. I’m so excited! 😄

I'm noticing more open world with the last two packs... So cool.

“Thrift and bubble tea store” is such a specific lot type wtf lmao

They should have added a new death, "Death by ferris wheel"

I love that you said that Prescott dad would have been in sims 3. I agree they should have made him and killed him so his ghost was in game and was in the family tree. Why can’t they just do that?

this made me realize how much del sol valley needs a revamp 😭

Can't wait to send my werewolf teen to school and having an absolute fury induced nightmare

I absolutely love the subtle life is strange references with the prescott and price families

My Highschool was almost completely underground so I have no idea what a normal high school would look like or be like. It was wild

Prescott family and Price family... this pack smells like its Life is Strange inspired, even the world reminds me of Arcadia Bay

Those "open-air" schools with separate buildings were a huge school building trend for a time. This style was not exclusive to warm places like Florida, they were also built in states far up North where it's below freezing and icy outside for most of the school year. I've seen open-air elementary, middle, and high schools. It was a bad idea for anyone to build that style here. At this point, almost all of the open-air style schools built up North have constructed or tried to make hallways between the buildings since it was a bad idea. You can spot them on Google Maps, they look like connect the dots.

i love the look of this pack a lot and will likely purchase it. i just wish that the high school lot type was usable across worlds, instead of being locked to copperdale :/

I'm crying happy tears to see this pack... It just reminds me so much of Generations for Sims 3

Seeing that you are able to customize your own high school, I think Get to Work is going to be the next pack they update!! They can fix world and add the hospital etc. to actually lots!!!!!

i think we forget that 20,000 is the default for one sim. adding children, teens, and adults changes the starting amount

I went to high school in central California and we too had a more spread-out, multiple-building configuration (with a quad outdoor area in the center) rather than the one-massive-building type of high school they have in the game. I've only seen high schools like this in movies.

I love the fact that you touched on how the building setup for the highschool isn't necessarily how an American highschool is setup. I'm also from Florida and experienced the multiple buildings spread out from middle School up

The fact there’s a family with a Prescott surname and a family with a price surname is really taking me back to my life is strange era😭😭

I did realize just HOW excited I am to build my own high school in the game. I haven’t been in high school for about 3 years but I want to build things like a choir room and classrooms and some of the places that I have some really fond memories 🥹

I've got a strong feeling that the exchange student family had this extra room for their geeky teen since there was a lot of geeky gamer stuff going on and the exchange student probably then got the sim's old room because she "moved out"

“He has a looming fear of death. Oh, and a fishing aspiration!”

Tbh I'm getting like 90s Goosebumps TV series vibes from the town and I'm HERE FOR IT. Some of the lore also sounds like Riverdale or Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which is also v fun.

I wish they’d have an option to have townies go to school- it would fill it up way more and make it more realistic.

I’m genuinely jealous that this world isn’t real and that I don’t live there, cause it’s beautiful 😂

Please don’t apologise for the longer videos. They are very appreciated! X

Can’t help but to feel like sims took notes from twilight for the new world. I love it

When i look at the gameplay, world, and building stuff of this pack, I don't regret buying this as preorder

I feel like this is the first expansion pack that is actually worth the price it is tbh

thank you for making these world tours! Honestly the worlds are super important to me because I love the idea of playing with different cultures and styles of home and different activities/themes and it all has to start with the world, at least for me

all the families and stories are so interesting! i cant wait to play this pack!

You could make a roof top garden! have a flower arranging table, bee hive, that could be cool

So you’re telling me I can recreate twilight with this world, the werewolf pack, and the vampire pack? This is perfect for Forks- take my money

I live in Oregon and I also had a bunch of different buildings for my high school. I definitely agree with the unpleasantness of it raining..and snowing.

I can’t believe Kayla’s only seen schools in separate buildings! I live in the Midwest where it gets down to -40 and you can get frostbite in 5 minutes or less if you don’t have proper gear. Plus blizzards would be terrible to move all the snow where you could just have an enclosed hallway

Oh my god the rumored ghost of the founder of the town reminded me of Scooby Doo, you could literally roleplay Scooby Doo in this new world

I did a double take when you showed the starter home in Plumbite Cove... both the layout and furnishings look just like the house I built when I played the Sims Freeplay! good memories :")

i also don’t really like the lack of detail at the school but it also kinda reminds me of the vibe of the high school i went to like the sims high school gives off the same bland and depressing vibe me school had so in a way i appreciate it even if i’ll definitely be redecorating it

I like how there's some anime inspired things are in the pack, like shirts, posters, and I think a bedspread. As someone who likes anime I will get use out of that stuff for a teen whenever I end up getting the pack

I think what frustrates me most about the sims 4 as a whole is the disjointed feeling of all the worlds and the people in them. There’s no connection or relationship among households- which was such an excellent addition to the sims 2 and even 3. It made for great lord that you could play right off or play into with your own created household. I do like the world itself here, though. And I enjoy the bright lighting because I feel like so many sims 4 worlds are super dark and hard to navigate.

okay a wedding at the library though?? that would be beautiful

Since they gave base game townies relationships with the new ones, makes me wonder if they've made more progress and are planning another townie change for base game.

Definitely see me getting Molly pregnant so she can birth a boy and name him Nathan Prescott ( and start the whole story of Life is Strange) since we have the high-school now and the wolf pack will help with the Chloe and Rachel vibes and party life

I can’t wait to build my old high school, now my sims can go through the same trauma I did 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

i’m just waiting for someone to make East High from HSM as a renovation of the high school in this pack

At 10:07 you can see that in the family tree, when you scroll over Ash the tree calls them a "daughter" specifically; as Ash goes by they/them pronouns, I'm really hoping that this detail gets changed in the future! It's very likely a small oversight, which is forgivable, but hopefully, it will be changed.

I feel like this world is perfect to live out my highschool horror movie plot line dreams! It feel reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer with the waterside location

I’m from Southern Wisconsin, my high school is one of the only in the area to have more than one building. We have two buildings, North Campus and South Campus, SC has freshmen and sophomores and NC has Juniors and seniors. They care abt North Campus way more, it’s so much better, so much bigger, it has three gyms, a pool, and the auditorium, also top of the line engineering equipment for the engineering classes. We also are one of the most diverse schools when it comes to classes and course selection.

you should definitely look up Collierville High School. the campus is huge and has three gyms and all types of sports fields; several art rooms and band rooms too!

I'm not even that interested in cars coming to the game and I feel taunted by those parking spaces! I want my Sims to have a car and be able to do a parking space mural! Really, really excited about this pack. My NSB Gen 6 heir is likely to be at just the right age when this comes out in a couple weeks since they aren't even a glimmer in their mom's eye yet.

As someone named Molly- hearing Kayla say “Molly you are on my hit list” was a bit off putting

Such a pretty world, I'm fascinated by it!

This is honestly the pack I've been the most excited about since forever, But it's mostly because of the update than the actual pack, just cant waittt

i REALLY need more musical instruments for my gameplay, and they're taunting me with that sad little music room. i feel personally attacked. but also please give me idk, like a music-centric gameplay kit

Honestly, I just want my sim to sit at a sunny Cafe window and drink her coffee without getting up every 5 seconds to change chairs or have rando sims come and sit at my gd table

My high school wasn't this fancy either. I lived in st.pete fl and went to st.pete high. We had a main building. Then science/biology building and then the cafeteria and then gym and then portables. Of course the courtyard and such to eat outside if we wanted to. But yes rain was a pain walking to classes. I'm excited for this pack.

I would rather see some "chemistry" and "atraction" system like in sims 2 then just "plain" sexuality tbh... But thank for this at least... :D

this xpac looks pretty good. Once you replace the school with a better one it's pretty much perfect in regards to the builds/world itself. The gameplay is typical Sims 4 expectations but I am impressed with the world and the art deco style build/buy. I'm looking forward to seeing what the community does with school lots and I know I'll probably spend most the first day playing by touring a community built schools to use. Excited to see what Lilsimsie does with the space.

I’ve been waiting all day! I’m so excited for this pack!

I grew up in a hotter climate, Arizona, so I, too, am used to widespread campuses. Mine was a double H design. We had a basement only because it was a fallout shelter. The visual arts were also there. Our performing arts area was a separate building that housed Drama, Choir, and band classes. Our Gyms were separate buildings as well. Our main theater was three stories because from 1962-1981, the city's symphony and touring theater companies would perform there. The other multi-storied area had the English, history, and gov on the first floor and the math department on the second floor.

Clothing stores in the Sims don't make sense to me. You get it all for free, so the idea of retail clothes and thrift clothes just seem like an easy thing to "add" without adding anything.

Yes! I also go to school in Florida and I have one two story building with two main wings and four other buildings for other classes, gym, auditorium, cafeteria, and weight room. And, yes, when it rains it is not fun making a five minute trek across the school with limited overhangs.

I think the guest house looks more like Savannah’s room, since it has all the gaming posters. The room with the single bed also looks more like a guest room to me which would make sense for Kevin’s room.

EA should also let simmers create new sims for the packs! Like tell them their story and what they should look like, then let them be creative :))

The library exterior is soooo cute. I can't be the only one that thinks it looks like a chocolate cake, right?

I’ll be honest that getaway home is by far one of the coolest details! Being able to get away for the week 😩. I loveee this world! it’s so amazing I love taking my sims out to have family time and lots of fun! This whole pack is the coolest I want to see more packs like this! Also can we please get into how I’d like CARS we can actually DRIVE instead of traveling by phone as well I’m hoping that comes soon

The Prescott name being the super rich family reminds me a lottttt of Life is Strange

this pack will be great with parenthood!

"Love stories" for legacy challenges and stuff are gonna be *chefs kiss*

This world is fantastic! As a Life is Strange fan, this town heavily reminds me of Haven Springs from Life is Strange: True Colors, but I loved that town anyway so this is definitely a welcome addition to the roster of new worlds!! edit: the fact it's a highschool pack and two of the townie families are the Prescotts (like Nathan Prescott) and the Prices (like Chloe Price) just ties together the Life is Strange inspiration even more lol

That “Historic” house looks like a mansion currently built for $500k somewhere in Texas. Especially the interior.

The town gives me Stars Hollow vibes...and I'm down for that

As a Canadian (or at least in my part of Canada which is Quebec), the high school lot reminds me SO MUCH of how our school systems are. High school where I live is grades 7-11 (we have CEGEP which is three years), and then we move on to college. The large high school reminds me so much of my schools, as the average high school has around 1500 students - but obviously there is less teen sims than that who attend the school. I went to four different high schools (one being an alternative school), and this is a list of how things were. 1st high school: All of the extra curriculars were in the basement, also a gym. Then there were two floors for traditional classes. First floor was for grades 7-9, second floor was grades 10-11. Then there were fields outside for sporting activities. 2nd high school: Basement was mainly a second gym and science classes, a few of us also hung out down there for lunch to escape the business upstairs. First floor was the main gym, and grades 9-11. Then there was a half floor for grades 7-8. Honestly, that school had us running around like ants, and as somebody who has an anxiety disorder I DESPISED it (often ditched classes, not going to lie). Then there were fields outside for sporting activities. 3rd high school was a more "special needs" school (I put special needs in quotations as there were some students who were not special needs and their parents just paid good money for them to go there. Then other students were physically handicap, and others had learning disabilities). Basement was extra curriculars. Main floor was the gym, and grade 7. Second floor was grades 8-9. Third floor was grades 10-11. Honestly. walking up all those stairs was a death sentence in the hot weather, and most classrooms didn't even have fans. We also often went to the park down the street for gym class. 3rd high school was an alternative school. No gym class. Main floor was reception and two classes. Top floor was the main classroom, and the hang out room. This school had about 30 students total. All of the schools with fields also had a huge hangout for smokers and drinkers at lunch. One school also had a forest where some kids would do the dirty at lunch hour. All of this being said, I dropped out of high school in grade 10 as the system failed me with my special needs as even teachers and principals would bully me.

I grew up in the north of France, usually we had a big building made of medium two story building (kind of like a puzzle). It happend to have separates categories but it cost a lot of energy during winter usually.

The world is really good, but I wish they gave us more international worlds, or worlds with more variety, even if they are United States-inspired. Ideas for more unique US worlds: Midwestern (think Indiana, Kansas, the like), the Rockies, Florida, rural South, New Mexico, California wine country, colonial Northeast, etc. For international worlds, we have seven: Henford-on-Bagley, Windenburg, Britechester, Tartosa, Sulani, Mt. Komorebi, and Selvadorada. Four of these are European and one is vacation, which means for places outside of America and Europe, we only have two residential worlds. I love Copperdale and Moonwood Mill, but they are so similar, it feels like a missed opportunity. In the future, i would love to see more worlds from outside the US. If they ever give us an India-inspired world, I would just about die from joy.

Watching a new youtuber is always like making a new friend I remember the first video of yours I watched Kayla and I was so confused and didn’t know if I would like your content But now here I am a year later, looking forward to your sim-obsessed videos every single day💖

In Canada, our schools are usually one large building, often with smaller portable classrooms near to the main building (if it's a elementary school). In high school, you'll almost only find a single, larger building. Schools are separated by age, but what age that is, varies on a province to province basis. (provinces are the Canadian equivalent to states.)

OK SO NOW WE CAN OFFICIALLY BUILD HOGWARTS AND SEND TEENS TO LEARN THERE?? count me freakin in.

Love the new world, but I wish we had a few more lots

Apologies that the video is long? That's what we want to have! 😍 I never play anymore but I looking forward to this! Maybe I have to start playing again 😂

It still baffles me why the high schools in Florida were all exterior access. I hated that part about my high school. Like we’re not hot enough?!?!

Agreed, the starter lot can go! I fully intend to use Evergreen Harbor as an overflow town for townies since it also has a mining vibe.

Im so excited for this pack, i haven’t bought a pack in a while but im defo gonna get this one