Growing together world and townies first look! San Sequoia overview 

My favorite thing about willow creek is that the houses, even though there aren’t many lots, are close to each other making the world feel like a community. When playing with a massive family in a rotational game having the family members be neighbors is nice because they can walk over to each others house . In this world I feel like the homes are too spread out with set dressing in between. I wish they were closer because the world looks bare when they are so far apart

Never thought I'd say this but I miss rabbitholes so much 🙈 they at least gave your sims something to do and the sounds of them in the sims 3 are also super fun ngl 😄

Thank you for showing the townies! The bay area has a huge amount of Filipinos and I'm so glad they added some canonically Filipino sims! (Tala, Bayani, Ruano are all filipino first and last names)

I wished we would have gotten a few apartments and townhouses in this pack

I love the idea of the rabbit hole gardening in the green house. That would be badass if they could add more of that in, in the future.

Thanks for going into the milestones for the townies too, mollie!

I really miss the days when all of those shells would have been lots. It’s so limiting sometimes. 😢

I feel like the Splash Area is very simple. People are very excited about it, however what the sims do around it is that animation of playing with water. Maybe it's because it's the closest thing we're gonna get that's almost an aquatic park in TS4.

You know that long strip of grass near the splash park that has the road going all the way around it? I'm totally making that into townhomes! It is PERFECT for that!!!!!

I feel like there are so many missed opportunities with this world. The rabbit holes could have easily been added as you said, a big park to walk through that looks like Golden Gate Park (similar to what they did in Mt. Komorebi), and at least one houseboat lot could have been added. The greenhouse building, to me, makes me think of the conservatory of flowers and that absolutely could have been a rabbit hole for gardening. And the shells themselves in the background could have been much more San Francisco themed. It absolutely looks like the other worlds we already have, which is a big let down.

That's really disappointing the grandad doesn't even exist/ why build their relationship just for the livestream? What i loved about sims 2 pre sims was the way their lore was set up already in their memories ready to go

Once the pack installs into my game, the first thing I'm gonna do is add the grandad to the family so that he'll be in the family tree, create a pretty difficult relationship between him and Celeste's husband like in the gameplay trailer, create a wife or husband for the grandad and build them a cute little home just for them. 💗🙂

The idea of classes at the recreational center would be so perfect.. they could have existing sims with higher skill levels show up occasionally to teach other sims. Maybe they would have a schedule. I would love to see that.

Its so lovely to see the huge Filipino inspirations in this new world. Robles , Ruano, Bayani ,Aurelio and Ignacio are common Filipino names. Plus Tala means "star" in our language. Its so cool they are using Filipino culture everywhere in this world.

This might just be hope but the greenhouse area reminds me a lot of the Arboretum in the sims 3 supernatural.I hope we get fairies soon.

I'm honestly sad the grandparents are missing. I wish they had included them as not in world townies at least.

I agree that they should have utilized those shells better! Kinda like the university model. Really gorgeous buildings meant to be seen with zero purpose feels like a mistake

Low key wish they included apartments

I hate that they told us you can "take art classes" and others at the rec center but there aren't any real classes. It's so disappointing. We need more things for our sims to do.I love that you went over the lots and townies

Hmm. Not sure on the world, it seems kinda empty.

Although I wish we got some more apartments, im really happy with everything we're getting and I think it's gonna be a great pack. I also love how there's sims from the same family in different houses, it adds realism and is great for a pack all about family.

Thank you for this ❤

I’m so excited because I’m from the SF bay and this is such an awesome interpretation of the area 🥰

I’m very excited for this

I don't think this world was necessary, the concept of family life applies absolutely everywhere. We could have had an expansion pack without a world like seasons so they could focus on the other content

One thing that The Sims 4 definitely needs to add to the game is.... extreme weather events like tornadoes, torrential-downpours/ floods, blizzards and so on!!

excited for the new pack, thanks Mollie for sharing :) So proud of how far you've come! - Sam

Excited to see more

I am excited for this and I feel that it has great potential! I will be looking forward to seeing more from you, Mollie!

Thanks for your review of this world.

Thanks for the walkthrough.

Awe can’t wait to see all the creative things you do with this pack 😊

I actually really love the world ! It's really nice and I like the Filipino families too , great to see!

🎉❤ thank you!

It's too bad they didn't add something more with the boats at the wharfs. Something like a Rabbithole activity "take a boat tour" where you could see your sims sailing around in a boat for an hour and they'd come back "saw a fish, etc". That little building on the dock would have been another great food stall - ice cream and sandwiches, purchase a picnic basket, etc.

I love that The Sims team are incorporating Filipino words such as "Bayani" (hero) and "Tala" (star) as premade Sim names ❤️ May I add, even the name of the world San Sequoia sounds like "Saan si Kuya" in Tagalog which means "Where's my brother?"... Growing together is very familial indeed! Thanks Mollie for this awesome video!

You know what could be cool is if those players who have more power in their computer that can handle more lots is that those shells could be swapped out for more buildable lots.

Gentrification is very true to form if they are basing the world on San Francisco. It’s funny because I feel like this is very accurate for what they were aiming for, but I think people just don’t like San Francisco it seems. Which I can understand

Feels like real San Francisco, empty and full of shells. 😂 I see a lot of potential though.

are there any mods that add in rabbit holes to empty shells?

What type of weather does the world have, does it snow ?

I hear there was a fish run at the Bank of San Sequoia, so lots of properties available

Thanks for the review. Unfortunately the world looks pretty boring.

Yes!

17:51 Sweet home San Sequoia

I clicked on this sooo fast😮❤

Rental lots would make sense if you couldn't just easily travel between worlds...but you can 🤷🏼‍♀️

Can you make lots of money running a day care with the growing together expansion?

Whyyyy is the power walking tied to this world? Sims can jog anywhere, why can’t they power walk anywhere siiiigh

I expected a fuller world, with many families, and many homes. 😢😢

Mole ! Thank you for your honest opinions about the game pack. It is v refreshing to hear real opinions rather than filtered ones. I am still really excited about the pack and thank you for letting us know the features ahead of time so we know what to expect and not be too surprised about anything. Thank you for all of your hard work in early access !!

I wonder how many people that say they feel like the world is empty, or doesnt have enough lots actually has all the expansions...BC I do and Ive never had this complaint. 1. Bc I have SO many lots and towns now. I havent even touched places like Windenburg, Del Sol Valley, Realm of Magic in years... So im not exactly crying for every world to be full of lots when I dont even use all the ones I currently have. 2. My personal playstyle is geared toward the LOT Im playing on. Im usually staying at my house, or if I go out, I got to a public lot, where the sims are actually programmed to visit and hang around. So I dont see why I need so many areas in the world for sims to get lost in. Would a bench or chess table on the outskirts near the river be cool? I guess...but its not like im gonna use it often or think about it. (plus getting a sim to join you in those areas can be really annoying / take a while so its not worth it) I feel like Sims team is thinking about how broken Sims 3 was after all the expansions, and how big it was. So if you have a couple of expansions, I suppose you could be valid to complain with the lack of lots. But they also have to consider those who make use of all the extra content they've created. I know they're not perfect, but they can never win with this community >_

some of the areas in san sequoia look like the modern district in windenburg

Thank you for doing this ❤❤❤

Omg you call it a green to we have a small hill across from our house and we call it the green I thought it was just us that called it that 😂

the worlds are looking way too similar now, I want something new

The world is kinda underwhelming. Hope the gameplay will be good 😌

Have the creators actually been to San Francisco? Where are the hills?! As usual, lots of potential to build a really cool world with mixed urban/suburban areas but its just ended up seeming very shallow. And flat.

I had a feeling u were only gonna be able to power walk in the one specific place which sucks.

I actually dont mind the rental inclusions at all, it feels very realistic. At least in Sweden, like every community, town or even smaller community has both houses, and then a ”poorer” part with rentals where less economically fortunate live 😊 i like that element being included! A bit of social realism. Also like How the story of the town remind me of stardew valley 😮😄

How does the family tree for Cience Baby shows up? I'm curious specially if one of their biological parents was married to another sim when the baby was born

The rec center having classes would be just like sit in on class in the uni pack already. Sure it would be nice but def would still be a repeat

Ackkk- these relationship systems are going to mess with the established relationships I have among scores and scores of sims. We should be able to tune these individually- I just have a fear that the tuning on these will be really difficult, like the tuning on wants and fears. Which I had to get a mod to turn waaaaay down. Once again, this may be really difficult till modders save the day.

The word Robles means literally oak trees in Spanish 🌳🌿

Yayyyy!!!!🎉🎉

If they were going to do San Francisco they should've gone for a super urban area then

I'm glad to see Filipino families. Very cool!

DEFORESTATION & GENTRIFICATION IM DEAD

I'm really happy there's multiple family dynamic types, I thought there would be just the ones shown in the livestream

Is there a new career with the new pack? Also thank you so much for this townie and world overview

👀 so excite

sorry for misgendering Jay!! i thought i had seen he/him pronouns in reference to them whilst playing but their pronouns are they/them. also i didn’t wanna assume just based on the masc frame that celeste has but she’s a black trans woman ☺️ christopher has a san sequoia secret about her coming out to him and they’re so CUTE!!!!

No apartments? Pity :(

Anyone else think the worlds giving Hull?

Sorry to the Robles-Ruano family. I need that lot

When they said Gilbert I though gerber, baby food!

WOOOOOOO

Hi, love your videos and appreciated the overview! I was wondering if you could confirm if there are no LGBTQ+ families in the new world? For a world based on San Francisco, I would have hoped for more representation on that front. Apologies in advance if I've missed something that was previously covered!

My save has a 2 sims . 1child 1 toddler 2 infants . So I kicked out the townies that have the biggest lot .. sorrynotsorry

im going to wait for LGR's review on this expansion pack 🙂🙂

not the gentrification and deforestation simulator 💀 the world is pretty, i'll give them that, but also more of the same

The world looks absolutely gorgeous! I am so excited to get an 64x64 lot. Fingers crossed it is freely editable. As for the townies, I'm pretty disappointed. For new kids we have one teen, two children, one toddler and one infant. I was expecting larger and younger families for a generations type pack. The two Robles households could have been combined into one. We don't have many big households like that in the game. It'd make the family dynamics a little more interesting if they were all under one roof imo. I'm also surprised that Atlas and Orion were adopted. The gameplay trailer made it seem like Celeste gave birth to both, and the kids look like they're bio. I really, really hope the team is good about uploading families to the Gallery this time around. There are several from the reveal trailer I was hoping we'd get in the world. In particular the Asian family and the red-haired siblings.

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I've procrastinated about expansion packs before, trying to justify getting ones I'm not that impressed by, then time has passed and I've got every single one. Well, that's until now. I really don't have any interest in the "Growing Together" theme, but I'd usually have got the pack anyway if the world was interesting enough. Unfortunately, as someone who enjoys worlds with character I don't think this one is worth my time and money. All the effort seems to have gone into new traits and items and the world itself appears to have been quickly thrown together. It doesn't look like it has any personality at all, which is a real shame. Even Moonwood Mill in the Werewolves game pack has a great, unique atmosphere and that only has a handful of lots. Another sunshine paradise, modern city of apartments, snowy mountainous region, or wooded backwater would have been much more appealing despite them repeating previously used themes. San Sequoia looks like a launch world.

God I’m so disappointed with the art classes 🥺!! I’d have loved that to be more functional

Why can't they give us large lots that are empty and/or unoccupied.

not the negative romance bar between siblings ummm...

Are there any new unhoused NPCs?

They could have added walking canes as well as the daycare career with this pack #MissedOpportunities

FIRST OMG

Karmine is super cute, easily my favourite townie and one of the best in sims 4 let alone the pack. And the Michaelsons are mostly well designed. But overall I have to say I will be editing/deleting most of these sadly. I think they focus so much on diversity now that they forget to make them funny and cool etc like they always used to. The Robles and Robles-Ruano families look like they just pressed the randomise sim button.

Early

No gay sims in the San Fran inspired world?! HAX I SAY!

I'm kinda let down that the "classes" they were highlighting in twitter isn't really in-depth, barely there from what yours and Plumbella's review says. My biggest issue with community lots in the Sims 4 is how non-controlled sims while in the community work, they tend to break immersion with how they are programmed to interact with the objects and each other. The constant dancing to stereos, the sudden push-ups, the dancing chairs, the going to the far end because you clicked your sims to interact with NPCs and townies, and those said NPC/townie's had something in their action queue while you were choosing an interaction with them, so instead of them just dropping what they are doing, you have to wait for them to complete their "walk here" action queue, and that's why you end up running up to them. Really wish there was a mentor for the art classes, or maybe a host for game day or something. :/

Wow this world is realy small, more fake lost than real working lots.

I don't like the new world. At all. It feels so drab and lifeless. It looks like if Copperdale and Newcrest had a baby with less lots. I'm sorry to be so negative, I just want a difference in scenery

Sims 4.... ugh.... they are really milking this game.

I didnt Like Everyone Doesnt like this pack that EA make Always for years Someone judge EA pack For some reason that not make sense and doesnt feel alive and something wrong with this pack Person who hate Sims 4 pack Dont play Sims 4 anymore Uninstall it From your Computer Ok??!! or play Game that you like

Glad they didnt put the pronouns on the premades. After all i find id asinine. It does allow the gamers to go in and make what ever story they want with them and to adjust the asinine pronouns

I’ve never been happier getting out of school at 12:30 and getting home at 1 🥹