MySims: The Wii's Weird Sims Spinoffs - The Golden Bolt 

If you didn't catch my first Sims video, check it out here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aGP_TPebrV4.html And if you want to see my video on the strangest Sims games maybe ever made, I've got another one on The Sims 2 for DS, PSP, and GBA - yes, they're all different games! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bbRJv50EThQ.html

MySims Kingdom is literally one of my favorite games from my childhood. The characters were hilarious and I have very fond memories of jumping from area to area.

MySims Kingdom and MySims agents legit raised me. I still go back and play every few years just for the nostalgia, but they’re also just legitimately enjoyable relaxing games!

i wish Agents got its much deserved sequel… it was a pretty fun game

I loved MySims as a kid, but never knew there were other games in the series til I got older. I definitely have some to try now!

Love the video so far, but it would be AWESOME if you cover the ds games some day. Those were my childhood

Thank you for bringing MySims back into the spotlight, MySims Agents is so good and I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. It is of course a real shame you have to grind out the Dispatch Missions for the true ending (I still have never seen it, but maybe on my next playthrough). I never heard about a MySims Agents 2 being in development but that is a crying shame it got cancelled.

Ah yes, the classic MySims games with the classic MySims character Goth Boy. I hold these games in such a high nostalgic regard it's insane.

Before I watch this full thing, I loved "MySims: Secret Agents" and sky heroes so much. Hoping for nothing but good things being said about them

I used to play mysims kingdom sooo much back in the day. I loved it

Getting to see someone actually give these games a fair shake after a decade and a half really warms my heart. I kinda hope we can get a video on Sims handheld games at some point so I can find out if any of the DS MySims games were actually good.

ill never forget my playthrough of mysims agents. it was one of this first games i actually finished as a kid and i can still remember some of the puzzles and areas- especially the snow one. thank u for bringing these memories back!

I would say the My Sims's handheld version are *wildly* different from their Console counterparts, to the point that the odd boardgame-esc overworld in the Wii version is outright replaced with the exact system you described, where you instead drive around on ground level and interact with folks there. I would be highly interested in another video that covers the handheld versions, I've enjoyed this video immensely and would love to see you cover the handheld versions of the game!

As far as MySims stuff being used in modern Sims games, I like that in 4 they come in the form of some collectible trophies and some posters for an in-universe tv show along with some actual officially downloadable Sims based on some of the MySims characters, although a couple of them are a little bit off from their usual characterizations and backgrounds. There ARE some elements that I DO find interesting, although the only one I like is the new connection for Candy and Yuki where they turn them into sisters otherwise some of the character personalities are a bit mixed up. I honestly wish MySims made a proper return in some way, like at least maybe a full MySims expansion story pack or something. Loved MySims Agents (Wii) and it makes me sad that it kind of stops there.

Mysims kingdom holds such a special place in my heart because it was the only game I owned that offered a lot of different language options, and thus it helped a LOT in my learning of Polish when I was a child :)

i was so obsessed with mysims kingdom

mysims always has a special place in my heart. I love the mysims series so much.

I snapped awake from sleeping to this when you started talking about my sim agents. That game has owned Ocean Front property in my frontal lobe rent free for YEARS. about to word vomit how much i love it- but first mentioning quickly, your scripts are so well constructed and your editing is absolutely lovely. Ive been binging through your stuff and every video is a treat. Ok now to the brain rot I have the most vivid memories of the intricate evolution of the storyline. The murder mystery level and snowy mountain areas, hell the one with candy? The urban city area one? God I replayed it several times. The furniture mechanics for the spy base later on had me relapsing to the hundreds of hours i put into the first my sims I loved the yeti. I loved the pipe puzzles. RAHHH MY SIMS AGENTS MY BELOVED

MySims Agents is AMAZING. The most nostalgic Sims game after The Sims 2 Pets for PS2, to me. I'd play it so much during summer holidays, it was such a fun experience

Seeing the town in Agents brought back some old memories, I remember after finishing the game just going back through all the levels and taking it all in. Appreciating all the characters and areas, and the stories it told. So many little details that made the world feel lived in too, in a sense, like the trains driving by far off in the background that I hadn't even noticed before. It wasn't until I was in college I'd thought about those MySims games, and wondered what ever happened to that series. I was so upset when I found out they cancelled the Agents sequel, remembering how much I really wanted to re-experience the first one. Nowadays it's just frustrating, seeing how much utter trash gets to keep going and thrive when for over 20 years we've seen great ones get left behind and forgotten.

I genuinely loved the MySims games so much, they were so good and a big part of my childhood

The MySims Racing on DS was completely different, you actually could get out and walk around and do tasks for the people in the town, and there was more than one town. There were also mini games you could do too. That was my shit back in the day

I feel so validated for playing the heck out of Agents and Kingdom as a kid, those games slapped

MySims! I have so much nostalgia for this series. I wish they made a new one or an HD collection. I like the first one for its simple plot. But Kingdom was a lot more fun because there were stories you played through. But you still build stuff. Racing was different but still fun. Agents was the best one but needed more post game content. Or any lol.

I got My Sims Agents on the Wii for Christmas in 2009 and it was THE game that started my love for detective games. I feel like I've played every title in the genre since. So happy to see a video that features it!

Oh yeah, before I forget, the DS version of MySims Racing has a Diddy Kong Racing style overworld. Thought you might like to know.

growing up i played every mysims game (except mysims party) and i loved them all. i remember being so surprised by how much i loved mysims skyheroes, i've never been a fan of dogfighting/plane games but skyheroes was different. i really liked the story and characters, and the plot twist toward the end blew my mind

It would be nice if some of The designers for Agents maybe went and made their own game and IP based on the concept? The aunt as many good detective/ espionage games as one might think.

Bro I LOVED MySims agents, there was one time I couldn't figure out one of the lab puzzles and looked up the answer to it in the computer lab at school the next day. First time I ever used a walkthrough.

I still vividly remember how frustrated I would be trying to build furniture with the Wii motion controls

I loved the MySims games but Agents always held a special place in my heart! Glad to see it getting a little more recognition 😊

The goat is back with another video.

Finally Golden Bolt is covering Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

I grew up with My Sims Kingdom on the DS I still have it! I miss the My Sims era that brings me back to simpler times.

I'm in my middle 20's and I love MySims, especially the first/original one! It kinda became one of my comfort games and I loved playing it as a kid back then so much and I still do

I started playing the orininal MySims again sometime last week, I'm so glad to see this video!! Super nostalgic, thanks for all your hard work! :)

I loved My Sims so much as a kid and I still love them. It's such a charming, cute and wholesome game that's perfect not only for kids but even for adults who just want something nice and heartwarming. I still adore these games and playing them when I'm feeling down always makes me feel better

I had so much fun with mysims kingdom, still have that ending tune stuck in my head.

my sims kingdom and agents still hold up so well too, i LOVE those games to this day beyond nostalgia

Man, you are an insane man in the best way. You literally research way to fuckin much, I was rewatching your R&C series and man, you know how to be informative and funny.

The funniest part of the first MySims was how hou'd often get sims brawling with each other because of having different interests.

My Sims is actually the reason why I wanted the Wii. I was a massive Sims and Animal Crossing fan at the time, so My Sims looked perfect for me! Receiving the Wii that Christmas is one of my fondest memories from my childhood.

mysims was one of the games i grew up with and my love for it is still there to this day. i actually got some of them just to replay c:

i remember actually really loving mysims party because you could make custom characters to use in the minigames. my sister and i would make mysims versions of our pc sims characters and have them battle it out there. i never did care for the "story mode" though and always rushed through it to unlock all the minigames

MySims Agents is genuinely up there with some of my fondest childhood memories, i loved the mystery and the suspense, the characters and the world they created, i remember being enthralled by the ending for months after beating it, i genuinely used to have dreams about the ending being fully resolved, i would daydream about a sequel so long i convinced myself the sequel was coming, and it was exactly what my 10 year old brain had imagined- upsettling that story never was resolved, but i think it never would have had its effect on me if it was, it’s forever one of maybe 5 games over my entire life i’ve had a genuine obsession over and that i still think about into the modern day, coincidentally another is the sims 2 on DS, the linear sims game were unrivalled in my opinion, they had such fully formed character that for the time just wasn’t normal, it’s a part of me and i’ll look back at those days where my only serious conflicting thoughts were about how a problem in one of them would be resolved, and asking myself where i missed the proverbial clue that would let me advance, was one of my first ever rl examples of how important stepping away from a situation and employing an actual problem solving mindset was both beneficial and rewarding- these games can NOT be slept on

I’m 25 and still go back to MySims Kingdoms and Agents when life gets a bit too rough. Pure joy

Man, I remember playing the first game as a kid. I haven't thought about these in years. That said, I feel like a new game in the style of the original could actually do really well these days. It feels like a more extreme version of the direction Animal Crossing has gone in - focused more on customization than the social simulation aspect. And because of that, perhaps a lot of people would enjoy something like it now.

I actually love and loved My Sims as a kid. There was a also a big desert area and the people that you invite to your town can give you new things! Like a salon gives you more hairs and such! Maybe I just like it a lot cause of nostalgia. You are so right about the essence thing though. When I replayed a couple years ago I seriously had to grind for those metal detector essence, took a long time.

Mysims Kingdom is one of my favorite games of all time. I recently replayed it and it was just as good as I remembered it being

Oh my God, I loved the MySims games! I think the only one I didn't play was Racing, but I loved playing Kingdom, Agents and Sky Heroes. I thought these faded into obscurity, but it made me really happy to see you talk about them and enjoy them. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories I have of these games.

It's a shame there were never any more games, I remember really wanting Agents 2.

The MySims era of the dill sims was certainly a fascinating one

Looking back, it’s kinda crazy that all 6 came out so quickly because I remember eagerly awaiting the next ones along with my sister after Kingdom came out. Glad you enjoyed Agents so much though. It’s a genuinely great game that truly deserved its sequel. The missions and stories were always so fun and they used the characters so well. Nova and Madame Zoe were my favorites.

this was a really great trip down memory lane, my big sis had ALL the games on wii and most of the nintendo ds ones. these were my mario kart wii and mario party back in the day! so glad someone covered these games and their many flaws.

omg i nearly forgot abt mysims!!! i have the pc version and used to play it all the time before i was allowed to get my own actual sims game. i dont know how i acquired the game (maybe some sort of kids meal thing?? idk) but this made all my memories of playing the game come FLOODING back

I played MySims on the DS as a kid, and for a long time I couldn't remember the actual name of it. I had no idea there were so many other games in the series ! Great video

I just wanted to say that Ive been greatly enjoying your side series looking into the odd Sims console games. You made this legitimately fascinating even though i’ve never been interested in these titles before. You might even have convinced me to check a couple of then out! GREAT script and editing, really appreciate what you’re doing :)

We need more people to remember mysims. It's such an underrated series

my sims kingdom and my sims agents are some of my favourite games of all time honestly. especially agents it’s so good!!

Strangely, the SkyHeroes game reminds me of a trailer where Snoopy from Peanuts was in some sort of dogfighting game... What a weird thing to remember. Anyway, it was nice to hear about this spin-off of the Sims series.

I was a big fan of the DS version of My Sims. I played it all the time and the racquetball minigame took up so much of my time. It was so fun. Ive never played any of the others but I still really loved your video!

Thank you so much for making this video, man! I love your video on the sims console games, which were the games I played up until the Sims 3 PC came out in ‘09. I’ve always been curious about MySims, having been a heavy Wii player. I love having another retrospective I can watch again and again. Bravo!! 🎉😊

MySims Agents is still one of my absolute favorite games to this day in 2023

I remember being obsessed with the first game and Agents when I was little. Good times

Thanks for the video, it's always fun to learn about some old video games I never would have heard of otherwise.

what you said about the sims 3 for wii is so true! my Wii would most of the time sound like it was using all of it's power just to load in a few sims and would somehow drain my wii remote battery to nothing in like an hour from a new battery

Omg I didn’t even know they were on the wii but I had a couple Mysims DS games and was obsessed. I still hear the angry conversation music in my head whenever I’m talking to someone

i LOVED mysims agents as a kid, but i had the nintendo ds version and i was shook to find out in this video that the story of the wii version is COMPLETELY different

mysims agents was the first game i ever loved. it will always be special to me. so sad the story never got resolved!!

Oh, I am on the PULSE of MySims content!!! Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough breakdown of the game and its history. This was a great watch, and made me so sad I haven't had a Wii since 2012 haha!

I can't tell you how many times I've 'completed' MySims, I remember sitting down with a note book to write down all the tasks I needed to do and sketching designs, definitely a personal opinion that it wasn't as fun as could be

I have this game on my PC and currently playing it. I like the fact that TS4 pays tribute to MySims by having figurines of MySims characters that can be found through digging up those rock thingys throughout the world. I remember one time I had a sim die because of too much hilarity cuz of the figurines. The figurines have a funny emotional aura on them and I should've turned it off😆

Sim Animals was one of the only Sim games my family got. The Africa one even had a *Story Mode* where you played as both Prey and Predators, completing tasks to gain Magic Tree Power to go to the next levels. You have come *way* too far. You NEED to play this! XD

The level of warmth and nostalgia I feel seeing these games is overwhelming. I LOVED MySims and MySims Kingdom so much! I have the My Sims game on PC and I'm fighting the urge to find and buy a wii and the games as we speak XD

I played the DS version of My Sims Agents as a kid which has a completely different story and gameplay in another town. Every citizen had a minigame for you to play and you had to scan objects across town to collect essences which you could use to craft stuff iirc

i remember renting mysims kingdom from blockbuster when i was a kid and immediately falling in love with it and begging my mom for the game HAHAHAHA even now as a 22 y/o i still love returning to it occasionally, it's such a good game unironically

My sims Agents was honestly one of my favorite Wii games. It was Spy themed which was my drug of choice as a kid and the characters hooked me.

This series needs to come back!

Fun fact: I believe My Sims Agents was the first game that I completed 100%. That or Smash Bros Brawl. I actually still remember the scene where Evelyn meets her dad when she is finally rescued.

An hour long video on My Sims? This is the best day ever 😫 I had probably had 100+ hours in both My Sims and My Sims Kingdom spent decorating over and over as a kid. I was obsessed, and I still have a thing for decorating in Sims 4, Animal Crossing, and other games.

I have so many nice memories of My Sims Agents. It was one of the first wii games I would actively play and be invested in. I never finished it as a kid (I think I gave up at the beach?) but I actually went back to finish it as a teen~ Still have great memories of it

The only MySims I ever played growing up was MySims: Kingdom on the DS, and I remember enjoying it for the most part, though I never completed it (I remember spending hours on the minigames though). So, I came into this video with very limited knowledge but expecting a hit of childhood nostalgia. But now I realize that the MySims: Kingdom I grew up with was way more different from the Wii version than I expected. Like, they're not even the same game???

Wow, this brought me back. I remember I had Agents on the Wii YEARS ago as a kid, but it seemed so strange and it was in such a unique part of my life that I thought it was a dream until I saw this video.

You have no idea what this video means to me!! Mysims Kingdom on the wii was the game of my childhood, and I'm an avid simmer but there are literally almost no videos ever talking about Mysims extensively. I was like- "I can't be the only one who remembers Buddy the Bellhop, right?"

When I was a kid I wanted My Sims so bad and begged my parents for it. I was obsessed with it. Finally got it and remember really enjoying it

Man, my sibling and I used to play MySims so much. We even made it to a 5-star town once or twice, I think. Though MySims Agents was my favorite. 11:03 that's why I used to keep an empty lot next to my house lol. You move someone into the close lot, fulfill all of their requests, and then move them to a lot further away from you, rinse and repeat. It helps a little bit with the amount of walking/loading, but still doesn't solve the issue. Though when I played as a kid it didn't feel like that big of an issue to me 13:14 With the plant essences, if you ran out, you could water the plants and they would regrow immediately.

My sister and I LOVED the mysims franchise! We played mysims kingdom, agents, and racing all the time! On agents, it always irked us that we couldn’t revisit the mountain land lol. Thanks for this throwback!

Series looks kinda fun honestly. I miss The Sims 2 console version so much ❤ I wish they'd make a new mainline entry without 30 pages of cash grab nonsense puked up all over it Amazing video as always. Always love your reviews

These games bring back some weird memories. I remember being at my great grandma’s funeral procession with all of my family there and I busted out my DS Lite and started to play MySims. I remember my first town was called Hawaii and I was in the entertainment area during the funeral. My cousins stayed with my family for 4 months and my older cousin was obsessed with MySims Wii. MySims Wii… ohh, boy. The game just has such a strange atmosphere. Like, wtf are the caves? The first cave in town looks like an abandoned power generator. I love how cryptic it can feel at times, as a kid, it felt really cool to unlock the Desert, and I have fond memories of somehow being stupid enough to not be able to unlock the welding torch to get to the beach. The games are just super weird, but also super nostalgic to me

Loved the review but just 1 or 2 things to note about the first game. The thing about the trees is that you can water and fertilize them for more essences. That option is always available. The essences also grow back in a matter of seconds so you don't have to leave and come back. And you also don't have to waste loading screens when you want to give items to sims if they're not home. They will appear in a few seconds after you entered the house.

You should definitely check out the DS versions! I remember them being very different (and also better, tho that's a nostalgic 15-year-old perspective, lol)

I just bought a used copy of MySims DS recently because I remembered how obsessed I was. I loved MySims Party DS and have been replaying that! My sister likes to tease me because they're obsessed with the OG Sims and doesn't seem MySims as valid Sims hahahaha. I hope you'll cover the DS versions sometime in the future!

MySims was a huge part of my childhood. I played the original on Wii, Kingdom Wii, Racing DS, Agents Wii and a tiny bit of Sky Heroes on the Xbox. I adored this franchise too much, even if most of the game aren't that great. I went back to revisit them last year and even played the games I haven't played like Party and Racing on the Wii. Here comes my huge opinions on each game after these revisits. - The Original MySims was a game I 100% completed as a child. Making it the first ever game I ever did so. Revisiting it on the PC was a great time. There was even features in that version that is not on the Wii like exclusive Sims and a separate online area. I made a sim from my "THE Sims" playthroughs, who was named Horatio, into this game and the others moving forwards for my revisits. I really liked his cutesy counterpart in these games. My playthrough ended when my game sadly broke after I got to the end. Which crashes the game before I can even complete it to 5 stars. Which sucks but other than that and a few grinding sessions being rather boring, the game was still solid and meant a lot to me looking back. - Kingdom was and still kind of is my favourite in the series. I enjoyed going through different "kingdoms" and solving their problems. The completion reward you get is your own "kingdom" where you can make your own house in a HUGE grid that takes most of the island. I really enjoyed this game and revisiting it was a amazing time. - Party is.. eh. If the series felt like shovelware, this one is the only one I can consider the worse case for that shovelware title. It's just a Mario Party ripoff and you can make buildings like in the original but the entire game is catered towards the lackluster mini-games. Probably the worse in the series for me. - I only had the best experience with the DS version of Racing as a kid. And looking back, in my opinion it's better than it's console counterpart. You could drive around the hub world instead of the map shown in the Wii version and it gave me the same connection I had with Mario Kart on the DS. This is literally the only time I prefer a DS version of a MySims game than it's console counterpart. - Agents is arguably the best in the series. The style is absolutely perfect and characters had 2D renders, introducing this nice art style that complements the style of the 3D models. I never touched the soundtrack of these games but the original MySims' soundtrack was nostalgic heaven for me, but Agent's soundtrack is a bop at the time and it suited the style of the game completely. - Finally, if we're not counting that weird MySims Camera on the DSi, we get Sky Heroes and well.. I didn't really like this upon revisiting. My favourite thing about these games is the freedom of making things such as the furniture in the original. This game lacks that besides making your own plane and your character. Also the serious tone was NOT suitable for the series, like at all. Agents kind of had these lack of creativity and somewhat serious tone but it was fun to solve mysterious and it even had fun puzzle mini-games. This.. all you do is go into dogfighting and that's really the meat of the game. I lost interest the same way I did with Party and Racing (Wii) and It's a shame that the series ended on this note. I don't think EA will EVER bring this game series back anytime soon but if they do like.. on the Switch or something. Or they just remaster the first game and add new features, I'd be down for it. I honestly love this series as a childhood staple and revisiting it with my boy Horatio was a blast up until Sky Heroes.

I remember only having a 3ds at the time and desperately wanting sims 3 on the 3ds but my parents bought me mysims thinking it was the same game. You can imagine my disappointment as a child

Weow. As someone who is a MySims Fan, this video was really well researched and documented. It gives off, as one of the best ways to have a overlook to the franchise. I Love it! Whaq a great constructed video that is ..and I didn't know the they were planning on a MySims Animated Series, but the MySims Lore is just deeper than we thought I guess.

I played many of these games as a child, and simply seeing them lights a warm flame in my heart. Loved them, made me very happy

I literally watched this entire video to see you talk about my Sim animals, and the end was heartbreaking 🥲

I remember playing the MySims games, the ds ones specifically as I didn’t get the wii versions until I was allowed to take over the family wii lol. The ds games I played were kingdom and agents, and I believe they are WILDLY different from the wii versions. There’s less of an emphasis on building your own things and more of a focus on decorating the town with items of different styles(essences would be combined and depending on the combination, you would make different items, but you weren’t like actually choosing different parts and building the items or houses), and even had a pretty fun house decorating mode. I think they are much simpler and even more linear since there really wasnt anything for you to build(especially in agents), but I would be lying if I said that they don’t hold a special place in my heart❤️

i adore the sims, and my parents never let me play the regular sims, and it was such a defining part of childhood; i still re-play those games sometimes, and it makes me so happy that people are talking about it; for the longest time i thought it was this niche thing that nobody else liked, because none of my friends knew about it; so it's like their memory is being preserved :))

The funniest thing about mySims on the wii was how f'ing loud my wii used to get whenever I played it, just to build my stupid non-euclidean bathtubs and whatnot