Author: Lyn
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Alien Encounters: The Sims 4 Witch Challenge – Part 3
In Part 2 of The Sims 4 Witch Challenge, Rowan met a new potential love interest named Kade Sotelo at Rattlesnake Juice. She went out with the Grim Reaper on Love Day. Then she left the city to explore nature. Rowan’s practice of witchcraft is dependent on collecting natural objects. However, not all magical practices…
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Stop Hiding Behind Culture
The “defense” of culture stalls diversity. It’s the argument people make when they excuse a game that fosters the industry’s series of male-driven story lines. These story lines almost always feature a protagonist in some period of history where “it wouldn’t make sense” to have a representative amount of non-white, non-male people. Pushing Limits This…
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Disconnected: A Marxist Interpretation
Game developer Reb is immediately frank about their project Disconnected. They refer to it as a short walking simulator “made mainly as a test as my first game.” This test succeeds in that it conveys a sense of horror through the character’s navigation of a tenuous unknown. The game is played from a third person…
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The Spider’s Web: The Sims 4 Witch Challenge – Part 2
In the last part of the Sims 4 Challenge, our witch Rowan’s husband died from laughter, and she became soulmates with the Grim Reaper. Then she went on a date with her late husband’s ghost. While there is no abject religion in the Sims, the presence of ghosts seems to point to the existence of some…
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Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Has All the Things
If I could point to a game series that was a formative component of my childhood, it’s Harvest Moon. I began the series on my PS2 with Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland. From there, I branched out to the various games on differing systems from there. As an only child who wasn’t allowed to leave…
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A Grim Romance: The Sims 4 Witch Challenge – Part 1
As Fall settles in, Halloween approaches, and the supernatural expansion that introduces witches has yet to be incorporated in The Sims 4 (though there is speculation this will be coming in the future), I would like to issue the witch challenge to the Sims community. This series will follow one Sim as she endeavours to…