I played a couple of hours of the Mirage Legacy family over the weekend, mostly to refamiliarise myself with them post-bugfix. The household is currently full with 6 adults / young adults and two infants, and is about to get even busier as those infants age up to children (whose primary need appears to be homework, or maybe I’m just too focused on getting As…).

I keep thinking it would all be a lot easier if I just kicked out a few family members, and I certainly could. Ratscrew and Slapjack are cadet branches of the family and aren’t really ‘needed’ in terms of the legacy. But I can’t. I love them all. Ratscrew is the upright, fitness-focused Space Ranger hero type who quietly mourns his deceased partner, and Slapjack is the happy-go-lucky, 40-year-old-virgin painter who is everyone’s favourite brother or uncle.

That they both bring in a crapton of money is just icing on the cake (the household’s bills are in the thousands now; the house is huge, there’s a second house on the lot for the cadets, and there’s lots of expensive furniture everywhere).

Actually, the person I like least is the next head of the family, poor self-centered, insane, bro-tending Baccarat. I’m pretty sure my Sims feel the same way – even his parents, who love him because they must. His wife seems to be the only one who sees any redeeming features in him, and indeed she’s the only one he isn’t mean to the second I take my eye off him in conversations. If I’m not directing his interactions, it takes him about 3 seconds to offend pretty much anyone he’s talking to. If only he’d been a harmless eccentric kind of insane, instead of the deluded, violin-playing dictator kind…

Anyway, it seems there will be more Sims 4 Mirage Legacy playing in my future. But I swear, the next generation will be entitled little shits who live entirely off their family’s money and want the house all to themselves.