By accumulating all the additional discs released or to come, the variations sauce The Urbz and all media concerned, the Sims industry currently already represents nearly 40 games alone. Continuing its progression, the license now extends to the only machine that had not yet succumbed to its relative youth, I named the PSP. New approach, new gameplay, Les Sims 2 Sony's portable version, however, seems to be turning its back on what's already been established. Good or bad, that's what we'll try to find out.
limited freedom
Clearly dedicated to neophytes of Sim Meyer's saga, if Les Sims 2 on PSP have the look of what regulars already know, they don't have the depth. Focused on fixed objectives and a scenario for the less eccentric, you lead your unique Sim through a city divided into five zones (including two limited to the only role of introduction and conclusion), and go to have to help the population in waiting to find your mysteriously missing car. Zombies, vampires, woman-robot, bovine sect and extra-terrestrials, it is in the middle of a sci-fi atmosphere that the license decided to approach the adventure genre to the detriment of the management which made its success. Always having to manage the natural needs of your unique Sim, you only spend a little time there, also abandoning the management of furniture to devote yourself almost exclusively to the objectives of your new neighbors. Having become altruistic, it is therefore above all others that he will now have to take care of, even if it means having to develop personal skills for this.
Mr and Mrs...
Based and mainly oriented on a new dialogue system, this version of the Sims 2 clearly plays the social card. Having to respond to your interlocutors by choosing the right subject of conversation by making icon associations as quickly as possible, you will sympathize, charm or terrorize your neighbors whose names are more laughable by their ridiculous appearance than by the pun yet provided for this effect. If this relational aspect is only used at the beginning to raise a friendship score that is not used at all, it will quickly become mandatory in order to recover crucial information within the framework of specific objectives. Indeed, your only goal in the city of StrangeTown will only be to solve the problems of others. Become the best friend of a neighbor to tell her husband that she is cheating on her, flirt with another to better sell her intimate secrets to an unscrupulous journalist, make a cure for vampirism or simply play the delivery boy between two characters, if the objectives are varied on the form, the bottom always remains the same. Discuss, collect, build, sell, buy and above all walk, the range of useful actions used in this PSP version is indeed very low compared to what the regulars know and, apart from being able to carry out some very specific final objectives, we will ultimately take little care of our own Sim and his home.
To remedy this void, a mood gauge comes in to offer secondary objectives and above all to keep our hero in full sanity. Asking you to perform simple actions such as greeting someone or picking up garbage, these sub-missions are above all an opportunity to discover mini games to earn precious Simoleons (the game currency) and exploit new possibilities by learning to do the kitchen or to better tinker. Unfortunately, if we can say so, the gauge in question fills up very quickly, just like the characteristics of the Sim, and we will only spend a short time there in the end, preferring to advance in the story to discover what is hidden behind all these strange phenomena. Crazy, sometimes childish and flirting with clichés, the scenario does not particularly shine but nevertheless manages to challenge. Curiosity then takes over and we are surprised to walk the few streets of the game in a loop before seeing what turns out to be a particularly hasty end.
