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The Sims 4: Moschino Stuff Mini CAS Review

This will be showing some of my personal favorite pieces from the Moschino Stuffpack for both male/female Sims along with my thoughts on the pack. Thank you to EA Game Changers Program for giving me the opportunity to explore this Stuffpack and create this post.

Overall: The CAS Content is very limited swatches wise and quantity wise. Everything has a specific style that you probably would have to LOVE to base buying the pack off CAS alone.

Female hairs for this pack are nice. I really dislike the long hair without the CC hairline I am using though (linked at the end of this post). The curly hair is def my favorite, and it looks really good on male Sims imo. I wish it had a little less volume but a cc creator will do that in the next few days I am sure. | HQ pic

Male hairs are, as usual, lacking in this pack. We got another cut and dry shaved hair. I think the curly hair is a great addition for male Sims, but the lack of originality for male hairs annoys me. Island Living had the same issue with I think only 2 male designated hairs? | HQ pic

This set is something that I thought I was going to like off of the pictures I saw prior to going in CAS for myself. I ended up only seeing what could’ve been when I looked at it in game though ;n; the top works with basically no EA bottoms because it is cropped but also not cropped? and the zipper texture on the skirt looks very LQ compared to the 3D meshed zippers the top has. I would have loved to see a dress in this style similar to the girl in the far left of this image. The matching shoes are nice, but the extra 3 swatches on them makes me think that there were more swatches planned for the outfit itself and they never got around to being made/finished. | HQ pic

More matching sets... that won’t be able to be mix n matched with other CAS items. They are nice together but the gold/black female outfit literally only has 2 swatches which like.. what is DIS hunny. The male tracksuit looking thing would be better imo without the over branding. I understand the pack is literally moschino but this is one of the only items that is actually branded. The front logo should’ve been enough imo. At least it has more swatches then black and gold girlie. | HQ pic

I see people hating the English text on these shirts and I agree they would’ve been better in simlish for sure. However, the English doesn’t bother me enough to not find the designs cute though. Perfect sleepwear imo. | HQ pic

These two items are the only other two things from this pack I enjoyed looking at. The male boot are super good looking imo, I just wish there was a white swatch since that is a popular style of combat boots (I think those are combat boots). The 3 swatches they come with are nice. Just wish there were more. The swimsuit is something I was surprised to like so much, it has nice swatches with different colored plumbobs that is a nice touch and I can see myself using these two pieces the month out of the pack. | HQ pic

End Thoughts

Although the CAS content is very underwhelming for a fashion company inspired pack, it is just a stuffpack. I will say that the build & buy mode items are super nice in my opinion. I love the vibe they give and I enjoyed building a little apartment using the new stuff over the weekend. As far as the gameplay/career goes, the new career is a nice expansion of the photography skill but for it being introduced for the 3rd time now I feel like they should’ve done more with it. I didn’t dive that deep into it however so I could have missed some stuff from the career. 

CC USED 

► Brunette high pony hair with the bangs is a WIP of mine

► Hairline used for hair previews - XX

► Earrings in hair previews - XX

► Blonde/pink ombre hair - XX

► Nails - XX

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The Sims 4 Moschino Stuff - Early Access CAS Review

Huge thank you to the EA Game Changer Program for providing me with the opportunity to play Moschino Stuff early! 

When I first heard about The Sims collaborating with Moschino to create a Sims 4 Stuff pack... well, let’s just say I wasn’t very happy about it lol I didn’t — and still don’t — understand how anyone on the Sims Team thought this would be something we wanted BUT I was determined to keep an open mind and not form any opinions until I was able to see exactly what was in the pack.

If you’ve ever read any of my Early Access reviews before you’ll know that I have never lied about my thoughts on new content and this review isn’t going to be any different. I will admit, while I wasn’t excited when the pack was announced, the trailer had me a little curious because the build/buy stuff looked really good. But to be completely honest, after checking everything out, I’m left feeling more than a little underwhelmed by this pack.

There are definitely some things that I like about it, and to me those things make it worth owning the pack personally, but there are also just as many things that I either have no interest in using, that I just plain don’t like, or that have issues/bugs that make it likely I won’t use them if they’re not changed/fixed.

I’m going to be posting two separate reviews (Create-A-Sim and Build/Buy) because there’s a fair bit to go over, and by that I mean I have many opinions. Because let’s face it, this is a $10 stuff pack; there’s never a ton of content in stuff packs lol So let’s get to it!

As always, if you have any questions about the pack, feel free to send me an ask!

 See a preview of all the new CAS items here

Something I really wasn’t expecting to care so much about was the CAS stuff. I have no interest in high-end fashion or Moschino in general, and even before seeing what was in the pack I knew I’d probably never use most of it... but never in a million years would I have thought I’d ever be so very disappointed by not just how lacking the CAS items were but also how tame they are.

When you hear the word “Moschino”, you immediately think crazy-unique high-end fashion. And if you’ve never heard of Moschino, you'd find exactly the same thing if you Googled it. However, nothing in this pack really says Moschino in that aspect and that is weirdly disappointing to me. I was worried that the Sims Team would go all out and every piece of clothing would be like that, but I never imagined that NONE of the clothing would be high fashion, and somehow that’s worse.

👗The Hair

The hairs are probably my favourite part of all of the CAS content and one of the only things I’m not completely disappointed with. The only thing I’m a little disappointed in is that aren’t any crazy high fashion looking ‘dos. But I do like the hairs we got and will definitely get a lot of use out of them, both in game and when it comes to making CC!

Oh and there’s also a weird texture glitch in the back of the long hair that only shows up on some of the swatches. Which, I mean let’s face it, when has there never been at least one hair with the weird texture issue that never gets fixed in any new pack? lol

👗The Clothing

The first thing you’ll notice when you get the pack (if you get the pack) is that for a pack that is supposed to be focused on fashion, Moschino Stuff is really lacking in actual fashion. You’ll also notice that it’s even more lacking in colourways. Out of the 19 pieces of clothing in this back, quite a few of them have three swatches or less, a couple even have just one. And not a single piece of this pack’s clothing has more than 10 swatches.

I understand that this is just a stuff pack so there’s not supposed to be a lot of items in it, but it’s also supposed to be a stuff pack based around a fashion label.

I think the biggest issue I have with the clothing is that if you take the branding away that’s on some of the pieces, you would never know that the items were supposed to be high-end fashion let alone designed by Moschino. The Gurus did tell us that the stuff included would be more “wearable” than probably 90% of Moschino’s real life clothing ranges, but honestly, I would have preferred having less wearable stuff if it meant more CAS content. If you go to Moschino’s website they have some surprisingly ok stuff in their ready to wear ranges that practically screams Moschino, even if they didn’t have their name plastered all over it.

A lot of their couture stuff is a little too out there for my liking but again, it also screams Moschino. I’ve been looking at a lot of their collections over the past few days and I’ve not only realised that they have some really nice stuff that I would have actually loved to have seen in TS4, but also that the stuff that was chosen to be in the pack was all from collections that are now almost two years old. Despite my original concern with this collab, I found myself really, REALLY, hoping for some actual high-end clothing. My sims wouldn’t wear it on a daily basis but it would have been so good to use for photoshoots with the new Fashion Photographer career!

Once again we didn’t get anything for children or toddlers. I really don’t understand why consider Moschino actually makes some super cute stuff for babies and kids! Hell, I would have even settled for just some toddler and child versions of the freezer bunny/llamacorn tees.

Another issue I have with the CAS stuff is the English. This is a collab with Moschino, so obviously their name is going to be all over it, and I’m not saying it shouldn’t. All I’m saying is I really wish the Sims Team had listened to the 90% of the community that practically screamed at them “Please include Simlish swatches too!”.

Which brings me to my last point. The textures and meshes. Most of the meshes are really well done, but some... leave a lot to be desired. For example, the freezerbunny/llamacorn tee completely changes the shape of female sims bodies in a very strange way. I would have loved to have been able to use some of the male clothing on females too, like the tracksuit and marching band uniform, but of course they fell prey to the dreaded black hole crotch that all of the Sims “gender neutral” clothing has. And the suit jacket tee... is literally just a long sleeved tee with a suit jacket painted, which to be fair so is the original, but the Sims version is a poorly executed imitation.

Then there’s the pixelation on that llamacorn tee. I just... I don’t even really know what to say about it other than it disappoints me and I feel like literally every CC creator could have done a better job to be honest. Also, the Moschino font being in the same gradient as the old Sims branding is is a little strange considering how hard they’ve been pushing the rebranding.

I know it probably seems like I’m nitpicking but a lot of these issues have been constant problems with pretty much every pack that’s been bought out in last few years.  I do like a couple of the CAS items — the matching quilted jacket and shorts, the cropped motto jacket, the boots, the plumbob earrings and swimsuit, and the hairs — but I’m still just really disappointed that CAS was so tame and lacking in a pack that is literally supposed to be a pack based on a high fashion label.

👗The Verdict

Overall, I would definitely not buy this pack purely for the CAS content. It’s okay, but nothing groundbreaking and and I probably won’t use a lot of it outside of the Fashion Photography career. I honestly feel like there’s way better CC out there actually. I’d love to be completely CC-free some day but until we start getting new, original content instead of just re-textured and reused/frankenmeshed stuff over and over again, I’d much rather download some gorgeous, unique CC made by the talented people in the community instead.

All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own. I am not paid by EA to “hype” their games; I am given the opportunity to review their games early in exchange for an honest review.

Click here for my Build/Buy Review

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‪SIMMERS! New video! 🚨 today we finish off that three part build! So happy I managed to get some of the Discover University build buy items into this 🧡😊. 🏠 🏡 https://youtu.be/ASMp8ZwKtHI @TheSims #TS4DiscoverUniversity #TS4MoschinoStuff‬ / channel link in bio x https://www.instagram.com/p/B5c4ZpDFqWH/?igshid=eehjel7dojzd

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The Sims 4 Moschino Stuff - Early Access Build/Buy Review

Huge thank you to the EA Game Changer Program for providing me with the opportunity to play Moschino Stuff early!

Ever since I saw the trailer for Moschino Stuff, I knew the Build/Buy content was going to be the part of this pack that I was the most excited for and interested in and for the most part I absolutely love a lot of it. But, like CAS, Build/Buy is not without it’s issues.

As always, if you have any questions about the pack, feel free to send me an ask!

See a preview of all the new Build/Buy items here

👗The Buy

I pretty much love all of the Buy Mode objects. The couches come in some very cool patterns as well as solids, the funky pop art mirror is fun, and I love that the end table is much lower than most end tables we have so it sits nice and flush at the same height as the couches and coffee table.

But my favourite things are probably, as always, the decorative stuff. More specifically the LiBEARian (the books with the bear book ends, get it!), the Simsational Style Stack (the magazine pile) and the Amp Stack (they’re all in the pics above). Even though the Amp Stack is purely decorative, it looks very cool sitting next to a guitar and adds a lot of character to any musician’s house!

I also really like the Repurposed Gear Chest (the trunk with stickers on it) that’s essentially a coffee table and looks very cool and retro, and the Tastefully Empty Bookcase which... is not empty at all? lol I do wish the bookcase came in different heights and widths as well, but at least this time it’s a short one, unlike the bookcases that came with Seasons and StrangerVille that I love but never get to use because they’re too tall for short walls.

Something that’s bothered me pretty much since base game released is that there’s no consistent colour palette for all build/buy objects. I get that each pack has specific themes and there might be colours that fit that theme better than others but I would love to see a consistent palette used throughout every pack — say like black and white obviously, 5 different wood tones, 5 solid neutrals and 5 solid “standard” colours (blue, red, yellow etc) — and have every single item that gets added to the game made in those colours, then if a new pack has specific colours for it’s theme they can be added on top of the standard palette. I like the colour palette that was chosen for the items in this pack but I found it really hard to find anything from other packs that matched it. It bothers me so much that nothing ever matches from pack to pack, half the time objects in the same pack don’t even match! And even now that the 350 new swatches were added to base game doors... they still don’t match anything else!

Sorry, I know I’m ranting and this has very little to do with Moschino Stuff but it just really bothers me that nothing ever matches because whenever I build I spend hours trying to find a floor to match the trim around the bottom of the wall I’ve chosen, then none of the doors match the floor and trim so I have to change it all, then none of the windows match the doors, floor and trim, and on and on until I’ve completely forgotten what I originally wanted the build to look like!

I really like the new frames we got for photos too, and the fact that they can now be placed on tables BUT I’ve had a couple of issues with them. First of all, it’s not possible to turn the frames placed on tables using the alt key, so you can only turn them in 45 degree increments and I hate that. I like to have all my photo frames slightly askew at different angles and it bothers me that these ones can only be places either facing straight forwards or angled by 45 degrees.

The second issue I have with the frames is actually more of a technical one but I’m not entirely sure if it’s the frames themselves, the photos, or the photography skill; I haven’t been able to work that out yet. When I have a sim take photos using the new tripod and camera everything is fine, but the second I exit out of the photography UI my FPS drops drastically.

I thought it was just my computer being stupid at first, until other Game Changers started reporting the same issue. I suspect it might be the photos and frames — specifically the new collage frame — because as soon as I remove the frames from the lot, the FPS goes back to normal. My game normally runs at a steady 60 FPS at all times but as you can see here, it drops down to 8-12 whenever there are framed photos on the lot and shoots back up when I delete them.

NOTE: This was with my game 100% CC and Mod free.

All of the new photography gear is so cool too! The fact that most of the items (like the tripod, camera, and tape markers) can be picked up in your sims inventory is so handy; your sim can just grab their equipment and head out into the world to take photos of other sims, landscapes, pets, and themselves literally anywhere they can plop the tripod down! And the backdrops have some really cool backgrounds for you to take photos in front of... or maybe... some other... uses 😈

👗The Build

I think the thing most people were looking forward to in this pack were the beautiful windows and doors; I’m definitely one of those people lol They are definitely gorgeous but as seems to happen every single time we get new windows and doors, the selection is limit in many different ways.

Every single colourway for both the windows and the doors is either white, black, red, or some combination of those colours. There are no colourways that match any of the other colours used on the furniture for the set (like blue, pink and yellow) and absolutely zero wood or neutral tones.

There are also no other heights for both the door and window other than for the shortest wall height, which absolutely baffles me because they’re clearly a set made to be used in lofts and converted warehouse type builds... builds that are generally made with either the medium or tallest wall height. They also didn’t bother to make single tile versions of any of the windows and doors, or even a closed version for the smaller window!

But what’s even more baffling (at least to me) is the way the door was made. I literally spent a full 30 minutes just sitting here in front of my computer, staring at this door, trying to figure out what could possibly have been going through the head of whoever made it when they decided that not only would it be shorter on one side, therefore also shorter than the windows, but also that it wouldn’t take up the full two tiles it was allocated and therefore wouldn’t sit flush up against the windows it was made to go with!

I saw a tweet by one of the Gurus that basically said “It’s the right height on the outside, just flip it around” but... that still leaves you with one side shorter than the windows, it’s just now on the other side, and there’s still gaps at the side! Why you would go to all the trouble to make the windows fit beautifully together like that and then not make the door exactly the same height and width! It bothers me way more than it probably should but I just don’t understand!

On the plus side, there are some base game doors that fit in with the windows (kind of) that I will probably use instead of the Moschino door... at least until someone makes a build add-on for them anyway lol

👗The Verdict

Overall, while I have issues with some of the build/buy stuff, this is where this pack makes up for the lack of CAS stuff in my opinion and what would make me want to fork over the $10 for the pack. To be completely honest, I’d pay $10 just for the LiBEARian though 🤣

All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own. I am not paid by EA to “hype” their games; I am given the opportunity to review their games early in exchange for an honest review.

Click here for my Create-A-Sim Review

Gameplay Review coming soon

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Moschino Stuff Reviews Incoming!

There’s one more post in my queue that will go out at midnight my time (in about 2 hours) and then my queue will be paused for little bit while I post some reviews from my Early Access time with the upcoming Moschino Stuff pack, and my queue will resume again tomorrow morning.

If you don’t want to see the review posts for any reason, they’ll all be tagged with the usual #EAGameChangers, along with a pack specific tag #TS4MoschinoStuff, so feel free to blacklist those two tags if you want 😊 

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‪SIMMERS! 🏠🚨🚨 let’s continue this house build shall we? Here’s part two! Watch here:. 🏠 🏡 https://youtu.be/9YCxMQgRJvo @TheSims #TS4MoschinoStuff #MoschinoXTheSims #TheSimsXMoschino ‬ / channel link in bio x https://www.instagram.com/p/B43YV4JFoA2/?igshid=12hq9i7br4xg

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‪SIMMERS 🚨🏠🚨🏠 I’m back with a short Three Part series of videos, today I build the exterior to a house, in the next one will be the interior! Come check it out HERE: https://youtu.be/AFmh_96Cn0g @TheSims #TS4MoschinoStuff #TheSims4 ‬/ channel link in bio x https://www.instagram.com/p/B4zhAPDFkp_/?igshid=rjhcleyfgfeg

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Quite happy with these two videos I recorded today, they are quick ones, but I LOVE the Moschino items! Can’t wait for you guys to see it! Will be parts 10 and 11 of the CAS Series, coming soon... #thesimsxmoschino #moschino #thesims #ts4moschinostuff https://www.instagram.com/p/B1J51Jil6yu/?igshid=1bss0vcb2emb2