It can be a fun pack, but I guess not for everyone’s taste. The game style is a bit different like in the other vacation packs. There are no rental lots where you can stay, sims will be wearing situational outfits there, there are no new alien occult’s and it doesn’t seem to have much integration with the rest of the game (is it just me, or I cannot invite my batuu friends to San Myshuno?). The game will consist of completing missions for any of the factions to rank experience. There are also just three lots that are editable: Oga’s cantina, the Resistance Outpost and the First Order Cargo.
So if you are tight on a budget and you haven’t bought any other game packs, I would recommend others first. My order would be:
Vampires/Realm of Magic (occult players) > Jungle Adventure (travel players) > Strangerville/Journey to Batuu
(Of course if you are a family player, Dine Out and Parenthood go earlier :D)
That said - if you buy Journey to Batuu, I would do the following yo enjoy it to the fullest:
- Edit the three lots to your taste to add beds for your sims to stay in, and extra objects for more activities if you have other packs! Like the sparring training figures from Strangerville or the Get to Work science objects. Some builders are creating beautiful rooms in the gallery! And the little flying robots from University are great on the cantine!
- Give a makeover to the batuunians. With the MCCC mod, you can even replace them with cool Star Wars characters from the gallery. Make sure though that they are from the same species (human with human, etc).
- If you have Realm of Magic, the CAS can combine beautifully with it!
- And lastly, the build objects, including the debug ones, look pretty amazing for the following styles: rundown, industrial, magical, apocalyptic. Depending on how you combine them, they can fit in a modern apartment too ;). They can combine amazingly well with Strangerville and the science lab/si can lot in Get to Work, or even Jungle Adventure, Ecolifestyle and Realm of Magic.
Must check though if occult characters retain their powers on batuu. And if anybody develops a mod to remove the situational outfits in Batuu, so Sixam visitors can look like proper aliens and so on, I would download it immediately! :)
