I am not feeling the Charm Family.

"Magdaleena;c-17243053" wrote:

"Sheepiling;c-17242652" wrote:

"Simmify;c-17242624" wrote:
Am I alone in not understanding what the big deal is about the premades? I mean, just like in real life, not every one looks perfect. And they are literally just characters you don't have to play.

For me, I really enjoy playing with well-done pre-made townies, and they don't have to look perfect. For me, they just need to have a charming personality and story to go with them. Vlad is one of my favorite townies ever.

The Charm family doesn't have any charm to them. They along with the two sages that work with Morgyn just look ugly and rushed. We got so many beautiful and unique looking sims in the Realm of Magic trailer, and then when we buy the pack they give us these ugly townies that seem to be thrown together in 10 mintues because "ohoho let's put classic witch nose on them all"

I would be more into an "ugly" townie if they had more effort put into them and were meant to resemble the Wicked Witch of the West more.

I think the disappointment among a lot of people, myself included, is us not getting what was advertised to us.

Also the houses look horrible. In the trailer Morgyn explores this amazingly beautiful, magical interior of the Magic HQ and when we get there in our own game it's empty and everything is grey. It's not magical at all.

Thiiiiiss. Ugh.

I haven't really looked so close at the Charms yet, but from what I could tell, they weren't exactly that interesting. When I first looked through the residents of Glimmerbrook, all I felt when I saw these folks was an overwhelming sense of MEH.

I'm not even sure how. Is it because the kids are all grown up and the household looked more like a roommate type of situation? Is it because their faces somehow looked cartoony, even from the thumbnail? Who knows! They just have a disappointing aura, somehow.
It's nothing like the Forgotten Hollow vampires. All three of those were memorable to me. The Charms just aren't??

Enough about that, I also wanna address your point about the Magic HQ -- YEAH, why does it look nothing like in the trailer??
Holy heck, it's so bland. And I don't say that lightly. There's so much empty space. Is this just so that it's easier to find everything? It's such a boring build... Where is the one we saw in the trailer? I want that one. It actually looked good.

I know that the SimGurus said they have object limitations, but I think with the RoM builds they just got lazy. Vlad's mansion looks very similar to the setting they used for the Vampires trailer. It's smaller than the mansion the dueling trailer vampires were fighting in, but it's decorated in the same way.

With RoM it looks completely different. The trailer had this beauitful witchy Magic HQ that was decorated with brick walls and wood furniture and had a Hogwarts feel to it. Then the one we get in game is just an ugly grey block. Even if they can't put as many decorative objects due to their limitations they're given, they can at least decorate it to look similar like they did with Vampires' lots. :neutral:

I also really wish there were more families for me to get attached to, and I miss the fandom references that Sims 3 Supernatural and Sims 4 Vampires had. Caleb Vatore was a reference to The Vampire Diaries, and his sister is a reference to the mythological Lilith. Sims 4 Base Game had a family that was a reference to New Girl. I miss the pop culture references that made a family more endearing to me, and there's so many amazing occult fandoms.

They named the mischief sage L. Faba but there's no one that actually resembles the Wicked Witch in the game. No references to Charmed, Buffy, Practical Magic, Supernatural, or Harry Potter in the families, even though there's a lot of Harry Potter influence in the Magic Realm itself. Morgyn seems to be a gender-fluid male version of the new Sabrina which I love, but literally that's it. I NEED FANDOM REPRESENTATION!!! There's literally so much they could have worked with but they didn't put any effort into the families at all. They just threw some witch noses on one household, threw trailer sims into the other, and randomly generated 2/3 of the sages. The only townies that I like are Morgyn and Grace. The rest are meh.

My fandom obsession is more of a personal preference that not everyone will share, but I still wish that there were even non-fandom townies that seem to have a bit more love put into them. I also hate that there's no children. They made a family with the magical bloodline trait, but they're all teen+. If EA wanted to show off that trait in a townie household that would be the perfect family to base off of the Weasleys. Have a grandma, mom and dad, 3 kids and 2 toddlers in there. And maybe actually include some things for children to do? That would be nice. Maybe they can't duel or use all the spells but having a few abilities like Matilda would have been fun.

There was just so many missed opportunities with this pack.