Part 2: L'enfer, C'est Les Autres

Glad to be back! Let's power through some tutorial.



Last time, we discovered that Sam's life is terrible. Look at that, he can't even afford shoes. Barefoot in pig doings!





And we finally have control! Oh, joy, a tutorial--wait.

Wait.



I can rotate the camera?!

Later games in the series--including Agents--did away with camera control entirely. I had completely forgotten that the early games still had cameras. That's because the original MySims and MySims Kingdom were both made using the Havok engine! That's right: this game is just like Dark Souls.



... anyway! We found Elmira.



Our reward is verbal abuse and another tutorial!

: To get a pig to follow you, just walk up right next to it.



Okay...



Aww, pet the piggie.



And now he's following us!





We get control again, yaaaay. Sam runs around, magnetizes pigs, and leads them to the mud--unfortunately that honking big tutorial box will not go away until we're done.



The present box over Elmira's head indicates that we've completed a quest that she gave us. Usually this means we have a reward waiting! However, this is the tutorial, and that's Elmira, so our reward is more abuse.

: Great. You actually managed to get both pigs.

Elmira chases Sam away from her precious pigs.



Having laid down the law, Elmira leaves. Sam watches her go--



Sam jumps a mile and then wheels around.





It's our old buddy, Buddy!



And some things never change.

: Hiya, Sam!

Buddy waves to the pigs.

: Hiya, pigs!



Sam nods. Silent protagonist!

: Yay! Remember, we promised to go meet Lyndsay! She's probably dreaming up another one of her adventures for us... and you know how she gets when we're late.

This makes Sam giggle, presumably because he does know how Lyndsay gets. But!







YIPES

... did you throw a bird at me



: Hello, peasants. I think we all know that I'M going to be named the new Wandolier.

: You are?!

: Of course, silly, I'm the princess! Daddy will just LET me win!

: I don't know, Sam here would make a GREAT Wandolier! I think he'll win for sure!

: Huh. Guess I'll see you at the castle, then! Toodles!

The evil Princess Butter points and laughs evilly at Sam, then evils off on her evil way.

Pause.





I imagine that being Buddy's friend always requires some patience.

: Don't worry, Sam! I'm sure you'll win!





FWOMP



... welp.


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Next time on MySims Kingdom: Whoops, Buddy dropped the invitations and now we don't have one. That was a short game!


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- EA Render: Princess Butter
Okay, she's more 'spoiled rotten' than 'evil', but that sentence was complex enough already.