EA be like: "Why do pack updates when we can sell them scraps from previous packs."

“They even gave kids the butch lesbian haircut” 😂😂😂 As a butch lesbian, cracked me up. I was semi-interested in this stuff pack and then the shopping cart button happened and my money magically found its way back into my pocket.

It looks like a bunch of stuff they ruled out from realm of magic and paranormal... they all 3 could be just one pack

I just want Crystal Meth Creations 😢

Why am I not surprised with the EA laziness. If the damn pack is called Crystal Creations, they could give us Crystal Creations, hair with crystals accessories , clothes and shoes with embroidered crystals, furniture with crystals, light colors glass + crystals, ect

Ngl, I think unlocking male and female styles was a bad idea. Because it just gave the devs an excuse to just design for female sims and then just unlock the style to also be available to male sims as well. Which in the end just enabled laziness with the designs. ETA: OK I'm saying this here because I'm tired of repeating myself. When I said opening up the styles was a mistake and excuse for laziness, I wasn't saying that I have a problem with men being more Fem and women being more Masc. My problem is that many of the meshes end up being broken because they weren't properly converted to fit the gendered rigs. So in the end, you have men's trousers on women that literally break the rig because it wasn't coded properly. There are several sets of trousers that CAN'T BE USED on female sims without there being a massive hole in the crotch, there are male suit jackets that straight up break the hands of female sims when equipped. It's not a matter of sexed clothing, it's a matter of meshes being left broken for years and not being fixed. And on top of that, because the styles are now "open" it gives leeway to allow more femme styles to be created because they're operating under the knowledge of it being open as unisex anyway, which means that male sims get left with less content because everything is just created with Fem in mind in the first place.

IM NOT BUTCH LESBAINFOBOIC 😭😭

I love your honest reviews; unlike other Sims KZfaqrs, you share your own opinion. I'm sick of those reviews that are just full of 'Absolutely mind-blowing!' 'This changes everything!' 'Best pack ever, hands down!' 'I'm obsessed!' 'Can't live without it!' etc."

"1 to eyeball ring" is the new official rating system. Lol

When finally EA will start doing quality shoes that would be CC shoes quality 😭 they are all outrageous in comparision to eg. jius shoues

In the Sims 3 on console you could find crystals and metal, send the crystal to be cut in different shapes, the metal to be melted into bars and the crystals had 2 displays but you didn't have to pay for them.

The 5 dollar "glitch" with Plopsy is because it costs 5 dollars to list the item! You will get a price the person is willing to pay for the item once it sells and it's usually pretty good!

That is a good point about the spawners in newer worlds. They absolutely can update existing worlds, they did it for Seasons.

"List the item while you're wearing it", the true instagram thrifting experience!

8:42 you can already mix breed frogs and also yes, eat them (boiling frog hot pot)

Subtitle be like... "This is my Bruce Lee honest review..." im like 😶🙂😂

You can eat frogs Satch! Have a frog in your inventory when you’re going to cook and you can make frog dishes🐸

I also wish male sims had more masculine clothing options available.

Tempted by glittery gems but ... wait, this isn't a kit!? Oh.

Brilliant review, as always. This is a rare pack that looks good enough to consider purchasing right away, but the new shopping cart button just illustrated how little they regard customers that they would rather keep finding new ways to push bugged content rather than fixing the bugs.

Anyone else think it feels really childish? I wonder what the actual age demographic is for sims 4, in my experience it’s predominantly people in their 20s-30s who play this game and their concepts seem to be getting more and more PG filler content, where as we would enjoy more gameplay like careers, family gameplay etc. more ‘adult’ things to escape our real adult lives.

Honestly I don't worry about build mode or cas. I only buy what I think will have fun game play I use mostly cc and mods. I haven't bought a pack in a while. I think the last thing I bought was the magic one.

4:20 my first realm of magic stuff 💀💀

I'm sorry I know this is not on topic but I open sims4 and there it is, a promotion for dine out WITH Gonz (a social media creator) while the pack is still broken. Like wth😭 Also I love your videos satch

I’m actually pretty excited about this pack and I appreciate your review! I almost never buy new packs in the same week they release, but I’m downloading this one today!

I always wait for the Satch review! Glad to hear this pack has a lot of gameplay, and that they went deeper than just tweaking moodlets.

Not sure if it's a big deal or not, but in get famous there is a helmet that you can feed crystals for buffs and also in discover university you can offer crystals to the sprites, so that gem tree is really versatile for me :3

Hoping the next pack is a Band Pack. There was speculation they were preparing for it, and that's what caused the bug with Socials on higher Singing skills.

HIT THE LIKE BUTTON if we should protest against EA making these cash grabby packs

This might be a hot take but I don’t mind when packs have similar build buy/cas if the gameplay of the pack is different enough. Like I would get crystal creations but I wouldn’t get realm of magic because I like more grounded gameplay so it’s nice for me to have those style of objects still. Where it’s more egregious is if the pack could’ve been one, off the top of my head I think people complained about that with cottage living and horse ranch, those cater to people with similar gameplay styles so it’s worse

I love Satch! I been watching for months now but it’s crazy to think that I am hesitant to try newer sim channels. This is the best one. It’s an honest channel and I crack up way too much 😂 definitely want the Sim community to support Satch more. Great video! I like the idea but the realm of magic items don’t feel right. I already have that lol

I have been waiting for your review! I just cant trust any other review anymore lol Thank you!!

Been waiting for your review, can’t wait to watch this

I think recent stuff packs are the only great packs to buy. Although those cost 10$ each. I really recommend to buy new stuff packs. ( Starting with paranormal ) .

You're so genuine and you absolutely love what you do and it shows in your work. Don't ever feel like you have to defend yourself. People these days will find anything to be offended about. You have grown a real fan base and we all respect and love you. ❤

I would have loved a crystal clock for the wall.

Ohhh I´ve been waiting for this, finallyyyy

Great review Satch. I just bought this the other day. I really liked it.

8:44 I’ve been thinking for ages about a reptile room stuff pack. I know frogs are technically an amphibian but honestly I feel like they have so many similarities to reptiles they can chill in a reptile room if they wanted to.

OMG, was waiting for you to release this! Thanks

Lowkey sad that I can’t make my pets collars or jewelry

When you read some of the jewelry descriptions, you will realise that it is indeed a part of realm of magic.

Never make my mind up until I've watched Your Brutally Honest Review!

Omg I laughed all the way through this review, Satch, I love your vids

I played this last night and it was fun for the first maybe 30 minutes…then it got bored quick!

are there any cross pack features for supernatural sims? for example a ring that can save your wampire Sim from burning in the sun (the vampire diaries vibes 😂) or when you have a werewolf Sim to make the the fury lever stop or go up slower?

Maybe they will make a collections crafter pack and just figure out a use for all collectibles in game to be turned into random objects or decor with functions or emotional auras

The book shelf is nice but I feel like it should have been in the book shelf kit, which as for as I know, didn't come with a book shelf that has a ladder.

So, Get to Work. It’s not just jewelry, it’s also books. My friend tried to sell written books at a store and the books all went to her inventory when she left. Similarly, I gave Caleb Vatore “the Oddity Shop” and in addition to werewolf stuff and paranormal stuff out of debug, I tried to sell plasma packs and vampire tomes he bought off the computer and no bueno. It also returned to our inventory when we left the shop. If you buy vampire tomes out of debug they work in a store, ditto plasma packs, but I hear you can’t do that with jewelry. (Other Sim-crafted things like bathtubs are fine? Is it only things added after get to work that are broken?)

Had to laugh when I saw the option to “skip the entire video” at 10:53 😂

I so enjoy your videos. You make me laugh. Love your attitude!

If the only glitch you found was the items being put back in the inventory and being able to sell on plopsy something being worn, then they are doing a pretty good job. I still say that the thing they used to say about playing the game all the time at work is no longer being done or they would have found and fixed a lot of these glitches because they are experiencing them.

I look forward to your honest reviews. Tyvm!!

The items returning is a bug that's been around a long time, which has been the bane of those who have tried to sell things like written books in their shops. The work around is you have to put the items in the household inventory at your house before placing it in your shop (yes you actually need to load into the shop for the workaround to work). Oh you can already eat frogs as they are ingredients in one of the cooking recipes.

Thank you for taking the time to review these packs. I have been watching your channel for a while and love your reviews. It has helped me to decide on whether I want to add a pack to my game or not. There are so many packs, kits, expansions these days, I have to be a lot more picky with what I want. Loading times seem to increase the more you add on to the game it seems, at least for me. I am going to give Crystal Creations a pass - not enough in build mode to warrant spending the money as I mostly like to build with some gameplay in between.

Lol, the eyeball ring

9:16 This is what I've been saying! I'm very disappointed they didn't add new spawners for this, but not at all surprised.

“…You can only sell them for 5 Simoleans…” Nah that’s too funny all I can think of is the mlm Paparzzzi and their $5 jewelry 😂

Love your humour! You crack me up mate!!

I think the crystal slippers are great in a campy way, thanks for the review!

Thank you for your honest review. I'm actually probably gonna get it after watching you do it. Because I was worried to skin your broken... I actually love the build mode. I wanted something like this when we got real with magic. Some kind of excited about it..... Besides that, the crystal shoes are so cursed. I think they just need less crystals on the ankle and they'd actually be kind of cool😅🤣

love your vids! 💌

This could’ve been in a hobbies expansion honestly

This is the only channel I have found that advocates for men fashion, thank you.

The glitch where the items return to inventory from the shop happens with crafted robotics as well.

I love how everyone is reviewing this pack like they’re game isn’t broken glitchy and frozen

Thank you for the butch lesbian holla! I love them too ❤❤❤

When he said cut gems I instantly thought of “uncut jamms” Julia fox 😭

Definitely feels like content that could've been a Realm of Magic refresh. I still think they stopped doing refreshes just to sell them as paid DLC.

I have been waiting for this

i was waiting for this one

my game has been unplayable after the update. I don't have a powerful computer, but before the update I could play without issues and with mods. Now there are no mods and I've just updated my drivers, all other games are running better... then ts4

As someone who’s took a fine art course in the same small cozy old college building as a very interesting and uncommon practice in colleges, I guess , we had a jewellery program and if we wanted it our fine art program could Learn ,even though, during the pandemic, we couldn’t do it we could cross over of the metal working program, under the same department and sub programs but we didn’t go to use metal work. And having the same building, fellow students and staff and talking to them at lunch or something, at least 5 to 6 rooms dedicated to their program not including our specific program rooms that they might use. So that kinda tells you a lot of objects, big working spaces and safety equipment and we don’t even have a forge in this game or like a decor forge… i’ll be funny if they called it curseforge or I mediaeval Sims pun or Sims three or something reference. I do agree like they should give us more than like glass or ceramics or like making furniture and I don’t get how they can’t just add a clay element to this and maybe update the crafting wood table.. in real life it’s a lot more crystal metal work than just a table. They should’ve also gave us hazmat suits or some type of industry protection like a masks or something and a toxic death or something because working with medals your entire life without protection you will probably get some illness…. I mean if you’re working with heavy metals in crystals mining dust, just making oil paints out of certain ingredients is a life sentence to same thing as spray paint… a couple projects we had to do. Yeah, you need to fall on protection sometimes. at least they try to integrate it with like nipping hitting a lot bit but not enough I do agree the shoes are horrendous and they have shown how they could’ve looked a lot better. What do you expect this point? With Ea and the game… Honestly, I would be open for Sims three rehashed like pack of some of the best things. Number one is definitely that is that one all in one washroom , 2 some the of the hobbies.. 3 working a little bit at least working elevators, or teleporters spawners, And spiral staircases or staircases that take a lot less space that pets and younger kids could use…

My first realm stuff 😂🤣💀

1:26 this whole part 😂 We already know the packs are bad but your content is A+

Unless its been updated, the crystal/metal spawners are related to the gardening. So if you go to another neighborhood and get all the crystals/metals and think "Hmm I got a good haul there I'll go back" then unless you get there before 5am for spawning to trigger then there are not going to be more. Again this could have been fixed/adjusted/changed and I am unaware of it, but that was the problem I was having when playing with crystals/metals before and why I didn't play with them very much.

I don’t personally see this pack advancing the game much at all but I’m here for the review!

Let's be real...EA *always* fucks over their masucline Sims.

You reaffirmed my nah to this pack so ty

I agree with most of your points! The CAS misses a lot and the BB is okay. But I really don't mind the pack being "on its own", I am looking forward to play with this alone and feel very represented in this theme. I use crystals more or less in my daily life, and don't need it to be conneced/intertwined with an occult pack. Thanks for your brutal honesty tho, and for inspireing to be so as well!

The items going back into inventory thing has always existed. If you take any of the personal sales items (flea market or jungle tables, gallery, food stands etc...) and set it up on your retail lot, and do not physically set the items for sale individually and place them outside of those sale tables, the game sees them as your loose personal items and places them along with the tables in your inventory when you leave. It will happen with the books you place on the GTW book display in your store EVEN IF you mark them for sale after placing them. This also happens with other items on other lots, i.e. Vacation rentals will return your tents, game tables, etc to you when leaving, and books of all sorts return to you from all sorts of lots.

I disagree with the "This pack is an add-on to Realm of Magic" declaration. Sure it has a similar vibe, but in no way does it match the furnishing style of RoM like how My First Pets Stuff LITERALLY had items that should've been included in Cats and Dogs and you need Cats and Dogs for half of the stuff to work. This pack, while still lacking in some areas, is stand alone. I will say though, that CAS is an utter failure. Not only is it barely Dark Academia (as they said they drew inspo from) but there isn't enough and it's boring! I'm so sick of sweaters and I hate that I can't dress my infants-children in anything. Like a little dress and a tweed vested outfit would've been perfect! There should've been more tweed and vests and blazers for everyone!

ur shoe rating was really generous wow

Also... don't you think they "got inspired" by the crafting flowers mechanics that Life by You has shown us those last months? and suddenly after long period not having any crafting-specific-pack in the sims... we got one... maybe coincidence?

I am so excited for your review, Satch! I am boycotting EA, so I am not buying anything from them anymore, but I was still so excited for your review! You always make my day :)

EA never ceases to disappoint. It's been years since I last purchased a pack full price

Is it cashgrabby? Yes. Should it have been a part of realm of magic? Yes. Is it far from perfect? Definitely Did I buy the pack without thinking because is right up my alley when it comes to gameplay? Absolutely edhjhgkt Great review as always!

I'm a mostly basegame player, and I feel like this one has a far bit of value (mayby like $5) because of mostly of the sales table included in with everything. I'm meh on the style but having a new hobby table and a sales table is great. And ofc it's buggy so I'm going to wait for a sale if I'm not sucked into the other life sim games by then

Right satch now for some unhinged shanice shanice gameplay of the pack pleaseeeeee

they gave so little but i just love the vibe of the build mode stuff omgg

Lol i love the jib the bug on plopsy and it will be fixed in 2-3years! I'm glad that all crystals can be used, like I've finished the archeologists entire crytsals and metals

It's a Kit worth amount of stuff, though I agree with 7/10. But selling packs as the next higher tier seems to be the new normal.

That spider plush is so cute.

I really like the game play and all the powers that the jewelry can have when it’s charged. The CAS on the other hand was quite pitiful. You also mentioned that crystal spawns are hard to find and whereas that may be true you can easily make a crystal seed, wait ages for it to grow but once it does it’ll be worth it. You get quite a bit of crystals from the tree.

Hey Satch! It costs 5 Simoleons to list an item, but then your item gets 'bids' and you can choose what to see it for!

plopsy isnt a bug, it costs $5 to list anything on there. after a few days you should get an offer and its typically wayyyyyy marked up compared to selling straight from the inventory. if nobody wants to buy it after a week the listing will expire, you can put it back up for sale for another $5 or sell it another way.

I took jewelry in highschool so I’m pretty pleased with this pack I’m hoping they’ll do something with the clay and maybe do pottery I love ceramics

I’ve given up hope that the sims team will ever glance at men’s wear to see what men actually wear

I hope we get another occult pack this year.

Tbh this is a stuff pack I might actually buy. I dont care much about the CAS but making, buying and selling your own jewlery sounds like it will be fun.