Castaway Stories: Nanihi Manave

[strangetomato]

Nanihi Manave is one of the characters in the scripted part of Castaway Stories. She's a little girl in the story, and is the first native resident that Jessica (or David) meet on Felicity Island. I've long since finished the story mode, but continue to play (and breeeeed) with the entire extended cast. Nanihi is a fun one (her personality is 2,7,7,7,2), and she gets even better with age. She really begs for her own story, this one.
 

Here she is in the game storyline, after hyenas chase her up a tree.
 

 

And here she is as a teen. One day she'll be the chief of the tribe.

Isn't she striking? I love her pale blue eyes and dark skin. (All the skintones in CS are one shade darker.)




A profile shot to show how interesting her features are.
 

Many of the characters in CS have very unique faces. There's some templatism, of course (especially on Wanmami Island), but it's quite diverse overall. I'm thinking of importing some of the sims to my regular game. If only I could play some of them on Twiikii Island... I suppose I could always use the hood template to make a separate version, if I were so inclined.

 

 

Comments

[petchy-14.livejournal.com]

Beware about importing the 'Hood - It uses a Larger Terrain Map than what is readable in the Normal game [which is why the island is so HUUUUGE!] and if attempted to place as a normal 'Hood.. Well, it tries to compensate, but it kinda borks up; No Roads mean Lots fly about, Terrain is 1/4 of what it should be with all lots and everything else inside a void between nothingness, and the 'Hood Deco gets crammed to one side of the terrain. GFBVFS all right!!

I wish Larger Terrains were possible in the normal game.. Allong with the Water effects.. Oh, and... LOL!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries! I was talking about Twiikii, not Felicity Island. I could always make it a regular hood instead of a vacation destination, is what I meant. I'd never have the nerve to import the CS islands, what with their lack of roads and all. It's so different, I wouldn't have thought it possible, but I'm amused to hear what happens when one tries that. XD

The water affects are nice. They're a little beyond the graphics of the sims (they used to stick out really badly, I thought), but they're a lot prettier than the regular game.

[lithium-lily.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Castaways in its own way, but playing Basegame style afterwards (with a few differences) just wasn't fun enough to keep my interest long...I would LOVE to be able to connect the two games, make Felicity/Wanmami a subhood of my regular one...now that would be awesome.

I liked Nanihi, she was spunky, and she looks really pretty as a teen!

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

You do have a point. She is vey interesting.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

There are some frustrations with the somewhat-basegame gameplay for me too, though it's different enough not to bother me that much. And I do love the lack of roads, and how little it matters that the terrain is uneven in most cases.

I'm definitely thinking of extracting some characters from CS, especially my born-in-games, like Temple. I have some plans for her, as I'm sure you can imagine. An alien is always welcome in my story.

Yeah, she was a fun character. I curious to see her as an adult. Maybe I'll extract her with SimPE to check it out in BodyShop.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I really like the shape of her nose. It's pretty unique.

[lithium-lily.livejournal.com]

You know, I once had a tropical island with all the extracted CS content they have at MATY attached as a shopping district to my main 'hood, and I think you've inspired me to do it again, though it'll be some work building everything :D I too extracted some of the sims to play, I got quite attached to a few of the natives during the times I played the story.

[selenecorvino.livejournal.com]

Not familiar with Castaways except with what you and simgaroop have posted. So I'd look forward to seeing even more. I should do a Google search to find out more about Castaways...

I'd thought about getting Castaways, but only after it was no longer available at the local WalMart, and I'm not sure how to get a copy now.