Strangetown Extras: Smustle dance competition

[strangetomato]

Ripp recently gained enough enthusiasm in the Music and Dance hobby to have access to the secret lot, so he decided to visit, and he invited Johnny and Ophelia along.

All three friends sign up for a smustle dance competition, and the dancing begins.








That's some good smustling.




Soon it's all over, and Johnny starts to second guess his moves.




Ophelia anxiously awaits the results. Ripp does his best imitation of a shy person.




Johnny receives the bad news first.




Ripp is the champion, and he doesn't mind rubbing it in. Ophelia just can't tolerate her defeat. Ripp wins bragging rights and $500. Pretty sweet. That's an easy way to make money.




Ophelia gets over the loss pretty quickly. At least she's not as bad as some of the other dancers. They all have a good laugh at the lame dance moves of the other competitors.




Then Ripp heads upstairs to further his training.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, each hobby has a hobby lot that you can visit after you get about halfway up the enthusiasm meter. They can then just call a cab and head over there, but they can also bring other household members who do not have high enthusiasm levels, so it's a great opportunity for them to tag along and learn too.

I really want to get Johnny up to that level for sports, since the sport objects, like the soccer and basketball nets, take up a LOT of room, and they can't fit them on their tiny lot. He could really benefit from going to the secret lot. Johnny's stuck with playing catch and watching sports on TV for now. Pretty lame.

Now that I'm looking at that ballet barre, I wish they had given us some actual dance type options with FT. What an oversight that was. They could have designed it to work like the slow dance between two sims, and they could do real partners dance competitions. Think of all the great Dirty Dancing/Strictly Ballroom types of stories we could make. That's such a classic plot to work with. I really want to do that now.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Classy is one word for it. :D

It seems like Maxis cheaps out on new animations for a lot of EPs, like re-using the Smustle for dance competitions. Partners dancing would have been great.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Oops, I mis-read "classic" for "classy"! Not the same thing, is it... :D