User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims 4 CAS Demo now available/@comment-1441666-20140820114134

I've just spent a little too much time on this, haha. Created four Sims: TS4 versions of the Roomies household from TS1 (I always do them or the Mashugas as a test run), as well as Sims of myself and my boyfriend.

My speedy(ish) review: I still think the best version of me I ever managed was in TS2 (hence why it's still my profile pic nearly a decade on), however I quite liked this one, it got much closer than TS3 ever did in my opinion. It was probably the best one I ever made of my boyfriend, though we did come out looking eerily like brother and sister, but to be fair that's an issue in real life since even with a decent amount of choice in CAS I had to admit that we have nearly identical hair and skin colour, so I can't necessarily chalk that one up to limitations in the graphics (unfortunately). I enjoyed the body sliders more than the face sliders: there's still a bit of a limitation on creating chunkier arms/legs in my opinion but waist, bust, etc. are much more versatile now; I particularly enjoyed making Melissa Roomies curvier than Chris rather than just fatter (as she has has to be in most previous attempts in TS2/3). The face sliders were not always easy to fine-tune, but a major plus of the whole system is that you can now create very unique looking Sims quickly - Chris and Melissa took about 10 minutes each from start to finish, including personality and clothes, and didn't end up with a single facial feature in common, something I could never have achieved on TS2/3 in that amount of time.

I really liked the walking style options, and the fact that voices are now organised by description rather than just numbered. The new trait/aspiration system is nice in my opinion, I'll accept the limited vareity for now since I've wanted to see the two integrated for years and feel they've done a very good job in that regard. Since this was a demo I'm assuming there'll be greater variety on clothes and hair in the actual game - or, at the very least, I hope you can add glasses to all outfits (rather than just everyday - I'm blind without 'em and my SimSelf looked weird without them on in some outfits) and add/remove jewellery more effectively than in the demo, which was occasionally missing this feature.

Overall, though, probably my favourite CAS since TS1, if only because you can create unique characters without taking hours over them (I've never liked the necessity of lingering in CAS in 2/3 to achieve that).