The Sims 2 has the most unhinged drama in the entire series that finally seduced me away from my beloved Build Mode

The Sims 2 - Mortimer Goth looks down at a woman in bed with extremely wide eyes and an open mouth.

I'm not a Live Mode player. Or at least I haven't been for the past decade of playing The Sims, so I'd assumed that the itch had left me in my teen years and being a Build Mode girl was a personality trait I aged into. That is until The Sims 3 and, as of this week, the re-release of The Sims 2, completely changed how I like to play.

Over the past year I've gotten back into playing The Sims 3. I have a lot of love for its more realism-driven Build Mode and bygone tools like Create-A-Stye, but to my surprise I found a lot to love in Live Mode too, at times struggling to put it down and return to my usual MO of quietly building little houses.