I pummelled the Reaper with flirt after flirt after flirt, because it was the only romantic option the game gave me. Sure, he did call me a toilet and a trashcan a few times, but for the most part, he seemed receptive. The Reaper quickly told me that he wasn’t really interested in love - but, he nonetheless kept flirting back. I kind of figured, hey, there are too many people in my family anyway, right? Why not pick the person I like the least? But instead, I chose someone in my household. It would have been easy to have simply made a new, random Sim - I’d feel no attachment. The first step was deciding whom to kill. This is where the story starts getting a little silly. And the only reason the Reaper would show up would be if someone was about to die - which meant I had to kill a Sim. The only way I could seduce the Grim Reaper was if the Grim Reaper was around.
The second that I noticed this romantic option was possible, I became obsessed with a single idea: if you can interact with the Reaper as if it were any other human Sim in the game, could you perhaps get the Reaper to fall in love with you? More than that: Could you sleep with the Reaper? Could you have babies with the Grim Reaper? Before I could find out, the reaper vanished into thick smoke.
You can even flirt with the Reaper, if you’d like. See, you can interact with the Reaper much like you would any Sim. Can you blame me? When a game presents you the ability to get friendly with death itself, you do it. When the Reaper appeared to me, I was too busy trying to “friend” him to notice I could save my beloved Sim. To be clear: I only know this is possible because I looked it up. The player has the ability to plead with the Reaper for a Sim to survive, and depending on the Reaper’s mood, he very well may spare the dying Sim. For those that haven’t played, the game handles death like so: any time a Sim passes on to the afterlife, the Grim Reaper will pop up, wave his scythe, and finalise the Sim’s death. It’s not just about life, however - those little digital people can also die and turn into ghosts. The Sims is a game about managing the lives of little digital people. I was far too fascinated by the fact that the Grim Reaper had turned up to take the Sim away. Personally, I didn’t feel the need to mourn. The first time a Sim died on me, my surviving Sims circled the body and cried their eyes out.
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