😿 [EP19] CAS Review: Enchanted By Nature is technically not a total disaster. It's just kinda disappointing.

⚠️ My screenshots don't showcase absolutely every item. There are cutesy clothes for the kiddies, more Accessories (Body) for adults, including the vine Bracelet seen on Scarlet's arm, Gloves, Leggings, Socks, Tattoos, Teeth, Skintones, and... I'm think forgetting something.

🦋 Why, yes! I did customize the colors of my wings for my "Final Fairy Form". I put in the effort to build an outfit around that skirt and those hooves. They are my favorite items from EP19 CAS. The skirt makes me feel like Xena: Warrior Fairy! I like the "Fall" colors. I can totes be your "Fall Fairy Maiden".

🐱 Despite my frustration over the state of the game (I can't speak for the state of the Expansion Pack, except for how horrible the fairy walking animation is), we did get (2) new CAS categories. I might move all of my "Wearables™ Wigs" into the "Head Decorations" category when I finally update them for "CAS Filters", and I've wanted to make a "Porcelain Goddess" skin overlay for a while.

☆ // ⋆ CAS REVIEW DISCLAIMER:

These reviews aren't about the gameplay or the shiny new features.

You can find that kinda fluff Elsweyr.

This is where we dissect new CAS content and look at Bloat™, PartFlags and TAGS, meshes, and textures, to see if EAxis has improved at all or if they're doing the same half-arsed garbage they've been doing for the past TEN (10) YEARS.

I'm sorry, but Update 7/1/2025 and Update 7/10/2025 were a complete mess and introduced a bunch of new bugs, and the months-long issues with CAS make playing dress-up a frustrating chore now.

I need to make my "CASMenu Override" and I need to find time to look into CAS.

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☆ // ⋆ RELATED PROJECTS:

• 🐱 CAS Reviews Collection -- https://../collection/1268122

• 🗺️ CAS Overrides: Enchanted By Nature -- https://../posts/134147151

• 🗺️ CAS Add-Ons: Enchanted By Nature -- PENDING™

• 🗺️ CAS De-Bloat™: Enchanted By Nature -- PENDING™

• 🗺️ All-in-One Live Event Rewards Unlocker -- https://../posts/120588981

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☆ // ⋆ IN SUMMARY:

EP19: ENCHANTED BY NATURE isn't a total disaster, it's just not that exciting.

The following is subjective. Is just my opinion, bro:

• The hairstyles are absolutely... "atrocious" is too harsh, but if it don't look good on Scarlet, then it's all just useless junk to me. The best one is probably the one worn by the main Sim in the trailer.

• The wings are cute. Clearly this is where all the effort went.

• The quality of the clothes is fine, but the limited selection is disappointing.

• The accessories are kinda fine except but have you noticed that textures always seem to look kinda sad on Masks (Glasses)?

• The makeup is limited.

Maybe the new gameplay features make up for it? Maybe it's all about the wings and painting your wings? Maybe I'm just suddenly bad at dress-up? 😹

I spent too much time trying to find something to wear for the cover screenshot. I thought it would be easier, but EP19 CAS is split between "fairy" clothing and regular boring !@#$. Why couldn't we get more "fairy" clothing?!

Oh and the new "Aspiration" description is literally, "This Sim wants to show the world just what kind of Fairy they can be." Who signed off on that? 😹

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, there are "hoof" shoes.

I love fairies - well, all mystical, mythical, and magical creatures - but Scarlet looks better as an EP17: LIFE & DEATH wraith. I'm just saying... It's fairies! This should have been better.

Apart from the wings, it feels like EF63: NATURE'S CALLING EVENT, and my tagline for that was "Bruh, they literally gave us rocks! 😹". Now I'm curious if we got more rocks in Build Mode!

[5 MINUTES LATER]

Bruh! They didn't give us more rocks, but Build Mode looks nicer than CAS. I don't generally stray into Live / Build Mode in these reviews, but I was curious about the rocks.

EAxis did a full set of cutesy woodland-themed items. If you've ever played Palia, it honestly feels like a Palia crafting set. There are floor lamps and ceiling lights and wall lamps in the shape of flowering trees and branches! There's even a unicorn rug!

CAS feels even more disappointing now. (╯'□')╯︵ ┻━┻

ONE MORE THING! The walking (and I assume running) animation for fairies doesn't look good. It's too much swaying from side to side. It made me feel like I was a child again playing with my little plastic dinosaurs and wobbling them from side to side to simulate walking. 😹

☆ // ⋆ PRELIMINARY REVIEW:

See "DEADLINES™ AND DISAPPOINTMENTS" for the list offending items.

Sims 4 Studio isn't updated to filter EP19's items via the "Game Pack" drop-down filter yet, so I'm just using "Search" for now and we'll revisit this at a later date.

BLOAT™ -- At least ONE (1) item needs fixing. A couple others have slight Bloat™ but they can be ignored. Bloat™ affects all Female and Feminine Frame sims who don't have the tiniest waist possible. It's meant to look "baggy", but it just looks "bloated" and atrocious, and EAxis refuses to stop doing it. We can fix this - I can fix this - I just need to dedicate the time to it.

RESTRICT OPPOSITE GENDER -- There are THREE (3) items with improper "ROGender" PartFlags. These PartFlags prevents "transframe" sims like Scarlet from accessing items that match their "Physical Frame" but not their "Gender".

RESTRICT OPPOSITE FRAME -- As usual, if the CAS content isn't a complete "ROGender" mess, then it's almost 100% "ROFrame", even where it's unnecessary.

COLOR TAGS -- There are a bunch of items with an improper "Color" TAG on a single swatch.

TBC...

☆ // ⋆ DEADLINES™ AND DISAPPOINTMENTS:

"Deadlines™" is my way of acknowledging that EA is the true villain of this story.

This is a list of issues I've discovered that I may or may not fix in a timely fashion. PartFlags are rarely included in this list.

If it gets fixed, it gets a ✔️, ❓ if semi-fixed, ❌ if I can't fix, and 🔄 if I noticed that EAxis finally noticed there was a problem and fixed it in an update.

TOPS:

• yfTop_EP19Celtic -- Bloated™

• yfTop_EP19JacketFloral -- Bloated™

• ymTop_EP19Crop -- Improper "Restrict Opposite Gender" PartFlags.

BOTTOMS:

• yfBottom_EP19LeafKilt -- This is probably the cutest skirt in EP19 but it's hidden under the "Masculine Fashion Choice" filter for Feminine Frame sims, all because it's a kilt. Really, EAxis? Really? Okay.

ACCESSORIES:

• yfAcc_NecklaceEP19Choker -- Improper "Restrict Opposite Gender" PartFlags.

• ymAcc_NecklaceEP19Choker -- Improper "Restrict Opposite Gender" PartFlags.

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☆ // ⋆ WHY DOES EAXIS STILL "ROFRAME":

You know what I don't understand?

EAxis knows how to unrestrict clothing items (TOPS, BOTTOMS, FULL BODY, and SHOES, but never FEET) for all sims.

The thing I do where I remove all "Restrict Opposite" PartFlags and use proper "Fashion Choice" TAGS isn't some previously unheard of, groundbreaking new discovery.

EAxis knows how to do it, so why don't they?

Why do they insist on unnecessarily restricting clothing items?

Some items, like most ACCESSORIES and all HAIR, need the "Restrict Opposite Frame" PartFlag, but clothing items don't require any "Restrict Opposite" PartFlags. They just need proper "Fashion Choice" TAGS and sensible "Allow For Random" PartFlags.

I don't get why we're still doing this after TEN (10) YEARS.