Very interesting. I enjoyed this from start to finish. I love how well you fleshed out Bella's perspective. Furthermore, your writing flows and the grammar is good!

This was absolutely amazing. Sims and a lot of video games in general tend to have not much of a number in fanfictions, and half of the ones that are made about many video game tend to be terribly formatted and don’t really fit into the themes of the source the fanfic is for.

Sims 2 is one the rare video games where no matter how the formatting is (though the high quality in the way your fanfic is formatted is much appreciated) and what genre the writer chooses, the themes in the story, in this game’s case the enigma and suspense, is in the work.

This is possibly due to the game itself being one that gives half of the clues either ominously or upfront and then give you the player the torch to create and light up the rest of the path the premade characters and towns should follow unlike other games, not having any player choice being automatically debunked from canon nor confirmed sans maybe Strangetown due to the events on the Sims 2 PSP, though even that still has opportunities for fan interpretation and gems—

Such as this fanfic.

“Identity,” in my opinion, really showcases on why Sims 2 was, is, and will always be considered the best of the Sims franchise—the bountiful yet evident plot of mystery and sinisterness in a game/world portrayed comically and weirdly. It is so good because it holds up as if it were yet another scripted storyline that Maxis wants to see how, when the scripted part is over, the player will put their own input on.

From your writing on Bella arriving disastrously into Strangetown to the way the abnormal is presented as a thrilling element to said town to Bella knowing something is off but yet feeling like that lack of self-assurance makes her, well, her, and to how the showings of sinisterness behind Dina and Don’s actions being shown to the readers yet only being confusing for Bella, the sense of confusion and unknown yet seen and talked to (literally) malice is presented. The part where Bella notices how the Bella in the pictures is not with the same facial structures was as if I were back on my old computer, playing the Sims 2 and noticing how Strangetown!Bella differs from the one from Pleasantview.

So many people just see the Sims franchise as a silly game to make your wildest dreams come true, but when you go and pay key details to the lives of the premade sims, it is shown that a world where money can be gotten by a motherlode and you have an alien who was a former sperm donator as a neighborhood can show that a fictional, seemingly perfect world with subtle fairytale like settings can sometimes turn into a world extremely realistic and scary on how it can hit close to home, even—no, ESPECIALLY with the darker themes.

...Sorry, that was a tad pretentious of me, and I basically wrote an essay lol. Like I was saying earlier, though, this fanfic is amazing. I’m definitely favoriting this and going to read your other works. Excellent job, Rozozzy. :)