Because your Sims are much more self-sufficient than in the original — they can generally manage to eat and go to the bathroom when they need to — you’re freed up to help them out with their aspirations, which puts you more in the role of a benevolent guardian angel than an invisible day-care teacher. Moving the focus away from bodily functions and toward hopes and dreams is a subtle but important improvement. —Lore Sjöberg
—Sims 2: Face Lift of the Original  (Wired)

Great captions in this article… here’s the one for the image I clipped above: “It’s a Sim, playing The Sims, in The Sims 2! It’s, like, Shakespearean or something.”