Originally posted by burntlink
Honestly the game isn't hard. It's actually easy. Just time consuming.
However, if you're struggling, I suggest using the traits cheats as it doesn't disable trophies you earn.
You can enter them by bringing up the cheats menu, R1,R2,L1,L2 at the same time and enter the following:
traits.equiptrait
and then enter any trait u want the sims to have. A full list can be found via Google.
This literally cut my playtime in half as I earned most of the skill trophies in a day or two.