These days at NE it seems like we have a new parkmaker shooting up the ranks everyday while the old favorites mostly fade into the background. Recently we have seen CP6, J K, 5Dave, Fisch, FK and other rise up the the ranks of the best parkmakers at the site right now, but at this time all eyes are on Faceman who has now given us his breakthrough NE Blockbuster park, Paradise Island!   
In this first screen you get a good look at the African themed entrance. My favorite ride here is "Crocodile Challenge," which gives off a great swampy ruin look. Also in this area you will find a great hacked "lift loop" on his hacked coaster, "The Panther." In the corner Faceman manages a great rapids with "Congo River" where guests twist and turn through the jugle and catch glimpses of treasure.

 
The second area of the park takes us to China where you will find two of the parks best rides in "Qomolangma," (which is the name of Mt. Everrest in the West) that is once again hacked and uses a custom overhanging coaster car made by ja227. There are many flat rides in this park, but only one custom one. However, Faceman made it a really good one with "Sky Swing" which has a shogun style look and I love the cables that help it stand in place, great detail there. 

With the success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean we have seen many POTC themes, but this is one of the best yet. Faceman delivers another rich atmosphere with his POTC remediation that is highlighted by his B&M Launched coaster "The curse." You also get the parks second water ride here with "Hook." Oh and yes I did mistakenly catch Mechanics name in the screen, but it does show one of the parks weaknesses, which is that some things were left un-named. Dude is it really that hard to take two seconds and name a staff member Kumba ;-)

In this screen you get a good look at "The Dark Knight Duel" between Lancelot and Gawain of the fabled days of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table. Overall it is a pretty good duel and one of the best coasters in the park alongside Qomolangma. However, the coasters in this park are not exactly world class. Faceman did do a pretty good job, but some of the staff members and I felt that coasters in a Spotlight type park should be a little more impressive.

Now this is my favorite part of the park, the "Dark Ages" area. The atmosphere in this area is just wonderful and seems the least borrowed of the four. I loves the details around here like the greenery growing everywhere and he even pulled out an old LL trick by using rapids lifts as steps and it pays off as they end up looking much better then footpath steps here.  

In the last screen we get a look at three areas of the park. Sadly for Faceman it was these areas that coast him an NE Spotlight. The Africa area screams X250, RCTFAN and Turtle's work in H2H4. The Asian area uses the same formula as Turtle did in IC. And finally the Port Royal area is almost identical to what Artist did in IoE. Faceman does give us some amazing atmospheres that are NE Spotlight worthy, only most of them have already won...

 

The parks identity crisis aside, I was very impressed. You have a lot of skill and I can see you from parts of the park that you are quite creative, but until I see you create things that are more your own I will have a hard time putting you among the sites elite. The dark ages area was imo the best example of the skill you bring to the table and I think once you branch out a little more I will need to give you an NE Parkmaker spot, maybe even the NE Spotlight you nearly got here.