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  • iris%s's Photo
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    EverQuest: Waters of the Past by Prince_Ashitaka

    The first time I've ever released one Runner-Up by itself, really solidifying itself as a "mega runner-up". Although Prince has hit the Runner-Up position several times in the past, never have his parks been even close to as amazing as Waters of the Past. Definitely his crowning achievement as a Parkmaker, as Prince proves me to be a genius after making him a Parkmaker. Finally expanding past his common themes and slightly dull architecture, Prince grasps the concept of imaginative theming and goes wild, with four completely contrasting themed areas, all with cool stories behind each, and all with incredible skill. Also a much better coaster collection in this park, (although the park includes one of my least favorite all-time coasters), yet its made up for it by a simple, yet brilliant shuttle by A-K. Lots of cool extras in this park make it fun to look at for hours, and Corkscrewed will be the first to argue that Waters of the Past should have been a NE Spotlight. I've made my decision, so what's your call?
  • sircursealot%s's Photo
    Wow. Simply amazing. 10x better thsan DFK IMO, this was just so much more interesting. Great theming, great architecture, and some neat coasters too. I'll post a full review when I get home from school. Though I'm pretty sad MU didn't make runner-up. :(
  • thorpedo%s's Photo
    Must.....

    be........

    spotlight......

    Upgrade now.

    This is an amazing park. I'm actually very surprised that this isn't spotilght material. I suppose it eventually will be after the NE awards...but oh well. Its incredible. Your theming has improved SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much since Haunted Lake, or even since Mystic Realms. Its scary. The floorless invisible barrel loop happens to be only invisible from really only one side, which turns out to be just a shitty clearance hack. ;) Still a good idea though.
    My FAVORITE area is the blue area...(don't know the name, I didn't pay enough attention..I had gotten the earlier version of this and wanted to know what was different)...with the awesome invert, I love the vertical spike idea. Freak's adventure ride turns out to be not that bad actually...great theming. The giga is umm...really high, and it has a nice, twisted layout. Kudos to Prince on that also..

    Archy is much better and more elaborate. You've improved so much, I think I'm going to cry. What a great park.

    Must be spotlight.
  • Raven-SDI%s's Photo
    Hello.


    LoL...


    I just FINALLY reviewed this park last night...
    (after having it for 2 months)
    God damn you Iris!!!!!!!!!


    Raven-SDI
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  • sfgadv02%s's Photo
    I have seem this park from Stage one and its amazing, definitely Runner-Up material. The best in the Everquest series. Nice job!

    :)
  • Dantheman%s's Photo
    I love it like a fat kid loves cake.
  • rctfreak2000%s's Photo
    Stupid PA. Forgetting to give me credit for the adventure ride I built you. Just putting my name tells them nothing, lol.

    Bastard ;)

    Anyways, every time you sent me an update on this park, I told you it was awesome. It really should have earned you spotlight, and I must say that it completely outdoes (no offense) DFK. I liked the park a lot, although you know I hated that huge coaster thing. But all in all, aside from your naming problems (Fishina? lol), you've grown in your skills and most certainly deserve your parkmaking spot.
  • Scarface%s's Photo
    Very nice park.
    I absolutely loved the area with the Water coaster and Hydra, the eggs were a really cool idea.

    Where you smacked up when you made those supports to Amaryth (whatever the fuck its called) ?? I think this ride ruined the area, as the ride and supports weren't very good at all.

    The adventure ride, Beemer (loved the invisible barrel roll) and the woodie were also nicely done..

    Good job but not a scrape on DFK to be honest.
  • Hyperion%s's Photo
    Perry... How can you put up with getting runner-up so many times. I don't have RCT1 to look at it anymore but I remember testing it way back when. Definetly Spotlight material. I demand a recount. Great looking park. Stop making everyone look bad.

    ~Hyperion~
  • Butterfinger%s's Photo
    Mmmm........ this could have been spotlight. I wouldnt have complained.



    I think the best thing about this park is that it is four sections, BUT NO LAKE IN THE MIDDLE! Thank you for showing us that 'four corner' parks (If you could call it a four corner) can have different layouts.



    I think Iris has underrated this park. Wonderful job.
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    I don't know why this wasn't Spotlight either. ;)

    Basically, the best complaint you can make is that it went under Raindrop Riviera.

    So yeah.
  • Evil WME%s's Photo
    how sad.. i´ll be the only one to disagree.. oh wait, agree with its status. It doesn´t have that little *zing* imo. It seems endless PA theming without an end, and the coasters carry horrible ratings. That, for me, is still a major turn-off. Then it was imo just the overall feel and theming that wasn´t up to par with what for me a spotlight park should be. It was sorta messy. Tho not my style of parks, i guess it does exceed (for me) parks like Euroscape, Snowdrop, Universals Carribean, Arnos Springs, Disney´s Beautiful Kingdom, Land of a Villain, and has close calls on some real favorites of others. That could say my opinion is strange, but that also says a lot of parks have the exact things i look for in parks, missing. Possibly if i were choosing spotlights and had to make ammendments to my taste to choose out a spotlight, this park could very well have been a spotlight. Possibly over Nate´s park. Blabla bla... congrats! =P.
  • mantis%s's Photo
    I liked this park a lot. The entrance area is my favourite - the shrubs, gardens, objects and building style is pretty much perfection - something Prince has shown glimpses of in previous parks. Great job there. Siminia is also great - it has the best buildings in the park. I liked the coaster idea, but I thought you could have worked with it a bit longer to get the ratings down...don't get me wrong, I can see that would have been difficult, but I reckon you could have made it. It's a difficult issue, ratings (Corona is still one of my favourites) but I think here you needed good ratings, cos without them the 'weirdness' just becomes a gimmick rather than an enhancement...Hope you understand...

    *rest of post later, got to go out*

    Well, the water coaster is really cool too - but I think it's a shame the water drop was hidden out of the way like that.

    Aramyth has some really nice architecture and the Maze is really cool, but that giga is a disaster. It spoils the area completely - the second part of the layout isn't that bad - some nice building/coaster interaction - but the first drop+twist and supports are just dreadful. Lazy, I think is the appropriate word.

    The lava area was pretty cool. I liked the theming and the window-hacks were used well. Freak's adventure ride was a welcome break from the brown he usually uses - and I liked the wooden track/inverted track additions.

    Overall, a really nice park but I still rate it below RR and DFK. I think there were some basic problems: Inconsistent windows, crap naming (I agree...Fishina?? cool coaster, crap name), laziness in coasters.

    Apart from that you're onto something good - the Prince style is recognisable (good thing) and your buildings are really great (when they have windows etc). If you produce a whole park of the calibre of the entrance+siminia then you'll be onto a spotlight IMO.

    Well Done, Prince - bad luck in the spotlight stakes so far, but your parks are always great to look at and learn from.
  • Hevydevy%s's Photo
    Definately the best EverQuest ever. The names were great and how all the diffrent areas flowed together was done really good. I especailly like the boat idea. Some of the rides I think could have been done better. Ex. Temple of the Gods which was not that bad but would have been much better with normal giga supports, but the rest of the parks creativity easily made up for that. I especially liked the new twist on the old Atlantis theme. It was all great, and definately should be update to Spotlight.
  • mantis%s's Photo

    It was all great, and definately should be update to Spotlight.

    *cough*oceania*cough*
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    *cough* NO! *cough*
  • sircursealot%s's Photo

    *cough*oceania*cough*

    Snow Drop ownz.
  • natelox%s's Photo
    It was okay, not enough to make my top 20. To me, it was just a lighter version of all the other everquest parks. Coasters that have extreme intensity ratings or nausea ratings are horrible, it shows lazyness. That said, this park does have it's good spots, but non of them really stand out IMO. King Aklon's Oddysey was great but made me wonder if RRP or fatha' made it.

    Spotlight worthy? I think it has some work to do.
  • mantis%s's Photo

    Snow Drop ownz.

    That was a spotlight, dumbass :D

    Corky - well helloooo mr jealous :p
  • sircursealot%s's Photo

    That was a spotlight, dumbass :D

    Corky - well helloooo mr jealous :p

    Yes, I know that. It was the spotlight that beat out Oceania, so I thought you were suggesting it was better than SD, dumbass. :D