Liampie

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I don't have the object and my folder is not small! Have you tried posix's advice of sharing or uploading the savegame?

Ah, so it's just tone police bullshit.

Wasn't trying to take it personal, but you can go there if you want.

 

I was discussing the park, to me it seems unnecessary to drag Wawel into it with a bunch of sarcasm. What does that accomplish?

Pretty bold move to criticize the choice to adapt one of the most well known roller coasters in one of the most well known amusement parks in the world (where another recreation of a roller coaster from this park is regarded as one of the best H2H maps ever).

But hey, recreating a Polish castle is a much better choice to adapt in H2HX. Well done, but it's not for me unfortunately.

It's not for you because your preferences don't extend beyond making stale jokes about the appearance of other NE members

Chateau
I’m excited that the Grand Tour is happening again, and your interpretation of the Canada prompt is very good! Wait, no, this is H2HX still. But it feels like a GT park and that’s always a good thing in my mind. The extras that come with the download help to set the scene and the park delivers without going overboard on anything. Every park trying to be the best most bending thing in the world is tiring and I like that this park is just trying to be the best version of itself. The village is a nice area to start out in. Archy is well done, again not overdone, and feels Quebecian. Quebecesque. The music is pleasant and the reverb makes it sound diegetic. Would be nice if I could trace down the musicians or speakers the music is coming from. There are musicians on the far end of town but it’s quiet there. Not so diegetic after all. 60% no. Anyway, lots of nice little details. I like all the market stalls, the raking peeps, the fleur de lis mural, the big banner, and the completely stagnant village tractor ride. A few things confuse me. When is this park set? At first it seemed like you were going all in with a 40s (approximately) setting, but then there’s a starbucks too - which ironically bothers me more than the RMC that I’ll discuss later. Rides are always the exception though. I’m also confused the village doesn’t have a train station. 60% no. Anyway. nice little fair. The Belvedere nicely leads the map into the next area: the valley.

First of all, I think this is my favourite bridge this H2H, sorry Jazzcats. The autumn foliage shines here, was about time someone did it. Swaying grass and ambient sounds: this park really excels at being subtly excellent. The camp is really nice, and I like the way you did the toilet. The valley also has the worst thing on the map: the mama’s maple syrup object.

Now we get to the other side of the map: the chateau. It’s surprising we’ve never seen a take on the chateauesque style in RCT before. The building is well done, but I guess it also demonstrates why it’s not all that appealing to build in RCT: it’s repetitive and not super interesting to look at. The scale is just ridiculous, which is not inaccurate but still a tad unattractive. I much prefer the village. The facade on the railway station side feels more human and it totally works there. I also appreciate the interiors. You spent a lot of time on arranging bed sheets in different ways . The map is missing some life here. The golf course is borderline dead, and the paths lack peeps. Sometimes some peeps exit the coaster, immediately to be hit by the valet service. I suppose you would’ve tackled this if you had a few more hours before the deadline - no hard feelings here. Alright, it’s coaster time. I think Circulaire is absolutely fantastic. It looks good, flows well, has originality, but it’s not unbelievable as an RMC in my opinion. Custom supports are fantastic, and for technical details they do a good job of enhancing my viewing experience, which I can’t say for every custom support - often it’s just there to make it look real. Here it looks cool. It’s only the side friction awning that I think looks shit.

I don’t want to end my review with the word ‘shit’ which generally doesn’t apply to the park, so I’ll end with a summary: I love the park, it delivers on all fronts without frying my brain (or my laptop - rare). It’s very comfortable and it gets my vote over the Jazzcats.

Maverick
Another normal park that I can view with a normal framerate, hurray. Pretty bold move to go with a recreation without your name being geewhzz. I must say that it’s a bit of a miss for me. A lot of the map is well done, but I don’t find it to be very good looking, and it starts with the coaster. Looks quite faithful as far as I’m familiar, but I find the surroundings to be quite ugly, some of the attempts at crunchy landscaping are rather crude. All the attention to detail with interiors and supports cannot change my mind, though again its all well done. The station area was again not very good looking, it’s a bit hard to read:

 

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There’s also some nice stuff here like the Wawel-esque (sorry lol) large customized trees. I think alex already pointed out the big restaurant in the middle, that’s good and easy on the eyes. Why is there a building called Six Flags? Is that also a thing in the real Cedar Point? Funnily enough one of my favourite choices in this park is the greenish water for the rapids ride. I don’t recall seeing that before but I’m sure we’ll see it again a lot in the future, it’s a good observation that often the water for water rides should have this disgusting chemical colour. I can smell the chlorine.

 

All in all I can appreciate the effort that went into this and I think it’s successful in most areas. Other areas I’ve nitpicked, it does not get bad anywhere on the map. When it is unattractive, I doubt the choice to adapt this in H2HX more than I doubt your execution. Well done, but it’s not for me unfortunately.