Jens J.

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Ghirardelli's Dream

Fun music! It really sets the vibe for this park. I will start by saying I appreciate the innovative CTRs. The shallow grass slope vehicles give the landscaping a unique look, and the street vehicles actually blend in really well in the dock area (where the go karts start)! One thing I also loved was how well this vehicle works with downward-sloped curvy roads like in the picture.

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downloads: 30

My favourite area of the park would have to be the pier area. I love the seal show and the guests taking photos with the hanging shark there! The miniature scenes would have to be a close second place, really neat object usage to make it immediately clear what the scenes are portraying.

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downloads: 34

For the rest of the map, I would have to say it is made up of buildings of varying quality. The bigger buildings, like the one with the solar panel canopies or the building that is under construction, were the best of the map. When you compare that to the small-scale buildings on the rest of the map, some just pale in comparison (I wouldn't say rushed, but more lacking the details to push it to the next level in terms of execution).

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downloads: 28

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downloads: 31

Overall, I would say that this is a fun and enjoyable park with a solid concept that could've used a week or two more in the oven to get the less-developed areas of the park up to the quality that was shown in the miniature scenes and near the pier.

Neo Hot Springs

Compared to Ghirardelli's Dream, I would say this park has the higher highs and lower lows. But let's start with the positives! Upon opening the map, I was greeted by some neat looking macro with the text written in ice (shoutout to hoobaroo for pointing out the translation of the text on Discord!). Throughout the park, there's some flashes of brilliance shown in the architecture with all the awesome light effects and detailed shopfronts.

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downloads: 25

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downloads: 29

While the duelling(-ish?) coaster was hard to follow, I absolutely loved the motorbike one! It doesn't have the height or other stats of the more imposant coasters but I really liked it's twisty, low-to-the-ground layout. With that said, I do have to point out the landscaping/rockwork which was practically nonexistent below the icy text. I would have loved to see the current rocky terrain be combined with some 1K Ruin Rocks or Tolsimir's Land Wall Rocks to amp up the level of the landscaping and to fill (or even hide lol) those bare-looking land walls.

I'll end off by saying that this was (to me) the closest match-up this contest. Was very close to a null-vote. The overall macro, cyberpunk archi and cool animated billboards almost swayed my vote, so I hope you guys are proud of the work you put out here! Like c'mon, look at the 1-Up Mushroom!

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downloads: 27

New round new ranking wooo

My parks:

XX.) Sambhava’s Rest (LHC)

XX.) Murder in McAllan (LHC)

1.) The Screameasy (JC)

2.) Bugs and Bots (LHC)

3.) Void Extraction Research Base (JC)

4.) The Yards (EG)

5.) Sea of Symphonies (SJ)

6.) Valley of the Kings (SJ)

7.) Yucca Desert Park (SJ)

8.) Constellations (LHC)

9.) Lostileth (H)

10.) Dambuster Home Video Presents: Buxom the Sunset Sorceress, and the Purple Haze at Castle Death (TD)

11.) Radio Park Tbilisi (TD)

12.) Castello Altovento (JC)

13.) Millennium Discovery Museum (H)

14.) Hell (SJ)

15.) Raveland (EG)

16.) Cirque Macabre (EG)

17.) Troubadours et Baladins (EG)

18.) Naam Chalong Suu Oom (H)

19.) The Sailor (TD)

20.) Institute of Extraordinary Biota (JC)

21.) Wawel Castle (TD)

22.) Base X (H)

I love this contest <3

Thank you otter for the lovely colored team names from the last wrap-up <3

XX.) Sambhava’s Rest (LHC) (too biased to rank this one lol, but still really proud of the end result!)

1.) Bugs and Bots (LHC)

2.) Void Extraction Research Base (JC)

3.) The Yards (EG)

4.) Valley of the Kings (SJ)

5.) Yucca Desert Park (SJ)

6.) Constellations (LHC)

7.) Lostileth (H)

8.) Radio Park Tbilisi (TD)

9.) Castello Altovento (JC)

10.) Millennium Discovery Museum (H)

11.) Hell (SJ)

12.) Cirque Macabre (EG)

13.) Troubadours et Baladins (EG)

14.) Naam Chalong Suu Oom (H)

15.) The Sailor (TD)

16.) Institute of Extraordinary Biota (JC)

17.) Wawel Castle (TD)

Quality is very, very high in general. Y'all getting crazy good

Void Extraction Research Base

Holy hell. This park is bonkers. Took me a minute to realize what exactly the plugin did besides the sounds but man that void sprayer is sick! The car colors randomly changing throughout the coaster layout is a neat touch too. If I had to summarize this park in one word, I would totally say "elevation". Everywhere you look, the screen is filled with content from lovely and bizarre looking landscape at the bottom to the nicely shaped buildings up top (and capped off by the awesome looking space stations high up).

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downloads: 22

There's so many details I love about this park so I'll just name a few:
- The void stamper if that's what you would call it haha.

- The test subjects scene

- The sucking up of "void"

- PIPES! You're a legend Spacek

Besides that, I also really liked the landscaping! The effort put into blending the various rock layers with such diverse colors into each other so well has to be applauded. Bravo Jazzcats!

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downloads: 24

The Yards

Holy hell x2. Music is bangingggggg. The rest has to be lying to themselves, this track really adds to the vibes of this park. I could totally see myself having a blast on that party boat. Just as the Jazzcats' park, The Yards also has tons of elevation. What I was more impressed by though is the perfect implementation of half diagonals into the park. The half diagonal "Castaway" sign and the boat go hard and all off it fucked with my brain so hard that I still have trouble convincing myself that the train bridge is not half diagonal haha. Crazy stuff.

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downloads: 26

Just as V.E.R.B., this park also deserves a list of details I loved (as there were plenty):
- Timing the conveyor track with all the buckets to the windmill objects is a lovely touch. 

- Amazing interaction moments between the coasters

- The silo and utility truck scene

- The Cheese and Wine building entrance, phenomenal execution here

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downloads: 25

This was the hardest match yet for me as this is currently my top 2 for H2HX. Great work from both teams!