Park / Violet Gardens

  • 28-March 12
Park_2302 Violet Gardens

33 Comments

  • Comment System%s's Photo
    United Kingdom Comment System Offline
    posted 12 years ago
  • Louis!%s's Photo
    United Kingdom Louis! Offline
    Well done Prodigy, shame it didn't hit spotlight :( There were some amazing parts to this, it was fantastic.

    Oh and that carousel is easily the best one ever done in RCT2. It was perfect, which is why it's the focus of my banner.

    Can't wait to see what you bring in the future.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Cocoa%s's Photo
    Australia Cocoa Fan Offline
    excellent work! tough luck on the spotlight, but it was a little small. 0.77% :p

    I'll start out by saying that this park was generally very good. Some great architecture, great rides, atmosphere, and some classic prodigy work! It certainly has your signiture atmosphere through it!

    Which is sort of my problem, in that it's just not that different from any of your other stuff. Don't get me wrong, it's all good, I'm just not seeing any improvement, just stagnation. Your foliage is a bit dark, the sand is a bit overused, and I think you have a tendency to leave areas bare where some buildings or flowers or something could really brighten everything up. Also, your park layouts are crazy, who would make the trek to get to the entrance of the log flume? Some paths just seem like backstage roads :p Also crazy paving everywhere, vary up your paths! I'd also say take your themes further. The general foliage and style is fine for a generic entrance area, but when you're doing mexico or switzerland or whatever, bring in some different foliage, different paths, and abandon the "generic" themes that you often have run through your entire park. really make the areas feel like the theme, rather than just the architecture style that changes.

    But those are really minor gripes, take them as advice for a future park rather than a criticism. I love this park and wish you luck with your next spotlight endeavor!
    posted 12 years ago
  • djbrcace1234%s's Photo
    United States djbrcace1234 Offline
    No offense, but the past few reviews have been very uninspired and just seem to lack exposure of the parks/designs for the amount of effort put into these creations.

    Prodigy, I loved it. I love how your style is precise and consistent

    I'll edit this post later with all my thoughts.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Louis!%s's Photo
    United Kingdom Louis! Offline

    Also crazy paving everywhere, vary up your paths!


    I don't get why people always want lots of different paths in RCT. I mean, all the parks I've been to only ever really have 2 different path styles max, and that's tarmac and brick/cobblestone.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Angroc%s's Photo
    Norway Angroc Offline
    Oh yeaaah! I'm usually not into hyper realism, but damn some of the little details in there are just amazing. Like the little bit of diagonal path connecting the two Switz style houses by the splash ride. Just those little neat details. But favourite was definitively the second lift hill on the Loch Ness inspired coaster. My only (very small) crit is that maybe you could've waited for the park to get a little more populated by peeps? They add so much life. Anyways, great stuff. I got excited about seeing it after seeing it in the ad district.
    posted 12 years ago
  • RCTER2%s's Photo
    RCTER2 Offline
    I love this park! although Im a fan of romanticism haha :lol:
    posted 12 years ago
  • SSSammy%s's Photo
    United Kingdom SSSammy Offline
    prodigy. me love you long time. this is incredible.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Cena%s's Photo
    Netherlands Cena Offline
    Better make this spotlight and Legacies, gold, since this had excellent coasters in it!

    I think that if you improved your foliage Prodigy, this would have been spotlight.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Dimi%s's Photo
    Belgium Dimi Offline
    I loved every bit of it and I thought it was spotlight worthy. I can see that people didn't vote spotlight because of the size and the foliage (which I actually liked), but 79% seems just too low for a park like this, its' only 10% higher than Stone Valley Theme Park or Valium Skies! Although I prefer extensive theming, this is a perfect example of how a very realistic park can be interesting, atmospheric and aesthetically beautiful with just a bit of theming.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Sulakke%s's Photo
    Netherlands Sulakke Offline
    Why didn't you fix the exit path of the Corkscrew coaster? The park does have peeps, but it's just not peepfriendly. I think it could have scored a lot higher if the park had happy peeps!
    posted 12 years ago
  • posix%s's Photo
    Germany posix Offline
    I was a bit disappointed by this park. To be frank, I felt it was underinspired and thus boring. Cliché sterile realism with too little soul.

    Having reviewed most of the past Spotlights for the history recaps at the time, this was by no means Spotlight material to me.
    posted 12 years ago
  • trav%s's Photo
    United Kingdom trav Offline
    I completely agree with Posix. This was good technically, but there was nothing that stood out, it all had a very sterile atmosphere. I think it also had far too much detailing for what it was trying to be, which took away from the atmosphere cos I was just concentrating on the details.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    Netherlands Liampie Offline
    I agree too. This was by no means a bad park but it's definitely not spotlight worthy. The park disappointed me a little, both because the park is very bad with peeps, I mean very bad, the foliage takes away a lot of credibility and I've seen almost everything already in the advertising topic. The entrance area came closest to spotlight quality, I loved that bit. Something I didn't see before but I absolutely loved was the wooden supported building in the fifth gallery screen. It had character, unlike most other architecture in the park. The architrecture overall was very nice, but also very generic. Something else I loved: the radios on the beach, although personally I think three of them is two too many. :p Nit picking.

    Overall no spotlight, but a solid gold. I hope you're building another park sometime, with better foliage, planning and concepts from the start. I know that you can still improve.
    posted 12 years ago
  • turbin3%s's Photo
    Korea, Republic of turbin3 Offline
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    wet stairs - awesome!
    posted 12 years ago
  • chorkiel%s's Photo
    Netherlands chorkiel Offline
    So at first I saw that this one had a gold only and I thought, based on the screens, this'd be a gold.
    But looking at it in total, there was indeed something that made me feel like gold is good enough. This thing had a lot of great things, but one thing that mainly bothered me was, that the queues are incredibly small. At least they felt really small.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Nitrous Oxide%s's Photo
    United States Nitrous Oxide Offline

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    wet stairs - awesome!


    Actually that's just a piece of glass dividing the path for those who don't want to get wet.

    And for the exit to the corkscrew "needing to be fixed".. I'm sure the paths work completely, it's just peeps sometimes are stupid and if a path leads towards the entrance/exit they will take it and get stuck, I've had this happen many times with my opened parks. There's really only a few ways to fix it and it can mean completely changing the layout of the park/rides.

    Anyways, I thought the park was really good. Great attention to detail. I really liked the GCI and the Arrow (Lockness). The B&M was so not bad. Overall though, I think it's a great park.
    posted 12 years ago
  • Steve%s's Photo
    United States Steve Offline
    I really liked this. Some great details and I don't think the atmosphere was missing at all; I got a really unique vibe from this park, which I think most, if not all, of your work does, prodigy. I probably would have voted no for Spotlight as I don't think it's quite there yet, but it definitely deserves this gold. At this rate though, I don't see why your next park wouldn't be Spotlight. Well done, dude!
    posted 12 years ago
  • A.S.Coasters%s's Photo
    United States A.S.Coasters Offline
    While everything is looking fine and dandy from the pictures, inside the park was not managed very well. Rides were contantly breaking down, and there was a nice build up of 150 people in the exit for Loop&Corkscrew trying to get home (which brought the park rating to a zero). All in all your detail was amazing, rides looked fantastic, and I liked that all of the staff members were named after members here, but the cons seem to outweigh the pros for the most part in this one. 65/100
    posted 12 years ago
  • olddtfan51%s's Photo
    United States olddtfan51 Offline
    This is a great park. I love the way it's laid out very real looking keep up the great work.
    posted 12 years ago