Park / Candlelight Times
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07-December 03
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Candlelight Times
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i thought mantis park really takes the cake with the medeival and greek areas. They were both umbelievable. The beemer and woodie were both magnificent, and i loved the crisp atmosphere of the grecian section. I also liked mantis egyptian section, with some bigger than usual buildings which seemed very fitting. The entrance was small, and i didn´t really like the tower.. but the flowering was beautiful. The parts i didn´t like were Alien Factory and the Wilderness section. The invert really seemed to helix on and on and it didn´t carry the connection one coaster should have imo. All in all, the lesser areas are hugely overshadowed by the great ones. The beemer mixed in regular beemer elements beautifully with Mantissy coaster ways (whatever you call it =P) and the theming was another beautiful mix with the cliche pyro/fatha theming, and mantissy goodness. The Grecian section is my favorite, a very beautiful coaster, lovely archy, and it felt really alive. Anyways, Mantis looks to be like a definite winner.
Micool, i still wub the cactus. I really liked the ideas and creativity, but i couldn´t really like the coasters at all. I love looking at all the details, and i wish i still had the write-up in which i explained some more of it. It´s amazing you fit 6 areas in that small little map.
My park... i don´t know what to say, but enjoy =D. Thx for all the positive comments on it =D.
I think I might have to set a poll up actually, Mantis's Old Coventry or Pyro's Medievil area in Aurora's Bay. Be very close. They are both incredible.
Also iris, if you're gonna use my crappy walkthrough, contact me to get a better version. I have to change a few things.
I will have to look at them more and then I'll vote and give each a little write up if I can be bothered
I'm very disappointed in you, doing a mongolian area and not coming to me, ( my pet idea for an area for a while, but regardless, I'd love to see someone as talkented as mantis do Mongolia, and do it CORRECTLY!)
Lost in Darkest Peru? nothing to do with mongolia, the mongols were never in peru, or had ever even heard of peru.
Yeti?Mountains?What!? Ancient Mongolia was on the steppes of the Gobi Desert, flat cold frigid PLAINS. They interacted with mountains once they invaded Tibet and China, but their homeland was the steppes, flat and barren as far as the eye can see, with small foothills in rows poking up through the middle in places.
If there was no mention of Genghis, Kublai or Ogodai Khan, or Subotai, then major "lack of historical accuracy" points docked. They were the single most influencial figures in all of Mongolia, especially Genghis
It was well made, by all means, but historically inaccurate, which freaks me out as you know.
especially on my favorite ancient civilization, the undefeatable mongol horde
I just have to say that the Mongolian area is my favorite area in the park because I think it's the most unique to mantis. He's established himself as the master of the SLC with Cryptic Tenoke and the wonderful SLC in this area. The landscaping is second to none. Spiraling themes around huge mountains seems to be what mantis does best. I love all the waterfalls especially. Taking away all the trees I understand better how it was constructed. It's not as complex as I first thought but I give you all the credit in the world for being able to create such a convincing atmosphere in the way that you do. It's stunning how much better you've gotten in the last year, but I guess that's true for all of us. Yeah so this has becoming mantis admiration hour for me but what can I say, I'm entranced. Although I love the B&M coaster, the medieval section is actually my least favorite in the park. It feels a little too sprawling and repetitive like the theme lost focus a bit. The Egyptian and Minoan sections are especially impressive because they are just the right size. And for the record, I love huge buildings like the one that houses the mine train. Sometimes you don't need all those windows to make something look good.
I don't have time to go into depth atm, but congrats to all three of you for actually completing this project! Micool, this is my favourite work of yours I've seen to date. WME, I always love your coasters! Mantis, great work and I can't wait til WOMB is done.
Mantis- Absolutely fucking incredible. My favorite area being Old Coventry closely followed by Alien Factory. Old Coventry has probably the best landscaping job I've ever seen in RCT. Beautiful waterfalls and a kickass treecombo. The whole area is breathtaking, and the beemer isn't bad either.
MiCool- Again, some of the weirdest shit I've ever seen..the entrance area is very cool with all the stacking..but there's not enough to capture my interest. Sorry.
mantis wins for me.
Oh, and WME..I like the barrell fence thingy at the entrance, nice touch.
Ed - Mongolia is my least favourite area. I hate it.
I'm surprised people like Old Coventry. It's the area I made first (ie, yonks ago) and it's so repetitive it's not funny. Karnak is my personal favourite - I think it's the best thing i've done.
Thankyou for the kind words. Go WME and Micool for entering and making fucking amazing parks.
CT should be the winner here.
And no, you win still. But WME was close behind.
I'm serious though, mantis' entry alone has persuaded me to buy LL just to see that Floorless up close. It looks amazing bud.
Can't wait to look at the other ones too!
Dragon Realm: My first view at a 'serious' park by Micool, and I'm still asking why is everyone saying he'll be the next parkmaker. Poor architecture, poor colours, poor use of flowers and trees and over hacking. And that's just the entrance area. The rest of the park was actually better, but all had elements of the entrance area. The best work by Micool (IMO), and I still don't see what everyone sees in him.
Candlelight Times: This is pure WME, which, although entertaining, is sub 'great'. The use of colours throughout the park is too much, there is no definitive style to the park. The landscaping and use of trees were very good in some areas, and not so good in others. Overall, okay, needed more thought into what went where and the different themed areas with an overall style in mind. Good, could have been better, yet gets to recieve my vote.
Age Of Empires: Finally I get to see something that Mantis made. Finally I can judge him fairly! As a parkmaker, definetly average, nothing stood out. His lack of creativity was unbelievable! Everything was taken from somewhere else. The entrance was a composite of every IOA recreation ever made (includind IOAH), Mongolian Wilderness was a near carbon copy of x-Sectors Jurrasic Hotel, Karnak resembled RRP's Kilminjaro and IOAH's lost coninent too much. Alien Factory was a carbon copy of Blitz. Aegean Isle was watered down X-sector with a little RRP and OLD COVENTRY was an attempt at a fatha/coaster Ed mix. Even the layout of the park was the already-been-copied-too-much-lake-in-the-middle. Call it harsh, but I couldn't see any "mantis" I just saw some watered down attempts at other's sucess. I guess I don't see what everyone else see's in Mantis. And I cannot agree with him being the parkmaker of the year. Fatha' or CoasterEd are the front runners IMO.
Overall, the parks were not made to the heighest of standards. None of them managed to make my top 20 list, not that they wanted to, but it just shows you what I thought of them.
So what DO you like?
Plus, I'm a sheer WME fan.
But I do have suspiscions that you're turning into Posix. Maybe not as slowly as we thought..