Park / Southwinds

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  ottersalad Offline

  Congrats on the Spotlight.. well deserved. I want to first say that I was expecting this to be in the 85%-90% range.. I might just be a huge fan of this style of parkmaking, but I don't see much fault here. Such clinical parkmaking should be a few ticks higher I think. But, 83% is higher than I'll ever achieve! I agree with ][ntamin that the entrance area lacked a bit of substance, but the park grew out from there. Didn't necessarily need a "main street".

   

  Figured I'd share a few snapshots of stuff I enjoyed while going through this a few times.. 

   

  

   

  First.. this screen showed a few things I think you did well in this park.. your paths were clean with nice little details. So many planters and realistic foliage and landscaping. The little restaurant screams Cedar Fair.. and the car ride was pleasant. The Huss top spin was well done. Loved the rockwork around it. 

   

  

   

  This station area is a good example of minor details that probably fit the "dirty american realism" narrative well. You have a crane presumably to move cars off the track? Swinging doors to leave the station.. green speaker in the bushes.. great stuff.

   

  

   

  Lastly, long live Disaster Transport! This area fits the narrative well with what appears to be something Paramount would do.. overthemed to a movie, then sold to CF and subsequently made more generic. The jet outside Afterburn was great too. 

   

   

  posted 5 years ago

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  saxman1089 Offline

  I’m currently at Disney without a computer, so I’ll save the detailed review for later. My reasoning for my 80/no vote was that the park was super well-done technically, but it didn’t really make me feel anything. When choosing spot or no, this is probably the most important thing to me personally. For whatever reason, it didn’t keep my attention for as long as I would expect from a spotlight. I’m not one of those people who can bring myself to vote a full-size park as an 85/no, and this clearly is better than a mid-gold. Great job overall though, I think the park scored right where it should.

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  MrTycoonCoaster Fan Offline

  gee! I got animal, I loved your work, really nice

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  Jappy Offline

  So it's finally here! The ultimate in American realism. What a great park and achievement, considering the fact how you've been struggling with the object limit for the past few weeks before finishing this. And I congratualte you on the Spotlight!

   

  I do however have to be a Debby Downer here: I don't think it deserved a Spotlight. Sure, it's near perfect recreationalism. It's brimming with atmosphere and everything is as is should be, but it offers nothing unique enough to push it over the edge for Spotlight for me. I'm sorry I have to say this, but it feels like I've all seen it before. It's better now then before, but still...the same.

   

  Like I said, that doesn't mean this isn't a great park. That little corner with the cafe and swan boats is some of my favorite parts of park building ever. Well composed and tranquil. Copperhead is as accurate as one can get with a B&M, and the entrance, despite people saying it's too small, is one of my favorite parts of the park.

   

  I'm still happy for you you won Spotlight. But I'd rather see your Busch Gardens park win it than this. 

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  dr dirt Offline

  Uncanny.  I will write a review this week; after seeing this to review on streaming I thought it was probably your best park yet.

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  FredD Offline

  Congrats G Force with your second spotlight. I think it is well deserved. I don't want another discussion about how we've seen American realism too much and blablabla... you do your thing, you're great at it! 

   

  It overall feels like a polished, cleaned up and better composed Westwinds. I think it's safe to say this is my favorite park I've seen from you. Composition of the park is really great and it makes for some really atmospheric areas. The square before the theatre is so lovely for example. 

   

  The coasters are dope as well. Megalodon takes the cake, I guess it would be a pretty painful ride experience in real life but it does look so good. Afterburn was also really good and all the other coaster were also interesting in their own way.

   

  I'm looking forwards to Northwinds.

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  CedarPoint6 Offline

  Here's a stream review of the park.  In my opinion, this is some of the best of the best as far as realism goes. 

   

  https://youtu.be/axS1vKNnKkA

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  Sephiroth Fan Offline

  ^Thanks for doing these CP6, I've really been enjoying them. And so nice to see/hear appreciation for what I think is one of the most underrated parks on this site in recent times, along with SFDK. I don't remember if you've talked about that park yet. Oh well, looks like I'm going back to your YouTube channel again, oops!  

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