Releases / H2H6 - Semi Final 2: Heaven's Kitchen VS Hurricanes

just to let everyone know I actually did look at both parks however here is my vote
I vote Heaven's Kitchen

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Voting still open? It's so quiet around here.


Anyways, here we go. First off: Two very enjoyable parks in this semi's, a joy to watch.

Canes:
This park had areas that oozed atmosphere (for example the surroundings of treebeard/weeping willow), and some great concepts. However, those were great Harry Potter ór Lord of the Rings concepts on their own, not mixed with the other. The combination of Rowling vs. Tolkien in a park, and even within rides, seems a shame. I do not want to see Voldemort sitting on the track of what's supposed to be a Mount doom related ride for example. For that, the concept of this park really destroyed it for me.

Another problem I had with this was that the archy and landscaping felt outdated. This park would've been outstanding in 2009, but it isn't in 2012. It lacked detailled archy, which was cleverly covered by the night time (very atmospherical!) trick, but an eye-sore in the normal version. Such a shame, because the settings Tolkien and Rowling created are só inspirational. I also felt it was weird that on an archy base you missed these details, whereas so much detail was put in the frozen staff, the custom rides, putting as many references as possible in etc.


Kitchen:
It's súch a shame H2H parks are of a size that doesn't allow you to build full-size parks, because about the only real flaw I found in this park was that it was not ''complete''. That's a problem I have with the H2H concept though, not with the park.

For me, it feels like we had the best Disney release in a year or so with New Fantasyland, but we didn't get to enjoy it for very long. Your release shatters it, and imo more or less all Disney parks we've got in the database. Lovely archy, very detailed, oozes atmosphere. The park had a natural flow to it, probably the result of a good park layout and choice of rides. It felt Disney, it was Disney. If the Disney studios and Disney sea concepts would ever meet in one park something like this would probably be the best you could make of it.

Last remark: Thankfully at least one other team sees the importance of 1k ruins. You've used them well.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

Park of the contest and best park of 2012 so far. Just totally out of competition. I could pick out so many little things because you're offering so many, but what I really enjoyed was how you broke up the indoor parts. Very nicely done in a way I haven't quite seen like this before. The whole "town" atmosphere was just perfectly nailed, and although the park was so dense it flowed really well.

The Hurricane's park looked impressive, and when I opened it I was confused because I didn't quite have my anticipation reaffirmed. It was good, but also confusing and unclear. It felt like it had little separate islands sewed together. Even when looking at them one by one, I didn't feel like they had much to offer compared to the other park.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

This is stunning, I just cant bring myself to vote. Both of these parks absolutely captured me entirely. I literally cannot put one over the other. Heavens Kitchen pulled off the Disney aspect brilliantly, though every bit of the Hurricanes park was genius to me. I highly praise the makers of both parks, well done all of you. However, I don't want to feel as if I voted unjustly so I will sit this one out.

My god, both are great parks, can't vote..

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

I will explain my decision later.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

Wow, just wow...

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

Such a magnificent piece of work, Kitchen. Truly deserving of the win. Loved all the hidden Mickeys, the cohesion, and all the ideas. The archy was incredible, although a little boring in San Francisco. Overall, just an amazing park.

Canes, I loved the concept. I'm unfamiliar with any Lord of the Rings unfortunately, but was able to recognize the Shire, and a few other small things. I loved all the detail in this, especially the hacks, and the custom music was an amazing touch. I stared at the night version of the park for awhile too. Another fantastic park, but not as well executed as Disney.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

Excellent park HK, I really enjoyed everything. I must admit, I was a bit skeptical of the idea at first, but when I looked at it ingame my mind was blown. Truly stunning levels of detail in the architecture and numbers of ideas which have really raised the bar. The 2/3 players who worked on the park should really work together more often, you could accomplish huge feats. I think this park is unmatched by any this season.


Hurricanes, I just loved the concpt of the park. So much awesomenss! The LotR films are my favourite ever (I'm not the biggest fan of HP), so I was hugely anticipating seeing this park and checking out all the little things. The individual battles were really great ideas and I some parts were really fun and enjoyable. I would have loved for Sauron's Eye to be alot taller though, since it seemed to be very 'in-the-background'. I also think the architecture in Minas Tirith could have been a bit better. Overall this was a really great park, and I hope you revisit the concept and finish the park sometime in the future.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

Amazing

Im not going to even vote as there is no need.

HK: Wow man just wow. even walt disney would say this is disney. Just outstanding. I cant find anymore words to explain.

Hurricanes: A very well done park, In another context it would have been a high silver. But up against this park its not on the same level due to how extremely good HKs park is.Sorry

Looking forward to the 3rd place match with you guys.

Good luck in the finals HK and Replacements

Guess my fan arrived in time:

I vote Heaven's Kitchen

After viewing both parks in game my hunch was right, the Waterfront is in it's own incredible league. This has to be one of my favorite parks ever. While there's extreme detail it doesn't detract from the image as it's still cohesive and not cluttered. I loved all the inner theming (again incredible) and the atmosphere was just ace.

Disneys waterfront is the best park I have ever seen.

Disney's American Waterfront is one of those parks that you look at and say to yourself, "Man, there's never going to be a park as good as this."

It's like BGSS, WOMB, Rivers of Babylon, Belmont Shores, and Lenox Mall. It's one of those parks that starts a new era of NE and RCT.

I feel terrible for voting against the Hurricanes with such a good park, but HK's had just a little better composition, better details, and overall a more cohesive atmosphere.

I vote Heaven's Kitchen.

I just checked out American Seaside and I fucking hated it...because the entire time I was just wishing it was real, and it shows what California Adventure really could've been

Seriously though, there was only one thing I thought could've been better, otherwise it was absolutely perfect. I think you should have used the full map size to add some more water into the middle so those boats yachts and the mark twain weren't so close together and there could have potentially been room for a nighttime spectacular. I could just imagine how cool it would be for guests to get on all those boats at nightime and watch a firework show in the middle of the lagoon

Also, was it a full park or just a section of a park? Buena Vista Street led me to believe it was a full park, but it seemed kinda small to be a full Disney park but I guess that's the restrictions of H2H. Anyway, not really a knock at it or anything I was just wondering cause I couldn't really tell

I vote Heaven's Kitchen