H2H7 / [H2H7 Round 3 Match 3] - Rat Pack vs Hurricanes

Rat Pack:

Although I love the small scale (after all I'm Faas) I don't think it is refined enough here. I get the concept of a small theme park in a village, but for me it was a bit too messy to really see both a theme park or a village. It was just a bit unrefined overall and I couldn't really appreciate the rides as well. This could definately have done with a bit more room to breathe.

Hurricanes:

Impressive park. Great layout with the castle as centerpiece and the branches flowing out of it. Sometimes it was a bit hard to follow the themes or distinguish them. The rides were awesome, especially the intamin watercoaster and the rapids ride. My main critique however is that it was all a bit bland when looking at it closer. A few more daring colour choices and crazy stuff would have made this park even better than it is already. A great park though and ultimately where my vote ended up.

Gunna need some more reviews if we want the next round to start on time!

Hurricanes: 

Technically brilliant, aesthetically lacking. There were tons of amazing examples of architecture, pathwork, rides, and really everything, but the park felt eerily stale. Would have helped a ton to have more color involved in a lot of areas, expecially towards the back of the park where everything felt a bit brown. The Indian area had those weird trees, which were a good idea, but a bit too exaggerated, as were a few other bits in that area. Atlantis was pretty, and I loved the aquatrax going through it, but it felt way too big in comparison to the castle, which should have been the visual centerpiece for the park. Some of the details on it felt a bit too Arabic as well, which seemed to contrast with the theme a bit. 

Rats: 

I loved a lot of things in this park, and I completely disagree with most of the "dated" and "H2H5" comments. Believability was key in this park, and it really made me feel like not only did this place exist, but that I was there. The small scale is nice, and I have no problems with it, except that it doesn't allow for as much variation and detail as a lot of the parks we've been seeing have used. Some things I loved were the use of my zipline ride in a bunch of clever hacks (i was hoping someone would do that eventually), the rapunzel-esque tower inside the spiral lift, the darkride, and everything in the surroundings. A couple things I didn't like were the blockiness of some of the buildings (the urban/city themed area, and the back half of the flume building), and the white roofs, which were a bit distracting. Overall a great park. 

A bit close for me personally. Difficult to make a decision on who to vote for, as they both excel in completely different ways. 

I like the feel of our park better. Lotte World was technically sound but felt a bit cold to me. 

The Village and the Park:

 

"Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous," were the words that came out of my mouth as soon as the park file opened. This is the first park I've opened in-game in two years and it is really cute. The log flume is nice; the theming is intricate and fun. It's a really nice little log flume.

 

The park itself is full of charm. I like the quaint entryway, and all of the buildings seem to be scaled nicely. The two coasters are good, I especially loved Schluchtflitzer. I just wish it was operable (then again it might be? I haven't played RCT2 in awhile so I'm not sure how to enable this myself).

 

Overall really nice! I'll edit this post later when I open Lotte World.

Hopefully you haven't been voting if that's the case

Lol I voted Lotte World.

Why? nothing he said is against the rules?

 

I hadn't played RCT2 in about 5 years before this contest and I'm still voting.

You can't make a full judgment of a park without looking at it in-game. I meant hopefully he hadn't voted on earlier matches without opening parks first, not because he hadn't opened the game for a few years

No. I wouldn't vote if I hadn't viewed both. I'm just too tired to edit my post and write a little review of Lotte World at the moment, but it was extravagant. So gorgeous!

Ah i misread it but fair enough. 

 

still voted for the wrong park though

While Lotte may have the better excecution I went with tpatv as it had the better concept and idea.

 

Lotte World:

 

Lotte World seemed very plain throughout and had strange object and texture coices in some parts. The castle didn't do much for me. I liked it laying on the central island with all the paths going away from it. But from the overview of the real park that is a thing that you cannot be credited for.

Technically I can't make out many flaws but all in all the park felt liveless. As others suggested proper colours would have done a ton to this park. At the moment it seems like a miniature that you just took out of you fridge.

 

I did not like the splitting into many small themed areas. Each area had like only three buildings and were crammed together. For example the japan (?) area felt so much out of place.

 

The best part of the park was the aqautrax. It looked beautiful despite those strange lotr objects. This was the only place they worked. I liked the launch going through that archway. Also the rock looked quite nice and was a good example how to use the ruins when you want to make lanscape out of them.  Not just plain random scattering of those ruins around the landblocks.

 

The rapids were ok but nothing special. It had some nice interaction with the frisbee swing next to it. The train station building was a boringly large block with nothing to look at. The bavarian area looked lovely though. Wilde maus had a nice layout and was nicely integrated into the area just like the flume. The logflume however had way too few boats! You can't run five boats on the course and I won't let count the excuse that it is a merged ride and can only serve boats that fit into the station. Some guy in your team should know how to get the done properly.

 

I guess my critics sound very harsh and I only wrote down mostly negative points. Sorry for that. The best thing about it was the individual archy of each building. Everything was so very well crafted. For example the poseidon building just looks beautiful. But it did not come thogether that good and while architecturally exceptional the colours were missing.

 

70%

 

 

 

The park and the village

 

The concept behind this park is gorgeous and its execution perfect! Being german I can totally recall the general attitude of the villagers and it fits to hundred percent. Those banners over the street were the first thing I saw and it instantly made the whole park for me haha.

 

The park in general had a very small scale but I liked it. It gave you plenty of space for the actual park without leaving the surrounding too few space. The themes were nice. I think being german again explains this as they are mostly about TV shows over here. Maybe a reason why I did not understand the love The Pridelands got last round. Käptn Blaubär area was superb. I loved that jumping boat ride. The logflume had a naming error. It should be "13 1/2 Leben" not Abenteuer.

 

The schwarzkopf was a nice family coaster the climbing area was a nice idea. This area had a little flaw in the park's story. The villagers moan about the noise of the theme park but the lived a long time with a quarry just like 100m next to the center??

Neustadt area was not up to the rest of the park. The archy here was bland. I really liked the closed old entrance but I missed the clear reference to the restaurant of Mr Atpack.

 

Overall the archy was at least one or two leagues behind Lotte World but the ideas wheighed it out easily.

The rides were ok, I laughed at the green paint on the high tracks! You had luck that the opposing park also had no major ride.

 

I give this park a 70%. Great concept, the outside made it for my. But I also know that one of the makers can do a lot more.

This makes four 70%s this round from me, stands for an even and good quality this season I like it so far.

 

Returning to the creativity debate, this is what made my decision this match. While Lotte World is (not even by a small margin) better in terms of skill The park and the village still topped it because it's not just some building from photos and plans. Vote: Rat Pack

I forgot one thing about Lotte World. Please never again use the new '1k tree detail' (quarter leaves) or whatever it's called. They are so ugly.

I had a tough time voting on this. Both parks were nice. Lotte World was technically the better park while the rat pack had the lovelier park.

 

The Village and the park was lovely. It was a lot of fun and while it was less skilfull, its ideas came off very well and esthetically that was no problem. My problem was that it was in German. I know enough German to understand what most of those things are, but it was such a big 'why?!' that it bothered me throughout the whole park. It's a bit stupid that that brought down my enjoyment of the park, but unfortunately that's what happened.

 

Lotte World was very well built. I loved the castle on the island. But quite frankly, I don't like the LOTR objects at all. Therefore it was really hard for me to enjoy that park since it was so full of the LOTR rocks, paths and building blocks.

 

Both parks were brought a bit down due to my personal preference. In the end, I decided to vote for the village and the park because it had a very cool concept and it's probably the park that I will visit  more often in the future.

Am I the only one who actually enjoyed the darker feel of Lotte World? Everything is always made to be so happy and cheerful. This felt a bit more like a gritty Disneyland. Every corner of the park was so believable and with just enough detail. You managed to cram so much content and detail into the space without feeling cramped and without a shit ton of glitching- kudos to that! 

 

I've got to admit the village and the park was a bit boring. I've never been a fan of this thematic style. When Liam does it I get bored too Everything on the map was pulled off very convincingly and with a high level of technical ability and an eye for the overall atmosphere. If this park came up against any other park this season I would've thought twice, but Lotte World may be my favorite H2H park ever.

 

Ultimately great job to both teams for a fantastic match! 

Am I the only one who actually enjoyed the darker feel of Lotte World?

Nah, 65% agree with you.

I looks to me that The Village and The Park appeals most to central Europeans, interesting.

Now you're just trolling.

Over half of the Rat's votes are central European members, just an observation.

I didn't know RCT had a demographic in Belarus. 

Yeah pretty sure we don't have any Polish, Hungarian, Czech or Ukrainian members either.