Map Rating/Review Thread

[Spherical Ice]

I'm intruigued at that comment. What do you mean? I put effort in. I'm confuzzled.

 

[Tropical Sunlight]

I'm intruigued at that comment. What do you mean? I put effort in. I'm confuzzled.

I meant that it's nothing special.
It is a great map... but it's ordinary. If I take that out it would be 10/10 but I'm not, so I'm standing straight with my opinion.

 

[Spherical Ice]

M'ka.y Thanks fo elaborating. It's meant to be a 'basic' map anyways. Just a village.

 

[Tropical Sunlight]

M'ka.y Thanks fo elaborating. It's meant to be a 'basic' map anyways. Just a village.

I'm glad we sorted that out. Now, if you made a BIG, HUGE city map, then it would've been 10/10.

 

[Spherical Ice]

Map Name: Route 251
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: The route left of Dewberry Village. Tree shadows are pains.

 

[Blaziquaza]

Map Name: Route 251
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: The route left of Dewberry Village. Tree shadows are pains.

9/10.It looks very nice,and it has that feel that comes with good maps.But I woudn't put the flowers near the grass.Fix that,and I'l give it 10/10.

 

[Laidjon*]

Map Name: Konpeki Town
ROM: FireRed
Hack: Not named, yet.
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: A revamp from an old map of mine.

Map Name: Route 49
ROM: FireRed
Hack: Not named, yet.
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: Also a revamp from an old map.

 

[Ray Maverick]

I missed the rom-hacking section, so i'm going to rate some maps. I'm going to be harsh, so don't be offended.

Refreshing my rusted mapping skills:
Map Name: Route 32
Game: Legend of Fenju - Gaoya
Mapshot:

Spoiler:

players coming from the bottom and will have to go through the cave and some routes and towns after it before he can take the right exit

Comments/Suggestions: Neti, this is awesome. I fell in love with this map, it's just great, the puzzle and all. But i don't like the tiles. U~U
Rating: 7.5/10

Decided to post one of Shadow Blast's maps.
ROM Base:Ruby
Game:Pokemon Shadow Blast
Map name:Sky Island
Screenshot:

Basically,this is where you can catch Rayquaza in Shadow Blast.The Sky Ticket is needed to get here,as well as the bike.The grass contains very high level Pokemon(50-90's),and Team Shadow will hunt for Rayquaza here.They recruited Team Cipher's last surviving grunt,who gives you the beasts(3 spots needed.)

Comments/Suggestions: This is.. horrible. No offense. You just picked some tiles and placed them randomly on the map. Mapping tutorials help.
Rating: 0/10

Map Name: Dewberry Village
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments/Suggestions: I like the way you placed the path; but you leave free space, and the rock there is irrevelant with all the scene.
Rating: 4/10

Map Name: Route 251
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: The route left of Dewberry Village. Tree shadows are pains.

Comments/Suggestions: That looks better. But there is a huge flaw: You can't connect this map with any other because its connection ends in the corner of the map, making it impossible toconnect with any other map.
Rating: 6/10

Map Name: Konpeki Town
ROM: FireRed
Hack: Not named, yet.
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: A revamp from an old map of mine.

Comments/suggestions: I love your mapping style. Its just awesome. The tiles are too. But there is too much free space and the path shouldn't be too wide.
Rating: 8/10

Map Name: Route 49
ROM: FireRed
Hack: Not named, yet.
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: Also a revamp from an old map.

Comments/Suggestions: The tiles are wonderful. Enough said.
Rating: 9/10

 

[DaMexicanMadness]

Hack: N/A
Map Name: Shyleaf City
Base Rom: Punk Rocker's Rom Base
Credits: Kyledove, Peyi, Punk Rocker
Map shot: See attachment

 

[Tropical Sunlight]

I missed the rom-hacking section, so i'm going to rate some maps. I'm going to be harsh, so don't be offended.



Comments/Suggestions: Neti, this is awesome. I fell in love with this map, it's just great, the puzzle and all. But i don't like the tiles. U~U
Rating: 7.5/10




Comments/Suggestions: This is.. horrible. No offense. You just picked some tiles and placed them randomly on the map. Mapping tutorials help.
Rating: 0/10



Comments/Suggestions: I like the way you placed the path; but you leave free space, and the rock there is irrevelant with all the scene.
Rating: 4/10



Comments/Suggestions: That looks better. But there is a huge flaw: You can't connect this map with any other because its connection ends in the corner of the map, making it impossible toconnect with any other map.
Rating: 6/10

[/FONT]

Comments/suggestions: I love your mapping style. Its just awesome. The tiles are too. But there is too much free space and the path shouldn't be too wide.
Rating: 8/10




Comments/Suggestions: The tiles are wonderful. Enough said.
Rating: 9/10

Ray, you DO NOT RATE THE MAP ABOUT TILES.

 

[mitchel1]

Map name: Purity Forest
Map from: Pokemon dark cry: the legend of giratina.
Base: Pokemon Fire red
Comments: well like I said this map is from Pokemon dark cry: the legend of giratina so don't steal it. Please ignore the border block and te empty places, those woudn't be able to see in-game. (Btw, I bet for 5$ you wouldn't find a map bug :P)
Map shot:

Spoiler:

Map name: Route 601
Map from: Pokemon dark cry: the legend of giratina.
Base: Pokemon Fire red
Comments: well like I said this map is from Pokemon dark cry: the legend of giratina so don't steal it. Please ignore the border block and te empty places, those woudn't be able to see in-game.

Spoiler:

(Btw. Dark cry isn't dead, I'm only really bussy with personal life)
Thats all people.
-------------------------------------------
Mitchel1

 

[Spherical Ice]

Okay, I don't mind crit but at least crit properly.

Comments/Suggestions: I like the way you placed the path; but you leave free space, and the rock there is irrevelant with all the scene. There's a mountain line there. And are you gonna say you never see rocks, if you need to be 'natural'. Which I wasn't even going for. -.-
Rating: 4/10 That's a bit of overkill, no? A rock and free space equals -6 points?


Comments/Suggestions: That looks better. But there is a huge flaw: You can't connect this map with any other because its connection ends in the corner of the map, making it impossible toconnect with any other map. There's such thing as double connections. :\
Rating: 6/10 Overkill much? You didn't even rate the map, just said it can't be connected. Which it can.

Some responses in bold.
And, like Colourful Summer said, don't rate purely because of tiles; tiles that the mapper didn't even make. We have the Tile thread for that, funnily enough. :/

That post really annoyed me. :|

----

Map Name: Laelia City
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: Please ignore the excessive amount of useless trees at the side. Imagine the two farthest towards the left didn't exist, because in the map I've got open in Advance Map, they don't. XD.

 

[Tyrantrum]

Now I'm just getting skipped. Can some one please rate this? Thank you~

--------------------------------

Hack: N/A
Name: N/A
Base Rom: Ruby
Credits: Kyledove, Alistait, Zeikku, Jesse[TB Pro]
Mapshot:

 

[negative]

Now I'm just getting skipped. Can some one please rate this? Thank you~

--------------------------------

Hack: N/A
Name: N/A
Base Rom: Ruby
Credits: Kyledove, Alistait, Zeikku, Jesse[TB Pro]
Mapshot:

I see this is a more Nintendo styled maps, I like it, but it's a little too much...give a tile or two free in the wild grass- 8,5/10


My turn!

Spoiler:

Hack: Colossal.
Name: Goldenight City.
Credits: Kyleove, Alucus, Fused, C.N.C.
Note: I know there is a tile error on the top-left edge. Please ignore it.

 

[romancandle]

I see this is a more Nintendo styled maps, I like it, but it's a little too much...give a tile or two free in the wild grass- 8,5/10


My turn!

Spoiler:

Hack: Colossal.
Name: Goldenight City.
Credits: Kyleove, Alucus, Fused, C.N.C.
Note: I know there is a tile error on the top-left edge. Please ignore it.

Rating: 8/10. I love the placement of the trees as it looks very natural. The space to walk is also nice.

My turn I guess:

Base Rom: FireRed
Hack Name: Orange Storm
Tiles: Firered.

Spoiler:

This map leads from the First Gym City to the 2nd, including an early rival battle at the beginning. The higher levels of the cave are blocked off until the player gets more badges. I know the corners on the south side of the mountain are not right, but they're so far over, the player will never see it.

 

[Otter]

Map Name: Laelia City
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: Please ignore the excessive amount of useless trees at the side. Imagine the two farthest towards the left didn't exist, because in the map I've got open in Advance Map, they don't. XD.

Well now, seems like I haven't creeped the map rating thread in a while. Let's fix that.

I'm a little disappointed by how bland this map is, first of all, compared to your other maps. Seems to lack the creative spark that the others had, and I suppose the rest of my rating will elaborate on that further. The only major problems I have are with the layout of paths and buildings.

• Path Placement - The biggest contributor to the blandness. I dislike people that constantly shout out "paths too square! make them more natural!", since it's true that man-made paths tend to be more square as opposed to "natural". With a big city like this, though, and with all the space you have left over, you have quite a bit of room left for more creativity. 3-4 houses together in perfect alignment? I'd avoid that. Slight shifts up or sideways a tile or two, or small additions of trees or other borders between houses, are all it takes to instantly make a town seem less square and more interesting. The dead ends you make for some of the houses? Expand those paths a bit and maybe fit a house on each turn. You can take out the far right house in the central row, make the path turn up there, and extend a path branch leading up to the mountain and move the house there. I could go on and on about possible changes. It doesn't have to be significant; interesting (or natural, if you want to call them that) maps are mostly a result of good broad ideas (which you have) and plenty of small-scale quirks and additions.
• Building Placement - You crowded all of the utilities (mart, center, etc) into one corner. When creating a medium-sized town such as this one, I'd suggest putting the Pokemart and Pokecenter in different areas of the map. That way there isn't a huge imbalance between which places the player will definitely visit and which places are just sort of add-ons or filers.
• Miscellaneous - And just some more little things I would add/change. The pond could be a little larger so it doesn't look like something that can't decide whether it wants to be a puddle or a lake. You have plenty of room to expand it anyways. I would also suggest adding a couple more small tree tiles throughout the map to fill up some space. The map has a couple chunks with a little more empty space than I'd like. There's also a tile error with the path above the Pokecenter.

That pretty much sums it up. Flower placement is fine, mountains aren't anything special but they serve their purpose well enough. Tree border isn't too blocky. Overall a decent map, in my opinion! It could just use a little sprucing up, along with several rearrangements to take out some of the squareness. ;p

Final rating: 6/10

 

[Ray Maverick]

Okay, I don't mind crit but at least crit properly.


Some responses in bold.
And, like Colourful Summer said, don't rate purely because of tiles; tiles that the mapper didn't even make. We have the Tile thread for that, funnily enough. :/

That post really annoyed me. :|

----

I will rate maps however i want. And the map can't be connected. Did you try it? I did. It screws up the map(s).
I never said i rated your mapping basing on the tiles. I just don't like your map. There is too much free space and the way you put the grass, the paths and the trees is Nintedo-ish, which is bad to me.
I'm sorry, i just forgot to say why i didn't like your map.

Map Name: Laelia City
ROM: FireRed
Hack: enCODED
Map:

Spoiler:

Comments: Please ignore the excessive amount of useless trees at the side. Imagine the two farthest towards the left didn't exist, because in the map I've got open in Advance Map, they don't. XD.

Comments/Suggestions: The path is too square and it leaves almost no plain-grass tile. There is still some free space left. There is a mapping error in the PokeCenter. And don't just put flowers where you don't know what else to put. I also noticed that the important buildings are all gathered together, and these buildings can only interest a player, so the player won't bother explore the rest of the town.
You have plenty of room to expand that 'lake', it's too small.
Rating: 6/10

 

[Blaziquaza]

Seeming as my last map was 0/10,here's a new map in the game.
Name:Volcana Path
Hack:Shadow blast
ROM:Ruby
Mapshot:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Comments:This replaces Victory Road,and will be scattered with trainers.There will also be,like in Koga's Gym,an invisible barrier,and you will go through Shinto Cave(Which can only be seen by you.).And then Shinto Cave is very long.The craters filled with lava shows that Groudon lives here,and guards an item that's rare:The Master Ball.Groudon's cave can be acseesed in Shinto Cave.Kyogre also lives beneath,and guards an MB.They both have minions that can be battled,but the actual rulers can't be seen.Oops,blabbed too much.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

Seeming as my last map was 0/10,here's a new map in the game.
Name:Volcana Path
Hack:Shadow blast
ROM:Ruby
Mapshot:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Comments:This replaces Victory Road,and will be scattered with trainers.There will also be,like in Koga's Gym,an invisible barrier,and you will go through Shinto Cave(Which can only be seen by you.).And then Shinto Cave is very long.The craters filled with lava shows that Groudon lives here,and guards an item that's rare:The Master Ball.Groudon's cave can be acseesed in Shinto Cave.Kyogre also lives beneath,and guards an MB.They both have minions that can be battled,but the actual rulers can't be seen.Oops,blabbed too much.

When you get a 0/10, you see what people said to do and fix it up, not show a new map with the exact same problems.

2/10, because it's not as bad. LOOK AT SOME MAPPING "TUTORIALS".

 

[Halcyon]

Just in case people might have missed it...

--------------------------------

Hack: N/A
Name: N/A
Base Rom: Ruby
Credits: Kyledove, Alistait, Zeikku, Jesse[TB Pro]
Mapshot:

I find no problems at all but the bottom half looks empty.
I don't really like the small trees however. 9/10

Seeming as my last map was 0/10,here's a new map in the game.
Name:Volcana Path
Hack:Shadow blast
ROM:Ruby
Mapshot:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Comments:This replaces Victory Road,and will be scattered with trainers.There will also be,like in Koga's Gym,an invisible barrier,and you will go through Shinto Cave(Which can only be seen by you.).And then Shinto Cave is very long.The craters filled with lava shows that Groudon lives here,and guards an item that's rare:The Master Ball.Groudon's cave can be acseesed in Shinto Cave.Kyogre also lives beneath,and guards an MB.They both have minions that can be battled,but the actual rulers can't be seen.Oops,blabbed too much.

It doesn't look natural AT ALL.
Try seeing and refer on some high-rated maps. ;)