Map Name: Ranish Hilltop
Creator: ¿TB Pro™
ROM: Pokemon FireRed
Credits: ¿TB Pro™ - Tiles, Kyledove - Tiles, Alistair - Tiles
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A Map that recently got a lot of attention is "Ranish Hilltop" by ¿TB Pro™
And in my opinion that is totally apropriate:
Let's begin with the layout and shape of the map: Its not squarish, what sould be standard. The Layout iss intresting, because you dont just pass the Route one way, you have to walk it up and then back down. I kinda like that.
What about the mountains? God thanks they dont follow straight paths, what is not very common in the map rating thread. Also i dont see any elevation erros on this map. But they might cause border errror at the left side since it doesnt look like you are going to connect a map there. For example when the player gets up the second stairs he can see the mountain ledge at the left ending up in the border, which could be grass or mountain (both would cause border errors at different places).
Anyway, the tiles and palettes of the mountains are nice, even though you should change the very bottom of them where theres a bold dark line.
Lets take a closer look at the vegetation: All the different kind of trees create a really natural feeling and the tiles and palettes are brilliant as well. The placing is done very good, too: They dont stand in horizontal rows, but still in vertical ones (look at the trees in the bottom)! You could have created special tiles for that.
Youve placed a pretty perfect amount of small highlights like flowers and bushes on this map, they give a really calm feeling to the map and dont disturb.
While looking at those things ive noticed the first degrading thing at this map:
On the level which you reach after going up 5 stairs there is a tile error: The top of a 2 tile tree is missing. Its located slightly top right of the center of the map.
The tall grass is also placed good, even though you could have added a few more normal grass tiles in between. But its OK like this.
Something i kinda dislike is the color of the railing of the stairs. Why is it red? That doesnt fit very well with the rest of the map which is most brown and green.
Also the Palette of the green path in the bottom right should get a makeover: It has a very dark outlining, use a lighter green there.
Other than that the placing of the path on the map is done really well. But the sand tiles that you used at the very top of the mountain shouldnt be used there because they create really sharp edges together with the mountian tiles.
Even with the few things that could have been done better this is a really awesome map.
Rating: 9.6/10
