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Wow! When I first was Toxic Bunny’s 3D-ish War Torn I wasn’t as impressed as the rest, though I still liked the tileset. Here’s yet another 3D-ish tileset, Chateau, and it looks pretty cool! :-D
Have you ever looked at Epic’s Castle tileset and thought “I wished I could make a REAL castle, not just the interior, but also the exterior! With medieval-like turrets, walls, gates, bridges and of course a lush forest”. Well, now you can! Toxic Bunny’s latest tileset, Chateau (should be Château, but whatever), is the best thing so far if you want to create a real Medieval castle lvl. :-)
Though it seems as if TB’s castle is under-equipped and in no condition to unleash armies or withstand a siege (because for some reason, the castle is COMPLETELY devoid of armaments and knights in shining armour), the rest looks AmAzInG! The tiles are unbelievably detailed!!! :-O Some more than others (the trees and stained glass windows do not match those of Heaven and Castle) but it still looks great! Everything looks polished-up and the whole tileset, and any lvls made with the tileset, will be a pleasure to the eyes!
The tileset has all of the necessary tiles (except suckertubes, but you can improvise…) and it all feels very atmospheric. You can run around barrels, old wine-storage…er…areas, chandeliers and lots of other old, comfy stuff. The outside area is quite limited but it has some forest background tiles, some tree tiles and some ground and grass tiles. There are cracks in the walls, beautiful towers and battlements as well as a HUGE amount of different sorts of tiles. All wall tiles! LOL!
For some reason, the tileset has its background tiles masked, meaning you have to use layer 5 (as seen in the example lvl) to provide background. This limits the amount of layers available to the JCSer and forces him to use layer 5. While layer 5 is usually used for background stuff, it would be nice to give ppl the freedom to choose what they want to do with their layers instead of forcing them to stick to set layers because the tileset isn’t “generously” masked.
What Chateau has in quality, it lacks in quantity, I’m afraid. There is a GIGANTIC potentional for this tileset. There could’ve been much more armaments/armour and war…stuffness as well as more forest tiles and OF COURSE A REAL MOAT, DRAWBRIDGE AND DITCH to create that pure, true castle-feeling. The more you look at this tileset, the more it reminds you of a beefed up Castle tileset made lighter(?). While it has more outside and more castle-ish stuff than Castle, it lacks the variety and eyecandy Castle has.
Chateau should, however, not be compared to Castle because there is a difference between castles and châteaux. ;-)
A very well-made tileset with good eyecandy and many, many different kinds of lvl-possibilites. It’s still quite limited but it’s better than to make one lvl with Castle and one lvl with Carrotus. :-D Chateau receives a download recommendation and an 8.5. An 8.5 is slightly higher than usual (I would probably give this 8.2 any other day) but since it’s Christmas Day, I’ll be extra, extra generous. :-D
MERY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR + I got the first review! :-DDDDDD
P.S. Make better example lvls, TB. ;-)
