NOTE- This is a re-review. This review takes the initial score and then re evaluates what is fixed. New points are then added based on how much improved from the previous version.
Theres a reason why the theme got a long rant in my review- It’s easy to write about themes or misinterpreting thereof.
There isn’t much to say about usability, especially when these things don’t phase me in the first place. What am I supposed to do “It’s been organized so I can find everything without taking a few seconds to look for it! Let me spend 3 paragraphs explaining all the changes in organization!” ?
In the end, while the rant on themes may be dominant, neither factor was dominant score-wise.
Now if you recall I had other complaints.
For example, the extra tiles are still lacking in creativity, the monochrome scheme is still useless and still feels tacked on, the water scheme still doesn’t make any sense or have anything special added to it aside from the color scheme that adds to it’s name of “water”. The Tex. BG still looks rather ugly in my humble opinion D:< (Can’t forget the “D:<”, that’s essential), the waterfalls still don’t make any sense in the Ice, Fire, and Dark versions (since Dark has now been overhauled to work as a darker version of Fire), hell, the water falls just feel cheap in general, and the tileset’s name still feels like an overstatement especially when you still didn’t add all of Disguise’s essential tiles.
Also, all you did that’s easily noticeable was change the dark pallet, fix Ice’s color mishap and tack on the old BG. Great, that didn’t actualy take any themes/feelings into account. If you did, you would have taken the time to actually flesh out the pallets like I suggested. Among my suggestions were (with words to them since unless theres alot of words, you won’t pay any attention apparently) “Make monochrome something appealing people would want to use, perhaps by making it look like a 1930s cartoon”, “The fire edition should have a lavafall, since water in hell doesn’t add up”, “The waterfall should be frozen in Ice. I mean, theres only two tiles that are ice in the whole set as it is, you might as well add something else to it’s namesake”. Finally, did you even bother to copy and paste in the other destruct blocks? Seriously, it’s not like you even have to put in any creative thinking to do that.
This is a sentence on how easy it is to find a tile in the set. No really, it is really simple. Most of the ground pieces are placed right next to each other! And all of the trees have been grouped together! So have the 4 destruct blocks! All of the skeletal parts are right there! No time spent looking! Wow, I really can’t say enough about this!
It’s amazing, you seriously won’t beleive how you used it beforehand! I’ll even be cocky and say never use the old one again! Just so you REALLY get the picture on how easy this is to use, here’s the same paragraph again! This time as a runon sentence: This is a sentence on how easy it is to find a tile in the set, no really, it is really simple. most of the ground pieces are placed right next to each other, and all of the trees have been grouped together, so have the 4 destruct blocks, all of the skeletal parts are right there, no time spent looking!
Pros-
-Better Organization
-You can now use every tile from the old set (Like the old BG for instance)
-Dark now has a purpose aside from “Random color scheme!”
-Ice has been fixed
Cons-
-Water and Monochrome still feel to random and neither have anything that really warrants their use except “Hey want to use some random colors?” I don’t care if it’s weird, what I want is for you to take that weirdness and actually DO SOMETHING with it. Anyone can make a color scheme. It’s not that hard to make color schemes, hell Purple Jazz’s entire tileset career is based on making color schemes. I’d like to see something actually done with the scheme.
-Still hasn’t added all of Disguise’s essential tiles, not even the easy ones like destruct blocks.
-Despite saying that the feel of the set was taken into account, all that was done to the set tile-wise was the addition of the old background
-Waterfalls still feel tacked on and unimaginative
Cons that don’t affect the score- – Old BG was removed because converter felt it was too ugly (I’m inferring). This did not take potential users of the tileset into account, and was a very bad move. It has since been fixed of course, but this is something that should have never needed to be fixed in the first place.
So you fixed some colors and added in the old background (Which ironically is miscolored in the ice version, I’ll let it slide since the pallet wasn’t meant to include it), I hope you weren’t expecting me to add 5 points to your score just for that.
DR- Sure, the original sets are now easier to use and is all there so you can’t exactly lose there. Otherwise, the improvement isn’t exactly all that major, and what has been done with the set imho still isn’t worthy of the title “2.0”
[HTML fix ~Cooba]