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The lava really needs to be more flexible! otherwise k

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Lava Fortress is certainly a very good tileset. It is well-drawn and easy to use. However, like anything, it does have certain flaws. This review will try to explore the tileset in more detail than 350 characters and “hope someone uses this” can allow.

How does it look?
The tileset consists of two different themes: a barren, rocky and irreconcilably brown landscape of dust, and a generic factory setting with pipes and conveyor belts.
And lava. Lots of lava.
Both settings are nicely drawn. I think I prefer the look of the factory setting, however, simply because it is much more varied; there are very few eyecandy tiles available for the outdoors — just some wooden poles, bridges, and a dead tree.
And, um, lava.

I must, however, make one exception. The volcanoes in the background look like crap. In fact, they look sort of like actual crap. I admit that volcanoes erupting with actual crap would appeal a lot to my juvenile sense of humor, but it doesn’t excuse bad artwork.

What about usability and flexibility?
It’s certainly easy to use, I’ll give it that. Tile layout is sensible; there are a few tiles placed in rather odd places, but they’re still easy to find.
Flexibility is when the tileset begins to lose some serious points. It’s called “Lava Fortress,” but /you can hardly do anything with the lava/. It is extremely restrictive; lava can only be in one-tile-high pools on a single flat surface. There are tiles for lava pouring into the pools, but no tiles for lava pouring out of them, which means there are no true lavafalls (they’re like waterfalls, BUT WITH LAVA).

And then there’s layer 5. The tileset is impossible to use effectively without layer 5; there are no tiles containing both solid ground and background, requiring you to split them up between layers. I completely understand the tile limit, but come on, I had to give up a layer so that you could draw some fricking crap volcanoes?

Also, the large pipes lack corner tiles, which is rather disappointing (even the example level finds this a problem).

Anything else?
The mask, palette, and event tiles are fine. You can shut up now, Boldface Text.

Very nice .. JUST magnificent!
Hope to see this being used :)

A very nicely draw tileset. Here’s hoping it gets used in the near future. The colors are very nice too.

This tileset is just…perfect.

Everything is impressive. :)

Almost everything seems to be as it should. I just don’t like the colour of textured background and the background factory/building [whatever it is] doesn’t fit there for me.

[EDIT]

That’s much better.

Thank you for the fix, I might someday post a better review

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is nice!! this looks like green hill zone tileset created by you.

[Review changed to quick review. ~cooba]

so why it’s error when i click on .zip?
(Fixed, thanks for the notification. ~Violet)

Good. ;)

The tileset looks all right, but it’s entirely lacking in extra decoration. Besides the token background hills and precious few “variety” tiles, there’s nothing of the sort, in fact. Hence, any level created with it will be terribly bland, and so I cannot really give this a download recommendation, but it deserves a decent score for effort.

the only thing these tilesets are good in are the graphics. with a bit more effort they could be less limited, please try to think of more crucial tiles.

nice… very good tileset…
it have vines hooks and h-pole v-pole with two types
BUT IT HAVENT MORE TILES:
Cactus, Computers, Beds in Base, ETC…

Tileset is GOOD…
But im not want set rating…
[EDITED] hmmm…
i think this tileset looks like weirdry…
But working is good! ~Crazy Rabbit aka Chameleon

This was nicely done. DR

Fairly well-drawn and usable…but that’s it. There’s just absolutely nothing notable here, nothing that separates it from other tilesets. Nonetheless, it IS a good tileset – just not a great tileset.

This is a pretty good tileset of something that’s pretty obivous: It’s a remake of the first zone in the first Sonic the hedgehog game. The tileset itself is pretty good graphically, and the masking is good as well. There’s plenty of variety in the eyecandy tiles, from your standard background tiles to totem poles, and a few other things that are pretty cool looking. It even has invisible tiles, for you reverse-gravity fanatics out there.

But like everything, it has flaws. Perhaps the most obivous one is the jagged, brown zigzag thing that seems to be mountains. But that isn’t much of a problem. Some tiles seem unused and left blank, perhaps they could have been used for a waterfall animated tile, instead of being left as empty space.

Download recommendation: Yes. It’s actually pretty good. I’d use this tileset, save the jagged brown….thing.

Good tileset its like 2D imo it haves good blocks,vines are cool and other stuff aswell.background of tileset is not anything awsome like WOW but its good imo

Gj