Review emerges!
Hey there, have played your new melee map namely Howa Island and I must say it looks good but still has some faults. First of all, the terrain looks good and is quite symmetric for a melee map. The natural part of the map looks good and doodads/destructibles were placed wisely in my point but could have some more if you would ask me. I don't like how some of the small islands looks like such as the four small islands with a creep camp. It's too square-ish. I would suggest making it round which looks much better. And seeing it has a Gold Mine, the space allotted is quite small. I would also suggest making those islands a little bigger than the usual. The central part of the map could be greatly improved by placing some more doodads/destructibles on it most likely on the beach part in each sides. Lastly, the water parts of the terrain could use some love with you. Add some corals, ships, destroyed ships, floating objects and such.
Now enough with the terrain and on to the actual melee map. Your map met all the requirements for a melee map. Some neutral buildings, creeps and creep camps, good placement of player locations and symmetric map. The way items are being dropped are not random and I would suggest you making it random. Except of making a unit drop either a Claw of Attack or Ring of Protection, it would be much better if it would be Level 1 Random Misc Item. It offers much more possibilities for random roll of a Misc item. Charged, Permanent and Artifacts could also work but not Campaign because it's totally useless for a melee map. Seeing also three buildings on the center also looks weird though: two fountains and a tavern. I would just suggest either a tavern or the two fountain.
Overall, this looks good and there is some improvements with your last melee map to this. Rated 3/5 and Awaiting Update still sadly. Fix those item drops first and I'll approve this. In any cases, item drops should be randomized instead of manually setting it up.
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