The Scenery Themes in this Game are honestly pretty great, and even though i propaply will have pretty much most of the same opinions as The Yeti, lets give it a shot!
12. New World: This Theme is just weird. It has many nice individual pieces, especally metall ones, aswell as my favourite lights, bins and benches, but it also just doesnt really have a real coherent theme? It has a modern arts feel, which is cool to have, but the fact that i used mostly just the simple "not artsy" pieces pretty much says it all. I get the idear behind the pack and im glad that we have it, even though its really not that usefull. But thx for the long metall plate with holes, great for implied metall gates.
11. India: In theory, it has many nice pieces, until you notice that just about half of them are flexicolor. Such a shame, such a good theme other wise. But all the market items are great, eventhough the fruits and co lost a bit of their marvel now that we got more with the conservation pack. Still good though.
10. Aquatic: I dont like this theme. I dont use this theme. I dont like the very specific wallpapers, allmost never use the wall pieces and the only pieces i regulary use are the Faux Rocks, Roof and the Metallbeam of the Fence. Dont get me wrong, those are great pieces but i feel like all none Faux rock pieces in this pack get overshadowed by other ones. Nice statues and signs though.
9. Australia: Australia is good at what it does, has one of the best roof sets in the game and i love all those whiterd looking pieces. It also has a lot of hidden surprises, for example i love the Australian Log pieces, it has the best sign to write one because its the smallest and fits into many designs or even the allmost essential cork pieces for back stage areas. But in general i dont use its pieces very often, its a shame but thats how it is.
8. Conservation: Ngl, Conservation is a game changer for back stage areas, but not much else. Mind you, being excellent at one thing is great and it has pretty much no bad pieces, but all of them are in quite the limited scope. I also dont take the plants into the consideration, but the flowers alone boosted the pack much higher in general imo.
But still, backstage props are cool and its something most of us wished for, me included so im happy its here, just not among the top.
7. South America: Just like Australia, South America has some great pieces, among the best in the game imo, those being the Bamboo pieces. Literal game changers and super super versatile. Great for decorations, Fences or just randomly laying somewhere. The Temple pieces are also nice, but i have to say i really dont like the grid pieces of this pack. The bamboo pieces just do not look that good and the ruin pieces while nice only have very limited specific use. Still, a good theme with good stuff.
6. East Asia: This theme has it upsides and it downsides, most notably its the one theme in the game that feels like it was cut short. Its pieces are pretty good, i especally love the statues and prop type pieces like the bucket, baskets and cart, aswell as both the wood set and the dry stone wall set, but it really feels like it could be greatly extended. It feels like a baseline for more, something that makes me still long for an South East Asian set or just a general extention like the north africa theme was.
But it cant be a bad theme when my main critic is that i want more, so it sits comfortably in the middle.
5. Arctic: It might look inflated so high up here, but it cant be understated how usefull its wood set is. Its present in allmost any of my builds, i love the wall set and the wood beams are among my favorite pieces in the game. Its propaply my second most used pack and i dont touch any of the ice or christmas pieces, besides the fairy lights that make for great looking cables. But yeah, i unironically think that that woodset is the best set of building pieces in the game and i would have paid the 10 bucks just for them.
Who needs an oversized white teddybear anyways, wood is where its at.
4. North Africa: I havent used it a lot, but i just love what it brought to the game. While its not that usefull for my zoos in temperate europe, it pulls 10 times it weights for anything in the mediterania from spain to africa over italy to turkey. One building set made it so much easier to build for so many different culturesat once and is an extension to a base game set with a lot of versatile and great pieces, i just see nothing wrong with this theme.I honestly just love that this pack is in the game for everybody wanting to build in that region or even lives there, its just a lovely thing to have. Im glad that its in the game without me even touching it that much, which is a statement in itself.
3. Classic: Its the classic pack, what shall i say? If you want to build older looking buildings in your zoos, this is your best friend and helper. The fact that its now flexicolor only helps with that. I also find the lime stone pieces to be amongst the visually most pleasing stone set in the game, making it my second most used one for actual walls just behind the concrete and painted brick set. Its simply one of my favorite packs to build with and i just like it. Good pack with very easy applications. Also all its glass pieces are just insane. Holy cow, i cant describe my love for the glass grid set in this one, super usefull and my second favorite roof set after australia, great for tropical houses, butterfly houses, green houses and even faux exhibits and great looking glass walls. Just the combination of the lime stone and glass sets would make this a great middle of the pack theme, but the fact that everything else also is so solid catapults it up into my top 3.
2. Europe: Holy Cow, so many amazing pieces. Just so, so many amazing pieces. Small pieces, big pieces, wood pieces, stone pieces, metall pieces, props, non props, the best rock set to build fences and just so much more. Eventhough it has some meh pieces, it doesnt matter because of the sheer quantity it has, with most of them also having a great quality. I havent played around with it that much so far, but i turned fairy lights into barbed wire, used the stones as the base for over half of the fences in my park, abused the living hell of all the small metall pieces and cant wait to try out even more things. This theme just shows what makes building fun in this game and i really wish every future theme will be more like it. And i havent even mentioned decals yet. Awesome theme.
1. Africa: This is my most used theme with the arctic and classic pack by far and with good reason. I build a themed african area once, where it was great but the real show stopper are all the amazing ways to use its pieces for fences. If you want to get into building custom fences, heres my tipp. Make a base of either wood or stone and combine it with pieces from this pack and mesh and it will be great. I used these pieces in so many weird and fun ways, i build ingame statues using it, made climbing frames from the more natural looking wood pieces, made countless fences and even the themed props of this theme are really good for its theme. I simply have no criticism, its among my most used pack and just like europe a ton of fun finding unconventional ways to use its pieces. Its just great.
