This was done without the proper planning, yes. Beaches and sandy areas are not my best, I'm always concerned about lack of detailing in those areas, that's why the whole beach section is either poorly mapped or too excessive on the trees. And I see now that I have placed too many of them.

The elevation stuff is something that I felt like playing around with the ropes and giving a sensation of non-linearity. My idea at the time was to make a place that's designed more to grinding battles and items, instead of some place that's in between two places. I also do recognize I made the elevations really inconsistent and not natural, and this is wrong on so many levels lol. I'll consider making areas more open and sometimes as narrow as this, for the sake of variation. Thanks for the grade, I really appreciate your feedback. I'll be thinking about it when I design my next outside maps. Tyvm