Places to visit in Second Life #7: Kowloon

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I was thinking in how would i start this post, and one sentence came to my mind: “If you like Midian City you will love Kowloon”, at least in the sense of the style, atmosphere, etc.

Kowloon is a RPG sim for japanese people, most of the texts and notecards are in japanese (although the big signs are in Chinese, Kowloon is in Hong Kong) and just a few in english, so if you don’t speak japanese go and enjoy the place.

The architecture, the textures work, the lightning, the sounds… all this is really great. When you arrive there remember to push “Play” in the sound button of your client, there are a lot of ambient sounds that are played through the “music” system of Second Life, this sounds change depending the area, and sometimes are… spooky.

After crossing the entrance of Kowloon you will find a “commercial” area (in the image), avatars and other objects for sale, from here you arrive too to the “Free Market”, interesting objects for sale there too. After that, feel free to explore the maze of alleys, but be careful, is really a maze, and is easy to get lost, walk in circles or arrive to a dead end. There are a lot of places to explore or discover, bars, restaurants, temples, …
In the hotel near the entrance there are some “challeges” to follow, notecards with instructions in japanese and english.

There are some apartments for rent there, but just for japanese spoken people, the “rental system” takes you to a webpage in japanese.

The sim creators have for sale most of the textures, furniture and poseballs of Kowloon for a really good price (from 10 to 40L$).

Thanks to Khamudy Mannonen for showing me this place.

Visit Kowloon (SLurl)