Huh… I should like this, because it’s Jungle, but because it’s Jungle, I want to see it done right. And this does not even pretend to have been done right. The author’s only focus was changing the palette a few times and adding a bunch of tiles ripped from other tilesets, leaving totally aside the issue of what to do with the tiles that were already there. Jungle, beautiful as it is, suffers from a number of problems, particularly in the field of masking, and Purplejazz7 does not even try to address these. The tileset, aside from the palette and added tiles, is left exactly the way it was. This is unacceptable behavior.
The added tiles range from good additions (Diamondus trees manage to look nice, expanding the background foliage is a welcome addition) to merely okay (the water is nice but Nick would have done it better, so it’s not a convincing addition) to blah (mere ctrl+c ctrl+v stock waterfalls fail to impress me at this point, and the sucker tubes look ugly in every palette). The empty unsolid trigger scenery tile is a nice and practical addition, although I have no idea what it’s supposed to turn into, unlike its more rational appearance in Diamondus… floating totem poles?
As for the palettes, the day palette is pretty good, actually. It strongly resembles the Diamondus palette, except with brown instead of blue walls, and looks bright and cheery, although maybe a little too restricted in terms of variety. It combines with the new tiles, as seen in the example levels, to create a rather pleasant viewing experience, aside from the rain which is used poorly in the foreground but would be more usable in a farther receded layer. The other palettes, well, they try, but they’re ugly, and there’s not much more to say on that subject. I doubt they’re even tested, as the sucker tube’s flashing light fails to animate properly with the night palette.
If all you want from a tileset edit is a different palette than the same old palettes, then this is an acceptable download. If you want an alternate background for Jungle, then this is an acceptable download. If you cherish the tileset and would love to see someone make it all it deserves to be… you will be disappointed in this “conversion”‘s horrendous masking and the very thought that those sucker tubes could somehow look as if they belonged. You will hope someone else does a better job, or perhaps resolve to do better yourself, next year, when you have the time. But you are disappointed in that which adds nothing but cheer.
Jungle Paradise
Tileset conversion, by PurpleJazz,
requires version 1.23
Description
It’s another conversion by me, this time it’s a conversion of the Jungle tileset. There are 130 new tiles added, and palette changes (I luv em! :D)
Credits & Acknowledgements
Contains 7 Files
 mangroves.j2l |
Mangroves | 11.68 kB |
| mangroves2.j2l |
Mangroves | 11.68 kB |
| mangroves3.j2l |
Mangroves | 11.67 kB |
 ic-jparadiseD.j2t |
Jungle Paradise Day | 259.91 kB |
| ic-jparadiseE.j2t |
Jungle Paradise Eve | 259.94 kB |
| ic-jparadiseN.j2t |
Jungle Paradise Night | 259.92 kB |
 HGH-WILL.XM |
Highland Willows | 592.45 kB |
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Violet CLM 16 Nov 2006, 07:55
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Dragusela 27 Apr 2020, 17:02 (edited 27 Aug 21, 11:47)
Good but seems unfinished
Jungle Paradise Day looks good for me
SPAZ18 14 Nov 2006, 21:25 (edited 14 Nov 06, 21:27)
OK, I’m gonna try to review this.
There are 3 Tileset Conversions in this pack. This is a conversion of Epic’s original Jungle set.
I like the colours on the Day set. I think the green goes well on the ground and the leaves on the trees. PJ7 has also added some new tiles. Some of these include the Tubes from the Tubelectric JJ2 levels. These would make great sucker tubes. The tree background from Diamondus has also been added to the Jungle Paradise set. There is also some cool waterfall effects which can be used in the background and some great rain effects that can be used in the Foreground. There are some things I also don’t really like though. I think that the orange background on the Eve set looks a bit too bright. I also think that the purple in the Night set also looks a bit too dark. I know it’s for use in Night but I just don’t really like it. The water colour looks a bit odd too on the Eve & Night sets. I can’t think what else to say. I’m going to give this a 7.5 because I do like this conversion. The Day set was the best out of them. I wasn’t really a big fan of the Eve and Night sets.
SCORE: 7.5
DR: Yes
I hope this was enough. I haven’t really reviewed that many Tilesets. I mainly review SP levels.