Uuugh. I thought I’d just play this pack for the hell of it. I was not impressed…constantly recycling layouts DOES NOT deserve a 7.7. It’s extremely lazy, and boring for the player and made me lose interest in playing this very quickly. I didn’t even finish it. Actually I won’t even mention why it wasn’t converted to 1.23 since it isn’t Lori compatible anyway (maybe the tilesets were too big but I can’t be bothered checking), but since this not worth playing anyway, I don’t care.
Story
Nothing special. It’s just “Devan and the lizards are back and kill rabbits oh noes”. Didn’t pay attention to it much, and the bad grammar makes it worse. Don’t be afraid to ask others to check the grammar for you, they won’t bite your head off. I kinda feel bad for laughing at it for all the wrong reasons, including the several “Well, yeah that’s really obvious” moments. And RedRazz is a really uncreative character, just a recoloured Jazz. The “Razz” does make it kind of insulting, considering that there’s already an unreleased character called that, which has a far better character design. Maybe it’s a coincidence. The cutscenes were really long, boring and unecessary. They dragged on too much, and there was nothing interesting to find out. Lots of waiting too. Hello jjnext, hows your day today? I have to admit the actual TV cutscene was pretty cool though as a concept, but that’s about it.
Gameplay
Every gameplay style is the exact same as the other, destroy the crates in some maze-like level with recycled layouts. I have to admit I was never a fan of mazes in JJ2, and when you lose your bearings I just feel I’d rather play something else. Try different types of gameplay styles for more interesting gameplay, and for the love of god, don’t recycle layouts ever again! I’d rather play a small level with an fresh layout. The enemy placements aren’t too great, I played in Hard and it was mainly enemy spam, also it was easy to dodge them since most are all laid out across the floor, and you can easily just jump over them. Enemy spam does not necessarily equal harder if you put them in the same row, it just takes more time to kill them. Also try placing enemies in midair at the same time as well as enemies on the floor. Not a wide selection of enemies were used throughout the level pack either. Spaz got a few extra goodies while Jazz got…nothing.
Eyecandy
I’m going to slightly rewrite this part because apparently he used paint shop pro 9..now I haven’t used it, but all these rabbit people feel more like they’ve been done with MSpaint somewhat in a crude way. Asides from that, there is a few cool elements, like the subway which I forgot to mention, asides from that, the eyecandy is pretty much standard.
Music
Hit n’ miss. As in how well it fits. Some of it did alright at fitting, while some was all happy-clappy which seriously did not belong there as it felt really unclimatic.
This is not worth downloading.