Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

“Kinky City” uses the awesome, mindblowing, breathtaking, superb “7th Lava Fall” tileset by Mr. DethMan, which was definitely a good idea because that set is underused.
Despite the fact that there are some places that seem to be a bit empty (that may as well be a wrong impression, i don’t know), the overall level design is very good. Enemy and obstacle placement is also well made, only the difficulty level could be a tad harder. Another enjoyable aspect is the lenght of the level: very good. It takes at least ten minutes to make it through the whole level.
“Kinky City” also includes a nice swedish FT module as a background music, but as JelZe already hinted, it unfortunately sounds kinda ridiculous for this level, sorry. The “happy rock’n‘roll” mood doesn’t fit too well here i think.

All in all, a very decent single player map using a great custom tileset. Most people will like it so DOWNLOAD NOW!

“Sunset in Town” is a new, very good looking tileset of german origin. It has 180 tiles, most of them using shades of red, like when the sun is going down on a romantic summer evening…sigh. Oh…err…back to my review: in the background you can see the lights of the city and for the other layers, there are clouds reflecting the red sunlight. Apart from that, there are some basic, very blocky platform structures that look a bit too simple in my opinion. Masking isn’t worth mentioning (because there wasn’t much to do). The colour palette is completely redundant, as F!re mentioned above.

Skulg also included a small example single player level. It is way too short but already gives a slight taste of what could be possible with this tileset.

Well, to sum it up: the tileset could (and should) have been larger but even with this small size it is capable of creating a great, enjoyable atmosphere (see above). EVERYONE GO DOWNLOAD “Sunset in Town” NOW!

Sorry about the level being short. But the coins were just there and because I couldn’t be bothered to make a Warp

Note:This Level was created by my sister and her friend and not me. The Have not signed up on to the site. :-)

I completely agree with tazar here: “Chips For Tea” (which uses Link’s interesting & funny “Chip’s Challenge Tileset”) is not really challenging or fun to play. The main reason for this is the sucker tube madness, which is terribly overdone. You will spend about 80% of the total playing time in one of those tubes. Apart from that, there is some nice trigger scenery and a few bad placed enemies. The overall design is definitely below the average and so is the eyecandy (not much of it anyways).
At least, i didn’t find any major tile placement bugs. The “Street Wize” music from TSF doesn’t fit perfect, but its okay. I would have used the original music that Link included.
The next level setting is wrong.

Well, it may sound harsh, but this level is practically worthless for playing. Okay, it may work as an example level for the tileset. If i were you, i wouldn’t bother downloading.

Sweet! They look like good candidates for race levels. I must mark down for lacking some chief tiles, but this tileset has some ruX0r other ones!

Wanna join ELM, the premier level designer group? ;)

[EDIT: The Grammar Nazi forced me to edit this sucka’.][This review has been edited by SteelTalon]

sorry man, way too small, way to basic
normally i would give a nice review but since this is so way small, i cannot say anything about it. try to work harder on yer stuff. (thats a message to ALL you jazzers – look at the downloads many many bad grades).

While the text in this level makes it sound like this is some sort of puzzle level, I was able to bet this without using a single bit of brain power. I have also seen the tileset used better before, and this level didn’t seem to use any eyecandy that the tileset would allow to be created. Sure, there were flashing blocks and stuff, but those are more annoying than anything. I think if the authour was a bit more creative in creating this level, it could actually make something worthy of a rating around 6. Also, I would like to know what the coins were for, because I didn’t really see them be used for any reason besides getting more points in jazz2.

3.7/10 for not being too easy, and at least being functional.

I believe the official name of “Czechia” is The Czech Republic, Aiko :p

Yet again, another amazing tileset from Agama. He already surprised with the Heaven tileset, but this one’s the same quality. Like the author said, it looks like mixed tiles from JJ1. Here’s what i discovered (they only LOOK like JJ1 tiles, mind you):
- glowing walls from Tubelectric
- pipes from Orbitus
- fans from Fanolint
The example level (i wish Agama had shown off each of the three sets ;) ) has great eye candy and music (rocket.xm, see Aiko the music expert’s review), but thats all there is too it. O well, can’t win’em all :)

This is a MUST-download, just like the Heaven tileset :)

- JelZe GoldRabbit

ok here goes:
level 1: good points: it was short, yes it was very short..hard because of warps? i reached the boss within 20 secs! bad points: the level was plain ugly – u know why i was happy it was so short.

level 2: medivo1 with a small change. bad very bad.

next level setting was wrong. it had to be a level that isnt included in the pack.

rating: 1.2
1 is the lowest score, so a 1.2 because of the 30 seconds wasted time.

X-ELENT!

Hey!
How many times you spent the ceating of this level?
20 min?

Wow! Good level with good ending boss!
Beutyfull eyecandy & ideal music!
But too easy (in hard mode), but long!

Too short!
Too many sucker tubes!

One is all I would give this. ??????????????????????????????????????????????

Still What is it for

(Do not rate it if you do not know what it is for. Rating removed. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Mint Agama Your Tileset is cool and so is the level. All I have to say are the best things in the world. :-)

“The Xmas Pack” (promising title, isn’t it?) doesn’t have much to offer except horrible tile- and event placement (i never saw a level where the smoking guy was used so senseless!). Really, there are a whole lot of places in the level that look very unfinished. Anyways, it uses the good JJ1 Holiday Hare “Christmas Pack” tileset edit by Astronia (one of the very few good ideas the author came up with here). For some reason, the second level is like the first one, it only uses a different daytime (brighter colours etc.). Bores me. As JelZe said, a background music is completely missing. The next level setting of the last level is also wrong. I can only fully agree with the advice EvilMike gave in the last lines of his review. Downloading this would be a waste of bandwidth and diskspace.

P.S.: Don’t name your filenames “start.j2l” next time. Causes problems because there are a lot of level that use that name already :-)

Man I love Agama’s stuff.. Mmm. This is really good. You should download this. IMMEDIANTLY !

hint Agama should fit well in the possum team hint[This review has been edited by Newspaz]

Oh wow…the guys are right: another awesome(!!!) tileset creation from my neighbour country Czechia!

“Sirius” (actual name in JCS is “Dimensions”) consists of nearly 700(!) best looking tiles and has all kinds of fancy stuff like animations, vines, poles, a swinging f1 racing finish flag, large golden tubes and so on (too much to list it here). It comes in three different versions using three different shades/palettes…gold, silver and bronze if i’m not completely wrong. The masking is also very good (and it is NOT automasked, JelZe ;-).
Not to forget the stunning single player example level Agama put in the pack: eyecandy fever! Looks real beautiful, if you ask me. For the background, the author chose “Rocket Life”, a classic Fasttracker MOD by Laxity of MoN, a danish elite tracker. The tune fits great.

As you probably noticed, i really REALLY like this tileset pack. It is quite impressing and without any doubt, i RECOMMEND iT AS A MUST DOWNLOAD FOR ALL OF YOU!
But now…go ahead and make some good (battle :-) levels, Jazzers!
And Agama, a gold medal is reserved for you.

“EvilCastle CTF” is a pretty decent level using the Medivo tileset. Really. It’s not spectacular or extremely exciting but as i said, very decent.
But well…first of all, EvilMike forgot to put single player start events, which makes testing and reviewing a pain…i’m tended to lower my rating because of that (j/k! ;-).
Apart from that little flaw, the layout of the level is quite good…like the eyecandy (nothing special though!). Weapon and event placement are okay, too (nevertheless, i don’t like all the destruct scenery too much).
The author obviously tried to make fair routes from base to base (parts of the layout are “mirrored” if you allow me to put it like that) and the music choice is very good (a classic Fasttracker MOD using 10 channels, obviously a tune by a german tracker as i can see from the song title…gotta be quality :-).

Well, to sum it all up: you can’t do anything wrong with downloading this CTF level (esspecially if you’re a fan of this playing mode). Good work, EvilMike.