Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Yo man, wasssssssuuuuupppp?
Haven’t heard from this guy in a long time, as a matter of fact, last time I saw him he TOOK MY PC!! BOOHOOHOOHOOO!!! Hehe, jk (about the boohoo part). Oh well, I hope you’re enjoying mah past system. Hehe, now aiko is gonna be mad at me. (sowwy, just HAD to do that)

The level design is very nice, with a whole bunch of planned areas. For example: “If I had to jump on this spring it would shoot me into that spring which would get me that pickup”. Pretty interresting. The tileset is Mez01 (which sorta reminded me of Syntax’s craze) and was used very well, especially for the time he had to make the level in (luckily that stupid download froze and we had to start it again). I can’t complain about the music, and I better not. If you had to look at those CDs full of mods he had looking for a song you’d know why. As for the F5 Torment story, you can find out about that in the readme file, but you’ll never get it as bad as I did. I sat right next to him hearing all about this stupid F5 key he keeps on pushing. I had to keep the laugh in or I might have that finger push a few buttons on me ;)

Haha, jk. Anyways, that’s my review, download if you like what i said :)

This level pack consists of one tileset, two levels and two converted music files.
The tileset used is “Super Mario Bros. / Doki Doki” by the author himself (increases my rating) and it looks quite good as i mentioned in the review for it.
Well, the actual levels don’t look too beautiful: the first one is a small “intro” level (playing time: 5 seconds) and the second one is a bit too confusing (many doors and stuff). Design and eyecandy are pretty much so-so. I admit that i like the actual idea behind this but the resulting level pack has still too many annoying bugs.

Important note: the next level settings are all wrong. Seems like the author sometimes used subdirectories (even in the ZiP file). As iCeD mentioned: you should NEVER DO THAT. Please :-)
Besides, the funky chiptune music doesn’t play.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Hmmm, this is confusing.
The first level, “Jubilee Joy” could make a nice race level but it’s quite useless for a battle (somehow, i got the impression that the author completely forgot about ammo!?). Design and eyecandy are not too bad but a tad too repetetive as iCeD mentioned.
The second level called “Allys and Gullies” is something totally different: a classic hotel level with rooms (I want one! Pleaseplease!!! err…no! just kidding ;-) and letters saying “This is my room. Keep out. Blah.” and stuff like that. It uses the “Building” tileset by Gringo (which is…well, okay…an average hotel tileset in my opinion). As you can imagine, i don’t like this pack too much. Very slightly below the average i think. Hotel fans will probably like it.

P.S.: Tip of the day:
Don’t use points (“.”) in filenames. Could cause trouble. Believe me.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

“Battle Out4” defintely reminds me of “Carrottus Squash”. Like in martin’s masterpiece, design and eyecandy are very good. The platformish level style makes it a great level for hardcore battle freaks and yes, it really allows fluent navigation. Unfortunately, this level uses one of the tilesets i dont like too much so that could make me substract some tenth points (sp?). Event placement is very good, as iCeD mentioned.
Overall, not as perfect as “Carrottus Squash” but REALLY WORTH THE 11 KB. You should DOWNLOAD before its too late (who knows? maybe we will all die or your harddisk will be full or…).

By the way: the author forgot to set a correct next level setting. Bad idea, as i have mentioned 1000 times before :-)

P.P.S.:
To all authors: Please, please add SP level start events. Makes testing way easier for us reviewers :-)

Ok, I won’t d/l it.

“Battle Out 4” is a nice level (btw, next time simply RE-UPLOAD your level when you want to fix it..) using the Carrotus tileset. It has a nice layout and great eye candy, and really makes good use of the (overused. ;-) Carrotus tileset. The weapon selection/rest of event placement was OK, but could have been easily improved. There are a few flaws in the design which can bring it down, such as powerups near each other and dead ends which hurt the fluency of gameplay. I also felt the need for just a few more powerups, but overall nice job.

Any Jazzer should direct his cursor to the DOWNLOAD link above. I recommend this.

This level pack includes two simple levels, a kind of annoying hotel-like (evil. ;-) one, which I don’t really like. (if I had to grade each of the levels seperately I would give the hotel one a 4 and the Tube one a 6…) I could go on ranting about how much I don’t like hotels but I think that can be spared for this review.

One of my various complaints for this pack was the levels used too many of the same tiles, giving it a quite boring feel overall I guess. you should add some more variety to keep the player exploring… might I say you did a nice job with the bg in the Tube level. It looks good (a little crowded though.)

Overall my thoughts on this are average… you choose if you want to d/l.

You’re not? (Puts head down in shame)
(Quiet) But I like saying levels suck (Mine especially :-)

GEEZ! THIS LEVEL SUCKS!
(Ah that felt better :-)

Well anyhow its not that bad…Better than my levels :)…Wait! It looks a lot like my levels! No eyecandy, ugly, and short! its got KJAZZ written all over it! :)

Well its good for a first.

~KJAZZ who thinks hes so funny that his liver exploded and now hes dead.

Actually guys, its from the Gameboy Game, Link’s Awakening.
It’s a fun game BTW.

~KJAZZ, the Monkey with 2 Cheese Graters

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Download or not? Decide yourself i’d say. (Well, if you always wanted to know how your ‘puter works inside…)
Posted by Aiko

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Heh. Thats about the only reason you’d wanna download this (No offense to author) because it’s (like the other reviewers said, its too hotel like and looks a little ugly. But, also like the other reviewers, I like the general idea.

Thats my 2 Cents (News music plays)

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~KJAZZ the only Goat without a Goatee[This review has been edited by KJAZZ]

“Futuristic Times” has one big problem: its not really a battle level (despite the author describes it as one) but not really a single player level either.

The whole design (which is quite good at the beginning in the upper left corner, but then gets worse in the lower right corner) would better fit for a SP map. A battle level should be circular and allow easy navigation.

The eyecandy is also good at the beginning (see? thats the problem: a good battle level never has a beginning at all) but then loses quality in the other areas of the map.
The JJ1 3D Bonus stage music fits quite good for MEZ levels, i think.

To conclude my review…“Futuristic Times” is definitely below the average and therefore not really a top candidate for a download. It just needs some more work (low four points).

Oh and “stenace”, reviews are never meant as personal attacks but as objective (at least we hope so) comparisons with other levels. We just want to help creating the largest list of homecooked stuff for J2 to make peoples download decisions easier. We can’t rate certain levels higher just ‘cause they were made by a beginner. If you want to discuss this, i invite you to visit the JMMB.

P.S.:
Wrong next level setting (leads to a level thats not in the pack).

beginner or pro it doesnt matter.
if u want high ratings go build a good lvl. we cant give a newbie 8s and 9s just cos hes newbie that wouldnt be fair

This is very useful. I used to hack the registry for this kind of stuff, but I couldn’t. I had to repatch my listservers, and it got rid of where you change my name. Then someone suggested this to me. It worked. Also, my brother likes it, because he does not know how to hack the registry. This is very fast, and is easier than hacking. Thus, the 10 rating.

“Eyecandy” Means how well you’ve used all the layers, Blaster

I’ll review later

Ehr ACE. You’re supossed to review. Not to just say it sucks or not.

I some how have my brains on puzzles but how are my levels tedious!!Genotoxin aka Iced…..You’re a bum! quit dissin a beginner’s levels so badly!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does everyone hate my stages so much??!!!!I’m just a beginner ya kno. Be nice you’re all discouraging me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and just becuz i do puzzles to get to battle zones you don’t hav to hate it!!!!!!!!In fact i always try to do best on eyecandy!!!

=(stanace)=

Hmm… you really should have emailed me that, rather than mess up the reviews here.

Looking at the info tho, I can see the error happened in the install. Basically, it has to be a problem with your computer, not the program. The install program is the standard one that ships with Visual Studio. I don’t know how to help you here, I’ve never heard of this error before. Only possibility I can think of is to try to install to a different drive/directory, as it seems the error occured in the CreateDir section.

Perhaps by accident you tried to install to your CD drive? Unless you have a second hard drive.

Please stop the flamebait reviews.

-Fquist(admin)[This review has been edited by Fquist]

Super Mario SUCKS!!!
but it’s a cool level!!