Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

First off, i have no idea why the author is complaining about his own music selection: i, as a big fan of oldskool chiptune like the one used in this level, am completely happy with it. Actually, i love the music!!!
Err…well okay, lets talk about the actual level. Hmmm, seems like…i love it, too!
Disguise’s awesome "Blue World" tileset is used perfectly, the design is just as i like it ("ZA style" i guess), the eyecandy is very good and the weapon selection still is okay.

Overall, i definitely RECOMMEND EVERYONE TO DOWNLOAD THiS LEVEL. The "Doomsday Blues" really rocks! A MUST for every battle fan.

Another great level from South Africa. "Dungeons of Vytoh" (interesting name btw) uses a selfmade tileset by Commander Dats (which looks darn cool) and mainly consists of platforms, platforms and…you guessed it. The whole level desing is very open and therefore fluently playable, which makes it a great fun in an online battle.
The only small downfall is (in my opinion) the original "Castle" music: it doesn’t fit too well here.
Every fan of this style of levelbuilding (thats everyone, right?) should iMMEDiATELY move his mouse cursor to the download button.

A massive lack in eyecandy, bad event placement (about 12 extra lifes in one place?), extreme shortness (wow, not even ONE minute) and the never ending use of the "Carrottus" tileset make this level a good candidate for the "butt ugly level of the week" ;-) No, don’t take it personally, Blagh, but "Spank ‘em!" can’t get a download recommendation from me. Sorry, you
should just spent A LOT more time on making your levels :-)

Btw: Music was not/wrong set in the level properties. Not a good idea, as you can imagine.

I’ll rate this very soon :-)

And by the way, as iCED already said, i don’t like the fact that “Fastrack.j2b” is included in the ZiP: it’s a MASSiVE waste of web- and diskspace.

“War Maze” is a pretty weird level that uses the nice “Alien Carnage: Office” tileset by Astronia (?).
The level itself isn’t too great: the author obviously tried to put some eyecandy in it (good idea!), but the design is too confusing. Furthermore, it has enemies (i thought it was a battle level?) and way too many blinking and annoying stuff. If you already got a headache (like me today :-) you shouldn’t even THiNK about downloading this level.
The music works for me by the way (i dont’t like it, though).

Overall, slightly below the average.

P.S.: Next level setting is missing (bad idea for a multiplayer battle map)

Cmdr Dats, maybe you should release these levels in one big episode/pack.

oops, forgot… due to the restraints of 1.23 (no trigger zones), i could not convert it from 1.24.. i forgot to select 1.24 and the edit script still has a “query problem…” ;)

oops, forgot to say, i converted this level, piece by piece (thank goodness for alt-tab) from 1.24 to 1.23… :)

Despite okay eye candy, I really don’t like this too much. It had a linear layout with a basic design. “Puzzle” related levels usually don’t make for good battle levels. Especially since puzzles are usually linear. Take this for example.. the bg and use of different tiles wasn’t bad, but overall I can’t see much of a reason to download this. Sorry.

Btw, don’t include official music files like fastrack.j2b in your ZIP. It just adds to the download time and wastes J2O server space.

“War Maze” is a simple, maze oriented (bad idea) level with lots of animating tiles and weirdly placed events. The way this was put together has a very confusing feel, I don’t see much of a point to chat rooms, etc. etc.. the bg was weird and I didn’t like it too much…

Another annoyance: the bg music doesn’t play.

Sorry, I can’t recommend a d/l for this.

Nothing much to add to Aiko’s review, has some nice tiles (a little choppy), also includes a nice little example level with music (that doesn’t play)

Overall I’m sure someone would want to d/l this.

Yep. DOwnload now. This is so good… I think i don’t have to explain it.

-Blew!

it is superbly superb.

Uh….qaz? Is this any different from your other tileset post? If so, I will download and rate (And use the correct name) i.e. Super Mario Tileset (Fixed)

I have to agree with Aiko on every part of his review. The tileset even if Pixel size was better, they are still kinda….Low in eyecandy (But NES games were low on eyecandy :-) (Perhaps a Mario All Stars version would be prettier….)

~KJAZZ

P.S. I doubt I will ever finish my SMW pack. It takes too long to copy from the book.

Good tileset containing 190 tiles from an old Nintendo game (as far as i know: i never owned consoles…only emulators :-).
It looks pretty funky, coloured and has a fair amount of basic structures and objects from the original game. Of course, the quality of the images (pixel size) isn’t too great but thats not the authors fault but a problem of Nintendo’s programmers a few years ago :-)
The ZiP archive also includes a nice SP example level which tries to show all main aspects of the tileset. The music file that should play the original theme from the game, doesn’t work because the author (who seems to be from Switzerland by the way) set it wrong in the level properties…

Overall, i think a talented level builder will be able to create some nice levels using this. All you tileset freaks: DOWNLOAD NOW!

Wow, a VERY nice battle level. The design was super fluent and the eye candy was good too. Uses the cool “Metal Mania” tileset and uses nice music from Crusader/QoB that fits the tileset well. Some of my only real complaints were that powerup placement was kind of weird and there were a few dead ends and missing springs, but other than this, this is a MUST D/L. So start downloadin’.

Awesome! As i already mentioned 1000 times before, i just love this style of level creation.
Of course, its mostly the coolness of the tileset that impresses, but really, the level isn’t bad either: the layout of "Ironfang" is very open and fluently playable and the eyecandy is very beautiful. Uses the "metal.mod" music from QoB (as far as i remember) as the background music. Everything else is already said. Just let me note that i do not find the eyecandy confusing at all. We need more eyecandy, peoples!

To sum it up: another amazing level from South Africa and a MUST DOWNLOAD for all you battle fans! (well, lets invite the CTFers, too :-)
(i was undecided between 7.5 and 8)

The "Jazz 2 Organizer" by MetalWarrior is definitely A MUST for every level reviewer and everyone who has more than 256 levels in his or her Jazz2 directory! Works fine with both, Jazz2 and TSF. It also features some other spiffy features like clearing the internet level cache, copying all files from the cache to the main directory or displaying the full name of the level (which can be really useful sometimes, believe me). Furthermore, it has a status bar that shows the total amount of levels, tilesets, music and cache files in the Jazz 2 directory. Perfect for statistics freaks like me :-)

As i said: A MUST DOWNLOAD for EVERY Jazz 2 fan and one of more three or four favourite Jazz2 related utilities ever.

P.S.: Of course, there are always some functions that could be added :-)

This program is GREAT! It helps get you around the Home-Cooked limit, without using Windows Explorer or another browser program to click and drag programs. Possible enhancements: Play as Spaz, play levels in cache before moving them, also view levels in SF directory.