Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

I find “If you find it too hard to beat or if you had to cheat a lot to get past all of the levels, don’t bother reviewing this pack.” a pretty stupid argument. Levels are supposed to be fun, and when they are not fun any more because they’re just too damn impossible to beat they’re bad, it’s as simple as that. Of course, when an inexperienced player doesn’t manage to solve a puzzle or beat a level it’s a different story, but I consider myself experienced enough to have the skills necessary to play through a fair single player level.

The levels in this demo, however good they may look, commit the 3 worst crimes a JJ2 single player level can commit:

1. They contain enemies that are impossible to avoid.
2. Expecting the player to do things they do not know they need to do.
3. Having a GIANT difference in difficulty between playing with Spaz and playing with Jazz.

For example, in the first level, I did not understand what the pits were about, so I jumped in them, expecting to land on another platform. Wrong! Instant death. Okay, lesson learned, on to the next part. At a certain point in the level one needs to jump from a treetop down to a small hole in the trunk near the bottom of the level. Problem is, there is no way the player can know he needs to jump into this hole until he has actually jumped, because the spot is invisible beforehand. And because it is invisible, I expected jumping down would make me land safely on a platform since there didn’t seem to be any other possibility.

The rest of the levels are full of problems like this. Very nice concepts such as the “time trial” thing involving a sugar rush, in the “Flames of Fury” level, are ruined because you can only find out what you are actually supposed to do by failing first. When I then found out that I needed to complete a certain part of the level within the 20 seconds a sugar rush lasts, I managed to get to the “normal” part of the level only to find edge after edge which you need to jump down from onto a out-of-sight platform full of enemies which you just can’t avoid because you haven’t seen them yet.

A lot of the levels have great parts in which you are required to jump from platform to platform, and missing a jump spells instant death. However, as Jazz’s helicopter ear ability gives you far more time to manoeuvre yourself to the right spot, playing the levels in this pack with Jazz is a zillion times easier than playing it with Spaz. At the same time some parts or jumps are just plain impossible without a doublejump. Another apparent oversight.

Anyway, I could go on for a while like this. It’s really too bad that the bad parts greatly overshadow the good parts. The levels do indeed look extremely good, and they do indeed contain innovative concepts and puzzles. Problem is, they’re just not fun too play. Between all fancy stuff you’ll just end up frustrated because you constantly get hurt or killed without being able to do anything about it. And that’s why these levels are, indeed, bad.

I didn’t play this level for long, but I thought it was really impressive. I am inspired.

The password isn’t empty, I didn’t write in anything and clicked OK, then came the wrong password error.

Just one question about this utility.
If a client on a server changes the music does it change for everyone else also?

[It doesn’t. ~cooba]

Thanks cooba. :)

Somebody please tell me that the level author at the very least tried to inject some humor. I always make sure my terrible uploads have some humor that usually the general public does not get or grandiose reason for why I’m sharing such drivel (I.E. wasting the 4000th upload on a useless level thus removing any significance such an upload could have had and thereby removing any such chance a level gets extra praise for merely uploading at the right moment)

I can’t download!! :(

OMG OMG OMG 9.7/10 this rox!! xD

Funnyest movie ever!

Download reccomendation.

EDIT:I change rating… 8.7 only 15 seconds… :(

[Review changed to quick review. For more information, see \Review Rules\. – Violet CLM]

Awesome work!

Uhh… What?

Also, you might want to release all the levels of an episode in one pack. Anyway, onto the review.

“Nakari Forest Winter” is a single level that is apparently part of an episode (according to the level name, the second episode of whatever series this is a part of). The tileset that comes with the level is (as far as I know) rarely used, and it doesn’t look that bad for a Diamondus conversion.

The level itself, while fairly large, is extremely dull. While the level is mostly linear, it somehow manages to accomplish a feeling of “what the hell am I doing?”, mostly because the level is at some points impossible (not in the good sense, it is literally impossible to pass through some points in the level without using jjnowall). The level feels as if no beta-testing was done on it, and while space is used efficiently and it pulls off somewhat unused ideas (a switch to turn on and off tiles, as well as bringing back the frog concept), for the most part the level feels uninspired.

The eyecandy is subpar, a few gem ground tiles thrown here and there among a vast sea of the same ground tile everywhere. There are quite a few tile bugs throughout the level, and the level makes no use of background eyecandy. The textured background’s fade is set to black, there were no birds singing, the pants were dead, and the ground was messy and bloody from headcrabs.

While the level design is mostly unappealing and the eyecandy isn’t interesting, the level manages to show some interesting ideas. I won’t recommend downloading this, though.

nice program ;)
(Changed to quick review. ~Violet)

Making a level TSF only is not a crime Fawfull. Though, I personally think that making levels TSF only shows that you are having such a small brain that you can’t put your TSF files in a different file than your 1.20/1.23 files.

Well here is a review.

This level uses Pekka Kana 2 tileset. Nobody else haven’t used this tileset before.

First you start. Then there is one lizard. Then there a lot of hamburgers. Then there is some tiles. You jump over them and then there is 4 lizards and when you have shooted them there is exit??? Thats it, nothing else? And BTW there are nothing in layer 8. There are just crappy background in layer 7.

Don’t waste your time doing levels like this. Thats my advice.

No Download recommendation

awesome

When I first saw the rating 9.9, I thought “WOW! If it’s got that it must be good!”
How wrong I was. :(
All that is done is that the JJ2 menu music has been sped up and I was unable to hear the instruments clearly.
I can’t recommend this for download.
1.5 for knowing how to change the speed. But changing just that doesn’t make it a remix.

it has the same properties as your prev music.. again the speed change, im srry its exactly the same review but u only edited the same thing =

the music flows not very good.. its looking like u only made it faster in speed.
its going to fast.. and u dont hear all the instruments well.
i can’t say more about it. u just have to learn a bit more how to edit jj2 musics and not only set the speed.
i just don’t like it. you can make this in 2 min.. so you didnt spended much time for it.

Download recommendation?

no, not this time =(.. maybe your next music will be better =)

Cool…

Great battle levels! :)

i like your music akutube

Good

i hate your level