Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

I love it!! I really enjoy your level paks, i can´t wait for episode 4!!

The story is really good, when you play it, it´s like you are in a movie. When you play it, you really want to know what will happen next… I really want to play the next episode. I like the storyline for your episodes, it´s very creative.

The tileset used where great, and the eyecandy was fine; I really liked the tileset you used for each level, they work fine for each level and give an ambient to the story.

You where very creative for the levels, like the Diamondus Simulation level, i liked that.

The music was perfect for each level, i liked that Technoir remix you used in one level… and that music you use in the ending of the episode, i love that :)

The gameplay was great, the enemies well placed, creative obstacles, well placed pickups, etc. The only thing is that it was a little hard and you die many times, but it still was fun.

Conclusion; you have to download it!! what are you waiting? download download!! If you don´t have the previous episodes, play them before and have fun :)

PD:sorry for my bad english; i don´t usually speak english, i usually speak spanish, comprendes amigo?
Un gran episodio! recomendable :)

I’ll very very highly recommend everybody to download this!The xylophone is really good idea, and the birds too, so these sounds really “let in to diamondus”! The swapping between JJ1-2 is um…. is cool! The ending is funny, but you can hear the background noise when Jazz says “Hey!” and a window(or what) crashes.
When the song ends(before the funny section) the music slowly fade, what is good. I’ll give a 10, but when I give a 10, I always get a rating removal. So, you get a 9.2!

I alredy said this, but…but why not again? ;)

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION: Y E S !
(hey, this rewiew is one of my longest rewiews! – 646 characters!)

Rock mixed with Xmas. Good idea! You used all the jingle bell tones. And more mixed up with some drums, snares! Now, when I writing this rewiew, it’s not christmas, but I got again Xmas mood!
Good Work! You get a 7.5.

DR: YES

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

I M P R E S S I O N S Z

Impressions Z (probably you should read it Impressions 2) is the sequel to DarkSonic’s Impressions. I waited for this pack… I guess I have to review it. (w00t i’m on the betatesters list) AND FIRST REVIEW FOR THE PACK WITH A RATING DAMMIT! 8D 8D 8D

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CTF LEVELS

I N N O V A T I O N

ABOUT
Innovation is the first CTF level in Impressions Z. It’s a not so wide but high level using Wisetyness. It’s also symmetrical.

MUSIC
The music simply fits. It may not have quality like A. Brandon’s, Necros’ or Awesome’s songs, but it certainly isn’t bad. You know, it’s important for it to fit. And it does. (hoo-hah)

EYECANDY
Eyecandy’s good. Layer 7 has a faraway, pretty weird (but good) hill thing that for me looks like someone with some weapon of mass destruction. Layer 6 has hi-tech platforms. They look good. It’s also good that the textured background doesn’t have stars – it gives a cloudy feeling. However on the top of the level, near the column with suckertubes, it’s bright. So what – the sun or whatever other light source can shine through clouds, and it’s natural-ish, besides there are torches there. Also, the leaves in the center of the level remind me of a face. hahaha

GAMEPLAY
Nice, of course. Good ammo placement. Flow’s good too. Same about base placement. And what’s so fun about this level? Well, it would be a bit boring if it wasn’t for the long and fast suckertubes! They make travelling easier. I quote:

“I present to you: one HELLUVA tube.”

Anyway, to sum up, it’s good.

OVERALL – Very good.
SIDE NOTES – N/A

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B O T A N I Z E R

ABOUT
The second CTF level in Impressions Z. Unlike Innovation, it is unsymmetrical. It uses the first Jungrock tileset from the unfinished Impressive Flashback.

MUSIC
And I thought techno-ish tracks wouldn’t fit in a jungleish level! (I’m not counting Luigi Elettrico’s JungTec) But. It. Fits.

EYECANDY
Very nice! There’s variation in ground tiles, and that’s good. A lot of waterfalls there! There’s also your typical bay with hills, and in layer 6 a block of leaves with nine windows. Looks good. You can actually see the bay and the texbg clouds floating around near pos 50,20. Other places are usually filled with cave tiles and waterfalls. Overall eyecandy’s very nice.

GAMEPLAY
Also nice. Flow, ammo placement, base placement good, BUT! There is one warp that is much closer to the red base than the warp near the two arrows is to the blue base. Or at least I haven’t found a closer warp :P

OVERALL – Very good.
SIDE NOTES – N/A

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R O O M S

ABOUT
The third CTF level in Impressions Z. Also unsymmetrical. It uses Impressive Creations’ IC-IF Pezrox1.

MUSIC
I won’t rate this one because I suggested it :) But a side note, I always thought Crystal Cages would fit Pezrock.

EYECANDY
Ah, eyecandy. We have one layer of faraway palms and two heavily used supporting the sprite layer. It looks very nice! Fun tidbits:

- spikes used as thorns on grass (at least it looks like that to me)

- bushes made from palm leaves

- bg hills used as mud-like piles

Also the level is very colorful. Also, there is variation in the ground tiles (but not as much as in Botanizer).

GAMEPLAY
Duh, very good. All your typical aspects (ammo placement, flow, base placement) are good. And there is one interesting thing – you must buttstomp to grab the flag because of the float up events. Almost everyone says that this thing should be removed, but I think that it makes the level more original.

OVERALL – Very good.
SIDE NOTES – IMO this wouldn’t look as good as now in Pezrock 2.

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BATTLE LEVELS

P A N I C ! !

ABOUT
The first Battle level in Impressions Z. It uses the second Letni tileset from the unfinished Impressive Flashback.

MUSIC
It uses Electricdrug, a MOD music file I didn’t hear before. Fits well, but is a little bit too happy for the title (I rather imagined Panic!! using Purple Motion’s Panic [probably the second version].) and as a side note has nice drums and sounds like something you would hear in that fun but forgotten KD Labs’ game Spanking/Moonshine Runners, except the tracks from that game overuse trumpets and saxophones. Enough about the music.

EYECANDY
Panic!!’s eyecandy is sweet, like in all levels in this pack. Now let’s look closer. On layer 7 we have a column, and on layer 6 a chip wall with a few holes. Layer 5 is a sprite layer supporting layer and we have some nice stuff on it, like translucent static screens, other chip walls, or walls made from the same tiles that are on the column in layer 7 (BTW it is from Tubelectric), except the layer 7 column uses lighter tiles. Other than that, we have layer 3 loaded full of stuff and layer 2, but there are only 5 tiles placed on layer 2. Anyway, sweet.

GAMEPLAY
I’ll just say good. Because I don’t see anything that is bad.

OVERALL – Very good.
SIDE NOTES – I guess this is somewhere on Carrotus/Earth/whatever because of the fade color.

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E X C I T I N G S C E N E R Y

ABOUT
And here we have the second Battle level in Impressions Z. It is not only the last battle level, but also the last level in the pack and the last one that I will review (:P). It uses Gus’ Big Landscape (the normal version, not 2 [the sunset one] or 3 [the night one]).

MUSIC
Exciting Scenery uses Alexander Brandon’s Carrotus Forest. It’s the same track as in Significant. Fits!

EYECANDY
WOOOOOO! Now this is the most impressive eyecandy in the whole pack! Exciting Scenery really deserves its title – it uses various kinds of blocks, from snowy mountains and windows to other variations of the texture background to look really good. In layer 7 there is a wall with a hole and in layer 6 there is some kind of a building. Overall – eyecandy is really awesome!

GAMEPLAY
Of course, Exciting Scenery’s gameplay is good too. Nice flow and ammo placement, and it also uses pits. So, again: it’s good.

OVERALL – Very good, AWESOME eyecandy.
SIDE NOTES – N/A

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So, now I end my review of DarkSonic’s Impressions Z. It’s a great pack – 3 sweet CTF levels for a Capture The Flag maniac and 2 Battles for a roaster. I’m going to rate it pretty high – here, DarkSonic. Take this 8.5.

Download Reccomendation: Yes!
Host This Often?: Yeah!
Bonuses and BOO!nuses: N/A
Final Rating: 8.5

So yeah. Download this. NOW.

~Eigus

LOL!
A rabbit what is builded from sweets, and shooting eggs with a pipe!
3D Not equal with sweets! :D
I can call this an animated picture with *.avi. But I can’t call this a movie! +.2 to the sweets! :)

(P.S.: HAHAHAHAHA)

Download recommendation: No.

EDIT: Next time draw in paint this, and combine the pictures with some anim pic maker program.

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

That’s OK.
9/10 Pts.

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

H A P P Y C T F

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Ah, HappyCTF. IMO this is the very best CTF pack out there. It contains 6 levels. Now let’s review it.
There goes my second review…

H A P P Y J U N G L E C T F

The first level of Happy CTF and in my opinion the worst one, but it still means very nice.

This level is an example how a small level can be pretty good. Tileset? Look at the name. Used nicely.

Music: nice choice and nice quality. ‘Last Sunset’ fits it, but I expected something more jungle-ish.

Eyecandy is confusing but nice. This level uses the trees for the main background eyecandy.

No other ‘OMG-quality’ fireworks though.

Gameplay… Well, this is the worst level, but it still is pretty nice. The bases are pretty originally placed (red at the bottom, blue at the top). Ammo placement rather good. Flow good.

O V E R A L L – Probably the worst level in HappyCTF, but it is still fun.

H A P P Y D E S E R T C T F

And here we have the second level of the pack. Happy Desert CTF is a mostly vertical level

(136 tiles high!) using Beach.

Happy Desert uses Dark Groove Part 1 for the music; you don’t have to download it, it comes with the game (it’s used in the second Inferno level). IMO it could use something like camel.xm or silver.mod. However, the music fits.

Eyecandy? Yes, eyecandy. Nice. IMO the textured BG could use stars. There are some fun things like sand-filled chambers in the wooden parts, or wooden arrows. The level also uses some faraway dunes on layer 7&6. Layer 2 boasts a ‘pass’ to the sandy part of the level. Overall nice.

And now, let’s get to the gameplay. The bottom of the level is partially filled with water.

Flows very nice, although the level is divided in half on the wooden part and I don’t really like it. Ammo placement is nice. Base placement is nice.

O V E R A L L – A good level. If it comes to compare this one to other HappyCTF levels, this one is average.

H A P P Y H E L L C T F

3rd HappyCTF level – Happy Hell CTF. This is a pretty small level using Inferno Night, and IMO it uses this tileset very well.

The thing that doesn’t fit really well it’s the music – the choice is pretty strange (especially when you see giant skulls lying on the ground ;P). I would rather hear this one in a beach level, but never mind, it doesn’t sting as much as it would when you would hear childish music in Windstorm Fortress or Odyssey.

The eyecandy is good. Nothing really hyper, but the background is interesting. The fog ‘rays’ you would normally see in on the foreground or background on the bottom of the level are zooming through the background layers 7 and 6. One of the rays also floats in the foreground. I only found ONE tilebug and when you run around you don’t really notice it.

You can run around the level and nothing will really block you. The ammo placement is also sweet: not too much ammo, but you don’t run outta it too fast. The bases are placed nicely. The blue base’s platform doesn’t have any dropdown routes, but it doesn’t hurt.

O V E R A L L – This level is pretty nice.

H A P P Y C A N Y O N C T F

The 4th level of HappyCTF is Happy Canyon CTF, also called TIBASL. It is a rather large semi-symmetrical level that uses Labrat 1. The tileset use is sweet.

The music fits well. If this level was more lab-stylized, it rather would end up bleh.

The eyecandy is nice too. What I really liked was layer 8. Well. It looks nice. The looks of the bridge are also nice.

Now for the gameplay. If it wasn’t for the semi-symmetricalness, this level would be pretty boring. The vertical routes to and from the bases are different. Now this is where Happy Canyon gets really fun. There are trigger crates placed in the teams’ vertical shafts. Destroying these crates will affect the bridge and also grant access to the very bottom of the level. For the normal gameplay aspects, you can hop around this level and nothing will block you too. Ammo placement is good.

O V E R A L L – Interesting and fun to play. IMO one of the best levels in the pack.

H A P P Y C A S T L E C T F

Now for the 5th level, Happy Castle (or J.A.I.L). I’m not sure it’s really happy, especially if you have gargoyles floating around that stare at you like >:(. Haha. Anyway, this uses Medivo 2. It’s not very big if you look horizontally, but it is 89 tiles high.

Let’s move on to the music department. It doesn’t fit the name really (‘Happy’ and ‘Jazz Belmont (haunted.it)’? omg), but it does fit the theme.

Eyecandy’s fun. Layer 7 has the gargoyle I mentioned before. The first time I played HCCTF I got as scared as the first time I looked up in Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. But this is not a moon. Layer 6 is used nicely. It has speed a bit lower than 1, so it looks like it is not that far

away from the sprite layer. Also, other fun tidbits include: the muscley gargoyle with a flag-made cape and ghastly lights on inside-the-castle wall tiles. Didn’t see any tilebugs. Inside-the-castle wall tiles are a bit repetitive but not annoying.

Gameplay. Flows very nicely, base placement good, ammo placement good. Won’t write too much – it’s good.

O V E R A L L – Jail, uhm, Happy Castle CTF is another nice level.

H A P P Y S E M I C O N D U C T O R C T F

The 6th level in the pack, and for me also THE level… The great Happy Semiconductor CTF.

The name is kind of long, so I’ll just call it Semi for now. Also, I’ll note that it is not too small, not too big. Also, this uses Tubelectric.

Now let’s see how the music fits. And? Sweet! For a normal ‘radiostation music world’ level it wouldn’t fit but here it fits really nice! Also, not only it fits nice, Darkhalo is also a great artist, so the music has quality.

Let’s look what we have here if it comes to the eyecandy. Also really sweet. We have two layers of faraway pipes and a sprite supporting background layer 5, but it isn’t used that much, only about 10 tiles are placed there. Foreground is superb! Semi has lots of stuff that look sweet on the foreground, like a pipe-made ‘Stripe’ word (the author, duh ;P) or a yellow-block ‘cage’ that is the home to the RF weapon powerup. Semi’s eyecandy is great.

GAMEPLAAAAAY! Sweet – 3 PUs, superb base and ammo placement, and I <3 the flow. Example of splendid gameplay.

O V E R A L L – For me, this is THE level. For you, dear reader of the review, it may be not, but it surely is the best level in the pack and one of the greatest levels ever.

HappyCTF is one of the greatest level packs ever made, and IMO it is the best one ever. A big fat 10 from me.

~Eigus

Ok.

Music – SUX
3/9

Design – Hmmm…first level design is CRAZY.Rest is average.
5/6

Eyecandy – My eyes has fall from my head
1/9

ORIGINALITY – Short levels…
4/9

Gameplay – EASY
5/6

Including – Eh that is first big rating
7/3

Pickup and enemy placement – Poor
2/0

Overall:5.8222222
Level rank:Average
Download recommendation:N/A

This is a great level. It may look small but it’s very fun to play. Great for Duels and 2v2’s. Everytime you die, you get a different PU each time, from Seekers to RFs, Bouncers and Pepper Spray and many others excluding Freezer.
Eyecandy may not be that spectacular but the tileset is only 10 × 10 (100 tiles). The eyecandy is impressive for what is in the tileset. Textured BG is used in Layer 8 and looks good when seen through the arches in the background.

As for a rating, I’ll give it 8.0 because the level is fun to play and it is excellent for Duels and 2v2’s as I said before.

SCORE: 8.0

DOWNLOAD?

YES!!!

This level is very small, but you really need to play it. It’s good for duels or 2v2s, cause well, it’s small. However it’s also fun when there are many players, ‘cause that’s where the craziness starts. It also looks pretty nice. And I like that start-get a PU system. Also the music gives the feel of a fierce battle, so +0.2 for it.

~Eigus

Rating: 8.0 + music bonus (0.2) = 8.2
DR: Yes (yes, yes, yes!)

P.S. Brd, if you want it crazier, add some Freezer powerups. It would be neat, heh heh…

I just played Birdie in a duel today, using the level MULCH. The flow was nice, so was the tileset. The music made a fast pace game. Overall I like it. Even though it’s small, doesn’t necessarily mean it has to get a low score. Good for 1v1 & 2v2 duels. Score, 7.9..rounded to an 8.

~Hitch

[Rating adjusted to 7.9 ~cooba]

This level is awesome, albeit small.

He did not finish IC’s unfinished tilesets. The tilesets used by DarkSonic have been finished before they have been released.

Looks VERY un-worked, but makes great gameplay! Yeah!

(Worlds shortest review… Stop laughing at me! Or just go away…
What am I talking?)

Let’s give it 7.5 and DR.

PS. You would have also said “set the captures needed to 100”, as it makes it more annoying er… fun…

Maybe because it’s a tileset upload and it’s not about the level at all? ;P

First, I’d like to know why someone would bother uploading something like this to J2O. I’ll review each mayor point and you’ll know what I mean (but maybe you already knew it because of the reviews before mine):

EYECANDY: Horrible. You used layers 3, 4 and 8 (or should I say “tried to use”). The tile placement is terrible. There aren’t 2 single tiles which fit together. Also, the background in layer 8 is very bad, it’s just a bunch of wall tiles.

GAMEPLAY: Ridiculous. How about this: you start the level, and fall through some wall blocks put on layer 3. Then you run to the right until you see some dissapearing blocks, you fall through them, then there are some more vanishing blocks, then you jump on a boll platform and right to the exit. Also, you can fall off the level in the exit zone. At least I beated Labratkid, I won it in 5:53 seconds using Jazz, with Spaz I made it in 4:75. Yeah, I was honored with the “Tutorial Level for Beginers Master” title.

ENEMY PLACEMENT: This is another good point of this level. The enemies, as well as the eyecandy and gameplay, are challenging and fun and… Oh, I think I have mistaken the review. Well, in this level there are no enemies. As simple as that.

WEAPONS PLACEMENT: Same as enemy placement. No weapon apart from the blaster. Well, in this level this shouldn’t mater, as there are no baddies to shot at…

ITEMS/PICKUPS: Nothing to review here. It seems the author forgot how to put a single carrot in JCS.

OTHERS: There isn’t anything on this level that should impress so much so as to send Leole a private message so that he can explain how he did it. Maybe the only good thing this level has is that it is very very small, little and short, and you don’t have to play this thing for a long time.

BONUSES: Yes, of course… :P

OVERALL: I think this level deserves a 1. Perhaps the author’s intention when creating this was good, I don’t know. Still, as anyone can see, this shouldn’t be on J2O.

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION: Just to see how bad this level is.

What on earth is this level??? I loaded it into JJ2, played for 1 second and then it was over, followed by a missing next level error, of course! You could have used another layer apart from layer 4. No eyecandy, no weapons, no background, no fun. To make things worse, there’s a lizard between the gems. Why should you put baddies on a Treasure Hunt level? That makes no sense.
No really, if this level is a joke, it isn’t funny! But, I’ll listen to Voldard and rate it hi: a big and well-earned… “1”!!!
Please, do yourself a favour and do not download this.

Hey man, this level pack has a many lot of bugs (as you said)! For example, in every level it is possible to fall down and get trapped in the bottom, which makes you cheat or restart to go back. Also, there are some levels which you can’t win (Electopia Sector 2, Falling in the Time…) because you keep falling all the time, or because there ISN’T an end level zone!!! I think you should fix all the bugs (or at least these ones) before uploading your levels. I wouldn’t recommend people download this, because of all the annoying bugs. If you fix them, it can be a better level pack.

Time for my 60th full review! (cues celebrating music)

Story
As always, Mike delivers a great story. since this is the third pack, the pack revolves around the story a lot. I won’t spoil anything, but it is fun and has a cool twist at the end. The story is fun, cool, compelling and overall, it makes you want to keep playing.
10/10

Eyecandey
WOW. this is great. Since all the levels take place in space, eyecandey is limited. That didn’t stop mike. The backgrounds are basic but the foreground and layer 4 is great! the space ship levels look really cool and look very close to what I would think a space ship would look like. Layer 3 is also used mainly as chain link and fences. I like the ones where you go into the enemy space ships and you see space zoom by at light speed. the carrotus orbital base is more basic, but it still looks like a base an id still cool. The only level that isn’t space is the simulator. It uses a cool effect of removing the colors of the pallet to make it look like everything is an outline. It’s one of the coolest gimmicks I’ve ever seen! The cutsceens just add to the experience. Overall, great eyecandey!
10/10
Gameplay
Once again, top notch. The story levels as I call them, are very basic but a lot of the people in the base have something to say, adding more life. The first real level, the simulator, is really cool. It’s a fun, long level and the puzzles are interesting. It takes some skill. The enemy ship levels look cool, having some of the most innovating puzzles I’ve seen. It uses a complex series of triggers to make switches and interesting barrier puzzles. The first one is really hard as you need to find bouncer ammo and destroy the blasters of the ship. obstacles are great in it and it seems like a death trap at times. The final 2 levels are really cool as well. The pack is about medium difficulty on easy and I like that. the levels are between short and long but they all deliver. overall, great gameplay!
10/10
Enemy Placement
One again, great. The enemies are well choicen and there put in good locations, making it so you may die. Some are put in areas that make it hard to pass without getting hit. Enough enemies are present and the placement seems fair.
10/10
Pickups
Great. There are enough carrots to let you live and still making it so you may die. Food is good as well, making it so you won’t get constant sugar rushes. the gems add as well to the experience. The ammo is nice a varied and it is moderate which means you won’t have outrages amounts of ammo. Save points are put is good locations as well. overall, great pickup placement.
10/10

Final Score: 50/50
Score: 10
Rank: S
DR? This is my favorite pack made by Mike so far. do yourself a favor and download right now. It’s just as enjoyable as all the other episodes.

Not good at all.

Eyecandey:
Horrible. The tileset is carotus by the way. The level looks empty. A lot of the level has tilebugs and a lot of the level consists destruct blocks and end posts. The MCE look good but they make no sense and have no reason to be there. There is only a textured background and no other background objects or foreground objects.
1/10
Gameplay:
Bad. There is an airbord part that is almost impossible to do. There’s just to many twists and turns. Plus once you get the airbord, if you don’t break a certain block then your stuck and you have to kill yourself. Also the level is only half done. Don’t upload half finished things!
1/10

Final Score:2/10
Score: 1
Rank: F
DR? No. Spend more time on your levels and don’t upload them when there half complete. Keep trying though. You’ll get good soon enough.