Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Thanks for the reviews. :)

To perhaps encourage more people to review this one, I, as a member of the same group as the author, am giving this level a simple and very tight review, for what is it all about.

The funky blue fade in the background caught my eye first once looking into the level. In front of it there’s some nice underused eyecandy-stuff used, although not really special. The masked walls meant for sprite-layer shouldn’t confuse anyone as it isn’t used for the sprite layer at all. Also some other original decoration like transparent black’n white spots for example are put into the level. Too bad they end up being only very minor things about the level overall. There were a few strange tile-bugs at spots eventhough the level was supposed to have been betatested carefully, I as a lesser one too.

The gameplay is outstanding enough and doesn’t fall under circumstances like for example that the bases are too easily to be reached, bad balance, and so on. Only thing that I thought later about was, that there could be possibly a smaller spring-usage actually.

The choice and placement of pickups remains pretty alright too. There is just a small overuse of ammo in general. Don’t know if putting the carrot into a narrow gorge was that nice idea, especially because Yasco did use that earlier.

As a summary I would give the level a score of 8, but for the sake of good habits, being a groupmate I remain not rating it officially. Do download and review!

Cooba: That’s true. Glad to see your standards changing too, maybe. http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=2771

Guess belonging to the same group made me “overrate” it perhaps, if anything.

SJ

Why has this tileset not had any ratings? I really like this tileset!

EYECANDY: 3 Tilesets are included in this pack and each one is the same but they come in 3 different colours, so these 3 tilesets could be used for a certain time of day: Morning, afternoon & night. I like the animated Robot tiles, they are really cool. It looks like a Factory. 9/10

LAYOUT: The set appears small but there are lots of tiles that can be used. There are very few blank spaces, so most of the Tileset space has been used. 10/10

MASKING: Automask has been used but that’s not much of a problem. Tiles have been masked correctly. Actually, I don’t find background masking as much of a problem because the buidings in the background could also be used in Layer 4 for the character to walk on. 10/10

EXAMPLE LEVEL: When you start the level you see lots of moving Robots in the background. I really liked this level. I am amazed at how much can be done in a level with a tileset this small. This will not be counted in the Rating.

EASE OF USE: This tileset is easy to use. Lots of the tiles can be animated. Some of the tiles can be used as conveyor belts with Belt Left/Right events. 9/10

TOTAL = 38/40 (9.5)

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION?

YES!

GRADE: A

This tileset was made in Photoshop, and I’m not very good at drawing on a computer.

EDIT – Now I’m working a much better, much bigger (1030 tiles) tileset. (1030 means TSF only!)

I downloaded it and it said:

Could not find level file or tileset for level“C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\BILL\DESKTOP\JAZZ2\JJ1TUBEELECTRIC.j2l”

User Friendliness 1/1: It’s a very small tileset, so there’s not much you could miss when actually using it.

Overall look 1/6: It’s just another MS Paint tileset to me. Use a proper program next time like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop (or whatever the guides suggest). The colors used in the textured background need to be placed in the right rows of the tileset palette in order for them to not get the messy white color (see JCSref and the othersites to understand this).

Usefulness 0/1 It doesn’t have all the basic tiles needed in a tileset. There are a few eyecandy tiles, but not enough to give a level variety in scenery.

Size 0/1: Make it bigger in the future.

Originality 1/1: Yeah, it’s original. That’s about it.

Overall coolness 0/1: If this tileset was properly drawn and featured the sort of scenery you would see in the Andes (jungles, mountains, plains, etc), this would be a great tileset, but I think you need to put a LOT more work into your tilesets if you attempt to make another. Make a checklist and be thorough when you make a tileset. It should have:

Ground (all angles and corners that anyone could possibly need)
Tunnel (indoor areas where you use layer 5 scenery)
Vine
Hurt (spikes, etc)
V and H poles
Buttstomp and Destruct Scenery
Animations
Signs (exit, bonus, and text)
Directional Arrows
Hook
Collapsing Scenery
Teleport
Disappearing Ground (invisible tiles with a mask that allow people to make secret paths or drop enemies/items from above)
Extra Scenery (foreground abd background extras; any kind of eyecandy you can think of — add as much as possible).

Now go and make a better tileset :)

This tileset combo is badly put together.

EYECANDY
The Tileset combo of misses out some of the most important tiles.
6/10

DIFFICULTY
Quite hard to use, and with a lot of poorly tile placement.
5/10

TILESET DESIGN
The tileset has got an ugly layout, with some tiles that are pointlessly added.
5/10

TOTAL
16/30=*5.3*

[Rating (5.3) clearance. The only thing the review really mentioned was the tile placement, which is not enough to base a rating on. ~Cooba]

Betatested this a lot and helped him change a lot too… lets see.

Eyecandy
The eyecandy is good. The tileset doesn’t have a lot to offer, or they just don’t fit within the level. There is foreground, but it doesn’t confuse or get in the way. It’s a lot of eyecandy for this tileset, but maybe use something with more eyecandy tiles in the future. The background is just bland though, but it’s best the tileset can offer probably.

Gameplay
Very smooth. Float ups make sure you don’t just crash into walls without reason and springs are placed right, so you can just walk to the left/right without crashing into walls. Suckertubes here are handy too. The only thing is that the middle might be a little bit campable because of the coin warps and seeker pu, but there’s enough space to shoot people. The coin warps might be a bit too easy, since you only require 2 coins and you land right on the opposite team’s base, but it’s still a nice add. The layout is very easy to learn too, it has a lot of ways but it’s easy to remember. There aren’t a lot of dead ends either, and if there are there is a goodie.

Placement
Enough for everyone. The Pu’s are unbiased and on each side the ammo differs a little, but it’s still balanced. There’s not much more to say.

Maybe there could have been some food to fill up the level (sorry forgot to mention). The 1+ carrots are placed nicely and are reachable to both Jazz and Spaz. They do need to be shot down.

Comment overall level: Good job, nice relaxing music and easy to remember layout.

This tileswt is about super impressive landsacpe, like super-red paradise…
I would be usuable to make climatics jazz city, because this tileset is somethnig like mix of hotels elements with “paradise isle” and ancient ruins (like from Adam Elshamiers paintings) + JAZZ CHARACTERS!!!
I have never seen that many characters, before I download this Tileset. There are children, teachers, soldiers… very colorful world.
This would be very cool, but… Only for TSF :(. However, this fact is not disadvantage.
So, I said, it is worth of download.

Review time:

EYECANDY:
Well, there isn’t much to say really. Layer 8 fits, but without anything else, the level seems kind of empty (The only other thing was the clock on layer 2). The sprite layer is no better. Because you can see outside the main path into nothing, it seems as if you’re in a floating pod (or something) above some flames. Luckily, the eyecandy doesn’t stick out anywhere an there aren’t any tile errors.
RATING: 3.5

GAMEPLAY:
I thought the gameplay was alright. The main objective is to get to the finish before the time runs out (a time trial) whilst dodging fire and …er……. the only thing you should dodge really is fire. No enemies, no interesting puzzles along the way. The other major problem is that the level is too short. It takes about 25 seconds to complete, yet you give us 55. You also used the ‘fall down and die’ obstacles, but in thier proper way, so that you don’t end up killing yourself (even more fustraiting punishment for those who don’t know about JJK). And finally, the level ins’t as fun as it could be without a small story.
RATING: 5.4

ITEMS:
The only items you used were a few gems…the most useless kind of item. This level did have the potential for some food items or ammo if there were enemies.
DEDUCT: 0.1

OVERALL RATING: 4.3
RANK: 4 Not Good
DOWNLOAD: N/A

How to water-walk?

[Entirely unsupported rating (7.7) clearance. ~Cooba]

For a reason of not maybe “friendship”, while review-rules of the downloads-section tells not to review a “friends level” biasedly, I decided to give a smaller kind of review for this smaller kind of level just very recently uploaded, but some time ago was actually finished. Romantical Landscapes.

The level is very atmospherical, like you could just guess looking at the name of the level. Something I really wonder is why do flicker- and steady-lightning really exist here eventhough there is no Set-light given to players. However, the halos made with a pickup-set are visible for everyone and are a great bonus to the level-outlook itself. And just about the eyecandy here in general, doesn’t have really any flaws or strange stuff that wouldn’t fit to the level-theme. After all you only get to see the decent background properly only at a few places.

The layout is very complex but still does work out pretty well. This could be possibly even considered to be a ctf-level as it does have such reasonable balance between left and right edge. Tubes leading away from dead ends would be the only necessary ones here in my opinion. The rest don’t really add a lot to the tactical side of the level. A few trigger-effects were used too.

What the level contains as pickups is alright. I would have nevertheless wished more ways to place food and gems than what they are currently placed like; Random? For a level of this size Toaster-PU is a good choice.

So we see that even a small level can be after all a decent level. But as jcs still has limits to how “exactly” create a good level, this kind of tiny (masterpiece?) level cannot reach a high score. Snooze seems perhaps even more retired on creating the great stuff, no offence. Considering about the score by all these factors, so far a 7.5 would be a fair one. Download recommendation of course. F0R SN00ZE!

SJ

Rating Final Countdown

To start
In this level you must find the exit on time. Unfortunately this level has a lot of bugs and shortcomings…

• The eyecandy is absolutely not particular, bad context, and if you fall down, you will come in a zone with flags. Why didn’t you made them invisible by placing a wall on Layer 3?
• If the time runs out, a large baffle comes on the screen, but it is after a few seconds disappeared. That is a considerable mistake, the more if you are Jazz or Lori, because if you jump on the last moment and use your helicopter ears, you can surviving it…
• The level is much too short.

• Music is well chosen.
• Very awful created, that clock. How did you do that?

Conclusion
Although this level has some considerably shortcomings, I need to give you nevertheless a narrow sufficient because the well maded clock. I was never able to create it! Good luck with the full episode!

[This review made literally no sense. “The eyecandy is absolutely not particular” and “I need to give you nevertheless a narrow sufficient” are not even correctly written Dutch sentences, yet alone English. Please rewrite the review. ~Cooba]

Not bad.

EYECANDY: There’s not much in the way of eyecandy in this level. Not that many tiles are used. The background is the same most of the time. 6/10

GAMEPLAY: The level was a bit short. You had to get to the end of the level before the timer ran out. Could have been made a bit harder but it was OK. 6/10

OBSTACLES: Some Buttstomp scenery and lots of fire. Could have been more obstacles. 6/10

PICKUPS: 2 gem rings at the beginning but there wasn’t anything else. 6/10

TOTAL: 24/40 (6.0)

BONUSSES:

The timer is really cool. +0.2

FINAL TOTAL = 6.2
GRADE: D

DR: N/A (7 needed for Yes)

This is not bad for your first level but I think some more obstacles and enemies would be needed.

goodbye,evil cheaters!this program is verry funny seeing all the cheaters get banned.the snowman mode is very useful because you dont get hurt,but the instagib
mode is awesome.the spectator mode its like watching tv.POP CORNS!
if you dont have this then DoWnLoAd it now,if you dont like the cheaters ruin your jj2 life!
my english sucks

~~~andyjackrabbit~~~

[Rating (10.0) clearance. There was not enough support for the given rating. ~ Cooba]

Not good.

EYECANDY: There are lots of NES tilesets on J2O. However all 3 of these are bad. When you use any of these Tilesets in a level the character will look ugly and the score counter and text events become unreadable. The graphics are OK but these errors ruin it. 3/10

LAYOUT: The Mario tilesets have lots of blank spaces. The Zelda tileset has a lot of the Sprites from Zelda 1 & 2 but not all of them. The Zelda 1 Dungeon graphics are not there. 3/10

MASK: The masking is OK but the Mario 3D design looks bad. Zelda design is OK but the character turns out ugly. 4/10

EASE OF USE: The Zelda tileset would be way too hard to use. The 3D Mario Tileset would also be difficult to use. Some of the tiles can be animated but not all of them like in Zelda & Mario. 4/10

TOTAL: 14/40 = 3.5

I thought I’d try a grading system.
GRADE: U
GRADING SYSTEM:
S = 10.0
A = 9.0 – 9.9
B = 8.0 – 8.9
C = 7.0 – 7.9
D = 6.0 – 6.9
E = 5.0 – 5.9
F = 4.0 – 4.9
U = 3.9 or lower

If no one likes the grading system, then tell me.

Rating Hot Springs

To start:
In this level the rabbits must made it come to the other side. But that is not easy, because everywhere is lava…

Rating Eyecandy-
It is splendid level. A pink context with splendid green thorns. Moreover the lava is also very beautiful with all that lavafalls…

Rating Difficulty-
The level is considerably difficult… the lava makes the level extremely difficult. The only helping things are Springs, but then still it is a considerable challenge, even for the experts of the Jazz JackRabbit-players…

Rating Story:*- N/A
No story, but if there is no story I give no score for this factor.

Rating Bonus Placement-
The bonusses are well placed. It are not too much and not too a less. I have nothing more to say about this factor.

Rating Gameplay-
Excellent gameplay. Jazz, Spaz and Lori must cover a with lava area by jumping from platform to platform. But you shouldn’t do is too slow, because you will miss the Springs and then you are lost.

Your mark is an 8 now.

Punishments:

• After I’ve exit the level, I was a little bit sick (-0,2)
• Bugs with the Springs (0,5)

Conclusion:
It is a fair level. Nothing more to say. Maybe less lava next time?

[Textile display fix. Ignore me. ~Cooba]

OK, I’ll give it a shot.

NOTE: This is the first time I have EVER reviewed a Tileset so my review may suck. I dunno much about reviewing Tilesets so I may need help.

EYECANDY: This tileset uses the NES Metroid style graphics. Unfortunately it makes the Character look rather ugly. The text and score counter becomes unreadable when used in a level. Most of the Tiles look really bad and jagged. 1/10

LAYOUT: There are lots of blank spaces which could have been filled in. 3/10

TOTAL: 4/20 (2.0)

DR: No

Could someone review this plese

This tileset has so much texture.

EYECANDY
The eyecandy is……super!
10/10

MASK
A couple of minor mask errors, but it is still good generally anyway.
8/10

DESIGN
The design is incredible, there is eyecandy on practically every tile.
10/10

DIFFICULTY
Despite being an amazing set, it’s not very user-friendy.
7/10

TOTAL
35/40=*8.8*

[Unsupported rating (8.8) clearance. There was not enough support given for your rating. You have to specify why was the eyecandy \“super\” amongst other things. For more information on writing a proper review, see the \Downloads F.A.Q.\. – Cooba]