Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Eyecandy:ugh…Not very good. The worst pert of the eye candy is the platforms.The platforms don’t realy have a end, it’s just the middle.Also you can tell that this level was rushed from the bad eyecandy or just that gam-ie is just bad at eyecandy.I can tell that gam-ie used the same tiles over and over in the same way.

Gameplay: warp warp warp warp warp warp every where,which is kind of anoying. Theres not much game play at all in this level.

Item placement: theres not much of an avraity of weapons in this level. Just 2 types of weapons and 1 max weapon.

Size:It’s so small. Try playing this level with lots of players, and you’ll find out a problem.

Score:3.0 = bad

Improvements: Make the level bigger,more types of weapons,mybe less warps, and better eyecandy. And next time you build a level let somebody test it for you, beacause they will notice if it is cheapy (unless they are very bad at jj2 level making)So try again. And don’t rush (if gam-ie did rush)

I think you don’t have to put a readme with just a single level in this upload.

Eyecandy

This is the same as your previous level.
I don’t know who said to you that you can’t make single player levels, but the reviewers didn’t.
You will do this in single and in multiplayer. Play your levels yourself, look at your background. We don’t have cracks in the sky on earth, do we.
Look more carefully at which titles you use. Also the ground were you’re standing on doesn’t has edges, its just the middle of a platform at a edge.

Gameplay

The Gameplay is better than in your first level, but still needs a lot of attention. There are only 2 little rooms in the level where you can fight and in one there is none bottom and you warp back to the other.

Placement

Only bouncher and toaster crates.
You could have put some more single bullets in there and also a power up.

Size

The size is still too small, look at other people’s levels and see how they made them.

EYECANDY: 1.5
GAMEPLAY: 3.0
PLACEMENT:1.5
SIZE: 2.5

FINAL GRADE: 2.5

TIP: Don’t put all your levels here, look or they are good enough.
Also, im Dutch, so if you don’t get anything from this review just PM me.

BLEH! My first review for this pack was rubbish.

EYECANDY

All the levels are set in the JJ1 style tilesets. They all have good eyecandy. None of the levels use a Textured Background but they do use the JJ1 style background which looks great. There was a tilebug in the Layer 8 background in the second Tubelectric level though. The wires didn’t join up correctly. But I didn’t notice this until after playing the pack for about the 7th time now so it’s excusable. There were no tilebugs in Layer 4 in any of the levels. Nothing looked repetitive.
The use of the lighting events made the level look more interesting.
The entire pack was like another new JJ1 episode. I forgot that I was actually playing JJ2 because everything looks like JJ1.
So overall, the eyecandy is great.

9/10

GAMEPLAY

The levels were a very good length. They weren’t too short or too long. The whole pack took me about 2-3 hours to finish. There was some Trigger Crate puzzles to complete in order to proceed through the rest of the level. I like the way you had warps in the wall in Diamondus so that if the player gets stuck they would be warped near to where they got stuck.
I like the way the intros are done before each world. Intros are done like the loading screens in JJ1.
There was a bug after completing the 2 Industrius levels however. I was at the Turtemple intro, but when I walked right to go to the first Turtemple level, I was warped back to the third Tubelectric level where the “?” sign was. Wow, these secret level events sure are buggy.

9/10

ITEM & BONUS PLACEMENT

I thought that there wasn’t enough Carrots to be found in any of the levels. I was at 1 Heart health quite a lot. There was plenty of ammo to be found. Some levels had a Bonus Area which I liked. The Bonus Area in the third Tubelectric level had a Bonus Gem (like the one in JJ1) you would touch. It would then unlock the way to 2 secret Industrius levels. Coins were very well hidden especially in the first Tubelectric level as the first 6 times I played it, I couldn’t find the 20 Coins.

9.5/10

ENEMY & OBSTACLE PLACEMENT

The small turtles in the 3 Diamondus were annoying IMO, as they caused me to end up at 1 Heart health a lot. Other than that the enemy placement was good, none of them were in any annoying places. The Tubelectric levels had those blaster thingies (don’t know what they’re called) like in JJ1 and they hurt too. There was also all the usual JJ2 obstacles as well including destruct & buttstomp scenery and Trigger scenery.

8.5/10

TOTAL SCORE: 36/40 = 9/10

RANK: A = SUPERB

DOWNLOAD?

Since I’ve given it 9.0 what else do you think I would say? Of course, my DR would be YES! :D
It’s a shame that this isn’t 1.23 compatible as this is an excellent pack which has not received any ratings until now. If you do have TSF download this pack now.

I think this is a better review than what I had previously. :P

Rating Jungle Adventures Part One

Eyecandy:
Background: Horrible.
Path: Bad
Foreground: International Disaster
Rank: Abysmal

Gameplay:
The level is much and much and much to short for an sufficient. And it also doesn’t have a boss.
Rank: Bad

Obstacles:
Enemies are placed in groups. And this level is easy.
Rank: Abysmal

Item Placement:
Not good, nothing more to say.
Rank: Not Good

Story:
No story?
Rank: International Disaster

Final Rating: 1,9
Download recommendation: NO!

Ok here you go…

I agree with n00b, tileset was small when
i opened JCS. However, I think it was a little too normal for some reason. It’s not like The best tileset in J2O.
(No offense) A little blury, but it makes it personal, so it’s a good thing

It needs more stuff. And yes it’s easy tileset to use.

My overall rating is 7.0, a lot people might disagree with me, but that’s what i think
Downlaod recommendation: yes

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[Rating (7) rating removal. No valid reasons for the tileset’s high rating were given. ~Cooba]

This level felt rather more entertaining than the first release (second level) of gam-ies levels. This wasn’t an ordinary level, it was narrated..

EYECANDY:
To be honest, the first glimse of eyecandy was not convincing. The below-ground tiles were obviously dragged and the ceiling….well…looked the same. Those are some of a long list of errors. The way the level looked wasn’t the only problem. The poor quality of the level created some huge masking errors (like near the beggining). The backround was a half-sky half-leaf backround. If you put all those together, the result is certainly not good. Gam-ie has some work to do.
RATING: 2.4

GAMEPLAY:
The first problem was that there was a huge lack of gameplay…and the only gameplay there is not dissapointing, but amusing. Amusing not because the level is superb, but amusing because of the low quality of the gameplay. The only obstacles in the level were spikes and dragonflies (And 4 lizards). There is a coin warp in the level and your reward…2 super gems. But again you put dragonflies in there which almost defies the meaning of ‘bonus warp’. about 60% of gameplay was text. The story for this level was about a rabbit who had to go around killing flies.
RATING: 1.4

ITEMS:
There were less than 7 groups of items. There were 9 blue gems, 2 super gems, 1 carrot, 2 coins, 18 special ammo and the other 2 group was just food. The 2 gold coins were right next to a warp you had to go through to get to the end. The level was so small that there probaly no room for items anyway.
RATING: 1.8

AVERAGE RATING: 1.8

BONUSSES:

MUSIC:
A level needs music. If its a j2b file, type just the name. If its s3m, mod, xm, it, wav, 669 or any other module, type the name plus the extension. Eg. DEMONIC.mod, light.s3m….. +0

TILESET:
If you use other peoples tilesets, the level may not be boring. +0

BONUS: 0
FINAL RATING: 1.8
RANK: 1 Crap
DOWNLOAD?: If you’re bored.
FINAL COMMENT:
Read reviews carefully and take care doing levels.

Rating Madness

Rating Eyecandy:
YIKES! MY EYES HURTS! I HAVE STARTED THE LEVEL, BUT MY EYES VERY QUICKLY BEGAN HURTING
Rank: INTERNATIONAL DISASTER

Rating Difficult:
It is very difficult, with that eyehurting background. I can’t see the path. But I need to give you another International Disaster, because it is too hard and dangerous for your eyes.
Rank: INTERNATIONAL DISASTER

Rating Items:
No items at all.
Rank: INTERNATIONAL DISASTER

Rating Story:
No story.
Rank: INTERNATIONAL DISASTER

Final Rating: 1 (0, but that’s inpossible and I’m kind)
Download Recommendation: NO!

Rating Dreamland

Rating Practical:
It is not the most practical one, because it is very hard to create a good background with it. Again, only Ischa was able to do it.
Rank: POOR

Rating Beauty:
If you want to create a level about a dream, this is THE tileset, because it is a beautiful one.
Rank: NICE

Rating Orginality:
Yes, it is very original. I have never seen a dream-tileset yet.
Rank: PERFECT

Final Rating: 7,2
Download recommendation: N/A! (requires a 7½)

hi, your atlantis tile set is very good! and the song too. but there’s one thing: there’s lava under wather and thats not good! maybe you can change that.

i give it an 8.2.

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Did you know that if you click on guestbook on your site you get the weather page?

Eyecandy

Take a look at other levels,
They all don’t have a ******* background like this, right. put 8 at height and 8 at lenght and make it textured.
You put a three for the background in the layer 4 which causes a lot of lag.
Also the ground were you are walking on isn’t good connected to the next ground and that walls have the middle titles at their edges.

Gameplay

This level is way too easy, there are arround 4 flying lizards and 10 dragonsfly’s mostly in groops also you are too quick done with this level.
At the end you get a bonus level with diamonds, but if it contained something worthfull you couldn’t use it anymore because there the level is finished.
Also wen you reach the end area jj2 closes. This is because you didn’t typed the next level. If there is none, typ endepis.

Placement

Enemies are placed in groups.
This level is just too small to tell anything about the ammo placement.

Size

The size is too small and also most of the ‘gaps’ where you are walking though are too small.

EYECANDY: 1.5
GAMEPLAY: 2.5
PLACEMENT:3.0
SIZE: 1.5
BONUS: 0.1 (story?)
FINAL GRADE: 2.2

sorry to say this, but your file isn’t working if you click on “download”
so maybe you must up load it again.

hi, i played this level, and i can only say; how the hell i can come above??? there are so many warps that i can’t find the right way.

i give it an 2.7
(Unsupported rating removal. ~Violet)

Hmmm, can’t seem to log into my old account. Oh well.

So, it’s been about five years now… time, I think, for a retrospective:

Looking at it now I have to say I find the start of the episode a bit underwhelming, the design is rather dull, with little platforming challenge to speak of and the eye candy doesn’t work too well… however, once you reach the cliff face in the second level and start your climb up the mountain and into the caves it starts to get more interesting. The bits with the falling rocks still work quite well I think, especially in the caves and the fact that you can take multiple paths in several places adds a lot to the fun.

“Sorna Falls” also holds up pretty well, though not a terribly complex design it’s a nice natural landscape and a bit more challenging than the earlier levels. After that it’s back to the linear left to right gameplay with “Into the long grass”… which to be honest is a bit boring. It works adequately as a story level but is not much of a challenge.

“A call for help” works better as it’s more contained, focusing more on story and exploration and less on just traversing the area. There’s a few puzzles blocking your way that, while simple, make for an amusing aside from the platforming action. “Down the tubes” is super-linear, but somehow it works and the flood at the end is cool.

Then comes arguably the most spectacular level of the pack, “Goose Chase”. Though the layout of the level itself is essentially very basic, the fact that you’re being chased through it by a giant T-rex makes it all the more interesting. :)

This is followed by an unfortunate return to the familiar left to right traversing with “Climate change”. While the subterranean path of the level is slightly more interesting, as a whole it doesn’t really hold up and could have done with some more platform challenges.

Which brings us to the finale that spans “the storm” and “coastal cliffs”, better than some of the previous levels but not among the best, though I like the way the story plays out with the chopper diverting to a different meeting point and Jazz’ sarcastic comments breaking up the action…

GRAPHICS & SOUND

The limited colour palette definitely hurt the look of the tileset. All I can say is, never do 3D tilesets unless you have more than 256 colours at your disposal. It just doesn’t really work. It’s too detailed to have flat surfaces of colour and dithering is scarcely an improvement in most cases. I think the dinos still look pretty cool and the rock surface and a few other things work well, but the foliage and trees could have looked A LOT better, as could many other things.

I would like to note though that Jaws and I created ALL the graphics ourselves. We did not “steal them off some website” as has been suggested by a certain reviewer who should perhaps think more happy thoughts.

But I digress…

The cutscenes, today, are interesting to look at. With all I’ve learnt in the past five years I could easily pick them apart and go into all the things I could have done so much better but as a support for the story they did the trick at the time and that’s what matters.

I definitely don’t regret the decision to not have any music. It was more than made up for by the various atmospheric sound effects that supported the levels, from the crashing of waterfalls to the roaring of T-rexes.

CONCLUSION

While I’m glad so many enjoyed the episode enough to give it a 9 or 10 I think I’m gonna have to agree with the more moderate reviewers and give it a 7.7. It has its moments.

(Since we’re not supposed to rate our own packs I’ll refrain from actually submitting that rating, though)

hi, your level is good, but the ammo returns to fast. eyecandy is good, because it seems so “full”
but, some ideas in the level are “copied”. maybe you must think over a very, special level.

i give it an 7.5

Rating Atlantis Tileset

Rating Practical:
It is not the most practical one, because it is very hard to create a good background with streaming water. Ischa was able to create it for his Treasure Hunt-level, I not.
And LAVA UNDERWATER? That doesn’t fit.
Rank: Not good

Rating Beauty:
It is very beautiful. You can create beautiful tilesets for J2O.
Rank: Good/Very Good

Rating Orginality:
It is extremely orginal. Yes, there are another Atlantis-tilesets, but they were not fit, because Ischa needs marble blocks, no mud. Your tileset is very orginal, with that people. Is that people that can breath underwater?
Rank: Perfect

Final Rating: 7½
Download recommendation: YES!

aahhh rapidshare suckss maaannn
lol… mp3 viruses :O

well anyways… not bad but not really any catchyness to it i dont think :S

but good song otehrwise

This is cool, can you include a Teal green pallete edit tho? thats more how I imagined Dreamland, and I think having multiple palletes for this set would be cool

Its just exoticus with all the samples changes and sped up. I don’t rate this.

No ‘ and spaces in the .zip file, please.

chet208: yeah, MP3 files usually are viruses.

n00b: thanks, nice to know…

haha, for now i got only 10 real (from rapidshare) downloads, gj & gg!