Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

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.

(Unsupported rating removal. Incidentally, this tileset was based on a movie, so that may have something to do with the content. ~Violet)

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!

Please have someone else OTHER than yourself/your brother/your best freind to betatest this pack.
Until then I will boycott this level and all future packs/levels.
Others should join me in this boycott

The unused menu music was to be used in the Episode select screen. I think Jaz30 is an unfinished menu music for either Multiplayer menus, or the same purpose.

Yay! I have 3 fireplaces!

i shall be back with all the sos levels someday, i have it planed that all those extra lives, well your gonna need them!

it dosn’t seem safe to download from anouther site you have no idea about.

why: beacause it could esaily be a virus.
but i’m first to download.

next time either take the time to upload it properly or actully up load it.

level:woah! that was hard, it’s allmost impossible to beat, the level is like go here get stuck, type jjk. after a while a gave up and used cheats. YAY! i win!

Gameplay:lots of it, so many crates… noooo, this level is going to give me night-mares of millions of crates that do something and your trapped, stuck and or frusterated.

Music:i didn’t realy pay attention beacause of the frusteration level of this level.

Frusteration level: 9/10= deadly frusterated,i wonder if someone might go suicied it’s so frusterating.

eye candy: lets just say it dosn’t help with the frusteration.It’s not bad, its weird.

score:5= the 50 % mark ( 1% from bad)
This levels major downfall was, FRUSTERATION!

Improvemants: less puzzles less frusteration.