Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

What is this, Biased City? I refrained from reviewing hoping someone rational would do it first. Guess I was wrong ;P Just to set an example (again) I’ll be reviewing this.

Introduction
For those who have WBRG (Where Bad Rabbits Go) by Skulg will find this set strangely familiar. It’s not just the setting, it’s style. While WBRG takes place in Hell, Colosal seems to take place right above it, at a “gate” mayhaps. Rocky, desolate, with some ruins, the reddish colors really give a hellish atmosphere, which has been done before (like Raging Inferno by Disguise). Colosal is one of the better ones, but does have its faults.

Regular Tiles
What is Colosal like WBRG? The style. The walls and ground are entirely black with red outlines and inlines inside the rocks on the outside. The rocks are actually set in a pattern and each rock fits to the other like a pieces of a puzzle. Geometrically speaking, they’re all pentangles, meaning they each have five corners, and they’re all irrgular. Unfortunately the author went the easy way and used the same pattern for the ground, wall and ceiling tiles: all he needed to do is flip it, and for corners he overlapped. And that had a nasty consequence: the corners can only be placed at one spot in the pattern without creating tile bugs, which hampers the user-friendly a bit.
The rocks are just one part of the set, the ruin part is also there. Pretty generic, it’s nothing more than a collection of bricks. They do come in several sizes and have nice gradients, there are even some for the Layer 4 background (i.e. unmasked tiles).

Background tiles
The Background consists of two things. The first is the obligatory mountain background. They come in three variaties: black with red outline, dark red with regular red outline, and red with an orange outline. As you can guess, the fiery nature grows in intensity the closer the mountains are ;) The peaks are rather smal, but it does like a chain as there’s more than one row in each layer. Speaking of which, you can make it one of two ways:

1) Give each variaty its own layer
2) Include more than one in a single layer

That I really like. The other part of the background is nothing more than a ripped pillar from the Beach tileset. Somehow, I think it fits really nicely with its new orangy colors.
O, almost forgot the textured 3D background. Yes, it’s there, and if I’m not mistaking it’s an adapted version of Medivo’s. Unfortunately the palette isn’t that perfect, in 8-bit it gets… funny where it fades out.

Event Tiles
Here’s where the tileset fails a little. Basically, you only have 4 things to work with:

1. Vine
2. Sucker Tube
3. Destructable Weapon Blocks: Regular, Stomp, Bouncer, RF
4. Invisible Blocks (I’m cluding them here for lack of room)

Nothing else. They’re all original as far as I can tell. My only gripe is that the vine is on a blank tile only.

Eye Candy Tiles
Failing a little again. You’re restricted to the blackness beyond the rocks (kinda catchy). You can fill it stand-alone pentangle rocks or small round one, or maybe even Birdie’s name ;) For the ruins you can add a little pulsing animation, but that’s it.

Mask
Nothing to complain about, everything is smooth to the touch… except for one area: the rocks next to the vine in the set is a bit jagged. Granted it’s a smal dent, so you wouldn’t get stuck, but it’s still a bit sloppy. And it seems hidden mask messages are a standard now.

Shadow Version
I can’t believe I forgot about this one! The same things about the regular version can be applied here, except for the colors of course :p The red and orange have been replaced with shades of purple and violet. A pretty good choice as the cold purple contrasts with the hot red.

Final Verdict
Despite its limitations and faults, it’s a pretty good attempt. The theme hasn’t been done (well) that many times, which is a plus. It’s worth checking out at least.

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3

Rating City of the Crab King

RATING TILESET: It’s a classic one. But it is one of my favorites and I have a good day today.
RATING: 4.0

RATING MUSIC: No classic, but not very good chosen… it’s more action-style… and it is a beach-level,
RATING: 4.0

RATING OBSTACLES: This level is large, but I can finish it in one minute.
RATING: 5.3

RATING FUN: Again, this level is large, but I can finish it in one minute.
RATING: 5.3

RATING GAMEPLAY: This is always the average of the other 4 ratings.
RATING: 4.7

RATING UTERUS: This level has an Uterus at the end while I hate it. But again, I have a good day today.
RATING: 4.0

FINAL RATING: 4.6
No Download recommendation.

Greetings,
Ischa

Run-time error ‘339’:

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A 9.5? Is the tileset really that good??

When I played the eg levels, I didn’t find many animated tiles and there wern’t a wide range of tiles but the colours were great and like Uniacke said about the tileset easily being changed to night, that was good aswell.

I think this deserves a 7.7 because there are equally good points and bad points.

????????

A Cool looking tileset, with a rock theme.
Includes both Day and Night versions, and two sample levels. It would fit very well in a lava level.
I find it slightly blocky, and small animations such as lava bubbles etc. are not present. A very good start to a tileset. I think we can expect it to get better as development progresses. This tileset has great potential. Both Tilesets are interchangable, so a level created with one can easily be changed to the other from a day theme to a night theme.
Good work Birdie.

A race??? I havn’t reviewed many of those. So why not???

The race is very interesting but the main element is that there are many traps. But rewarding in a way because they have ammo (prehaps to persuade). I won’t rate this, but I like the traps.

I’ve changed my mind. I rate this an 8 because:

1) Traps

2) Wierd music use

3) Not many races use JJ1 tileset.

Don’t forget to rate it. OK?

Remember to rate this set.

…was this trip really necessary?

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The “Simon Cowell” of Jazz 2 Online‘s Music Scene. . . Joseph Collins
“Dr Lithius” or “LithiuServer” on Jazz 2

hmm try converting Carrottus music. It completely messes up. I tried to play all of the conversions but most of them skipped patterns. I’m waiting for v0.4! No rating from me cuz it doesnt really work correctly, but it is too hard to rate this bad…

Hello Gus

It’s a really good level
Nice tileset!
I’ll give you a 10 to!!!

Greetz Carrot_girl
(Unsupported rating (10) removal. ~Violet)

Hello.

I’ll give you a 1. A penalty, because this level is inpossible without cheats. I can’t beat Devan Shell! And the weapon placement was arkward!
(Unsupported rating removal. What about the rest of the level? ~Violet)

I never found out how to complete the first level and it was passworded.

Yet another tileset by the tileset creator, Gus. This one is called Ischa’s mine.

I’m not a tileset reviewer but I downloaded this because I wanted to check out a few tilesets and do a little reviewing.

The colours in the tileset are mainly what you would find in a mine (brown, gold, grey ect.) You could do alot with this (creating a train like you did in an example level) and there is water but many other tiles are either rock or tiles that say Ischa rules.

I think the backround is….well…rocky.

Overall, the tileset is OK but lose the messages.

Ischa: Don’t blow it.

I’ve lowered your rating. The other half of the train is missing.

Great, thanx dude.
its works perfect for me i didnt get the point at the beginning but now i know and it works great!

its just got a 7 well apart from there is NO MUSIC and NO TILSET .
But if you get thease things the levels kinda great .
Its simple but there is a few bugs in it.I like the layout of the level.some bugs.
ammo placement is pretty great to.
So i would give this a download recommendation but there is no tilest or music.
So avery one get the tilset because the level is not bad.

Rating Triple Defeat

RATING TILESET: The tilesets are very, very good! Only ‘Whatta’ has a classic JJ2-tileset.
RATING: 8.0

RATING OBSTACLES: The enemy-choice is good and the levels are very hard!
RATING: 9.3

RATING MUSIC: Very good, but I must downloaded thr music before I can hear it.
RATING: 8.8

RATING FUN: Well, it’s very good… very, very, very good! I have nothing more to say!
RATING: 9.3

RATING GAMEPLAY: Is always the average of the 4 last ratings.
RATING: 8.9

RATING UTERUS: This episode has 4 bosses, but nó Uterus!
RATING: 10.0

FINAL RATING: 9.1

If you like this level, you should try out some of my other ones :
http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=3863
http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=3952

hai ik heet roy ik wil in je spel
(Unsupported/foreign rating (7.7) removal. ~Violet)