Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

changing my review to QR, as i thought my original one sucked. anyway, this pack is great.

(PA)
(Semimild personal attack removal. ~Violet)

(PA)
(Semimild personal attack removal. ~Violet)

That is really good levelpack. As a first impression I didn’t like Spaz to be the only playable character, but on second thought there are many packs playable only by Jazz. Leveldesign is really great – many triggers, teleporters all levelspace is pretty well used. Dividing it into chapters is fun idea it gives the taste of storyline but it’s not as boring as in many other episodes, we’re not sentenced to watch long intros with slowly flowing text.
Eyecandy is perfect even colums in the foreground in first levels didn’t annoy me and the tileset usage couldn’t be much better.
Playability – it’s the strongest part of this pack. Challenging levels with strategically placed enemies and items made me to think and plan before rushing forward.
Putting levels into separate subfolder is great idea, thanks to this, levelpack didn’t mess my main jazz2 folder too much I wish other leveldesigners did the same thing.
A tileset is missing for 3-1 level so I cannot rate this levelpack. Fix the problems and I will gladly rate this pack to 9.0 with recommendation.

Well designed levels, quite enjoyable and a bit challenging, but way too short, exit is found where one would expect it’s just the beginning. Using short intro music in first level and Lizard room where you may stuck are bad ideas either. 7 points is fair enough.

I’m giving you low rating. Why? Because you’re very annoying person – you’re insulting players in your comments (see above and the readme file). Releasing a levelpack doesn’t make you a god. It wouldn’t be bad if I’d enjoyed this pack a bit, but I didn’t – it’s not about difficulty it’s about: I’m not going to dance how you play me… sorry. Whole levelpack is not as hard as … just boring, especially because there was no gameplay flow and I had to find something hidden too much times. Putting the action on the desert probably made it easier to not care too much about eyecandiness.
In case you are stupid or just suck: the rating would be higher if your attitude was different, but not much since I didn’t enjoy playing these levels. And it was an insult for me that I couldn’t play for long with Lori character.

[Unsupported rating removal (5.0). You’ve given invalid reasons for your rating. Please only take into consideration the quality of the download when rating, not your dislike of the author. – FQuist]

I’m not in the mood to make a long review, so i’m just going to pile everything up in one paragraph.

This level is a remake of the original Battle2 level. However, there’s this one little tumor-esque thing at the lower left part of the level that is not found in the original level. Proper layout takes a back seat to eyecandy, which is seen in the form of mask errors. The eyecandy isn’t all that good either, in my opinion. Just some floating things in the background. You get a 6.5 from me. Download this if you really like battle2, but otherwise, you can skip this one.

Dizzzang! It’s n00b here to review something, and let’s see what we got. A tileset from 2002, and Ugh! It’s so MS painty! But that’s not too bad. This tileset would be perfect for tests, but not much else. There are some simple tileset enemies, and some nesscary tiles, but not too many. Eyecandy tiles? Hmmm, well there are some aliens(Tileset enimies, or destructable), Some animations, and not much else. Really not much that you could use in other layers. It also has some rain tiles, which is a nice addition.
In closing, this tileset is MS Panty, few people will use it for tests, fewer will use it for anything other than tests, and even fewer will like the tileset.
Best Tile- The crashed rocket
Would be better if- Redone,reshaded, and had a textured BG.

Electra,

The layer use in this level was very normal, no bugs with layer 3 etc. I spotted tilebugs, like an unfinished wall.

The enemy placement wasn’t as bad either, at some points you chose the right enemys, at some point less good ones.

What annoyed me in this level were two things: The background tiles placed in the sprite layer and that hole next to the crate that makes you fall down all the way. The bonus was not visible, a bit unhandy. And yes, the level was very small.

Totally there are too many solveable cons. A 5,7…

A small tip for your next level: take the time, nobody is chasing you. It could give some very nice results.

Starting Comments:

Aaaah… this reminds me of my first Tube Electric level (mine was far worse though).

Playability:

It was quiet a nice little level, but sadly, it was way too short and everything inside there was just like in any other level. You run around, kill some baddies and collect goodies. At one point you’ll have enough coins to enter the bonus warp, get some seekers, and blast the boss with them. At the start there was a little puzzle involving bouncers which was nice, but the rest was just average.

Score: 6.0

Balance:

Very easy. I made it the first try, because there’s nothing which is really challenging. The enemies are easy to kill (sometimes a little tricky, but there are enough carrots to keep you alive), the few puzzle situations aren’t that hard to solve and the boss proves no real challenge either. Needs some work.

Score: 5.0

Creativity:

The puzzle was nice and some enemies were placed strategically, but the rest was just basic running, shooting, collecting, stomping, etc. Some more puzzles would have been nice, or situations where the player has to react fast to get over traps. The boss was also too simple, you fight him in a little arena with four platforms. Pretty much like in “A cold day in heck”. Try backing up bosses with other stuff, or giving them an arena which gives them an advantage while it’s difficult to move around for Jazz in it. That will solve two problems – it will make it harder to beat the boss, and it will be different from usual stuff.

Score: 6.2

Eyecandy:

The eyecandy was not so good. Some stuff in the background (too empty), some tiles in layer 4 and that was it. A variety of tiles would have made it better, aswell as new ideas to make it look different than all the other tube electric levels. I found no tilebugs, however.

Score: 5.7

Fun Factor:

Due to the low difficulty level and the lack of creativity, it was not too much fun and if it had been, it would have ended too early because the level is so short. Try improving the other factors mentioned above, and it will be a lot more fun to play.

Score: 5.5

Overall:

An average little level. It’s not bad, but lacks new ideas, challenges and eyecandy. A story would also be nice.

Overall Score: 6.0

Download Recommendation: Decide for yourself.

Raging Resurrection

Here I start a review of this level. I’m not in a good condition and not in a very good mood, but I’ll review this anyway. A 6 looks too low in my opinion.

Eye candy : 2.4 out of 3.0
I’ll start with the eye candy in this level. While I run through the level I see alot of stuff on my way. The ambient lighting effects are nice, and I don’t understand that the reviewer above me can’t see what he/she does. Oh well. The backgrounds are nice, and the layer eye candy is nice as well ;P. The music gives the level a nice atmosphere which I like. A small con is that there are some secrets I don’t particularly like. There are some 1up events which I like as well(the shining effect ;P) Well, that’s all I can say. The eye candy is quite l33t in my opinion.

Gameplay : 3.0 out of 4.0
Let’s start with the layout. The layout of the level reminds me of ‘Titled Level’ but there are some differences. The level isn’t symmetrical but it’s balanced. There are some tubes, and the bases are placed on the left and right sides. You have to take a tube to get to the base, so this prevents a flag bug. The other flagbug can’t happen somehow. It’s very well done. The spring placement is nice. Some of them are hidden. There is some Spaz-bias near the bases, though. I can get up with Spaz there but not with Jazz if I tested it good enough. The triggers are useful(just like I did in my last level) The level’s flow is nice, and the rest is nice as well. I don’t really know what should be improved except what I already said.

Placement : 2.4 out of 3.0
Now I’ll continue with the placement. The level has only 1 Power-Up, but I think it’s good enough. The placement of it is good. The ammo is also good placed, but some boring shapes of ammo are used here and there. The level doesn’t have alot of Gun9, which is fun. You’ll run for some Gun9 so you can get the PU =P. I think the right side doesn’t have alot of ammo at the bottom, but the Full Energy is closer to the right base than the left base. Normally it would be a problem, but it also is strategic. Some shapes of ammo are good though. There is not too much ammo on the ground. The weapon choices are good enough. I would say there is a small advantage for the team that starts at the left side, though. The start positions are placed good enough.

Overall : 2.4 + 3.2 + 2.4 = 8.0. Good job!
Conclusion : a nice new level by Snooze. One of the better levels made for XLM. I hope I’ll see more nice levels like this one.

Host this : Yes. It’s a good new level to host now and then.
Download : Yes.
EDIT : After looking another time, I think the gameplay is a bit worse than I thought before. What EvilMike said about the float ups was true; thus my new rating is a 7.8. It’s still a nice level. ;]

WOW creapy tileset….the lvl is very big GamePlay is very hard.Eye candy well it’s kind of creapy too..I can’t even see were Im going! well……..the lvl scares me! just take 6 and go!

[Unsupported rating removal (6). No valid reasons for this rating were given. You find the eyecandy creepy and the gameplay hard. Why are these a bad thing? Do they make the level worse? What’s your reason for giving a 6? – FQuist]

Finally, I get TSF installed(spent the whole day trying to find my CD), so I can review this level. Can it make me feel like I didn’t waste my morning and early afternoon? Let’s find out.
Level Design-7.5/10
It somewhat reminds me of a compact version of a level Cliffy might have made, but there are some tile annoyances(For example, some background tiles are used in the sprite layer and back layers). Another thing is the trigger crate’s left does not have a warp, and can lead the player too an ‘endless’ pit of doom. The secrets in the level seem remiscent of the secrets you’d find in official levels(coin warps, gems in walls etc. etc.). The boss arena does not work well for Bubba for he jumps through the tiles, however this is addressed in the readme. Finally, the biggest flaw is that the level is too short. Oh, and the coin warp doesn’t use a normal coinwarp booth, but instead a dotted tile, which I thought was somewhat odd.
Story-NA/10
There is no story here, but if I had to make a guess, Devan’s time warping has further messed up Tubelectric sending in rifts of time from which creatures and objects not native to the planet come through. You go to the planet and try to seal these time rifts and destroy the unnative goons.
Eyecandy-6/10
Avearge stuff acheived from a tubelectric tileset, not too excellent.
Difficulty-7/10
On multiplayer, I had some trouble thanks to the sparks and a bee. Also, newer players may not use the BBB ammo needed to solve an early puzzle the correct way. This is bad because the ammo does not regenearate.
Placement-7/10
Very average placement, save for a bee, there is nothing that was too horrbile or too genious. Some good points were the placement of the Seekers and a few other secrets. A very bad point is Bubba’s placemnet.
Closing-
It’s a good start, but in the future I’d like to see a larger level, and see where the other average points stretch or constrict from there.

Download Reccomendation?-Yes, but only if you need a short diversion.
Co-op?-No, with this small space Co-op would hinder the collection of some of the secrets, and ends to quickly before any teamwork happens. However, the pit near the trigger crate can be used to trick a friend into oblivion. Whoo.

I didn’t like it. No further comment.
(Unsupported rating (3) removal. Why didn’t you like it? ~Violet)

Ladies and Gents. Here it is, another XMas pack, only 3 levels, but … WHAT FUN! It is sooo playable so enjoyable and looks great too. This pack is rather underrated, but I see it is quite normal here that good packs has lower ratings than worthless and boring.
What’s inside levels? Of course they are finely designed: a lot of springflying, treetops jumping, baddies shooting. Yep, it’s all right there and the filesize is only 30kB big, because it only uses original game resources. Yes, I’d like more levels or bigger levels, I’d like to hear music in XMas Night level. That’s why it gets 9.7 not 10 out of 10.
Highly recommended.

No, do not cancel this project, just fix some levels add two more and we would have another excellent episode.
What to fix?
First level is perfect, second level has bad tileset maybe it could be improved.
I didn’t like the rain on 3rd level and there was only one place that made Lori character impossible to play: maze puzzle though it could be fixed by adding a skateboard.
Fourth level pretty challenging and really good, I even play this one with Lori and I must say it was fun. I only hated the background.
So overall that would be great episode if you hadn’t cancelled it and fix some issues. But now we have good four levels to play that are worth 8 points. At least try to make some update to these: change the speed of background in levels 2 and 4 also add a skateboard at the maze and I’ll surely rate it higher 1 whole point.

Do not finish it have mercy for players, yuck. :P

This is not cartoonish, it’s some pix of antitalented child put to tileset. Ungliness and sillyness at its best.
(Unsupported rating (1) removal, wide attack removal. Try to go into more detail and don’t be quite so negative, okay? ~Violet)

No this can’t be – another worthless piece of file with HIGH RATING. This episode is the worst thing I’ve ever seen or play (not for long I must admit) the graphic is just stupid, do not make anymore tilesets for Jazz go play with your crayons :P Yuck yuck yuck, it just disgusts me. (See more about it in tileset review)
Music in the first level is as stupid as the graphics are.
Leveldesign as far as I was able to bear to see was hopeless – far below average. Do not touch JCS again and when you do don’t upload effects here. I don’t know what talents you’ve got but tileset and level creating are your anti-talents for sure.
Now I must search through whole my download and delete everything ‘made by satan’. Another such shock would kill me.
Oh and the last thing: change the name of this episode to Silly Childish Episode and look at some cartoons (or original Jazz graphics) to know what does cartoon means.

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and here’s my answer to da man’s comment:

I’m expanding rating list and what do I see: aahh -> ‘1’ (it is right there believe me). Now, let’s say I find some episode “no fun at all”, should I:
a) rate it 1.0 because that’s my opinion about this pack
b) rate it higher just because other players do so ?
In service Jazz 2 Online we have democratic way of posting reviews and rating uploaded files. Some may like it others may not, but only administration of this site decides about it. What’s that democratic system then – it means: majority decides, but minority preserves its rights to have different point of view.
As you all can see: majority of high ratings gives current file a high overall rating even though I rated it lowest possible way. Well, 7.5 is still very high rating …
There is another system which is not practiced on this website and it is called totalitarism. It’s when all people must act the same even when some think other way. In that case I had to choose option ‘b’.
I know satan has made an effort and spent some of his free time to make this pack. But I’m not here to rate how much work he did but how good is the effect. Surprisingly I do not see any comments from authors of levels that i’m reviewing. Why do other play a role of their advocates is not my problem. Being a new person on this site doesn’t make me any worse than people who are here longer (well, at least I do not see it in “The rules”) very often a new point of view is something positive.
I apologize all offended (if there are any) authors for my reviews, but honesty is what I appreciate most.
P.S. User Snooz must try harder to offend me in reviews area or PMs. Silly insults only make me laugh ;)

Average levelpack. Many issues and bugs were already pointed out in other reviews. But I also have my own cons: don’t say anything about music in readme when there’s NO music at all in the zip-file. No, I’m not going to download mods especially for your pack, you didn’t includ’em = there’s no music. You always could use one of the original tracks.
Some of the tilesets you’ve used are good others are not – especially 3rd level, but that was your choice.
Covering some area with leaves on 2nd is really annoying – well, I know it’s for increasing difficulty, but that’s cheap method, couldn’t you do better?
I’m stuck on last level and can’t find the way to trigger crate – that’s bad. I know puzzles are nice and everything, but if I want a puzzle I play a puzzle game which JJ2 is not. The gameplay should flow rather continously but it doesn’t. Puzzles in JJ2 are usually based on finding secrets in walls and not on logic thinking and I hate spending my time on hitting every wall I see.
And last but not least – why do I see all levels on my homecooked list when it’s levelset/episode. There should be only the first one, I was quite confused – which level should I start with.
The only pro is that you can play with Lori. But my overall rating is averge unless some things in this pack are improved in upgraded version.