Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Introduction:
I guess it’s exactly what was promised. “Points of Authority” mixed with Tubelectric?

Song Analysis:
I. . . I’m not sure. I’m really not sure how to review this. It’s. . .just a couple intertwined files. That’s all. Points of Authority with some slowed-down Tubelectric thrown in. It works. For the most part. It starts to desynch around 1:56, though. Quite noticably. Then there’s an obvious “jump” at 2:16. Then another desynch at 2:56. Finally, there’s a long, unnecessary silence at 3:18 onward.

Mixing Analysis:
It mixes alright. For the most part. As I said, there’s a few desynchs and jumps. The songs could have mixed a little better than this. It’s an original concept, but the mix itself isn’t that great overall.

Final Analysis:
. . .I’m not sure if I should rate this or not. This is one of those. . .things. It’s an MP3 of Linkin Park’s “Points of Authority” lightly mixed with Tubelectric. If I were to rate it, I’d give it a 2.2 for the above reasons and for no other reasons than that. The legality of this doesn’t effect the score at all.
If you like Linkin Park, this is a good download for you, considering it’s an entire Linkin Park song with some ignorable Tubelectric parts. I wouldn’t suggest downloading it myself, however. As I keep saying, it’s not a very good mix.

Edit: . . .eh. I went ahead and rated it.

Second Edit: You people that give this “remix” a high rating make me sad. :x

Third Edit: Eh. Rating withdrawn. Considering I have no idea what the original song sounds like, and furthermore could care less, perhaps that’s not very fair to Jazzy. I was rating the MP3 version to begin with, not the IT version. The IT version isn’t all that much more impressive to me, frankly. It still goes out of synch in some places. There’s a few “skips” here and there. Just ain’t impressive to me. And given the IT version, the score would drop from a 2.2 to a 2, as I’d rate the IT a 1.7. But whatever. I can admit when I’m not being completely fair.

Introduction:
A dry interpretation of the Turtemple theme done up in a dance club styling.

Song Analysis:
You’d be surprised just how empty this song can possibly sound without an actual bassline. Which it does not have. At any given point whatsoever. Definate minus points there. And given the opening sample, I almost thought this was something out of Blaster Master 2 for a brief moment. Anyone else remember that lava level? No? Okay then, nevermind.
Anyway. . . Like I said, without the bassline, it’s a little bit dry. The overall arrangement isn’t. . .well. . .arranged all that much from the original, either. It’s just the same old “dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun” cycled over and over again in a fast pace with about three samples. Not much to hear here, folks.
Additionally, it doesn’t really sound much like it’s Oriental. It just sounds like typical American dance music, minus the bassline.

Sample Analysis:
The samples chosen are of high quality indeed. However, it seems to me that the samples are also just a tiny bit out of tune with one another. It might just be me, though. Nothing more to say.

Final Analysis:
Wanted: One Turtemple bassline. Inquire inside. :x
Loud and hyper, but dull and boring regardless. Not particularly worth a download considering how surprisingly dry it managed to turn out.

“Just upload it normally by putting both files into the zip.”

Good luck on trying to upload a .zip which is 5 MB big.

I could download it now. I’m usually not much into reviewing musics, but there’s always the first time.

What we have here is a nice mash-up of Tube Electric (JJ1) and Linkin Park’s Points Of Authority.

Infact, I like this bootleg a lot, and will put it into my MP3 playlist I think.

The two songs fit together nicely, and create a nice new experience, especially if you knew both songs before.

The tube electric guitar was re-arranged, which sounds nice.

Overall:

A nice mash-up, worth the download especially for Rock fans.

EDIT:

Cooba, I just noticed that myself. :P

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(Unsupported rating (2) removal. ~Violet)

Gameplay
Ok, here’s the deal. Some lab animals have broken out, it is your job to eleminate them, or anihalate, whatever you like. You must solve some puzzles, which are hidden quite good. The boss gave it a nice touch, for a lava level. I enjoyed playing, and I hope others will too.

Eyecandy
The eyecandy was really good. Almost every spot is covered with an iron block, or some background walls. It looked very nice, and there were no tilebugs either.

Creativity
The story was quite creative, for as far as I could read. (Please make 3 @‘s before entering the actual text, or else it might be blocked by HP, score, boss HP, etc.) The puzzles weren’t that creative. You have to find a crate to lift a big box, that sorta stuff. Ever tried lever triggers? It is a bit hard, but there is a good article on J2O to learn it. (Took me about a week before it worked…)

Originality
I like the story, which is the most original from this whole level. For a single-single player level, it has quite original events, like when the teleporter broke, you must find a way around. It took me very long before I discovered that one… Pfew… Nope, it was quite original to me!

Overall
If you like puzzles and plain old shooting action, you’d better download and review this one.

Good Thing
Bilsy

Bad Thing
Bees…

Score
8

Download recommendation
Sure… I downloaded it too! :P

yay ppl r downloading my stupid lvl!!!!!!!!which i spent 5 minutes on!!!!!=D=D=D=D

Well, I’m typing this review as I listen. So here we go:
Begining- Some Chinese blips, gone to Turtemple. It sounds somewhat 8-bitish, but it stops
After Sudden Halt- It picks up, theres drums, that clapping noise, overall sounds like a Hong Kong Dance Club.
Sometime After that Part-
As soon as I typed Hong Kong Dance club I began to hear a sound from JJ3 that adds to the Hong Kong Club esque theme I’m feeling. It stops feeling Asian for a short point, but it goes back. By this point I’m 2:48 in to the song.
3 Minutes Mark- Mainly what I’ve been hearing. At 3:30, begins to fade out.

My Only complaint is the Chinese/Asian sounds are too 8 bit-ish feeling, and at times I lose the Asian Vibe and it seems too techno/Night Club-ish so, based on a caculation method I made up at the last minute I’m going to give it an 8.2, here’s why:
Pros-
Keeps an Asian vibe for the most part
When adding new ‘instrument’s it ussualy feels natural.
Some how still seems like Turtemple even though it used 1 theme from it.
Cons-
Loses Asian feel around 2:15 for a bit
Asian sounds are a bit too 8 bittish.

I wouldn’t reccomed it for an asian level unless it was something simmilar to Downtown Tokyo, but it does make a nice listen.

(What’s this, I’m making a review? Check to see if the apocalypse is coming! O.o;)

A super-useful little program (me being an archiver who hates to lose conversation :)), but there is this one problem that sours my opinion of it..

• I’m in JJ2’s menu
• I’m in a server
• If I open Chatlog first and JJ2 second, and then hit Start Log.

All of which worked fine in Win95.

Another peculiar glitch is that I can’t move it in XP. O_o I could in Win95.

To potential downloaders— if you don’t use WinXP and like logs of conversation, download this. :)

I recently reviewed the other one, so this one might get a review aswell.

The set itself is very small again, with a few simple black tiles with green symbols on them. You can make floor, slopes, destruct blocks with 16 hitpoints, a background and invisible floor + slopes. Hardly any eyecandy tiles, no detail. Spikes and a few blocks are included aswell, but it’s way too less. A good point is that the tileset is very easy to use, but it flops because you can make hardly any eyecandy with it and it’s too simple overall. The background doesn’t work in textured mode.

Overall:

Small tileset with only the most needed tiles, lacks eyecandy and anything original.

Overall Score: 5.0

Starting Comments:

I was betatesting this level, but I guess I manage to make the review unbiased.

Played with: Lori
On difficulty: Medium
Playing time: N/A*

*As I betatested it, I already knew were most of the stuff was, thus playing time was shorter than usual.

Playability:

Very hard level, which is a good thing. I like hard levels. This one has very good enemy placement, nice puzzles and good item placement. The enemies are hard to avoid, but never unfair. There are also a few puzzles, which gives a nice change of pace and makes it more enjoyable.

Score: 8.0

Balance:

Hard as heck, great! I love the way the enemies are placed. A great improvement compared to the author’s last pack, which was fairly easy.

Score: 8.0

Creativity:

Not the most creative level I’ve ever seen, but the author did a nice job. The puzzles were quiet good, and some other stuff was done very well too. I like the way the level is in Nick Stadler style while still being different.

Score: 7.7

Eyecandy:

The eyecandy was OK. The sprite layer eyecandy was quite nice, the background could’ve had some more stuff. There are no tilebugs though, which is good. Overall the eyecandy is good enough for me.

Score: 7.0

Story:

This time the author even included a little story. It isn’t all around great, but it helps to make the level have a bit sense.

Score: 7.0

Overall:

Very good level with great enemy placement and good puzzles. It’s not perfect, but surely worth a download.

Overall Score: 8.0

Download Reccommendation: Yes

Very small tileset we have here. It includes all necessary ground tiles, some grey wall tiles, a few blocks (most of them look kinda weird), (custom) text + exit signs, a spaceship, and a few more tiles. It does not look bad, but lacks major details and eyecandy tiles, aswell as background layers. It’s easy to use, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that the tileset is lacking lots of stuff. I guess you could make a decent level with it, but it will be difficult to make any eyecandy with the tileset. Maybe use it for a cutscene or something similiar.

Overall:

Very small tileset, with lack of detail and eyecandy tiles.

Score: 5.2

Download Reccommendation: No.

Well okey however i am also not an expert i will rate to.

When i entered the first level i get the feeling it was making to fast. The background is very ugly there, make it move or make another. Also sometimes a hill is just a brown block :S

The music was kinda boring but maybe thats just me.

In the level where you fight the robot:
sorry but have you even tested that? The background is so bad! It moves way to fast and it isn’t cool to look at it, i get dizzy and stuff. NOT COOL!

Also i think the levels are a bit boring. The enemy’s respawn to fast to.

This al may sound hard but i know you can make better :) becose there are also some thing i say wich are just cool if you could fix them up a little. It is sometimes also a little hard (i get game over :P!) so just do more your best next time and it will go fine i think :) Story offcourse is bad but i think ya know that? ;)

Hehe fun tileset. I like bomberman and i remember a lot of the things you put in it. The idea is cool but well, you cant play bomberman in jazz ;) In bomberman you see and play it from the top and in jazz well, i bet you know :P

Little anoying: The blocks in the tileset, you have to shoot them 5 times or something, but this has nothing to do with the tileset so skip this part :P

Conclusion: Its a fun tileset but i dont think you can make very cool levels with it. You just cant use it for a sidescrolling level and well, i just dont know where you can use it for :P But it is kinda fun that you tried it, good job.

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EYECANDY 3/25

Not a very good start. No textured backround, houndreds of tile errors. No backround or foreground ey7ecandy has been used.

GAMEPLAY 4/25

You said there were warps in the level. Well I could hardly find any warps. The only gameplay there is is a few crates.

ITEMS 7/25

Appalling use of ammo. Millions of empty spaces which could be filled in.

SIZE 17/25

OH, HOORAY!!You’ve just earnt yourself a high mark. Nice big area.

OVERALL MARK = 31/100

RATING = 3.0

Oh dear. That could have been better. But its one of those levels. Definatly no download recommendation since you need a 6.5

Example levels don’t have to be super-l33t-wow-omg levels, all they have to do is to show what you can do with the tileset and how to use some tiles…

This is a pretty good tileset for a game made in the 80’s. It has old graphics but it is still pretty nice. Good job at making this great tileset conversion. I like this tileset conversion and I sort of like Bomberman. There is lots of eyecandy in it like: bombs, skulls, flames coins etc. I like it because it is a very good tileset conversion.
Keep up the good work MSB3000. I hope to see more great levels and tilesets from you. I will review your other levels too. That is the end of my review.

Download Recommendation:
Yes.

Overall Rating:
I give this an 8.0.

WHAT THE O MY HOLY COW!?

this song is just plain wierd!

the drumbeat sounds like it went to the dark side of funky! and it’s too slow!
and i actually can’t really hear too much how it’s related to lagunicus.

this would be a good song for a level of weird things

i gives you a 7 for effort

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Told’ja all I needed was some sleep. Now I’m back in the swing and ready to kick some fuzzy green tail. :x

Introduction:
Strange, strange title(un-l33ted, “Fan’lnt”?) for a pretty decent easy-listening-to-rock arrangement of Fanolint.

Song Analysis:
Starting out, the song doesn’t sound too much like Fanolint. In fact, it sounds more like something you might hear down in Chinatown or something.(Which isn’t a bad thing, mind you.)However, this song really begins to pick up around 2:50 when we hear added drums in the background. Around 3:50, though, all the samples playing begin to sort of clash with one another, but this only last for about fifteen seconds or so. Or maybe it just takes that long for me to adjust to the sound. Harr.
Finally, it starts to come to a long-winded, peaceful close from 4:51 onward.(That’s almost a pattern, there. One minute off from the other two major changes.) Nice.

Sample Analysis:
I think that all the samples Jazz picked for this work quite nicely with one another to make both “parts” of the song(“easy listening” and “rock”) pleasing to the ears. As I said, a couple of things might need some fine-tuning, but as it is, it’s nothing terribly harmful to the song itself.

Final Analysis:
It’s a little dry and doesn’t sound terribly like the original Fanolint song in some parts, but overall, it’s a really nice arrangement! Some things are a wee bit out of key, but honestly, it’s nothing that would hurt the ears. Additionally, it’s definately way better than some of his older work.
I recommend this for download because it’s a fun arrangement, dispite the keys of some of the samples.

I sense inspiration here. But I still WILL finish my piece, mwahaha. Not even JC will stop me! >]