Review by the WINNER

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
7

A tileset =O

TILES/EYECANDY OF THEM:
I’d like to mention that Labratkid starts to advertise TF with this tileset. And this one has even ripped mountains from Psych 1 (night?). Waterfalls are ripped from Jazz1: Diamondus. The tileset has a text “Waterfall taken from Ancient Riches. Used with permission.” Maybe Ancient Riches has that ripped waterfall too? I never saw ancient riches so I can’t tell if that’s a lie or not. Anyways the waterfall is from Jazz1 diamondus. Layer4 tiles aren’t a so good quality things. The grass isn’t wonderful, but it isn’t bad. Average, maybe.
TILES/EYECANDY OVERALL: 7.7

MASKING:
Woah, mask messages. MASK MESSAGES STRIKE BACK! There are invisible tiles. Yay. Now you don’t need to make an arenastyle level to CTF. Just use these tiles as a border and you don’t need to take care of them again. The masking is just as it must be. Fun…
MASKING OVERALL: 9.4

EASY-TO-USE:
It’s actually easy to use this tileset. So all newbies can download this now. You can make a good level even if you would be new to JCS. You just need to know how JCS works and blabla…
EASY-TO-USE OVERALL: 9.2

PALETTE:
Normal palette… Just like the stencil.
PALETTE RATING: Does not affect.

TILESET INTERESTINGNESS:
or how was it said? ;P
The tileset itself is quite boring. If the colorful one tile is ignored, the whole tileset is brown and blue. If a level with this is made, it should be short. This is boring…
INTERESTINGNESS OVERALL: 5.7

VERDICT:
A quite nice tileset, but it’s boring. I don’t really see anything interesting in it. 7.

Review by Stijn

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
5.5

For some reason, I don’t like it. hides

To start, the layer 6+7 eyecandy is ripped, something I don’t like. The waterfalls and fire are also ripped, I won’t take points away for the fire because it’s very hard to make a decent fire animation but you could have created the waterfall yourself easily. The ground looks nice, however it’s almost the same color as the background eyecandy and the contrast is too low. Some gradients at the edges would have been nice. The grass is okay, too bad there are no tiles with grass for slopes. Some things that I will add points for altough it’s unfair: The commander keen mushroom (hurray!) and the Total Freaks signs (hehehehaha). I also EXTREMELY LIKE the support act >)
All items that should be in a decent tileset are present, including hooks, poles spikes and text signs. No exit sign, but you can use an “EOL Signpost” event for that.
The textured background is fairly nice, the fog tiles can be useful but overall the tileset looks quite boring. Everything has the same, brown color. A little gradient at the edge of the platforms could have taken this major setback (in my very humble opinion) away.

Make more colorful stuff next time, the graphic quality shows your tilesets have some potential >)

Review by the real one Bjarni

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
8.2

YEAH!!!!!!!!! You have a ton of items!

1 Good eye candy
2 Great arts (you are good arter)
3 Good texture background
4 Great backround
5 Great forground
6 You forgot a lot of stomps
7 Good hook tile
8 Good poles tiles
9 Good leyers
10 Good animated tiles
11 Cool mountains
12 Cool fire
13 You’ve name your tileset, with your rabbit, that’s good!

Overall rating: 8.2, there some problem but few! ;-) Have a nice day!

~Bjarni Haraldur Sigfússon

Review by PHT

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
6.5

COOL TILESET!

The tileset is good drawn and not too hard to use. It has also textured bg (stolen from psych tileset by Nick Stadler ;P). There is also some stuff for layer 3 and 5. At the moment I can’t use it because I am working on my Forests Of Dreams episode but it’s really cool tileset. + Bonus for those blue “things” from Comander Keen 4 (I hated those as I played Commander Keen :]). I don’t feel like making the review much longer. All I have to say is: Well Done.
PROS: good drawn, stuff for layers 3 and 5, commander keen thingys.
CONS: like mentioned in chair’s review textured bg isn’t too easy for newbies (like me
;->)
FINAL RATING: 6.5
THE FINAL GRADE: C-
DOWNLOAD RECCOMENDATION: maybe

PHT

EDIT: now I saw Traft’s rating and was shocked. OH MY GOD! I’M AN OVERRATER!!!
Then I looked again and….well, maybe 7.7 is really a bit too high. alltough I think 4.7 is a bit too low for this.
A 6.5 fits it for me
sry labrat.
PS: cause I don’t get mad on you you shouldn’t get mad on me ;-P
[This review has been edited by PHT][This review has been edited by PHT]

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Vaora Skies
Level rating: 7.6
Rating
N/A

I’m not a big fan of CTF levels, but I find this one’s not too bad at all. :)

(Unsupported rating removal edit. Give more detail in your reviews or they’ll just end up being deleted, and you might even get a warning if you do it too much. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: The Mission race
Level rating: 5.6
Rating
5

Aaaah… the magic of the JCS 1.23 patch. This level is very mediocre.

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Jungle Race
Level rating: 6.8
Rating
7

Perhaps a little long for a race level. I liked the water, but the tileset used wasn’t very nice. :\ And the eyecandy was nothing special. Still, it’s a pretty good level.

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Cheese is green on tuesday
Level rating: 7.9
Rating
7.5

Very good race level. Only real drawback is I find it’s a little long to be a race.

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Coin Race 2
Level rating: 7.7
Rating
8

Totally original. ;)

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: War Torn
Level rating: 8.6
Rating
8.5

Nice tileset. :)

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Egypt
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.2

Wow! Awesome tileset. Although, I find it’s kinda hard to use. :\

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Very very very strange boss!!!!! [ Dont rate! ]
Level rating: N/A
Rating
N/A

True, true, it is an odd boss, but I doubt anyone would want to use this. :P

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: The Wilderness
Level rating: 2.2
Rating
1

Too short and bad selection of enemies. But I suppose it’s not the worst for your first level. Let’s just leave it at that, I’m not in the mood for anymore criticism

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Jungle Party
Level rating: 3.9
Rating
4

Not enough enemies and the level is just way too short, I mean, it’s okay to have a semi-short level but this one is just ridiculous. However, the tileset use wasn’t bad at all, but that barely pulls the rating any higher.

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Mega Megatropolis (1.23 version)
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
N/A

AWESOME tilesets. I’m not into the mood for a review, so I’ll just leave it with that. :P

(Sorry, that sort of behavior is unacceptable. Unsupported rating removal edit. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]

Review by snzspeed

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
8

Whee, Labratkid uploaded new tileset, lets review:

TILES ADDED / EYECANDY TILES:
Wow! This tileset has all tiles what good tileset needs. Waterfall,Ground cave tiles, mushrooms, etc.I also love that mushroom (from commander keen4)
and textured background is good too.
Only bad thing is that background layer eyecandy tiles (two kinds of mountains )can be bit hard to JCS newbies.Nothing else to say. =p
Pros:Good eyecandy tiles, etc.
Cons:can be bit difficult to use by JCS newbies.
Rating:8

EASE OF USE:
This tileset is really to use, when i downloaded this tileset, i went to my JCS to look at it, (almost 8 minutes ago) and i know how to use it.But, there is a bad point, like i said in Eyecandy section, those mountains can be
bit hard to use (by JCS newbies)
Pros:Using this is easy.
Cons:can be bit hard to JCS newbies.
Rating:7.7

DETAIL / QUALITY OF GRAPHICS:
Okay, lets say that detail awesome.
Those mountains, (for layer 4.) look like they would be from Tileset master or something.Hmm, and lets say that this set reminds me of “Rocky Roads” and “Earthworm world” .
But, there are bad things. I think that those mushrooms should have done better, but it is still very good set.
Pros:Graphics are good.
Cons:okay, some tiles should have done better.
Rating:8

MASKING:
masking is very goodly masked, nad i have no complaints.Thigies are rightly masked, and mask message is good.Only bad thig is that those mushrooms are weirdly masked, or at least i think so.
Pros:Good masking mostly.
Cons:mushrooms.
Rating:7.7

COLORS:
the whole tileset uses brownish color.But, luckily diffrent kinds of mushrooms were included, and a waterfall, they will rise my rating number. Anyway, i think there is too many tiles what are brown…
Pros:Good colors…
Cons:Brown,brown…
Rating:8

MY CONCLUSION:
This is very good set, make more tilesets, Labratkid.
DOWNLOAD RECOMMEDATION: YES!
BUILD WITH THIS: YES!
FINAL RATING:8 ( 8 + 7.7 = 7.8 + 8 = 8 + 7.7 = 7.8 + 8 = 8)
EDIT: I decided to take another look to your tileset. i saw some tiles, what i dind’t saw first time. Horever , those tiles rise my rating number. Congrualations.
EDIT2:OMG, i forget masking!
EDIT3:I added new section to my review, Colors.

~ThE ChaiR[This review has been edited by ThE ChAiR]

Review by Snotticus

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
5

This is a fairly average tileset. Some parts I liked, others I didn’t. The warp horizon background looked a little odd, and the tileset itself looked a little rushed. But I thought it was a fairly creative and original tileset and it looks fairly easy to use. 5 from me.

Review by Lark

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Underground
Level rating: 6.6
Rating
N/A

Argh, I’m going to reupload in a few minutes, because there is a palette bug that makes poles and the textured background in 8bit work incorrectly. Please download the updated version if you have all ready downloaded the level.

Edit: Okay, it’s reuploaded. Now, download it. =P[This review has been edited by labratkid]

PHT: The textured background is a cloud filter in Photoshop. Since I don’t have Photoshop, I had Spazzyman make it for me with the click of a button, and I edited it. I didn’t take that for Psych. I did, however, take the mountains from Psych. Thank you for reviewing.[This review has been edited by labratkid]

Winner, yes, the waterfall was ripped from JJ1, and, no, it’s not from Diamondus. I don’t know where it’s from, but it’s not Diamondus ;-P I think it’s Crystalis, but I’m too lazy to look.[This review has been edited by labratkid]

Trafton, the hills are not meant to go from 180 degrees to a steep angle. You should usually start out with a slope that’s not steep, and move onto steeper ones.[This review has been edited by labratkid]

Neon, if it’s the same, why is there a 4.0 point difference in your ratings? ;-P[This review has been edited by labratkid]

Review by DarkSonic

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: JazzForce 1.1[c]
Level rating: N/A
Rating
N/A

This was a good version of JazzForce. The first version didn`t work but this version does.

Review by DarkSonic

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Vaora Skies
Level rating: 7.6
Rating
7.5

Finally, a good CTF level. Let`s start:
Gameplay: was good. good spring placement and suck placement.
Eyecandy: was just good. There was some nice eyecandy in here.
Pickup placement: good. There was good ammo and the powerups were placed good too. You need to shoot with gun 9 to get one at each side. And the seeker powerup was in the middle, good place to put it. The Full NRG carrot was at a good place too.
My rating is:7.5
-da man

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