Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Nice!

This is your best tileset so far, especially if the palm was drawn by you, and not copied from elsewhere.

Sorry, I don’t like it.
10 tiles of 2 types isn’t enough. I prefer tilesets with all background and sprite layers, shapeful and filled with eyecandy.

80% of the tileset is a copy of the MaxPayne stuff, but with much less colors, which makes it look really awful!
The remaining 20% is nothing but squares and triangles.

If this is an attempt to introduce Jazz Jackrabbit fans to MaxPayne, submit a new thread in JCF instead.

I somehow missed this fangame in the old days, so thanks for pushing it to the top of the downloads list again!

This fangame is a so called ‘Click Game’ made with the software from ClickTeam. I played it under Windows 8.1 and it works surprisingly well. Only fullscreen doesn’t work which is expected as 8.1 has problems utilizing DirectDraw.

The game starts with a menu screen sharing similarities to that of JJ2. Once starting a game, you see a charming intro movie with Jazz waking up in a cave(?) being surprised of something. It looks nice for a fangame, but doesn’t necessarily make it clear why Jazz sets off to a snowy planet.

The gameplay involves Jazz automatically skiing down off snowy slopes, and you have to move left and right to avoid obstacles, and move up to brake and down to accelerate. All while jumping in the air through ramps and grabbing Gold Coins. The game’s simple to control but I had problems getting used to the very sensitive hit detection and amount of precision that’s required at times. This means it’s easy to move over ramps and coins, but also that it’s a tad too easy getting hit by rocks and especially trees.

After 3 levels comes a fun bonus level involving a big jump, followed by another fun cutscene. The final level doesn’t have anything to do with skiing, but instead takes on a traditional platformer where you having to walk, jump, duck, and roll through what appears to be Devan’s base. It’s fun to see how all obstacles here make Jazz die in a different way. Yes, it made me want to try getting hit by fire just to see the different yet simple animation.

The only problem I had in this level was again the sloppy hit detection, which is more a problem of ClickTeam’s standard Platform Movement engine rather than Et’s. But once getting used to that it’s actually a pretty solid level to explore with a good tileset and fun obstacles.

The game ends with another cutscene which makes clear what the intro didn’t. Jazz lost his gun and chased down Devan to get it back, who apparently stole it in his sleep! Next comes a screen that let’s you unlock bonuses with the coins you collected. You can buy the ending movie or one of the levels which is kind of unnecessary. But 300 coins gives you a bonus level, and I had 215 coins so that means back to start..

In my next run of the game I kept hitting obstacles on purpose whenever I missed some coins. Getting 300 required a near perfect play, but I managed to do it and finished the festive bonus level!

I recommend this game as it’s probably the best Jazz fangame made that’s actually finished. The graphics are pretty rough and sometimes out of proportion, but also very charming and nostalgic. It’s too bad Et doesn’t have the source anymore, otherwise compiling it with newer ClickTeam software would make this an excellent HTML5 or mobile game! I give it a solid 9 for quality and a bit of nostalgia, and recommend it for download even in 2014!

This pack takes you through 6 fairly short Single Player levels all using the Haunted House tileset.

The gameplay involves traditional JJ2 gameplay in a more linear level design. In all 6 level you start moving to the right and will eventually move up and turn around once or twice until reaching the end point.

The biggest problem I had with these levels is the utter lack of consistency. A lot of different enemies show up not really fitting in a haunted house, and there is enough (evenly diverse) food to get at least 3 Sugar Rushes. 1ups are spread all over the place, ammo is mostly Seekers, Freezers, and some Toasters.

The tileset usage is mediocre, but not distractively bad. There are little to no tilebugs, yet eyecandy and diversity are almost nonexistent. The background is just the layer 8 texture, with some levels having the textured BG enabled while others don’t, which is another weird inconsistency.

I assume this is your first run in JCS, so I try not to be too harsh here and add a little to the 4.5 rating I would’ve given it. I think a 5.2 is alright now, but in your next level(s) you should focus on the things I pointed out above. Even if that means it’s going to be shorter, as a short yet memorable level is better than a long, linear one.

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Crysilis until I started listening to this soundtrack. I’m not very familiar with the genres so don’t shoot me if I get this wrong, but it definitely sounds like some dubstep which I’m not usually that much into, but the climax sells the track so well.

The intro just draws you in with the classic melody, the climax is amazing and the outro is beautiful. Overall this probably going to be one of my favorite soundtracks and I have a few friends I’d like to listen to this as well. Download recommended.

It sounds amazing. I like how you managed to preserve so much of the track’s original feeling while also taking such a different approach on the soundtrack. It was definitely a very interesting experience to listen to and I think you did a remarkable job of recreating it.

I feel like the climax around 2:05 could have been richer though. You take this break from the beat to listen to this tune and it’s just not as an interesting as when the beat resumes at 2:19. Alexander Brandon’s original soundtrack does that part better because the sound is just richer and more enjoyable to listen to.

This is still a true work of art and it’s definitely worth listening to for any JJ fan.

Nice :D

Wow, that’s an awesome forest tileset!
No, seriously, is that a tree or a dynamite cartridge with a slime upon it?
And where are the ground tiles? And the backgrounds? I only see red and blue squares!
At least, they’re outlined!

Yes, there’s a bug that I need to inform you about.
There are lots of translucent, fully red 32×32 tiles all around the map.

Note for those who, like me, don’t have a numpad: Do a find and replace in the script file and change “0×6” to “0×3”.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot there’s generators now. I didn’t check in JCS, my bad.

You know you can just update an existing upload right? You don’t need to make a new one.

To be blunt, I don’t feel like reviewing this in detail anymore. It still has a lot of the same flaws as before (tilebugs everywhere, questionable layout, a giant bottom path of nothing), and I don’t want to repeat myself.

Fortunately, the screenshots are a lot more bearable. They’re saved as JPEG for some reason though. Stick to PNG.

However, there are a few improvements, with there being more pickups and another start pos and some more layout, albeit no effort to make it tile with the tileset, which is the main flaw of this level.

Also counting a level version as plus isn’t meant to be used that way on J2O. It’s whether the level requires plus to play it. However, saving a level on TSF JCS makes it require 1.24 unless you have 1.23+. However there is a TSF to 1.23 level converter (and yes, you can load 1.23 levels in tsf jcs).

Really nice ;)

The eyecandy looks very nice, but when I start, I always get stuck!

Hey, this is not a bad map! I played this in singleplayer, but it’s good! And it’s working with TSF+.

Magyar vagy?

[This site is English only. ~cooba]

tutorial level for “beginers” indeed.

Too simple tileset which looks like you made it in 2 secs. It’s ur 1st one so you should spend more time and effort on your next work.

i like it