Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Not bad. The atmosphere is nice, the tileset adds to it. There’s eyecandy in the background; a bit less wall-based eyecandy but I suppose it’s enough. The flow is good enough, though the lower part is a bit too flat. Anyway, you get a 8.2 from me and a DL rec.

Played it in Rag’s server. A well-balanced level with good gameplay, flow and eyecandy; it therefore deserves a high rating.

A very good level with a nice flow, good gameplay, interesting ammo placement, a great theme, good music and overall a great atmosphere. It also comes in two versions, which is a very good thing in my opinion (I prefer the non-lethal one though, just so you know :P). Oh and it has OVER 9000 tiles; the level might be too big for duels, but it’s a great level anyway! You get a nice 8.6 and a DL rec from me, have fun!

A well designed level with a nice flow and almost no gameplay flaws (perhaps a spring at 78,68 would be a good idea?). The atmosphere is really nice, the music fits the level, although it could use more background eyecandy (yes yes I know, Rag said you don’t need to but it would still be great). One thing though: why the invisible walls on the left side? They can be quite confusing.

Other than that, it’s a good level! Make some more :P

A level not too bad, but not too good either. The gameplay and the flow is not that bad, however there are camping spots (most notably the fastfire warp, the tube on the right and under the left carrot). There’s a large open area in the middle and I don’t really like that, but I guess it’s fine for an ODT level.

I understand Rag asked not to base the level on eyecandy, but this one could have used more in the background – the repetitive brown wood tends to hurt eyes if you move around too much. Also, there’s a pit; I’m gonna leave it up to Rag to decide if it fits or not.

So what do we have here? A rushed level (the creator admits it) that could have been a bit better. Even small ODT levels would require a bit more work and that’s why I can’t rate it higher than 7.4. DL rec? I’ll think about it.

Not bad. The gameplay is fine, the flow is fine, although a few open and flat areas and lack of wall-based eyecandy makes it a bit too simple. However, it certainly fits Ragnarok’s requirements for an ODT level in my opinion and therefore it deserves a download recommendation and a relatively high rating.

Great prog, but when I open a .jlt file, then it puts my translation under the english one. If you don’t understand what I try to explain, here is an example:

I translated the English language to Hungarian and I saved it as a .jlt. After that, I opened it and it looked like this.

New Game | New Game
Load Game | Load Game
High Scores | High Scores
etc… | etc…
Új Játék | New Game
Játék Betöltése | Load Game
Csúcspontok | High Scores
etc… | etc…

Can You fix this, please?

Quite good though I’m not sure there were enough level ups to get the needed amount of TNT or coins.

For a first level it isn’t that bad at all, though it certainly is too easy. There were hardly any pickups, some layers were left empty, some parts were sort of boring and the rope part towards the end was too long. On the other side there were secrets (some were placed quite well), you could use the tiles as they were supposed to (which is quite a problem for certain level creators), some enemies were placed well, and it reminded me of the original levels.

There certainly would be a lot to improve on this level but as a first level it isn’t terrible. I’ve seen far worse levels that got similar ratings.
I can’t recommend this though, since I know others wouldn’t like it and you probably won’t even read this since you haven’t logged in for 2 years so what difference would it make anyway.

Well, this was the only level I didn’t play that was nominated for JCS awards, lets see if it’s worth the title.

Eyecandy
I’m not sure what the theme is supposed to be, and some of the ec style has tilebugs (incomplete tiles), making it look wierd. Using tiles that were meant for layer 4 being used in layer 3 in some places is somewhat annoying when you play the level for the first time. Hint: Don’t use layer 4 solid masks for EC on other layers, it’s confusing, unless you use contrast. Most of the ec functioned alright, despite being nothing special. I guess it’s supposed to feel post acopalyptic, though the background doesn’t suggest much. In a nutshell it feels random for me.

Gameplay

It’s somewhat unique, though a shame it doesn’t make any use of the frogs ability at all. This then basically makes the entire level a handicap gimmick. Gimmicks can be great, though having nearly no interaction with the environment or enemies, makes it feel a bit lacking. I could see it having more potential if it wasn’t just about dodging. Interaction is possible as a frog, just more limited. On the postive side, this level isn’t all that linear and provides an interesting challenge for a while.

There’s also the layout, which bothers me. You may die because of having no idea what is down below, and no clear indication of pits. And once you have finished it at least once, you can skip some parts of the level by falling at the right places, specifically, near the start of the level where you go down. There’s also some useless maze deadends. Gems are useless if you don’t want to aim for a high score, and even so, you’re more likely to get a high score from a sp pack than a single level.

The boss arena is a little too time consuming, though quite creative. To win this, I practically stayed in the bottom right corner, and jumped when he used his attack. It seemed hard until I used this strategy. Though admittedly, I had easy mode on.

Music
For a start, the volume of the samples is too high when it has led into the main thing, and the backing feels overdone. It starts off okay then BNNBBMBMBBNBFFBFBNBNBMFF-F-F-F. It eventually irritated me so much (and slightly ached my ears) that I had to change the music. I don’t really know if it fits, because if I had to change it, then I’d rather not listen to it. The boss music is good, though.

Other
What’s with the ambient sounds? To be blunt, they were overused because they were everywhere. They distracted as well as annoyed me so much I had to mute the sound, which I have never had to do before. Why does it sound like I’m in the middle of a noisy factory? I thought I was out in nature.

Conclusion
For a little different kind of sp challenge, you may want to try this. Completing it before will give you a significant advantages of playing the level. Some stuff is annoying, but fortunately, you can mute or change it.

Looks absolutely incredible. The layout combined with the concept makes for some interesting gameplay, and the inclusion of a regular version is a nice extra. Highly recommended.

Meh is a good noncommital word.

It can either mean, “Meh, this is all right, I guess,” or it can mean, “Meh, I’ve seen better.”

When I checked out this level, I thought, “Meh.”

It’s not really [I]bad[/I], per se…but at the same time, it’s not really all that impressive.

The level was big, and had a few multiple-choice passages, whereby you could shake off a pesky pursuer. In that respect, it’s good. The Layer 8 fade color, while not terribly original, worked decently enough nonetheless. There was a good amount of weapons, plus a few hidden powerups, so points for that.

However…

Let’s be frank. I was not a fan of the level flow. In fact, I HATED it. There were too many poles sticking down from the ceiling, too many singleplayer-esque pinpoint jump platforms, too many irritating spring traps, and it was rather easy to get stuck at the bottom of the map. I lost track of the number of horizontal pole platforms that would’ve been [I]much[/I] easier to traverse had they contained One Way events. The overall level itself was too dark. I didn’t like the musical selection at all (A better one might’ve been TRAUMATI.xm, or perhaps sunatbox.it). Eyecandy, while present, was nonetheless woefully deficient.

Would I recommend this level’s download? Let’s see: It has good size and some usable events. It also has horrible congestion-spawning layout problems and so-so atmosphere.

Let’s just say, “meh,” and leave it at that.

For a first release it’s not that bad but to be honest I didn’t enjoy it that much. What you did was copy one path and use it 4 times, that’s not original. Like you said it really reminded me of the original levels ( some parts) though those were much better.

Short level short review. Not bad, simple but good. Can’t really give a download recommendation because it’s too short for that.

I understand this is not a review since I’m obviously not reviewing my own levels :-) so perhaps this message should have been placed elsewhere…
Anyway. Its been a while since these levels were posted. I was wondering if anyone has had a chance to finish them yet.

For Abgrenv: I appreciate you took time to review the levels. But I really don’t believe it is possible that you finished much within a day. It would be extremely impressive if you even got through level 2 by that time. These levels are made to be difficult. That means you have to be able to control your rabbit and also play it clever. If you killed 12 queens you did something wrong. Part of the challenge is to figure stuff like that out (I can tell you they are not on a respawn timer ^^). But true thing is, that the first level may be a bit of a search from time to time.
I also have to apologise for the lack of ammo and other pick-ups. Like I said before, these levels are meant as a challenge. I would have liked to put more ammo, but over time I removed the bullets that could make parts of the levels easier than they should be. The same goes for the carrots btw.

last point: could anyone give me a description of where the glitches in warp areas are? I could not find any, but they should be removed in any case!
And could anyone tell me how far they got in these levels?
Merry Christmas everyone!

EDIT: Yes I can see what you mean about them being too hard :-) The main reason why I posted these levels at all is because I wanted to know whether it would be possible to find out everything for yourself without knowing how the levels were made. Maybe it’s too much indeed..

Last time I played them I finished 1-8 in 30min to an hour. But again: I know what I am supposed to do. And others won’t. Also, I finished every bit of every level without getting hit so i know it is theoretically possible. (Never finished any level without getting hit though… just little bits of them). I never finished last level. it’s a level almost completely existing of a boss fight with devil devan in which you need to flee and fight him over quite a distance. It’s hopelessly buggy and I just could not stop him from sometimes running off and never coming back. I thought I’d just add
it when I uploaded the others since its not likely to ever get better anyway. I’ve given up on it :-)

I think I know the warps you are talking about. Thanks, they will be changed!

Sorry about the pick-ups ^^ I never liked gems or food much when I played the official game. They seemed so pointless to me at the time. Guess it’s just a flaw in my character ;-)

Oh and I’ll tell you there are 5 queens in level 1 and no more. They only come back to life if you run away too far. It has nothing to do with a timer. Simply shoot the last queen from a distance until she backed off far enough (past the pillar) and do not run too far from where the other queens stood. Them returning to life also surprised me first time I tried it!

why cant i it open it it says creating new level and the tiles dont show up it drives me crzy :C

cool

I don’t really know what to say about the level. But let’s see.

Eyecandy
Normally it doesn’t bother me if the eyecandy isn’t as good, but this is just too simple. I’m not saying it’s ugly but it’s waaaay to simple. Just the background and some purple hills. You could have given the hills blue and yellow colors as well to give it an Eminem song reference. But anyway this is less than basic.

Gameplay
I don’t know. Maybe I’m bad at the game, but as soon as I started the level I didn’t know what to do. There was a trigger crate which didn’t seem to do anything. I needed to use a cheat since I wanted to see the whole level. Well, maybe somethings wrong with me, but I felt that when the level wasn’t boring it was frustrating. These 2 aren’t a good combination. There were too many open areas. The frog warp part was sort of interesting, though it was rather difficult to do without turning into the frog. And the part where I had to go through the walls with layer 3 covered platforms was just annoying. Seriously, I couldn’t decide when I was going int he right direction.

Pickups
I picked up a lot of weapon types but they weren’t really needed. I didn’t really have a problem with the pickups. But I don’t remember any health carrots in the level. That’s just another bad thing. Didn’t really find many secrets and since the level needs a password I couldn’t check if there were. I don’t think there were gems either. All in all I had the least problems with the pickups.

Enemies
Can’t say they were well placed. Seemed like you just randomly placed them where you felt they were ok, though since there were a lot of open places you couldn’t actually place them well. What was another annoying thing though, was that every enemy respawned in about 6-7 seconds. That won’t make the level better, especially when there are about 12 ravens in one area.

Music
Sorry to say but you just managed to ruin this as well. The music choice is actually good, BUT once it ends there will be complete silence for around 7-8 minutes. OK I actually heard some background noise but that’s just not enough for the music.

I sort of understand what TreyLina was talking about when saying one of my levels were boring and needed to improve because that’s how I was feeling while playing this. Maybe it’s just me and other will think it’s good but I just didn’t enjoy this level. It’s too long, monoton, and when not that’s because it’s frustrating. One of the few positive things I can say about this level is that there weren’t glitches. I’m not certain that the beginning was a glitch, so I’ll count it as if I was clumsy. The other thing may be the boss fight which wasn’t bad, though when I died it crashed the game.

I certainly don’t recommend this to anyone, you can try it once though but if I didn’t like i tat all I don’t think you will. To be honest I would give it 4.2 if it wouldn’t be Christmas in a few days. So here is a 5.2.

The level title kind of tells you what to expect. Eyecandy is very good and it works well as a battle level.

Exactly what I was looking for. Winter carottus.