Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Panic!!!

Flow and stuff
The level flows nicely – without making it ridiculously easy to move around. There are most often several ways to take, which I see as important in a battle level. I also find the level to be of a rather nice size.

Ammunition and powerups
In the top left corner, you can find a seeker-powerup. Looks like a fun campspot to me, and for that reason, it’s nice to be able to get 50 seekers by kicking it. We all know how addicting camping a seeker powerup can be <3.. atleast this one isn’t by a warp target.

In the bottom left corner, there’s an RF powerup, which you have to stomp, and while trying to get a hold of this weapon, you’re an easy target for any attack. Good, interesting area.

In the top right corner, there’s a toaster powerup, which you, too, can kick. It’s in a rather spacious area where I can imagine myself and my opponent hunting eachother around. Good job.

It’s obvious that DarkSonic placed his powerups with thought, intending to make sure the whole level comes to use in the games played in it.

Regarding the amount of pickups; there’s a nice amount of them. Enough not to render you compeltely helpless when you don’t have any powerup, for example after dying – but not so much that you don’t feel a need to get powerups in order to stand a chance.

Carrots
This level has one carrot, unless I missed some :o And it only gives one heart. This isn’t necessarily bad, and it certainly doesn’t make for any unfairness… It’s just that this means that this level maybe isn’t the best level to duel someone if you want to try to get a perfect score. If you go to the carrot while being hunted, you will die, unless you play with a version of carrotade which makes you invincible for a while after taking it. Caution, thus!!!

Rating
Never rated a battle level before… I’ll think about it.

Exciting scenery

lol why does the grass kill me hehe :P :P

(No, really, I can’t be bothered to review two battle levels… but it’s definitely worth playing, if you’re into battle. Both his levels are definitely good Battle server material, or bash material.)

Innovation

Flow
Blablabla, the level flows nicely etc etc. This is a DarkSonic level, the flow is good by default. Some areas are spacious, others are not – more about that later. There are warps that take you from bottom to top, of those can be made good use when fleeing, unless you get a warpkill. :* In all, I like the level in this aspect. Learning to find my way around in the level wasn’t hard. That’s a good thing^^

Ammunition and powerups
There is one powerup placed close to the start positions and base of each team. By the blue one, there is a bouncer power up, and by the red a toaster. I’ll come back to those under Base areas.

The third and last powerup is one of seekers. It’s located in the center of the level, and you can only reach it with the copter ears, that you take low below, under the carrot. Taking the seek powerup is complicated by springs. I know from playing this level that hitting people that are trying to take it is evil fun. Needing to take a risk to get hold of such a good weapon is a nice element in a level, in my opinion. It also takes a fair amount of time to do it, which adds even more action to a CTF game, for example when you urgently need to get ready.

There is a nice amount of pickups. The level is designed so that all ammo kinds can come into use. In the more “closed” areas, you can make good use of seekers and bouncer, while the RFs (and to some degree bouncers) become effective when you are hunting in the more open areas. And Grytolle saw that this was good.

Carrots
There are three carrots. Two one heart carrots (to the sides), and one full energy (central placement).

The one heart carrots are place in two one-helluva-tubes (which made me laugh so hard the first time I saw it). As fun of a gimmick this is, this means that people that follow you to the tube start can turn around, run to the end of it and start camping for a fun kill :-D Nice-nice.

The fullNRG can be reached either by RFclimbing (which seems plainly stupid considering the spawntime of the copterears) or by copterears. Taking the carrot takes concentration, which is fun. Yet another risk you need to take. And while you’re at it, someone might follow you and spam you with seekers, or you get shot through the walls by electroblasters. And if that wasn’t enough of a risk, someone might be camping above it. There is a carrot close to it, however – but there’s no guarantee that nobody won’t kill you trying to take that! Yes, I like this area a lot.

Base areas
The bases are located in the bottom corners, and as the level is symmetrical I can save time by mostly discussing just one of them o/.

It’s not easy, but not impossible to stay RTS or R at them – there’s no “safe spots”, atleast not really close to them. As long as you have seekers, you’re relatively safe to attacks… but there is a (hopefully intended) lack of seekers around the bases, which unables you to do this forever. Escaping upwards with bouncers works though, which there is ammo for in the actual base area. There are one powerup close to each base. They don’t pose an unfairness, being different, but they do force you to adjust the way you play. The bases are designed so that both of them can be useful when holding a defensive position of any kind. The areas are rather spacious, which is good for the sake of dodging, but there’s also a tighter passage towards the center of the level, which is nice if you have ammo better suited for that. It doesn’t take long to get to the carrots, but long enough to make you miss scoring chances. This, too is good \o/

Rating
I really have problems rating individual levels today, but let me say like this: I like it, and it seems to really be worth playing.

Panic!!!
This level owns. It owns so much that I attempted to make a “tactical map” or something over it. White arrows are warps. Circles and squares are spawn positions and bases.

Eyecandy
This headline is online here because I really like the eyecandy/tileset!

Flow
lol mby ill fix this when i’m home from belgium

Ammunition and powerups
lol mby ill fix this when i’m home from belgium

Carrots
lol mby ill fix this when i’m home from belgium

Base areas
lol mby ill fix this when i’m home from belgium

Rating
:-D

Rooms!

This level fails. The colors hurt my eyes, the bases are frustrating. It simply doesn’t live up to your standards DS :( It’s nice of course, but not worth playing. Maybe if the bases were less “wtf” and a better tileset was used. It does feature nice elements though, like the camping friendly seeker area. The general flow is very nice too. The problem is that base areas really matter in CTF. Better luck next time :-)