Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Ok, so I’m beginning to rate and review some levels again, after a long pause, which I kept, because I didn’t have such time for this and I was some bored, but now I’m loaded with some new energy, so here it goes. The review for this level:

DESIGN/FUN-FACTOR
I saw instantly that this level was such a for fun-style. Well, then this is going to be fun factor, well..it wasn’t kind of fun to play if wasn’t bored, but it might were a good snack if you wanted to test it. Let’s say that this deserved a six about fun-factor, because there were no design.
6/10

EYECANDY
It was the same old eyecandy which is enough good to deserve an eight, but there were some awful bugs or tile-placing problems. I mean that you could have fixed them and improved some with layer five. Like the place where you have to shoot the destruct-bricks to get to the upper floor, the problem could have been fixed with an another way, example layer five. So it’s a seven.
7/10

ORIGINALITY
It’s a seven for a first guess, and for the last one. Level’s your made, which is the main-thing, tileset and music are basic, but one point goes off also, because of the basic eyecandy, I mean that you could have created layers six and seven with different bricks.
7/10

GAMEPLAY
There’s only one level and it isn’t shocking long. The floating landscape in some places could have all been just thick bricks, but it doesn’t matter in this case, you aren’t able to fall without cheats, though. Anyways, the secret warp’s warp target is too near the left wall, the character sticks to the wall if you move any, that you should fix, because you have to use cheats to get out. Again, this section doesn’t give very high point. Only a three.
3/10

STUFF PLACEMENT
Enemies, ammo, carrots, savepoints, etc. are all averagely placed.
6/10

+ OR – EXTRA POINTS

-1 No readme
-1 No difficulty-settings

OVERALL: 27:5=5.4~5.5
LEVEL RANK: Average level
DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION: As I said, if you aren’t bored, this might be a quick snack for you(but it’s just my opinion.)

ENDING COMMENTS: Ok, I think that was all, I don’t put any special comments, because I’m feeling some sick already because I haven’t had any fresh air today yet, just practise using JCS, and make something more innovative.

Well, I made edit anyways, because seemed that I rated a bit low, but really, only a bit. This overrating should stop now, indeed. I will give it a half-point more, so it wouldn’t look like unfair. But I just might have a bit different standards and I don’t give “easy-points”, for almost anything. But be nice of the half-point which I gave you anyways, because of these overraters.

-Superjazz was here[This review has been edited by Superjazz]

Time to review:

Hmm.. really cool level here. eyecandy is very good too.. this is one of my favorite levels using this tileset. it has some very original ideas in it, like that dog contest thingy. ;P
Tileset was used correctly too. i like it. background layers were nice too, my only complaint is that you should make that background to fade to some colors. it would look nicer. ;-)
Gameplay is good too, springs are nicely placed, and so are pickups and enemies. really nice level here – a DOWNLOAD RECOMMEDATION.

RATING:7.7
DOWNLOAD RECOMMEDATION:Yes.

Here comes my loooooooonnnnnnnnngggggggggg review:

The eyecandy: The eye candy is ok!

Music: I love the music

Tileset in use: Yeah, I love carrotus tileset!

Enemies: Many but not too many!

Cat: There’s two(or more) funny cats in this lvel

Lizards: Many of them!

1up: There are too many!

Jack-In-The_Box: There are many that’s good!

The end-boss: I love him!

Overall rating: 9.5 Have a nice day! ;)

~Bjarni Haraldur Sigfússon[This review has been edited by Bjarni Haraldur Sigfússon][This review has been edited by the real one Bjarni]

labratkid, if you are stuck, you can move to the left or to the right and you’ll get out of it, I changed that part, I don’t know if you saw that.

Strato, this level works just fine. Anyway, review time

Gameplay – Good
I like the gameplay here a lot, but it has some flaws. In several places, it’s easy to get stuck. For example, the author put a warp target with a wall right on it’s left side, this making you get stuff when you warp to it. Also, there’s a place with one ways that I got stuck in a lot. Other than that, the gameplay is fun and original and worth a second play.

Enemy placement – Good / Very good
Nothing wrong here, I like the placement a lot. There are some bugs, though. For example, at one point, there’s a tough turtle enemy in a one tile high passage, thus making him walk but not move, which looks rather buggy. There are some other flaws here and there, but none too big to hurt the rating at all.

Food placement – Good
The food placement is good for the most part. It seems that the author forgot to place food in some areas, though. You should try to evenly distribute food around your levels to make them look professional. Pick your food events carefully, as well. I’m not quite sure why there were bananas here.

Pickups placement – Good
My only complaint here is that there aren’t enough gems, but it’s still very nice.

Eyecandy – Good / Very good
Great eyecandy here, but nothing original. There are also some bugs in layer three. Remember to give secret passages a very thick coat of layer three. Don’t just put one tile in layer three for every tile in layer four that is part of a secret passage. I noticed you made that mistake a couple times in the level. The eyecandy has some tile bugs in the boss room, too, but nothing too serious. What I would like to see in the level is more carrots (not carrot events, I mean carrot tiles), turnips (or whatever they are), and perhaps some moth events. The 16-bit textured background could also look nicer. You should usually make your textured backgrounds fade to a color other than black, especially if it takes place during the day. It never hurts to be original, either. Take a look at Blackraptor’s Junkyard level (I believe it’s uploaded under the name, “Some CTF Level,” or something of the sort). It has a yellow textured background that fades to a sky blue color, if I remember correctly, and it looks great.

Overall – Good / Very good

Download reccomendation – Yes, but be prepared to use JJFLY and JJNOWALL to get unstuck in some places.

Replay – Probably.

I hope to see more levels by this author in the future. Nice work. My rating is 7.7. If there were no bugs that made you get stuck, I may have thought about giving this closer to an 8.0.

PS: This review is not proofread. There are probably several embarassing spelling and/or grammar mistakes.

-LAbRaTkiD

JCS Version 1.20 never existed so I assume that it’s either OEM CS or that old JCS that had a different name. 4 letters or something. Anyway, because of lack of existing I asumme that this level dosen’t exist either.

Good pack, but there are few points that makes the rating bad. There are:
In the first level, there are too much bananas together that makes sugar crush easier, and Lori can’t pass level 1, also there were tilebugs, especially in Diamondus. In the Carrotus level, while you turn into a frog, the you have to lost a few lives.
The worst thing was, the last Diamondus level was the change of the original Jazz2 level ‘Diam1.j2l’
The good points were; it was so long, end boss areas were not bad, and the mazes were good. Then this pack needs a 6.0!

Oh! Diamondus! That tileset has been used for 10.000 times!!!!
So
Good eye candy, hard secrets, overall 7.2

here is my review!!!

Eyecandy:
Good!!! good background no tile bugs and there are trees flowers and more.

Enemy placement:
Good!!! Not to much not to less.

Item placement:
Good!!! There is food,ammo,gems and more.

Other:
Fine!!! The level lengthe is good the weird story is okay but i didn`t really liked those mazes in the ground to much.

It`s okay but not the best here a =7.7=

Ow, dont rate…

1-good eyecandy
2-nice levels
3-BUGS!
4-good food placed i like that BONUS DASH :S
5-ammo placed: okey/bad
6-Bosses: GOOD!
7-gameplay:Okey

download reccommed:Yes
Play dis again:no

a 7 from me.

Blah scionfighter

some bugs and more, but its good.

i must speak dutch.

goed gedaan roy, mag ik je msn adress :P

Good level good eyecandy funny things and good gameplay. Ammo placement was good maybe too many powerups but you can need it in battle levels. download recommendation because I like the tileset and it is good. Edit: A 8.7 seems to be too high for this level, I will give an 8.2 now.[This review has been edited by da man]

Good things:

+level length
+good eyecandy

bad things:

Caterpillars on diamondus?

It was a good level. Funny story, some jokes also. Good ideas, good gameplay, no long paths, so in overall: Realy download reccomend.

I HATED IT! IT ABSOLUTELY SUCKED!! Gotcha! (i’m terrible at jokes) Well, it was good, long enough…kind of easy in “dificîl” mode…I like it. You should of placed more “disperdo rapido” boosters…I’m giving this discusting game a 6! Oops, I rated it higher, so I have to think of some good exuses…um…Very fun, download this and…Yeah, very fun

Good tileset usage, good idea, good gameplay except its puzzles. The hidden stuff were had to find.

I tested the level about an hour ago, and it’s a good one.

GAMEPLAY:

This level is filled with action.
Usually I don’t like diamondus levels,
but this is a big level and it doesn’t get boring. There are almost no long paths. There’s a small story in the level too, about stealing something.

EYECANDY:

There are a lot of shining diamonds in the wall. Nice, nice, nice….
The author also added tiles to improve the eyecandy (for example: trees, grass and dark parts). Good eyecandy.

ENEMIES:

There are enough enemies in this level.
Not too much… good enough.
There are some enemies that don’t belong in this tileset, but the demons and the skeleton are part of the “story”. The boss (Bubba) is easy to defeat, but in hard mode you have to fight two Bubba’s at the same time.

PICKUPS:

There’s some food and some weapons.
I think there’s enough food, but in the first part of the level you won’t get much ammo. Maybe you could add some more and different weapons/ammo.

SECRETS:

Most of these secrets are hard to find, some are easy. That’s good.
But some secrets (like finding the ammo for weapon 5) are really hard to find.
Maybe you could add a flower somewhere close to it, or something.

REPLAY VALUE:

I might play this level again.
It has some good jokes :P

OVERALL (not average):

GAMEPLAY: 8
EYECANDY: 7.5
ENEMIES: 8.5
PICKUPS: 7
SECRETS: 8
REPLAY VALUE: 8

DIFFICULTY:

This level is not too easy, not too difficult. I could play it without cheating! So the difficulty is:
medium.

This is a good level, but in the first part you don’t get much ammo.
The level does not get boring because of the eyecandy and the cool jokes.
Download recommended!

Yes, there will be a 5th episode with the name Frogface problems. It will be finished round march april 2003.

its cool but is there to coming an 5the episode of it? wen it is uploaded would jou pleas tel me were to download?

(Unfair rating removal. Please use other grades than 10. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

well, eyecandy is good, but I found some tile bugs. Gameplay is also good, and ya have translated german to english. Very good![This review has been edited by Superjazz]