Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

I’d just like to say this is the perfect example of how not to upload a level. Not to mention how not to make a level. Four of them, in fact. The author claims the levels may work in multiplayer, and yes, that is a bad sign.

STORY: The story, I think, is this. Devan (one of the few words spelled correctly) has captured Pinces Chip, so you run off to P*k*m*n land and fight some Queens.
Pros: There is a story.
Cons: It makes no sense.
Rating: 1.2

TILESET/TILESET USE: The author uses two tilesets – Chip’s Challenge (not included) by Link, and some P*k*m*n tileset by Splash, and I’m not sure if it’s included or not. The tilesets are used insanely bad, with countdown blocks/blue tanks for ground, and ice/Splash and Ash thing for background. The only thing remotely good about this is that the author managed to get the green mover thingies to line up right. Pity they don’t do anything..
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

WEAPON/ITEM/ENEMY PLACEMENT: Enemies? There were.. enemies? Anyway, in the first level, you get a huge cache of gems and ammo. Then you go off to fight a queen in the second level. However, the next level setting for the second level is wrong, so you don’t get to keep it. Anyway, as you might expect, this factor failed miserably.
Pros: I’ll admit shooting tons of super red gems is fun.
Cons: Sadly, it was probably the best part of the entire pack.
Rating: 1.5

ORIGINALITY: Huh?
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

DIFFICULTY: There are two difficult parts about this. One is finding your way through the first level. The other is fighting the three queens in a row in the fourth (I believe) level, with no pits between them. Not that you get to fight them – a defeated queen pulls you back and you fall off of the level.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.2

REPLAY VALUE: No.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

OVERALL (not an average): No.
Pros: There is hardly a good spot to this pack, to be honest. The levels are mostly unplayable, too many queens, practically no enemies, clumping of events, non-working events, bad next level setting.. you name it! This easily beats “ZA’s bad side”, and possibly “Jazz’s house… or is it?”.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

I am sorry I sounded so negative in this review, but I couldn’t help it.

Indeed, it is rarely a good sign when a level author boldly claims that his or her creation “may work in multiplayer.” So I entered this level with modest expectations and I still was disappointed. Personally, I think the “1 person bud i dont now his nickname” person who helped with this level took a very proactive step in remaining anonymous. This level shows a lack of effort, among other things, and one of the most unintentionally funny plot lines since Plan Nine from Outer Space. If you are still interested, read on. If you dare.

STORY: The story is possibly the best part of this entire pack in the sense that it is the most entertaining, though not intentionally. The story starts with you, Jazz the hero, learning that Devan (as in, Devan Shell) has captured the “Pinces Chip” (sounds like a seafood dish.) After that, you run off into “P*k*m*n land” (Pokemon, perhaps?) and battle a few Queen bosses who just happen to be floating around. One does wonder, however, what Pokemon Land and fighting queens has to do with recovering the seafood platter (or whatever it was) from Devan Shell. The entire story comes off as boarderline funny, but not good enough to actually be that humerous. In retrospect, though, it is pretty entertaining indeed.
Pros: There is a story, more or less.
Cons: The story rivals that of some low-budget science fiction movies.
Rating: 1.2

TILESET/TILESET USE: Two different tilesets are used across the four levels that make up this pack, “Chip’s Challenge” by Link (which, unsurprisingly, is not included in the ZIP) and a Pokemon tileset by Splash. The tileset use is…well…dismal. The levels consist mainly of badly placed tiles and a background that is both disturbing and odd at the same time. Tileset use just is not good.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

WEAPON/ITEM/ENEMY PLACEMENT: First the player gathers a lot of gems, ammo, and so on. And then you fight queens. And just as you are feeling some degree of accomplishment from beating the boss set, you get a fantastically ungratifying no level found error. Why? Because the next level setting is non-existant. So you loose everything you collect. Oh well.
Pros: Things exploding like gems are entertaining to a certain degree. Kind of.
Cons: Everything else.
Rating: 1.2

ORIGINALITY: Well, uh, it’s…original…in…some ways…I guess.
Pros: None.
Cons: Tons.
Rating: 1.0

DIFFICULTY: This level is certainally difficult, but not because it is hard. Playing this pack through is really the challenge.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.2

REPLAY VALUE: Any humor or entertaining “wow, this is so bad, it’s good” sentiment will probably fall apart about two minutes into play, leaving you with a bland, unentertaining level pack.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

OVERALL (not an average): I’ve made my point clear. Even for a first upload, this is poor. Avoid this pack.
Pros: No.
Cons: Yes.
Rating: 1.0

GAMEPLAY: F
Layout: F
Bugs: F
Level Quality: F

PLACEMENT: D-
Enemies: F
Weapons: D-
Other stuff: D-

EYECANDY: F
Look: F
Bugs: F
Tileset use: F

OVERALL: F

This just is not a good level. Put a lot more effort and testing into your levels next time. Good luck with further level making, but remember – perfection takes patience, practice, and possibly bribes. But mainly the first two.

- Trafton[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

sorry about this bad level bud i arent so good in levels creating houever i wil try to make it beter in the next episode the exit is some easyer to find and the first level of the next pack wil contain as first level a full story plus more kind a end bosses on evry level bud ged count on it it wil de some harder and about that tileset sory bud i dont now how to make a own tileset it had to[i hope]more levels anyway thanks vor reviewing and a 1.0 or a 1.2 is very high for mij first full level poket

So I don’t write any comments or replies, because seems that others have said those for you already so I just give the points. And now new point in my point review: Difficulty!

Design 2/10
Eyecandy 1/10
Originality 1/10
Gameplay 1/10
Difficultiness 1/10
Including 2/10
Weapon and enemy placement 2/10
Effects + other 2/10

+ or – extra points
-1 points because there are places where I can fall down and then I can’t get back to up.

Overall 1.375 Rank: Poor level

Don’t use too simple tilesets. Use better tilesets and practice a lot, I don’t think those levels are good. 1.5 anyway.

This level was weird and the floor blocks werent used instead a tank block

No download recommeneded unless you want to play on a level with loads of tanks. Couldnt find the tilesets for the POKEMONSTERS

Bad.

“Battle room”: this is a horrible level. You must defeat a few queen bosses. No eyecandy, and a horrible layer 8 background. It hurts my eyes when I play it, really.

“Devil Traps”: not worse than the first one, but horrible anyways. The goody placement in this level really sucked.

“The lvl1”: It’s probably the start of the story(I didn’t play the levels in the right order, appearantly). I won’t take this level in consideration.

“the poke joke”: “a joke level”, as the author calls it…

Overall: just bad levels. Bad event placement, bad backgrounds…

I’m sorry to say this, but this stuff really sux. I can’t say anything else about it.
You should spend more time on your levels.

A 1.

I very strongly agree with the other people of this site, this level doesn’t deserve a rating higher than 1.0 or 1.2…

Unless some n00b who really, REALLY can’t make levels gives it a 10..

Anywho, levels like this just don’t make the Jazz 2 Level section any better, if you could improve a LOT Leole.. The level could be better…
(Unsupported rating removal edit. I didn’t learn a thing about the level from this review, did you? ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]