Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Ok, this is truly sad. Not once did I notice that Distruct made this, and not Disguise, until I came to the bottom tiles of the tileset. Even then I thought it was some joke of Disguise’s until I snuck another look at the level info. Gaaaaaah.

THEME: The theme is…. PROBABLY a forest? It’s hard to tell.. it looks more like a strange mix between grass and high tech platforms, with something I can only guess is supposed to be trees, and some big background mountains in the background. I can not say it feels very like a forest, let alone an Entwined forest, and this is mostly because of one factor – there is basically nothing in the way of trees. There’s a grey vertical pole with a grey platform pyramid on top, but it doesn’t look like a tree. I am aware drawing trees is really rather difficult, but stilll…. Anyway, this feels a bit like a nature tileset.
Pros: The grass is done rather well.
Cons: Umm… Entwined? Forest? Trees? Bushes? Miscellaneous plants?
Rating: 6.7

GRAPHICS: The graphics in this set will take you back to J2C days, assuming you were around back then. They resemble closely Distruct’s other sets, or Disguise’s early ones – fairly simplistic but good anyway. The grass, for a start, is done quite well. The sucker tubes are a little iffy, and the background mountains have this incredibly “done before” feel. I’d say this has “ok” graphics, though not spectacular.
Pros: Things are more or less all the same quality, so it doesn’t contrast strongly.
Cons: This quality it has could be better.
Rating: 7.0

INVENTORY: Spikes (badly masked), sign (kind of badly masked), sucker tubes, arrows, vines, hooks, H/V poles, warp.
Pros: A decent amount of stuff is there.
Cons: Some bad masking, no blocks.
Rating: 7.2

ORIGINALITY: If there’s one thing this tileset suffers from, it’s a lack of originality. Simply put, it is just another isometric semi-nature not-incredible-graphics-quality tileset (by Distruct, even). The grass is, again, nice.
Pros: N/A
Cons: N/A
Rating: N/A

COMPETITION: This tileset’s competition is every other isometric (or not) nature tileset out there, only most of them feel more like nature tilesets and less like someone is trying to create a park inside their spaceship/fortress. The tileset is only skin deep, is the problem, and so is surpassed by others in its area.
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EASE OF USE: This tileset looks pretty easy to use, though there are a few tiles which seem to be missing.
Pros: N/A
Cons: N/A
Rating: 7.5

MASKING: Masking is, for the most part good, with a few problems.
Pros: Mostly well done.
Cons: The spikes, sign, hook and raindrop could use a bit of work.
Rating: 7.2

OVERALL: This is an ok tileset, but nothing spectacular. The grass is nice, some things aren’t, the textured background is boring. There’s really not all that much to say about this tileset, and I anticiapate Trafton coming along to disprove that statement.
Pros: It’s decent.
Cons: Nothing spectacular, a few flaws.
Rating: 7.2

Violet is right in saying that the name doesn’t match the theme, but I like the tileset. The graphics are nice, it looks easy to use, rather simple… a good overall thing.

Download? Yes.
[This review has been edited by labratkid]

It is decent. I don’t often look at tilesets, unless someone recommend’s them, so you are lucky.. or not.

As Violet pointed out, some masking stuff. Maybe a few missing tiles. Still decent.

In the Level, I think the warp should led to a better powerup, but whatever. This is about the set, not the level.

Download. Yes.[This review has been edited by FoD]