Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Yay, a new level of DarkSonic! Anyway, eveything in this level is CUTE! The tileset, the music, the name ^–!!! Enough, let’s get down to business:

EYE CANDY:
Well, the tileset is CUTE, so the eyecandy is CUTE too (DS hates it when I use this word, so let’s do it often) But it’s not really impressive. It will do and at most of the places it’s decent, but it’s nothing special. Anyways it looks a lot like our Suburban Traffic level we uploaded a few days ago… Backgrounds are nice and CUTE, but some more interesting eyecandy would have been nice… I don’t know if that is possible with this set.

AMMO:
Three Pu’s have been used in this CUTE level, and they are placed in CUTE houses… The PU’s don’t have that much originality (Seek RF and Bounce, been there done that) and there are two carrots around… a fullNRG and a normal one. Maybe that’s a little bit too much for a small level like this. The other ammo is placed fine.

LEVEL STRUCTURE:
CUTE again, but sometimes a little bit too raw. The design gives it a quite good flow, and the base placement is average, maybe a little bit too hard sometimes. Anyways, sometimes the structure is a little bit raw, as I said, especially in the corners, that are very straight. Maybe you should have use some roundings somewhere, which would fit to the CUTE atmosphere.

GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is good, the mellow music gives the level a CUTE attitude, and it’s funny to play in it. It really looks like a village, and it has the correct atmosphere. The flow is decent, and the whole thing works relaxing…

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RATINGS
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As I said, this level is quite CUTE. It;s funny to play on it sometimes, but most of it is a little bit of “been there done that”. Like all DS’levels the are worked out fine, but he would be a better level creator if he brougth in some original idea’s. The levels of him begin to look like if they are all the same….

Score: It gets a 7.0 from me.
Download it: Yes.
Host: Yeah, maybe one or two times.

PS: I thought this level was supossed to be in the XLM level pack! You create something new now?

The music doesn’t fit in as well as it should.

GAMEPLAY:

The layout isn’t all that bad, but it looks kind of odd. I didn’t like how the springs and the platforms were placed on the side of the level; it’s a little restrictive. Other than that, most of the spring placement is decent and the flow isn’t horrendous. The layout in general should be more open so that players will actually be able to dodge some shots from opponents. Everything else in this level is just the same old thing I’ve seen a million times before.

EYE CANDY:

The eye candy isn’t the worst I’ve seen, but it isn’t anything that good. It’s pretty much mostly the mud tiles with a few bricks, like in Distruct’s example level with this set except maybe a little more bland. Disguise did a lot better job with the eye candy in his level with the same tileset. Also, the atmosphere for the level could be better. For something named Bricky Town, this doesn’t seem too bricky. And some of the wrong tiles were used, like with the edges of the unmasked bricks around the RF and bouncer powerups.

CARROT AND AMMO PLACEMENT:

I can’t say anything bad about the carrot and powerup placement, except maybe the RF and bouncer powerups and the full energy carrot are too close to one another. And the area around the seeker powerup should have been made so that it’s less in the way. The ammo is placed well enough, but I didn’t particularly like how it was all in long lines.

HOST THIS OFTEN?

Not really. But I’m giving this a 7 since this level isn’t too bad.

A level.

EYECANDY: 7.4
I don’t see anything special with it. But it’s not the worst. The background mountains should still have some difference in them. The houses are cute, but nothing special. Pretty much fine.

GAMEPLAY: 6.8
Sometimes you fall down very much and that’s where the Jazz charactes comes. I have missed the carrot many times with the stupid oneway system like that. The springs are the saviors, except that I need to jump in multiple springs at the bases. Blue spring to the down instead of green.

SEEK POWERUP PLACEMENT: 6.5
In an electroblaster place at the centre. And the gun9’s are at the opper-left and -right. I’d declare this pretty easy to access.

STUFF PLACMENT: 5.5
I dislike the long lines of ammo almost everywhere. There is no “boxes” like four pickup +3 ammo’s shaped like a box or something. Everything is just a long line. And there is no point for the +1 carrot due that this level has a seek powerup.

FUN FACTOR: 7.5
This level isn’t bad but the frustrations caused by seek powerups.. Well, placing a seek powerup in a level ANYWHERE decreases the fun factor points a litte. It’s just annoying in not-open levels like this.

ORIGINALITY: 8.5
Townsville isn’t used that many times. I never heard this music either. The layout is simplistic.

OVERALL:6.2

DOWNLOAD?: Maybe
HOST THIS?: Frustrating game it be shall be, if you do that.

EDITEDIT: Two 7.0s and one 6.2? “Unfair”? Now that’s a lie. Take a look at the rating of Stuff in the Heaven and look at Moonblaze’s rating. You see how much it differs from other ratings? And btw, did you write that only because I banned you from my review server? 6.2 isn’t that low and I won’t change my rating unless any admin PMs me about this.[This review has been edited by the WINNER]

EDIT2: Then don’t put seek powerups in. I can ban from my server for any reason. If I ban someone from my server, it’s no reason to come and whine on J2O.[This review has been edited by the WINNER]

EDIT 3 darnit: 6.2 isn’t that much lower than 7.0. Believe it already. Seek powerup placement lowers more than any of these other aspects. It’s like more sensitive.[This review has been edited by the WINNER]

This is no personal attack, but the WINNER, you should try to be fair. Your rating is 6.2, although it should be 7. Because the total of your ratings is 42.2 and that :6 is not 6.2. I am not saying a 6.2 is low, I am just saying that you can’t do math. That means you did -0.8 for nothing. Oh, and banning from a server because the level has a seeker power-up is also very stupid. If you do that, I can’t see what the other people in the server think of my levels. You shouldn’t hate seek pu’s, foo. Yes R3ptile, that’s true. Another edit: whatever, I don’t really care cause I was in a bad mood that day. So, I can live with it.
[This review has been edited by Da man]