Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Emerald Spaz likes the level. However, I think there are many ways this level could be improved.

EYECANDY:
The eyecandy doesn’t seem to be too much of a problem. The backround is used Okly and so is the sprite (except for the dissapearing platforms. There was nothing for the edge, more on those later).
RATING: 7.1

GAMEPLAY:
Aha! The gameplay was not so good. The platforms animate way to quickly and are annoying (you get stuck to). The water switches were good but not for using in battles (maybe use them in single player). Only Tubes and springs were used good.
RATING: 4.5

ITEMS:
Items were used ok. The fast fires were impossible to get because of the dissapearing tiles (too fast, if not impossible then very hard). Appart from that, everything is good.
RATING: 6.4

SIZE:
The level was big enough for a good battle, but some areas were not open enough for battles. Infact, at the beggining, it felt very single player like.
RATING: 5.1

BONUSSES:

MUSIC:
Tubelectric….. +0.1

TILESET:
Tubelectric basically matches the music.+0.1

AVERAGE RATING: 5.6
BONUS: 0.2
FINAL RATING: 5.8 (Rounded: 5.7)
RATING RANK: 5 Average
DOWNLOAD?: N/A
FINAL COMMENT:
The averge for a first try would be around 6. You need to be above 7 to get a recommendation.

I made the animating fast so it would be hard to get to the fastfires. What you have to do is to buttstomp right when the top pipe disappears, that usually gets you right down to them.
PS – Thank you for rating this.
PPS – How do you get good moving and layered backgrounds. Every time I try it gets all messed up.

An 8???
Well even if you should like the level you shouldn’t give a such high grade.

Eyecandy
At the start of the level you get a text message witch is half shut behind your life harts. If you use @ you can start a new line, you know.
And those pipes who are appearing and disappearing aren’t attached to eachother who make it more ugly.
And when you’re beween the pipes and go down you can see your rabbit’s arms legs and ears through the wall.

Gameplay
The size of the level is good for 2, 3 or maybe 4 players but more wont fit in it. Also you should make a secret warp to the place where you can raise and lower the water or make a place below where you can swim, because that water isn’t that nice if it goes up and down the whole time.

Placement
At the left side and bottom of the level is a lot of ammo but thats allmost the onliest place.

Eyecandy: 3
Gameplay: 6
Placement: 5
Final Grade: 4.7 (4.66 2/3 rounded off)

Its a good level, especially for a first level. Its got a design that is ok, but a bit confusing, I thought you couldn’t get back to the start to get the coin until I worked out how to get there again.

That was by ‘leaking’ the water out into the lab. A nice touch, it definately showed that the lab ‘had a leak’ and going to the start and up again ‘pulled the plug’ shall we say? Making the players able to walk around as normal again. 5

Another nice touch was the pipes that went in and out of existance, and thats sign was right, I nearly went through the floor XD. 5 again

There was one of the flaws, but it wasn’t too annoying, the text on the sign, just a little tip: put two @ before you enter the text, it will move the text down two lines. -0

Second flaw is a set of fastfires, but they were hard to get to and didn’t respawn, except for 3 :/ thats why I ain’t removing 2, just one. -1

Last but not least, the pipes, They were both good, and not good, good cause they blocked the fastfires until I found out how to get past, and not good cause I got sort of sick of them stoping me >_> -1

Total score; 8 :D

Pros:
Good level
Nice design
Great use of trigger zones

Cons:
Fastfires, some respawning, some not.
Pipes stop you too many times

So great design, just ned to slow down the pipes a little.