Ürdüng Chronicles #2

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8
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2
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399
Date uploaded:
12 Jul 2018 at 21:39 (Minor update on 14 Jul 2018)

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FarkasUrdung (More uploads by FarkasUrdung)
Type
Single player
Credits
Farkas Ürdüng
Version
1.23
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Ur1x10.j2l Len az utsz 14.72 kB 12 Jul 2018
Ur1x11.j2l Vazul n?ni itt j?rt 15.87 kB 12 Jul 2018
Ur1x20.j2l Mag?nk?v?li Kalandok 18.28 kB 12 Jul 2018
Ur1x21.j2l S?rk?nykerget?k 9.25 kB 16 Jun 2018
Ur1x30.j2l Haj?roncsok 33.91 kB 12 Jul 2018
COLON2.IT Medivo 758.80 kB 31 Dec 2017
cover.jpg 87.97 kB 12 Jul 2018
UrdungColony.jpg 74.51 kB 12 Jul 2018
UrdungPsyche.jpg 88.31 kB 12 Jul 2018
UrdungUnderwater.jpg 88.03 kB 11 Jul 2018

Description

The continuation of my previous level pack. Colony, Psyche, and Beach levels are included.
Do not use Lori.

The texts are in Hungarian and are unrelated to the levels.

The 2 Colony levels are normal length levels. The tileset is very limited, so I experimented with the manhole cover (used it as transition between floors of buildings).
Psyche day is longer and there’s alternate routes, and some evilly placed caterpillars.
Psych night is intended as a Far Out tribute and feels a bit unnecessary to me, but you’ll see.
Beach is only 1 large level (the largest in the set). I felt that Beach is already exhausted in one level, so I didn’t make a second.

Fix: There was a sprite overload error caused by the bubblers set to 15 on the final level. (TNT wouldn’t appear when used.) 2 people downloaded the pack before this fix.

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User Reviews (Sort by Helpful Index or Date Posted) Average: 8

RecommendedReview by Bloody_Body

Posted:
17 Jul 2018, 17:49 (edited 23 Jul 18, 19:04)
Bee Boy Swarm (36 Points)
Number of reviews with ratings32 Featured reviews1 Average helpfulness93%
Rating
8

Original quick review: When I saw a new SP release by this author I thought that I’m about to write a full review. But this time gameplay was pretty standart and I found it diffucult to write much. I would say one thing – the levels are fine and relaxing. I would give this upload a DR in order to help it become more popular. Maybe I’ll write a more thorough review later.

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Well, now I’ll try to write a full review.

This is a remake of “Jazz in Time” episode. So, I’d like to compare this episode to it’s original prototype. In fact all of the levels of Ürdüng Chronicles #2 are bigger than original ones. The size of the first levels in JCS can be the same as the size of original levels, but they have more playing space and thus it takes more time to complete them.

First two colonius levels are comparetively linear but the further we go the more chances we have to lose our way. The last level is the biggest one and it may take some time to find your way through it. At the end you encounter Utherus Boss. Due to small size of arena and the presence of water in it it’s slightly harder to defeat him than in original episode.

What I liked

- There are a lot of secrets in each level. It’s not easy to collect all the coins you need to get access to bonus area, so if you wanna kill time you can try this challenge.

- It’s a little bit more difficult than original episode.

- I liked the eyecandy. Everything is tidy, tiles fit each other well. I aslo liked some original decisions like manholes between the floors of houses.

What I disliked

- Couple of times I had to use JCS to find the way. You may get lost and find yourself wandering for a long time especially in 3-rd and 5-th levels. It may make you feel bored of gameplay’s repeatability. However, if you’re more attentive than I am, you’ll probably be able to use arrows to navigate the level.

Conclusion

If you’re tired and sleepy, if you wanna have some rest or you need to kill the time, this episode is for you. I reckon this episode deserves firm 8.0 and a DR.

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RecommendedReview by Violet CLM

Posted:
31 Dec 2020, 17:43
I might as well work here (527 Points)
Number of reviews with ratings280 Featured reviews24 Average helpfulness90%
Rating
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Playing levels like this makes it clear the vocabulary we have for describing pieces of single player levels is incomplete. We say a level is linear, meaning there’s only one path from start to finish, or it has branching paths or is nonlinear/multilinear, if there’s at least one time when the path splits in two or more directions and one playthrough will see different areas than another playthrough. We talk about secrets, little hidden optional areas on the side of one path or another, which are usually dead-ends but occasionally loop back onto the path, maybe at the same spot, maybe not. But what about when they’re not hidden? What if those optional areas are not secrets but rather in plain sight, containing a few goodies just off the beaten road, maybe cordoned off by no more than a few destructible blocks?

Because, clearly, that’s the defining feature of this pack. Such alcoves(?) are everywhere here, to the point that the actual main path of each level can feel like little more a ride to get you to the next set of optional bits. Often the destructible blocks guarding the goodies are bound to specific weapons, such as RFs, but I never found myself hurting for ammo, so this read like theming, not like a potential punishment for attacking enemies too much. Other times there’s no such explicit marker that something is not the main path, so you try a few directions and eventually make some progress, if that’s the right word. Or there are places that do feel closer to traditional Secrets too, novel interpretations of windows or springs or whatever else for you to explore.

Regardless of how you find and enter them, though, the theme is clear: going directly from Point A to Point B is neither simple nor desirable, because there’s so much to see along the way.

Now, goodies in JJ2 always run the risk of not being entirely useful… gems in particular do absolutely nothing besides give you points, and ammo eventually stops making a difference if you’ve been hoarding it. With such a vast number of pickup hideaways, inevitably some of them are better than others, and oddly the reward does not always seem correlated with the difficulty of getting there. I remember a lengthy detour to reach a single blue gem, compared to a much quicker discovery of many blue gems at once. So perhaps in some cases the player needs to value the experience more than the actual reward.

I’m pleased to report that despite the vast range of direction options at almost every turn, I was usually able to find the exit without difficulty. The only time I had a real problem was toward the end of the lengthy Beach level, which requires you to fall down a random pit to find a trigger crate, then another pit to find what the crate did. That wasn’t great. But otherwise things kept seeming to work out, for me at least. I could imagine a version of these levels with more explicit transitions between stages, like in Rayman Origins or something, to make it clear when you’ve entered a new stage and can’t go back and get lost in the old one anymore, but I suppose (vanilla) JJ2’s tools are somewhat limited in that regard. Anyway, there are some neat tricks along the way, especially in the second Colon level, with its columns of manhole covers to be stomped.

In terms of traditional difficulty, this pack is not hard. There are not a whole lot of enemies and there’s plenty of ammo. Graphics too are plain and honestly sometimes kind of empty. Layout seems to have received by far the bulk of attention in designing this pack, resulting in a very unique experience, but if you’re mostly just looking for any other component of JJ2 levels here instead, you may be disappointed. But if you want to keep having more and more stuff thrown at you, from all angles, with lots of attention given to all the appropriate layout features for each tileset (sewers, water, vines, caterpillars, cheshires…) this is worth your download.

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