Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

opens eyes widely Unhit trying to make a tileset? Ah well, here goes… Surprisingly, this is a pretty nice tileset, and defenitly for a first atempt. Its got mostly everything needed for a good level, stuff like vines, text signs, spikes and other things. I’m not gonna nag you for not including tubes, like Disguise brobably will, because i dont think tubes belong in a castle:P. Some things where ripped from epic sets, like the spikes and torches from the castle tilesets, and some plants from the Carottus sets. Also stolen where the destructable secenery blocks, but i wont dock any points for that, because basicly almost anyone uses these. The rest of the tileset looks pretty good, i wonder if the author drew it by hand. Its got a nice looking, 3D background for layer 8, just like in mirrow’s small castle tileset. One downfall that i see, is that there is’nt that much stuff useable for layers 5-7, exept some rain tiles. And of course, even the best tileset is’nt worth anything without a example level. Fortunatly, Unhit thought of making a example level, a small but neat single player level, good enough for 1 or 2 minutes fun. I must say that this is pretty good for a first tileset. Because of the stolen tiles i’m giving you a 7.2 here, if you would have just made those things by yourself, it would have probably been a 7.5, or maybe a 7.7. Download this one.

Yay.. nice tileset I like it.
Especially the advanced layer 8 thing :D It’s megalistic. The tileset
is well done.. but I agree with CelL on anything. One word. YAY :D

Well cool tileset
what to say read Cell’s review ;)

The tileset looks like it was made by mirrow. Quite odd.
The level feels tomb rabbitish, but this isn’t a level rating.
Very good tileset. I don’t know how easy it is to use though.
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Lemme clear up something. A “J2O Addict”, “Top Reviewer”, or “I Might as well work here” rank doesn’t mean you;re a smart and good reviewer. It just means you made much reviews. So Freezolf’s “Occasional reviewer” rank doesn’t mean that he can’t give good reviews and ratings. Thank you.

The review. The tileset is really nice. It has really a “castle feeling”, altough another “castle feeling” as the “official” castle tileset. There are white stone wall scenery for rooms, black stone background scenery’s for in caves, a very beautiful background with mountains, paintings of our big friends Lori, Jazz and Spaz, pillars, burning fire, rain, spikes, plants, and normal stones, and even blocks. Not to forget the clan and name advertisements ;). I don’t really mind the “stolen graphics”, because they are almost stolen by everyone eho wants to make that kind of stuff in his/her tileset.

Well, i can’t say much more about this. Just download this very neat little tileset now! Rating is 8,0. get it before it flies away.

Good:
- The walls
- The background
- The pictures

Not-as-good:
- The pillars

All in one, I think the tileset is pretty good. I’ll rate it with an 8 (because there’s no 7.9 ;D).

I thought Desert Forces was Unhit’s first tileset? Oh well, nm. Let’s get on with the review:

New Castle is quite a neat although small tileset by Unhit. I’m gonna write the review in different sections to make it easier for you to read and understand it.

The background is beautifully textured and is also very detailed. There are also other background tiles like the rain which is quite ugly and simple but it works. And also the white stone walls. ?! Heard that?! White, my favourite colour!! :-D (OK, I admit, the white walls aren’t completely white, some areas are kinda grey. Happy now? :-P) Alright…er…because the background tiles are so great (and HUGE) I’ll guess I have to give an whole 3.5+ for that.

The animations are quite good too and I couldn’t see anything wrong with them. Unfortunately, there are only animations of burning candles or whatever and it would be good if there was more. You could for example make the eyes of the rabbits in the paintings move to give ppl the feeling the castle is haunted. Well, since there is nothing wrong with the animations, I’ll give them an 1.5. Good job.

Now on to the basic blocks. There are many (if not all) basic blox here. The vines, spikes, poles, destruct and buttstomp blocks and also (obviously) walking blox. There’s not much to say really, almost everthing is here. Nice on Unhit. 1.5+ for these stuff. :-)

The eyecandy, however isn’t exactly New Castle’s strongest point. It has got the beautiful background and the rain but there are also some paintings of Jazz, Spaz and Lori to put in the walls. And also, to make the “I’m in an oldy old castle” feeling better, Unhit has put some windows, some swords and spears in too. However, I would prefer some knights with armour and maybe some bows? That would look much better. After all, it is a castle. Then there are also..ehm…lots of other castle stuff I’m too lazy to talk about. Well, anyway. The eyecandy is OK. But I’ll only give it an 0.2 cause there isn’t much originality.

And here comes the last section: Usefulness and ease of use. Well, let’s put it this way: the tileset doesn’t look much like a castle at all even though I know Unhit tried his best. I mean, where the heck is the battlements? (Towers) And the drawbridges? And the knights in shining armour? And the great big walls? The tileset looks quite like some kind of monastery rather than a castle. But perhaps it doesn’t matter much cause I’ve seen the tileset and it looks very easy to use. (That’s definitively good news for newbies. :-)

Now, for the final rating…6.7! Not exactly an GREAT rating but I think New Castle deserves it. However, even though the rating isn’t that good, I recommend you to download this tileset cause…er…cause I said so. :-P

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

This tileset is really nice

SonGoku, I’m assuming ya didnt read the news.. that’s an example, quote it Mikey!!

Can’t review yet. I open example level in JCS ‘unknown version 2.03’, I look at tileset I see dat nice blue colour.

Hmmm, I suppose I’m the only person that really knows how many ripped tiles there really are (At least I hope not). Anyways, now to start wih the review (or nagging as Cell puts it ;)

Well, there are ripped tiles, and I don’t like ripped tiles one bit. No point in giving someone a high rating for somehting he didn’t draw, so I lower the reating a bit. The brick texture looks sorta nice, but it doesn’t tile. Well, it does, but not like it’s supposed to, you get thin lil’ icky pieces inbetween. Could have been fixed with a little resizing. Apart from that, those brick textures don’t have a nice lil’ border around them, so it looks a bit plain. There are some extra eye candy blocks included though, like windows, pictures, spears leaning on walls, and (holds his breath) various other stuff taken from epic sets. The background bricks tile a bit better than the ones you walk on, but they have a little flaw themselves. In this set the background blocks are a lot lighter than the ones you actually walk on, and it doesn’t really seem right. Usually the stuff in the background are darker than the ones you walk on (And since this is a castle, I doubt they actually painted them lighter ;)
The background does look nice though, but it’s huge compared to the amount you really need, this has a little advantage (since enough tiles are left this isn’t bad). You can choose which bit of the background you want to use (time to cut out the pieces of it that doesn’t fit together).
Speaking of backgrounds, there are hardly any extra layer eye candy. The rain is the only thing, but there could be more imaginative things in a castle tileset (say, for example, the huge ‘damsel in distress’ tower to put in layer 7)

Now, to finish it off with the basic tiles. There are some, and others there aren’t (Cell mentioned there aren’t sucker tubes). Anyways, lemme list the ones there are:
Text board (Taken from Epic)
Vine (Taken from Labrat)
Hurt (Taken from Castle)
Destruct Blocks (Taken from Epic)

One last thing (a chance to get some more needles for my voodoo doll, lol), the mask could’ve been improved a bit, there are some jaggies, it would be better to smooth them out and make nice flat surfaces. Because this didn’t affect the gameplay much (or increase the chances of getting stuck) ‘m not gonna change the rating because of it, but it would be nice to change and fix it.

Conclusion: Not really that good, the part that took your rating down the most was those ripped tiles, but the texture on the tiles don’t even tile correctly, and it could’ve been fixed fairly easily. Download this if you want to, but nothing special.

Guys this tilesets has so many ripped tiles its not funny the rope even looks like its a miniture version of a bridge event! if your gonna give tilesets that are almost totally ripped from otehr sets good ratings then why give tilesets which are totally original bad ratings? Thats uncomprendedable logic if i’ve ever heard it.

I know this isnt the best tileset But I like it. It is a good tileset for a people that isnt a perfect tilesetmaker. I like this set so I rate a 9.0

The bg wall tile is not that bad, but the floor tiles totally don’t fit with it. There are nice vines.
The background is nice.

Most of the rest is ripped.

Sorry, I can not see why this was rated higher then 7. Sevens should be given when the tileset is pretty usable and nice.[This review has been edited by Fquist]

Sorry, I have been a bit harsh. While this tileset isn’t really usable, it’s still nice for a begin. But I am not going to rate it higher because it’s on of your first, we do not want to screw up the ratings here.
Continue making tilesets, and good luck![This review has been edited by Fquist]

Tileset is hard to use. Full review later.