Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

LABRAT
Now I kinda like this. The bad layout of the old layout of the original labrat has been changed into a much easier, better laid out layout. The addtions are: Arrow signs, an exit sign pointing left, some Jazz 1 signs, a Textured Background, and the fans from Tube electric. But the the last and most important addition here was there are now slopes to use. There are now cool destruct blocks with coloured weapon sprites on them for every weapon (even freezer :p). The one bad point to this conversion however, is the custom palettes. Labrat 4 seemed to look ok, but Labrat 5 and 6 were ugly.
4/5

TUBE ELECTRIC
Wow! This one rocks! In this conversion Noka has made another good layout to make the set easier to use. All the custom palettes look pretty neat here. My favourite thing is the additions though. All the additions have been used creatively to give the set a JJ1 element. This includes: Belts, the blue flashing background, directional arrows, background bricks, and a Textured Background. There is tons more EC than in the original Tube Electric set. I’ll go mad if I see any more level using the old Tubelectric set. If you really want to make a tubelectric level, USE THIS!
5/5

LETNI
NOW THIS IS HOW ALL CONVERSIONS SHOULD BE. In this conversion re-coloured block from various sets (mostly Tubelectric) have been used along with custom drwan tiles to make the ultimate JJ2 style Letni. The layout is so well laid out, as well as being one of the easiest sets to use in the world. The palettes all look exelent and are the best out of the entire pack. All the EC you could wish for is in this set: Electronic cables, flashing lights, laser beams, magnetic fields, computers, circuit boards, the list is too long to write here. You can be so creative with this set, that it should’nt be hard to make something original. This is by far the best conversion in this pack.
5/5

GOOD POINTS
*Great Additions on all of the sets
*Tube Electric and Letni just OWN

BAD POINTS
*Palettes wern’t so good in Labrat

SCORE

9.7

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For no apparent reason, a long review coming up. If I don’t notice everything, whine at me and I’ll add it to the review.

Palette changes reviewed as if they were changes in themselves from the original, not just palette changes from the edited version of the tileset.

Edited versions of 3 Epic tilesets.
First impression: Hmm.

Noka – Labrat:
New stuff: Textured BG (Ok), Destruct Scenery (very nice), Tubelectric Float Up things (Ok, but the blue doesn’t fit the tileset), three signs (Ok, but too bright), “Warp Target” (well whatever) for the “warp poles” (good). Tiles are rearranged, some to the better, some to the worse. Can’t really tell without
making a level.
Palette Change: apparently not much
Overall: Pretty good. Normal labrat with added stuff. Better than original (more tiles = better, if they are usable at all), but not very original.
7.9

Noka – Labrat 2
Basically the Labrat Night version of the tileset.

Noka – Labrat 3
Basically the Labrat 3 version of the tileset.

Noka – Labrat 4
A palette change with generally brighter
colors, red spikes, somewhat less blue in the tubes, turquoise “walk-ground” for the metal ground and turquoise background.
Overall: A bit too bright. Turqoise was odd.
7.2

Noka – Labrat 5
A palette change with generally brighter colors, red spikes, green “walking ground and brownish ground”, green metal ground with silver “walk-ground”, more blue in the tubes, green belts, and greenish eyecandy. The silver foreground pipes are very bright.
Overall: A bit too bright, especially the foreground pipes. The silver on the metal part would be very good in a generally different color scheme (read: without the green)
7.5

Noka – Labrat 6
Ugh. VERY green ground, with blue “walking-ground”. Most other stuff made
bluish-grey, too. Spikes are still red.
Overall: Hmm. The blue looks cool in some part.. BUT, the green doesn’t.
6.7

Noka – Tubelec
First impression: wow, nice.
New stuff: LOTS. Nice H- and V-poles with good wall attaching (I honestly never noticed Tubelectric didn’t have that), a damn lot of eyecandy (some of it ripped and edited from Agama’s Sirius/Dimensions), belt tiles (wow), signs, textured BG (doesn’t really fit the tileset though), destruct scenery (very nice), signs, blue flasing background from Sirius/Dimensions (very similar to that of JJ1) with tiles to match, warps and stuff, new animated spikes..
and lots more.
Palette Changes: apparently not much.
Overall: Wootage. VERY good.
9.3

Noka – Tubelec 2
Tube Electric Night version of the tileset. The flashing background looks bad in turqoise, so do the destruct scenery blocks and the arrows. Textured BG is weird, but actually not that bad.
Overall: Not as good as the previous
7.9

Noka – Tubelec 3
Bluish version of the tileset. Bricks are blue, a bit too blue for my opinion. The yellow blocks and some of the metal looks pale, somehow. The “digital ground” is a lighter blue, which is kinda nice (a bit too happy for the theme but I like it). Strangely, the textured BG isn’t blue at all. The destruct scenery blocks look OK as green.
Overall: Hm, decent.
8.l

Noka – Tubelec 4
Ugh. Grey, pink, turqoise.. eh, what?
The flashing stuff is a decent dark orange.. which doesn’t blend in.
The radio thing background is “dark pink”.
Overall: Ow, my eyes.
6.7

Noka – Tubelec 5
Gray bricks, strange yellow metal. Background stuff is greenish. The sparkly animated things look very bad.
Overall: The grey bricks are pretty nice, but the yellow is just ugly
7.1

Noka – Tubelec 6
Pink bricks, green “digital ground”. The flashy stuff looks nice. Textured BG is red, the radio stuff is red and has too high contrast somehow. Belt looks quite nice in this shade of blue.
Overall: The pink isn’t too bad actually. The green “digital ground” is.
7.1

Noka – Letni
First Impression: K.
New Stuff: Mostly everything. Hurting stuff (WOW), textured BG (not too nice), ripped tiles from tubelectric and labrat (well why not.. but ugly colors mostly), gray ground (very nice), signs, magnet things (the animation is leet)..
The layer 4 BG is nice.
Alot of tiles ripped from Noka’s other two conversions – they don’t look that good all of the time – and alot of NEW tiles that own.
Overall: If it weren’t for the ugly colors, this would be really good. The leetness of the new tiles brings up the rating.
7.9

Noka – Letni 2
The “digital ground” looks better but the stuff that was orange and now is brown is ugly. The grey ground looks pretty good like this, too, but the hurt things are kinda pixelated.
Overall: A bit worse than the other, except for the main ground.
7.5

Noka – Letni 3
Main ground is pale brown and pale turqoise, doesn’t look good. The layer 4
BG is too bright, doesn’t look good. The grey ground looks ok like this. Hurting stuff doesn’t look as good. Magnet animation is acceptable. The flashing Sirius tiles are far too pale.
Overall: Sorry, I hate this tileset.
6.2

Noka – Letni 4
Main ground is blue and purple, looks nearly decent. The layer 4 BG doesn’t blend in with it. The originally grey ground probably looks the worst so far, but still is neat. Hurt stuff is worse than in any of the others. The sparkly things actually look better than in the other versions. Colors of most things just don’t mix.
Overall: Not good, but not the worst one.
6.5

Noka – Letni Monochrome
Much the same as Noka – Letni, except the main Jazz palette has been changed. Some of the tiles actually look better than in Noka – Letni, some look abit worse.

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LABRAT, SUMMARY
Not too bad. You added some tiles, and rearranged the tiles. Ratings could’ve been higher if you’d rearranged the color changes too, so the contrasts between colors wouldn’t be as big inside one edit.
7.2

TUBELECTRIC, SUMMARY
Very good. If you’d only been a bit careful with the color changes, this could’ve been a very worthwile download.
The added tiles fit well in most of the time.
Big, fat 8 because the first version rocked.

LETNI, SUMMARY
Aww. This could’ve been very good, too, but somehow, you never made the main ground look that good (you seemingly attempted at the colors of the original Letni, but they didn’t fit well in with the Tubelectric tiles). The custom tiles were great.
6.9

OVERALL
With a little more consideration about the colors, this could’ve been a great upload. It wasn’t the worst ever, but the colors kinda messed it up.
7.2 – Not an average. The weird colors pulled down the rating.
D/L Recommendation: Yes, if only because of the Tubelec version, which is great.

I loved it!
Good conversion, Good palettes(it’s weird palettes!), Good Example Levels!
BUT- The palettes in Labrat not like so good :-(

RATING:
9.9-0.2(Palettes of Labrat)=9.7
Download: Yes! why no?

Good Job!

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