Review by MEGACAL

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Toxic Wastelands
Level rating: 7.8
Rating
9

Mega Level,Mega Tileset

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: MattW's 6 Level CTF pack
Level rating: 2.5
Rating
2.5

“MattW’s 6 Level CTF pack” (stupid name, if you ask me) includes six CTF levels using two homecooked tilesets (namely “Jazz 1: Muckamo” and “Sonic HPZ”) and three custom music files (like, for example, Purple Motion’s stunning tune for FC’s 1993 [or was it 1992?] Megademo “Unreal”). The only Epic tilesets that were used are Tube Electric (three levels) and Castle (one level).

The design in nearly all of the levels is totally confusing (for example, invisible mazes in CTF levels don’t make too much sense). The eyecandy isn’t of high quality and i discovered a lot of minor detail problems like wrong speed of layers and so on. Furthermore, routes from base to base aren’t exactly balanced (actually its one of the worst CTF packs i’ve ever seen).
Some levels are also lacking a single player start event (makes it a pain to test them). The music didn’t fit too great either.

Really, i would be very thankful if some of you guys could stop spamming J2O with unfinished stuff like this. It is a massive waste of webspace. No need to download this pack (2.5 because it has custom tilesets, music and six levels).

P.S.:
Roseta, MattW didn’t make any of the tilesets included in this pack.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Kinky City
Level rating: 7.6
Rating
7

“Kinky City” uses the awesome, mindblowing, breathtaking, superb “7th Lava Fall” tileset by Mr. DethMan, which was definitely a good idea because that set is underused.
Despite the fact that there are some places that seem to be a bit empty (that may as well be a wrong impression, i don’t know), the overall level design is very good. Enemy and obstacle placement is also well made, only the difficulty level could be a tad harder. Another enjoyable aspect is the lenght of the level: very good. It takes at least ten minutes to make it through the whole level.
“Kinky City” also includes a nice swedish FT module as a background music, but as JelZe already hinted, it unfortunately sounds kinda ridiculous for this level, sorry. The “happy rock’n‘roll” mood doesn’t fit too well here i think.

All in all, a very decent single player map using a great custom tileset. Most people will like it so DOWNLOAD NOW!

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sunset in Town
Level rating: 7.5
Rating
7

“Sunset in Town” is a new, very good looking tileset of german origin. It has 180 tiles, most of them using shades of red, like when the sun is going down on a romantic summer evening…sigh. Oh…err…back to my review: in the background you can see the lights of the city and for the other layers, there are clouds reflecting the red sunlight. Apart from that, there are some basic, very blocky platform structures that look a bit too simple in my opinion. Masking isn’t worth mentioning (because there wasn’t much to do). The colour palette is completely redundant, as F!re mentioned above.

Skulg also included a small example single player level. It is way too short but already gives a slight taste of what could be possible with this tileset.

Well, to sum it up: the tileset could (and should) have been larger but even with this small size it is capable of creating a great, enjoyable atmosphere (see above). EVERYONE GO DOWNLOAD “Sunset in Town” NOW!

Review by MEGACAL

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sonic Castle ( 1 level only )
Level rating: 2.7
Rating
N/A

Sorry about the level being short. But the coins were just there and because I couldn’t be bothered to make a Warp

Review by MEGACAL

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Devons Nightmare Castle
Level rating: 1.9
Rating
N/A

Note:This Level was created by my sister and her friend and not me. The Have not signed up on to the site. :-)

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Chips For Tea
Level rating: 4
Rating
3.5

I completely agree with tazar here: “Chips For Tea” (which uses Link’s interesting & funny “Chip’s Challenge Tileset”) is not really challenging or fun to play. The main reason for this is the sucker tube madness, which is terribly overdone. You will spend about 80% of the total playing time in one of those tubes. Apart from that, there is some nice trigger scenery and a few bad placed enemies. The overall design is definitely below the average and so is the eyecandy (not much of it anyways).
At least, i didn’t find any major tile placement bugs. The “Street Wize” music from TSF doesn’t fit perfect, but its okay. I would have used the original music that Link included.
The next level setting is wrong.

Well, it may sound harsh, but this level is practically worthless for playing. Okay, it may work as an example level for the tileset. If i were you, i wouldn’t bother downloading.

Review by SteelTalon

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
8.2

Sweet! They look like good candidates for race levels. I must mark down for lacking some chief tiles, but this tileset has some ruX0r other ones!

Wanna join ELM, the premier level designer group? ;)

[EDIT: The Grammar Nazi forced me to edit this sucka’.][This review has been edited by SteelTalon]

Review by SPLASHcc

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Outside(this is treasure too)
Level rating: 2.9
Rating
3

sorry man, way too small, way to basic
normally i would give a nice review but since this is so way small, i cannot say anything about it. try to work harder on yer stuff. (thats a message to ALL you jazzers – look at the downloads many many bad grades).

Review by EvilMike

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sonic Castle ( 1 level only )
Level rating: 2.7
Rating
3.7

While the text in this level makes it sound like this is some sort of puzzle level, I was able to bet this without using a single bit of brain power. I have also seen the tileset used better before, and this level didn’t seem to use any eyecandy that the tileset would allow to be created. Sure, there were flashing blocks and stuff, but those are more annoying than anything. I think if the authour was a bit more creative in creating this level, it could actually make something worthy of a rating around 6. Also, I would like to know what the coins were for, because I didn’t really see them be used for any reason besides getting more points in jazz2.

3.7/10 for not being too easy, and at least being functional.

Review by JelZe

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
9

I believe the official name of “Czechia” is The Czech Republic, Aiko :p

Yet again, another amazing tileset from Agama. He already surprised with the Heaven tileset, but this one’s the same quality. Like the author said, it looks like mixed tiles from JJ1. Here’s what i discovered (they only LOOK like JJ1 tiles, mind you):
- glowing walls from Tubelectric
- pipes from Orbitus
- fans from Fanolint
The example level (i wish Agama had shown off each of the three sets ;) ) has great eye candy and music (rocket.xm, see Aiko the music expert’s review), but thats all there is too it. O well, can’t win’em all :)

This is a MUST-download, just like the Heaven tileset :)

- JelZe GoldRabbit

Review by SPLASHcc

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Devons Nightmare Castle
Level rating: 1.9
Rating
1.2

ok here goes:
level 1: good points: it was short, yes it was very short..hard because of warps? i reached the boss within 20 secs! bad points: the level was plain ugly – u know why i was happy it was so short.

level 2: medivo1 with a small change. bad very bad.

next level setting was wrong. it had to be a level that isnt included in the pack.

rating: 1.2
1 is the lowest score, so a 1.2 because of the 30 seconds wasted time.

Review by WarlocK

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Super Jackrabbit Wars
Level rating: 7.7
Rating
8.5

X-ELENT!

Review by WarlocK

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Chips For Tea
Level rating: 4
Rating
1.2

Hey!
How many times you spent the ceating of this level?
20 min?

Review by WarlocK

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Christmas Presents Patch
Level rating: 6.1
Rating
8.5

Wow! Good level with good ending boss!
Beutyfull eyecandy & ideal music!
But too easy (in hard mode), but long!

Review by tazar

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Chips For Tea
Level rating: 4
Rating
4.5

Too short!
Too many sucker tubes!

Review by MEGACAL

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Christmas Presents Patch
Level rating: 6.1
Rating
N/A

One is all I would give this. ??????????????????????????????????????????????

Still What is it for

(Do not rate it if you do not know what it is for. Rating removed. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Review by MEGACAL

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
9

Mint Agama Your Tileset is cool and so is the level. All I have to say are the best things in the world. :-)

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: The Xmas Pack
Level rating: 3.4
Rating
3

“The Xmas Pack” (promising title, isn’t it?) doesn’t have much to offer except horrible tile- and event placement (i never saw a level where the smoking guy was used so senseless!). Really, there are a whole lot of places in the level that look very unfinished. Anyways, it uses the good JJ1 Holiday Hare “Christmas Pack” tileset edit by Astronia (one of the very few good ideas the author came up with here). For some reason, the second level is like the first one, it only uses a different daytime (brighter colours etc.). Bores me. As JelZe said, a background music is completely missing. The next level setting of the last level is also wrong. I can only fully agree with the advice EvilMike gave in the last lines of his review. Downloading this would be a waste of bandwidth and diskspace.

P.S.: Don’t name your filenames “start.j2l” next time. Causes problems because there are a lot of level that use that name already :-)

Review by Newspaz

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
8.7

Man I love Agama’s stuff.. Mmm. This is really good. You should download this. IMMEDIANTLY !

hint Agama should fit well in the possum team hint[This review has been edited by Newspaz]