Review by Genotoxin aka iCeD

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: oh_a_sys....
Level rating: 6.2
Rating
6

Pretty average level. Uses the Beach set actually quite nicely. Has a weird name, but I don’t grade upon names. Just like in ALL of Dats’s levels, weapon placement is scarce. The eye candy is OK but I think the Beach set could have been used better.

Download or not? Your choice. :-)

Review by AtomicFeline

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Red Diamond
Level rating: 8.3
Rating
N/A

I must admit, its not perfect, but if there were fewer bees, then the level would just be the stupidest one around. The main reason for few weapons was because all the other ones can get bees very nicely, and we don’t need that. The right path had to be hard, because it was longer. The more the treat the harder it gets.

Feline

Review by Newspaz

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.5

Very well done. Nothin more to say.

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Red Diamond
Level rating: 8.3
Rating
8

"The Red Diamond" is a pretty cool single player level that has a good layout and very good eyecandy. Some ideas for using certain tiles are new and original and if you like small details you will like this.
However, i found it a bit boring to play (maybe thats because i’ve seen too many Diamondus SP levels) and as iCED said, "a tad too short" :-)
Very low eight points but still a MUST DOWNLOAD for everyone.

Review by Genotoxin aka iCeD

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Red Diamond
Level rating: 8.3
Rating
8.7

GROOVY! I love the eye candy in this, and the design was great. It uses a lot of eye candy tricks, but the Diamondus set can still be pushed further. :-)

Only problem was it was a tad short and it needed more weapons.

Oh well, to all SP fans: GET THIS NOW! :-)

High 8 points.. almost 9.

Review by FoD MERC

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.5

Good tilesets and good levels.

Review by FoD MERC

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Red Diamond
Level rating: 8.3
Rating
8.5

No level EVER reachs perfection (even if three of my favorite level makers work on it).

First, I think the eyecandy was used wrong.. when you have black slant across the place, you can see parts of yourself.. to me that looked kinda weird.

Short. Not enough weapons.

In one spot, you can drop down.. and there’s a green spring right down there.. with a LIZARD next to it. My complaint about that is that if you don’t know the LIZARD is there, you’re gonna get hurt. I hate not being able to avoid being hurt :)

Bees were nice.. a tad overused I thought :)

I’d recommend this download.

Not perfect, but hey, you came close.

Review by Laguna

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9

Very good level pack by Blade. All the tilesets are good quality and there are many usefull tiles. Also the levels were easy to navigate, good eyecandy though sometimes too many weapons. The levels were medium/large size. Overall very good. And of course the music that fits well.

+Levels and tilesets both by the same author
+Great music
+Levels give a realistic feeling

-Too many weapons in some levels

Well really great..download recommended :-)

Review by AtomicFeline

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Carrotus Squash(noneTSF)
Level rating: 9.2
Rating
9.2

Good rating needed indeed! :)

Feline

Review by Nitro

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.7

i want to give 9.9 but..

I LUV IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review by Disguise

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9

faints JUST GET THIS! ;)

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9

WOW!!! This is so darn cool! First of all, i’d like to say that words aint worth much here…you have to see all the great stuff yourself! But i’ll try to describe what i saw:
"Blade’s Battle Pack" is a huge compilation of six homecooked tilesets and 10 battle/example levels using them.
The tilesets could definitely be described as "AWESOME!", they are just beautiful with all the drawings and details. I already reviewed most of them when they originally came out so i won’t repeat everything. They just ROCK!!!
Same with the levels: completely terrific! design and gameplay as well as a good weapon selection makes this one of my favourite collections of Battle levels of all times.
But this isnt the end…Blade also added custom music files for the levels and he seems to have a VERY very good taste. All of the modules are from scandinavian trackers and thats why they sound pretty demostylish (in other words: WOW!!!).
To finally conclude my review: this is one of the few MUST DOWNLOADS that belong to "la creme de la creme" of the J2O file archive! GET iT NOW! My congratulations to Blade (member of tha iSDN army ™ ;-). I love this pack and will host it a lot!

Review by Genotoxin aka iCeD

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9

See that 9 that this gets as a review? Yup, this is one of the better ratings I’ve given in a while.

Might I say I love the tilesets, not to mention levels and music files. The levels only problem being the fact that the design in them is all the same style so there isn’t too much variety. One tileset bug is the fact that the textured bg on one of them (I forgot which) looks sorta odd on 8-bit. (it has an effect similiar to the textured bg on Colonius night.)

Conclusion: Get this now or you will be banned from J2O. ;-P

Review by Bobby aka Dizzy

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Blade's Battle Pack
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.5

Great tilesets, (especially the desert one where you change pallette colors) great levels, great pack.

I command you to download this now! ;P

Review by Blade

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: Africa
Level rating: 8.2
Rating
8

Nice tileset, you could do a lot of levels with this pretty cool tileset. Music was good, but not the best.

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: WeIrD cApTuRe
Level rating: 6.8
Rating
7

It’s a Disguise release! What else to say? Seriously: “Weird Capture” is a pretty good Capture the Flag level that uses the “Psych” tileset (which i dont like much but it isn’t used very often so its quite original) and has very good design. The layer work is also pretty cool and, again, kinda original (dang! blame it on my VERY limited english vocabulary ;-).
All in all a great thing that everyone should DOWNLOAD NOW, esspecially the CTF fans around here.
“Disguise” is just the south african word for “quality levels” i think.

Review by aiko

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Castle
Level rating: 6.2
Rating
6

Not much to say here. I think this battle level is VERY slightly above the average: the design and eyecandy (back layers are okay, fore layers aren’t) is okay, not much to complain. But the level itself is too small and boring (heard about events? :-). However, weapon selection is okay, too. Nothing special. Of course, the author didnt forget the usual annoying bugs: no background music, wrong next level setting.
I don’t know if i should recommend to download “The Castle” (sorry, but boy, thats a boring name!) or not. But as FoD said: if you like small battle maps…(low six points!)

Review by Genotoxin aka iCeD

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: WeIrD cApTuRe
Level rating: 6.8
Rating
7

Another very nice level by Disguise. Unlike most vertical levels, I had no problems navigating with Jazz. The eye candy is great and I don’t have a big list of problems. I DO, however have a small one. :-)

The dead ends in some places got annoying. Remember to keep your design fluent.

Aside of that, a very nice level. All CTF fans should download NOW! :-)

Review by FoD MERC

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Castle
Level rating: 6.2
Rating
6

Too small.

Ya need to pay careful attention to eyecandy, it’s vastly important.

Also, the one vine was too high up.. I’d recommend puting it down one more line.

You need to make sure that people can get around your level without too much work. A few springs probably wouldn’t have hurt any..

Download this if you like small battles.

Review by Genotoxin aka iCeD

Posted:
Posted more than 22 years ago
For: The Castle
Level rating: 6.2
Rating
6.7

“The Castle” includes a good (though) not great battle level using the castle set. It’s just a tad small, though.

However I must complement you on good navigation without springs. There WAS a Spaz biased area, some score taken away from that.

Eye candy was OK. Could have been improved (bg very cluttered.)

Overall it gets a d/l recommendation from me, not a high one, but one nonetheless. :-)