Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Egypt Space is so called because it uses music that sounds Egyptian. Sort of. It uses the Mez01 tileset, which is probably where the Space came from. Not the best way to name your level, but it works, at least.

It’s hard to be original with the Mez tileset nowadays, but this at least tries. Layer 4 is mainly made up of the blocks and plastic tubing, while layers 3 and 5 are made up of the pipes. Yes, on top of each other. They’re transparent, though, which gives it a weird effect. It’s dotted with flick lights and fire ambients too. Layer 8 is standard parallaxing clouds, and there’s some stars and stuff. The tileset doesn’t provide explicit layer eyecandy, but you could at leasy use your imagination.

The layout is very empty, and placey. Most of the action takes place around the borders, linked together by layer 5 pipes. There’s big empty spaces in the middle where you can just fall. These sort of levels happen when an author has one idea after another, and puts them together. This looks very patchy. But what is there isn’t bad, you can get around most of it nice and easy.

There were four carrots in this level, two of which need warps to get to – I thought this was a bit much. Weapon placement also seemed a bit bunched-up in places, where there’s lots of it in one place. There’s three powerups – Toaster, Bounce and Blaster – which need 20 coins to access all three of them. This might give players too much of an advantage.

The music was FlyingIndian.xm. Use your head.

Download recommendation, I’m not sure if others will like it. It’s not a bad effort, though.

You should really reupload stuff.

I’ve never been so keen on the C5 cartoon toy moo tileset, but this level does quite a good job of using it how it was meant to be used. I’m not sure what or where the level is, it’s some sort of hill with toys on. There’s some messages you might find funny in an unfunny way.

The level uses the tileset how it should be used, and offers nothing new. But it does a good job of what it does. (This is very confusing, isn’t it?) There’s some hills in the background, with some… clouds, and occasionally a flying thing goes past. Woot. So not a bad job here.

I didn’t like the layout much. It’s quite a small battle, and it’s sometimes hard to get around it. You’re forced to jump in too many places for a level this size. I got stuck in the tube thing near the right, which I thought moved a bit slow by the way.

Ammo was pretty scarce in this level, but there were two powerups of Bouncers and RFs. Toaster powerup is quite hidden. This may be a bit much for such a small level. There was one carrot, easy to find, and another one hidden ish.

Music… fits. Just as weird as the rest.

Overall, it’s put good use of the tileset, but is let down by slightly laggy gameplay. No download recommendation.

To see it you must add me on msn and i let see you : fichtboo@hotmail.com cuz the url not working @ moment[This review has been edited by DeepD!sh CC]

Pokemon gotta catch em all :P

It’s Survive…

It’s bad, its covered form overlord

I cant get rating cuz i get an found[This review has been edited by DeepD!sh CC]

I get an error to… :S

Maybe usefull, but why not the JCS.ini from Overlord? its include’s Mce’s and Sce’s

Bah, to much blue you cant walk where you walk, all blue

Ive Got All The Jazz1 Music
Even The Title Screen
ex.select episode
And Ive Got The Diamondus Music
All In .s3m Format

I Cant Up-Load It Though:(
Mabe Next Week! When I Get More Internet Time!!!
If Anyone Wants Me To Up-Load It!!!

e-mail:
jgoslin@hamcoll.sa.edu.au

I’ve never found Inferno the easiest tileset to use, and this doesn’t help. The ground has been recoloured a reddish shade, and the rocks yellow. It’s been pallete-shifted a bit darker, and snow works, which is always a good thing.

There’s 110 tiles of new stuff, but it’s all taken up in blocky credits and a textured background. And some blank space. There could’ve been some rain, some extra background or ‘cave’ eyecandy, to name a few things.

There’s a few mask bugs, some of it is the same as the normal tiles, others have lines on the top and left side, sometimes in layer 4 tiles. It doesn’t really affect it a lot, but it’s annyoing still.

The example level puts it to good use, I like the falling down hills idea. It’s from a forthcoming pack, which sounds like a plug to me :P

Download not recommended, there’s not enough changes to warrant one, perhaps if you were planning to use Inferno. But only that.

This tileset is incredibly good. It has been a while since J2O was graced by such a set. The tiles are a little difficult to use, but it really shouldn’t be a problem for most JCS users. With this tileset, it is also easy to create great lighting effects, which I will certainly do if I ever make a level with this set. I hope to see more great sets like this in the future. A 9.2 well earned.

After a while, I wasn’t expecting this download to get another review ever again.

Stijn aka Fl@$h: Looking back (and after playing some of the levels that would’ve gone into the full version), I have to agree with you on a lot of points. Yeah, they’re probably too hard for their own good, though I wouldn’t go as far as saying they are outright “bad” (that comment still stings a little, but I see your point). I would add a lot more text sign hints and warnings as well as remove excess pits and traps if I ever decided to fix up these levels. I’d need much more encouragement before that happens, though. Anyway, I appreciate the brutal honesty in your review, Stijn.

Previous comments:

I wasn’t going to say anything for a while, but Killerrabbit just got on my bad side. If I had to guess, either you didn’t play all of it or you cheated through most of the levels. I don’t know how this could get a 7.2 for gameplay if jumping from platform to platform is half of the challenge (as in a lot of SP packs) and I did say it would be hard. I don’t know if you played the 4th and 5th levels, but I couldn’t focus on using a lot of pits as the only challenge (as you can clearly see). There are a few puzzles here and there which you somehow seemed to miss entirely. Maybe you should play the entire pack again. If you find it boring, then you’re not one of the people who like a good challenge. And no scenery change? It might not be too drastic in these levels, but it is noticable. So, if you can actually do a much better job with “changes in scenary” then be my guest and show me up. I’d like to see what you can do in JCS.

But I digress. I shouldn’t be too angry. I neglected to add one warning: If you find it too hard to beat or if you had to cheat a lot to get past all of the levels, don’t bother reviewing this pack. These levels weren’t made so that just anyone could be able to beat them.

mikeejimbo: Annoying intro? Maybe because of the short delay at the start or the abrupt level change at the end, but I neglected to fix that before I uploaded the pack (and the latter isn’t easily fixable). I haven’t seen anyone make an intro playble in JJ2 nearly as innovative as the one I made. I was planning on making an entirely different intro for the full pack in any case (and hopefully I’ll find an even better way of doing it).

Inf. Spaz: The 4th and 5th levels might be more like other SP levels, but that’s only because those are less linear. But I did add some interesting challenges to those levels which I have never seen quite like this before in any other pack (the puzzle in the 4th level, for example). And adding vertical play to the first 3 levels wouldn’t make them any more fun to play—just longer. BTW, if you could name several of these train levels that you say you have plenty of, it would be greatly appreciated.

On a side note: Play on Easy mode if you’re having a lot of problems trying to beat the levels. Easy mode is almost like Normal in the typical SP pack. I even added an extra save point in the 4th level, just to let you know.

Moonblaze, I changed every palette entry one by one. I did not just darken it. Notice how some orangy yellow became red. That is not darkening.

There is a sign in this set… the regular Inferno Night didn’t have a sign.

I demand an extra 10 points for the wonderful sign![This review has been edited by labratkid]

Very nice design, its have only one bug, some area’s have to much ammonation

Nice level, dx dc, this is just the good format for 2on2, blurredD whats just your rating?

Very nice, dont may rate cuz i’m a cc.

right

This is just ok. Nice worked, could need some more details, and expectelly some animations. Download if you are bored.