Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Oh the eyecandy is bad, and the weapon placement is bad. Actually this level dosn’t give sense.

First there’s an about level, which tells that everyone on Jazz2online is “(minty fresh)”. Pete gives credit to himself twice, and tells us that the tileset is by Overlord (Btw, the tileset is by Overlord), that no-one made a kind of beta test, and that music is by mad freaks. You reach the bottom, and moving right will result in skipping the level, moving left will result in you get stuck in a hurt block.
Also, the level is 256×64, and uses about 1/20 with tiles.

In the battle level, you start getting warped into a room which you cannot leave without cheating, after an odd system which dosn’t work. The level is more a hotel level than a battle level.
The level’s size is 256×64 too, but only 1/4 of the level is filled up with tiles. The background layers is very boring to look on, and there isn’t something suprising over the levels eyecandy. Boring, too.

Host this? No. I’d suggest you not downloading it.

(Content edit. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

great good ammo select! i give a 7.7!

(Great good rating removal. Or something of that sort. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

THE AUTHOR’S VOICE: The author of this level seems to be mute. I am unsure if this is a bad thing or not, but will be lax and not rate the voice. Try to find some voice coaches before next time you release a voice file, though.
Pros: N/A
Cons: N/A
Rating: N/A

THE AUTHOR’S CLOTHES: Hmmm. The author does not seem to be a very flashy person, as his entire wardrobe is brown, with one or two hints of green here and there. What with the incredible monochromeness of the outfit, I’d have been tempted to create a perspective illusion on the shirt and put a picture of some trees or something, but no. Do not stare at this person if you are easily bored. Aside from that, the appearance of this person is still not perfect. There are several holes and poorly patched spots, and the stiches are far too regular and uninteresting.
Pros: The clothes seem to be the right size.
Cons: No color, some problems with the holes.
Rating: 5.5

HOW MUCH I LIKE THE AUTHOR: The author has three main qualities which I shall draw your attention to. The first is his absolute devotion to rubber balls. He has few toys besides these rubber balls, although there are a few model missiles he keeps around. Second is his appetite. The man (the Mazeman man) seems to be either quite gluttonous, or know a lot of people, as his house (from the times I have visited it) seems to be quite filled with snacks of every kind, although, for the most part, healthy ones. There may be too much food, even, though the carrots seemed regulated enough. The third is the company he keeps. None of them seem paticularly bright, nor have any real idea of why they are where they are. A pity. Overall, though, the author is a fairly good person.
Pros: The friends are ok, the food is healthy.
Cons: A normal person could never eat that much, not enough variation in toys.
Rating: 6.5

THE AUTHOR’S NAME: The author’s name is, to be honest, kind of boring. I mean, “Mazeman”. Does he produce mazes? No. Maybe if he had some sort of cool logo, where moving the mouse over one part would cause a section of a maze to appear under the mouse, but there’s nothing complicated like that – just a straight, ordinary name with nothing new or radical. I like some of the letters, though.
Pros: Some of the letters are kind of cool.
Cons: The name is, on the whole, not too good.
Rating: 4.0

WHERE THE AUTHOR LIVES: The author lives someplace in the desert or the beach or something, and while the way is plainly marked, it can be hard to get through some of the things inbetween my starting spot and his place of dwelling. Fortunately, there were several friendly travellers to help me through. Overall a pretty good trek through a pretty good area, though it gets kind of pathetic near the end.
Pros: Decent.
Cons: Not incredible.
Rating: 7.2

MY RECEPTION AT THE AUTHOR’S HOUSE: Well, as you probably know, I was served too much food. Still, they seemed quite glad to see me, and I may come again sometime, if I’m in the neighborhood.
Pros: They have a nice welcome mat.
Cons: Some parts of the conversation were a little touch and go.
Rating: 6.7

KEWLNESS: YAY THS IS KEWL RIGT? RIHT??? OMG NO? IWAS WORONG =(*(( Anyway, all things considered, the author is a pretty good character, though there are a few faults (paticularly in his way of dressing… ugh) that a good butler could help with.
Pros: KEWL
Cons: NOT ALL KEWL
Rating: 7.2

I’m glad there is a one review per person per level rule now, because this shouldn’t happen ever :-p

Good level, but it’s hard.

Seeing that many more people aren’t going to review this, I’ll just use my only comment now.

Trafton: Most of the original levels have not changed a great deal, but I did drastically change some levels like “Waste Drain” and “Heaven Sent” which you conveniently ignored. That’s OK, I forgive you (at least for the time being).

Blackraptor: You’ve pointed out something that has been fixed a long long time ago with the original survivor version. First of all, you should have noticed (which you may have completely missed, from what I could tell from your outdated review) that there are lasers that occasional shoot right above the springs. You could get hit by these lasers so you can fall through the springs. Unfortunately, that could take a while, so I created an alternative method. On each side of the level there is a spring with a delay on it. With this, you can jump on it then stomp quickly so you can fall into the warp. Don’t worry; those two springs won’t affect gameplay much at all, which is obvious since you and most others probably didn’t even notice it in the first place.

Violet: I’m surprised you haven’t reviewed this yet. That’s alright. As long as you don’t review it the same way Trafton and Blackraptor did (that is by simply posting your old, unmodified review with the new review of the five latest levels).

I should also point out there is more than you think there is in 4 of the 5 new levels. So you could either waste time opening up JCS and trying to figure it out yourself or you could bug me and I might be nice enough to tell you of it’s secrets (which I did put much effort into making).

Good conversion…
this conversion deserves a 9.5!

This can be deleted. You didn’t needed to make it (getting throught it all in JCS takes some annoying 2-3 hours), because Overlord maked it loong ago, and published it on his site.

Well, Blacky sure did make a nice little battle level, in my opinion.

First Impression: Good, I must say this level reminds me a bit of BlurredD’s battle level, Dungeon Ruins part of his SC battle pack, but not too much as the eyecandy differs a bit from that level, which I’ll explain later.

The layout was good enough for my tastes in battle levels. Most battle freaks may not like it but if your a huge CTF fan this layout might be to your likeing. It doesn’t rely too much on platforms like most battle levels it’s easy to flow through and a bit symmetrical but not really copied as both sides are quite different, but they also have similarities like the carrots for example. I feel Nothing further needs to be discussed here. The layout is good that’s mostly what counts.

The gameplay was great, I enjoyed it most of the time. (Ok, I was winning the whole time and my opinion might change if I was losing) However there were a few quirks like the carrots being too easy to get(3 carrots… A bit much for a level this size, imo) and made the game a bit too easy (At least for me) and got boring near the end. I believe a couple of players dueling here who knew the level well would make the duel last very, very long due to this, this is more my opinion though, so if you don’t like getting frustrated in duels because it lasts, I recommend not dueling here.

The eyecandy was good, Nothing special but still above average. The BG as well as the layer 4 use was excellent. Overall nothing more to discuss, Blacky did a well done job with the eyecandy (as always).

The Ammo/Powerup placment was ok. Certainly no problems here.

Originality factor is non – existant. No new tileset uses to discuss here.

Overall: Blacky made a good battle level but this isn’t amazing, neither does it dare to uncover new breakthroughs in gameplay or eyecandy, but heck, if your a battle freak or just someone who’s bored and is in the mood for a good enjoyable battle level to host, this is certainly for you.

[This review has been edited by Fire Sword!]

Well, it’s about time Jazz2online gets a nice level. I haven’t seen a good level around here in a while now, but here we go. This level was quite small, but fun, and it uses a variation of the castle tileset (Castle Eclipse).

Eyecandy – Good
Good eyecandy, all though some parts of it seems kind of funny. The background was nicely don’t, especially how you made it look like you were inside somewhere.

Gameplay – Okay
Gameplay was okay. I felt like I was being bounced around by springs a lot of the time, though, and it has a very confusing layout. Not bad gameplay, though.

Originality – Original, but not original. I don’t know. :-p

Weapon placement – Very good
Nothing wrong here, very nice weapon and ammo placement.

Tileset usage – Good
The author made as good of a castle level as you can make, which isn’t all ways that good since it’s such a basic tileset. The author did a good job, though, and I hope some people host this.

Download reccomendation, and again, somebody host this :-p[This review has been edited by labratkid]

Nice. Excellent eyecandy, but average gameplay, also very easy, and it has skill settings that don’t only involve baddies, but they involve how much food you get! Download, even if it’s just for the tileset which doesn’t have great graphics but it very, very good.

I’m giving this 7 because I understand it was 2 hours of work. I would’ve given it 5.5 or 6.0 because it’s kind of sloppy, and the widescreen isn’t right, and the boss got stuck in the ceiling and I couldn’t finish the level, but since it took you 2 hours, I’m feeling nice. 6.5 it is.

Did you know that there is a list on jcsref though?

Ahh… I know how that feels. “That’s overused!” Well, how was I supposed to know that?[This review has been edited by mikeejimbo]

Nice level, easy to get lost in though, and the background / leave eyecandy seems a little bad in some places, but this is still great.

Well there’s nothing in the home cooked levels and the Jcs.Why?[This review has been edited by Gun sniper]

Ok but is made up tileset.

hmmmm more survivo. i give a 3.2

hmmm make some better test

- a test pack
- more tests
- hall of fame

sya dx dc

Its not very good, i give a 6.7.

I enjoy being sorta credited for something I didn’t really find. I just took the SCE’s from Overlord’s site (http://geocities.com/atlastsome/jj2/guns.htm) and stuff, so there.