Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

And at last. BlurredD’s Oddysey. Coming in 4 different versions, and with 5 example levels. w00h00.

The theme of this tileset is probably a space station, since there is a pic of the earth for the background and it looks quite… metallic or something. No grass-tiles in this set. There are a lot of eyecandy tiles though; animated lights, fans, electric cords like in tubelectric, animated platforms, animated pipes, and a big bunch of other animations too. They all look awesome and are very useful. For layer 6/7 there is some 3D-ish texture with a window and it also looks good. In fact, everything looks good.
Negative stuff? Yes. It would have been nice if there were some more blocks in the set. Now there are only 4 blocks, if I’m not wrong: a “locked” block, a blank block, a buttstomp block and a destruct block. Counter-blocks are maybe not used very often, but they should be in every tileset in my very humble opinion. Another bad thing is the userfriendlyness (or something). Or better, the lack of it. It is not always clear what the tiles can be used for. For example, I have no idea how to use the tiles in the upper left corner.

Apart from that it is very good. I suppose you already downloaded it.[This review has been edited by Fl@$h aka BlewMeUp]

just like mi first levels always include the tileset if it is custom bud i am not mad i just want to say that so please re-upload bud then with tileset

Well, it has a gameplay, not so good, but it has a gameplay. Work on your event stuff, as chandie said. Good weapon placement, but the levels are to small. You have to work on your eyecandy. There are vines obove carrots and the vines doesn’t even have the event “vine”. The eyecandy is flat, it looks if no attention payd on eyecandy but only on gameplay and pickups.

In overall shows this level a lot of promise, and that’s good. The only thing left to do for you is practising!

P.S.: If you don’t know how triggers work go to JCSref. That’s a site with info about it. :)

BlurredD’s Odyssey is one of the best tilesets ever imo. Throught it’s abit flat, it’s quality and possibilitys are great.
The set isn’t very userfriendly, you should take a close look before starting up with it.
Download recommed.

This is a strangely-named level, but nonetheless a quality one. The only fault I may find with it is that it is perhaps too easy. I beat it quite easily, and did not die even once. Still, that is not of as much importance as the overall quality of level is, so I will dwell on that no longer.

This level uses “7th Lava Fall” by Dethman. This tileset is indeed quite good and well-done, and this trancends into the level’s overall eyecandy. Eyecandy in general looks nice and shows some degree of though in addition to the normal plain everyday tiles. The eyecandy is not spectacular, but is still very well-done.

As I said earlier, the gameplay of this level is perhaps a bit too easy for most. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, it may be a bit offputting for those who are significantly experienced at Jazz Jackrabbit 2. There are not too many enemies and there are many oppurtunities in which to heal. Still, gameplay is alright and enjoyable in most cases.

Weapon and enemy placement was sufficiently adaquete. Aside from perhaps having too few enemies, there is not much to notate in this section of the rating. The placement of weapons is also nicely done.

What to make of this level? It is indeed a good single player level that will probably be enjoyable to play. While some may dislike the fact that it is, in fact, quite an easy level, if you get past that, it turns into a fun game. There are some oddly-placed warps that make it less fun, too. However, overall, this is still a nice level and worth your playing. As always, happy levelmaking.

- Trafton

This level indeed is alright for a first level. Regardless, I refuse to rate higher just because it is a first level. After all, that would be absurdly unfair to anyone who made such a level as a second level. Level quality does not change simply depending on when a level is uploaded and what level number the level is for the author.

This level uses the classic “Carrotus” tileset by the Epic team in some more or less intriguing yet simplistic ways. Eyecandy is probably one of the better parts of this level, but not by any weight or measure of significance.

The gameplay in this level is simplistic at best and tedious at worst. In practice, the level was enjoyable at times but suffered from an overall air of mediocrity that can only be described as moderately offputting and more or less morbid.

Weapon placement was perhaps the most guilty section of this area. Weapon placement was generic, boring, and weapons were often all clumped together in one area, which definitely hurt gameplay.

So, what of this level? Overall, this is probably below average. I can not find any time in which I would be able to recommend this, but some might like it. My final score is a 4.5. Good luck with future levelmaking. This level does offer some interesting points, but there is a lot to be wanted that is not in this level. A lot. And, if you wish to improve your levelmaking, I recommend you look after these sorts of things. Regardless, this is not bad, and is worth a download. Good luck with future levelmaking.

- Trafton

Pretty good.

TILESET USE/EYE CANDY: Good. All the tiles fit together, I thought there was enough eye candy. There could have been more though, and it would have been just as good. Still, an 8 isn’t bad.
8/10

GAMEPLAY: The flow of the level was ok, but I think that the entrances to the sewers should have been farther on the left and right. I like battle levels to be circular.
8/10

ITEM/WEAPON PLACEMENT: I don’t understand the food, and wherever you have weapons, I think you have too many in one place. Also, I think you have too many rapid fires. On the plus side, the respawn times are good.
7/10

ORIGINALITY: Really, it’s just a battle level, but the sewers are neat, so you get a 7.
7/10

REPLAY VALUE: This seems fine. I think replay would be more if it were larger, or more secrets, so an 8.
8/10

OVERALL (An average): I like math, so my overalls are average. (My overalls are average? I don’t wear overalls.)
7.6, rounded up to 7.7.

PS (Trafton, I hope I did better on this review)

Just a Basic Tileset Nothing Special.
i would suggest that you add some other things to get a Higher Rating

(Character/Background etc)

Yes Great idea, does it regenerate the copter in battle 1? ;)

And Taz, there is a bug where sometimes it automatically doubles reviews.

This was a great Idea!
But no diamonds Music!

First I have this game on my computer

Lets rate

Its Bad the tiles are to big and a strange backround
I give this a 2 Because some things are funny :)

(Rating removal. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Wha-what? What tilesets? What music? The only file with Bilsy in it on J2O is this one… this is 5 levels.

I re-uploaded the level to make it available in the JJ2 Home Cooked section…people were asking me about that.

Happy Easter to all.

Very nice… I played this level in it’s early stages, and gave raptor some pointers on how to make it a little better… and well, it’s better!

EYECANDY: 8.0
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The eyecandy was very nice, but one of the background layers with the trees looked a little funny because of the X-SPEED setting… it moved a little weird, but there were no other problems with the eyecandy, all though nothing was extraordinary.

WEAPONS AND AMMO: 7.0
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There weren’t too many weapons and powerups compared to the old version, but that’s all right. For some reason, I didn’t think the placement of the ammo was all that amazing, though. Still good.

BUGS: 9.0
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Well, there were a couple secret areas that used to be there that had, for example, airboards in them, that had nothing in them now, but that’s not much of a bug. Also, in the old version, there were ‘wind tunnels’ under water, that you could only go through one way. I got stuck in them a lot, but fortunately, they are gone now.

CREATIVITY: 8.0
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Nothing new about the eyecandy, but I’ve never seen water in a Diamondus level, and there were tons of secret places.

Now, my little sister is pressuring me into hunting for Easter eggs around the house, and all though I really don’t want to, I’m gonna. I’ll pretend Jazz hid them, that’ll be more fun, right? Lemme average this together quick…

Okay, 8.0! Great job raptor, if you ever make a future update, my recomendation (I can never spell that word, it’s probably spelled wrong, right?) is to fix up the ammo placement a bit, and get rid of empty secret areas!

Good job, keep up the good work.

(yay, my longest review ever, and it’s short, too!)

I’m sorry if I didn’t understand the rules or something, but as far as I know, you are supposed to rate items posted on the J2O.[This review has been edited by URJazzCC]

Good work EvilMike, this level is just a collection of CTF levels, if you did’nt notist.

According to your level, there’s a good idea. The enemy placement was good also. There were few bad points that:
*The first level hasn’t got an ‘Area End Of Level’ event.
*In the first level, there’s a warp, which sends you to an area that has no way out. Also, there’s a trigger crate, which doesn’t have a trigger ID.
An 2.0 is good for the gameplay and enemies.

Hey! I have the same idea with raptor. It’s so annoying. There are warps thar send you to the spikes that you cannot escape (without cheating). So pay attention while you’re trying to build a hard level. Except this, the gameplay was great. The balance of the goodies and baddies were good. The beginning of the level was interesting. (Like travelling with the sýcker tube, and see the enemies that you will fight.
Generally, this level was good. I n my opinnion it colud be better for you to re-upload this level and remove these annoying warps. If you do, there can be a very good gameplay and fun. Trust me!:p

were you having fun writing the readme file?

well, nice levels, I won’t make long reviews as Trafton and Voilet.
never.
a 8.9 (rounded up to 9.0) for this excellent level pack.

Hard and annoying. It’s gonna make you go crazy. I suggest that everyone plays it. :)

“Medivo Battle” is a minibattle level. In fact, at 50×40 (and not much of that used), it is quite mini. Most minibattle levels feature a moderate amount of powerups and are well-fitted for a lot of people. While this level does fit the criterea, it suffers from an overdose of powerups, a lack of interesting eyecandy, and a way-too-easy to get coin warp. This level probably does not have that much effort put into it, but shows some skill. Everything is placed together in a way that demonstrates some knowledge of JCS. However, after that, there are some major problems with this level that definitely need attention before it can be any good.

TILESET/TILESET USE: The “JJ1: Medivo” conversion is used in this level. Unfortunately, it is not used very much. Most of this level consists of being in the air, so there is not much eyecandy for a lot of it. It would have been nice to at least see background eyecandy in the areas in which you were in the air, but there was very little if any. The areas on the ground demonstrated acceptable eyecandy, and although they were not amazingly good or flashy, they were good enough.
Pros: The areas on the ground have acceptable eyecandy.
Cons: The part of the level which takes place in the air has very little eyecandy.
Rating: 3.7

WEAPON/ITEM/ENEMY PLACEMENT: If there is one place in which this level fails, it is weapon and item placement. There are simply too many weapons and items. Powerup overdose is a big problem here. There are almost ten powerups in total within this level. That makes one powerup per about 20 square tiles, which is pretty overdone. You might think that in such a small level, this would make it really easy to be killed. Not so. This level balances out the amount of weapons with invincibility carrots. This is, however, where the level makes a big overestimation. It makes this overestimation in the fact that the carrots have way too long of an effect. The player who gets it is invincible for 15 seconds, while they can go around and kill and heal. This is way too long. While this would be acceptable if there were a lot of players in the game at once, this is not necessarily always what happens. It needs work in this category.
Pros: Not as bad as it could be.
Cons: Overestimation on amount of powerups versus carrots.
Rating: 2.5

ORIGINALITY: The idea of minibattle levels are nothing new to say the least. However, they are somewhat original. Though that does not necessarily mean the level is original. I doubt this level was intended to be micro, and it has nothing that shows that it is in the microbattle format, so it is nothing but a really small battle level. Sigh.
Rating: N/A

GAMEPLAY/DESIGN: The gameplay falls short, much like a lot of other things in this level. This is mostly because of the problem I mentioned early with the carrots and powerups. It is true that this is a seperate category. However, it is badly affected by this, and therefore that deserves mention. The rest of the non-related category is not exactly very good either. For instance, the level’s layout is awful. The level flows badly, and collisions are extremely likely. This category is not so good.
Pros: A few interesting places.
Cons: Not many. Masking issues. Not ver interesting gameplay. The carrot/ammo problem.
Rating: 3.2

REPLAY VALUE/FUN FACTOR: There is not much replay to this, unless you are in a server with a lot of people. I suppose in that case it might be mildly interesting, but probably not interesting enough to keep interest. Wow, that was redundant.
Pros: N/A.
Cons: N/A.
Rating: 3.2

OVERALL (not an average): I think the rest of this review pretty much sums up this level. Too small, not of good quality, and generally not worth it. Sorry, and while this does show effort, I’m afraid that it is too small to be worth anything more than the 3.5 I am getting it. Perhaps consider making a bigger level next time and spending more time on it.
Pros: Eyecandy could be worse.
Cons: And everything including it could be better. Much, much better.
Rating: 3.5

GAMEPLAY: D
Flow: D -
Layout: D -
Creativity: C -
Bugs: D+

EYECANDY: C -
Tileset use: D+
Eyecandy look: C -
Creativity: C -
Bugs: C -

PLACEMENT: D -
Weapons: D -

THE FINAL GRADE: D

THE FINAL RATING: 3.5

Pros: Eyecandy could be worse.
Cons: And everything including it could be better. Much, much better.

- Trafton