Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

One thing waaaaaaaaaaaaay to many enemies. I had to use cheats for this level which is never a good sign. Basically I don’t think it’s even winable without using cheats. There’re no other events except some wepponry and enemies (too much of those btw.). And of course this level is a rip of Treasure Hunt A… So tileset use and design looks ok… except for some of the edited parts…

My scale:
10 – Best Of The Best (BB)
9.7-9 – Great! (GR)
8.7-8 – Very Good (VG)
7.7-7 – Good (G)
6.7-6 – Average Hi (AH)
5.7-5 – Average Lo (AL)
4.7-4 – Playable (P)
3.7-3 – Bad (B)
2.7-2 – Very Bad (VB)
1.7-1 – Horrible (H)

The level is not playable IMHO… without cheats you can’t win (or you’re very unlikely).
The final rating is: Average “B” = 3,5.

Man, this level was realy difficult! There are many enemies, like floating lizards coming out of the wall. There are only a few weapons. For this level I have used cheats. The end boss is funny, one bolly bos is complete and the other is only an eye! Nice titleset use, the eyecandy and stuff is okay, only the gameplay is a bit boring. You have only got to fight zillions of enemies. Practice first and if you think you have made a good level, put it one the site and maybe I’ll review it. P.S. Why do you people write so long reviews over a sort level? Well, it doesn’t matter.

Yay! First reviewer!

Good tileset, but of course simple and simple to use, but some tiles are copied from some events, example bolls.
This tileset looks a little medivo, but good still.

Tile amount 8/10
Tile linking 8/10
Anim tiles, spikes, etc 7/10
Realization 7/10
+ or – points
none

Overall 7.5 Rank: Medium tileset

[This review has been edited by Superjazz]

THEME: The theme, I think, is that you’re on some asteroid or space station orbiting a planet called Dark Devil (or you’re orbiting a dark devil.. you never know). This is an interesting theme, but the background eyecandy is not built to support it (some space junk flying by would add to the feeling, as well as a big old planet (or devil?)).
Pros: Interesting theme.
Cons: Not too well carried out, lack of support from background.
Rating: 7.0

GRAPHICS: There are two types of ground, and two types of background (actually they’re just different shades). Also two shades of pipes, which are just gradients. The main ground looks pretty good, like in Toxic Factory only a different color (the fans are even still here). The other ground, for Orbit Mountain, isn’t so good. It looks appropiate, and has a nice platform on top, but it’s just an obvious PSP texture and the author couldn’t get it to tile well. The transparencies for it are also messed up, so all you people who like inventive backgrounds may have some troubles with these tiles. The fans look good, and the pipes are working gradients. For background eyecandy, there are some diagonal pipes, and some ripped tiles from Labrat.
Pros: Everything’s pretty good.
Cons: A few tiles from Labrat, lack of good background, Orbit Mountain doesn’t tile at all well.
Rating: 7.2

INVENTORY: This section can really make or break a tileset. The author has ground, “tunnel”, background eyecandy (ripped), a background (nice), spikes (ripped), poles (standard), float up events, blocks (standard), signs (standard), and two colors of extra layer 4 eyecandy (the OMF bots from Labrat).
Pros: A good deal of stuff is there.
Cons: A lot of it was not made by the author, and there aren’t any vines, hooks, or sucker tubes (though I suppose you could use some of the solid pipe walls).
Rating: 7.0

ORIGINALITY: Some parts of this tileset are original, some aren’t. The main floor is, of course, just another moderately textured isometric floor, but the piping (solid and not solid) is pretty nice. I’m not sure if Orbit Mountain’s original or not.
Pros: Some original things.
Cons: Not enough.
Rating: 6.5

COMPETITION: About the only tileset I can think of similar to this (not counting Toxic Factory) is Orbitus, and no conversion of that has been released (AFAIK). So while this is probably the best available tileset for this theme, you might want to wait for a better one to come along.
(No pros given)
(No cons given)
(No rating given)

EASE OF USE: A few of the tile placements are a bit questionable, but the tileset seems fairly easy to use.
Pros: No big problems here.
Cons: A few things are hard to get at.
Rating: 7.2

MASKING: Masking is pretty good, except for one tube-ground thing (in the example level) where I got stuck accidentally (even worse then on purpose).
Pros: Pretty good.
Cons: A few flaws.
Rating: 7.5

OVERALL (not an average, doggone it): This is a fairly good and interesting tileset, but I’m not sure I really recommend it, at least not in this current state. Get Orbit Mountain working, fix a few of the bugs, change the background eyecandy entirely and replace the ripped tiles with other things, and I might change my mind.
Pros: Everything’s pretty good.
Cons: A few annoying faults/flaws.
Rating: 7.2

STORY: No story. I am willing to forgive this for a single level, though.
Pros: None.
Cons: None.
Rating: N/A

TILESET/TILESET USE: Before I go any further, I might as well say that this level is an edit of Treasure Hunt level A. Basically, the tileset use is the same as in that level, only with the parts that Norbii edited looking bad.
Pros: Most of it fits together, as you might expect.
Cons: Almost anything new doesn’t look good.
Rating: 5.0

WEAPON/ITEM/ENEMY PLACEMENT: In the weapons section, there are a few (generating..) RFs here and there, as well as an ice powerup. There are no items other then a full energy carrot before the boss. The level, however, is full of enemies (Float Lizards, Float Suckers and Tuf Turtles), a fact I will return to later. However, none of these are placed with any real strategy in mind other then being ther.e
Pros: VERY few.
Cons: Everything placed badly.
Rating: 2.0

ORIGINALITY: What’s original about a single player edit of a treasure hunt level with tons of enemies? Well, one or two places feel sort of new.
Pros: Very few.
Cons: It’s just not original.
Rating: 3.0

DIFFICULTY The author has added in tons of enemies, but other then the boss (where you have to fight two Bollys and a Tuf Boss, all of which shoot stuff at you) it’s not really difficult at all. The enemies are not placed strategically, there are no hurt events, traps, or anything, just big armies of enemies which can usually be easily killed by standing a few tiles away.
Pros: Few.
Cons: It’s just not very well done.
Rating: 4.0

REPLAY VALUE: I would not want to play this level again, and while I can’t be sure this applies to you as well, the odds are pretty high.
Pros: Very few.
Cons: Just not entertaining.
Rating: 3.0

OVERALL (not an average): This level is bad. Just…. bad.
Pros: One or two places are good.
Cons: ….it’s……… bad.
Rating: 4.0

Downloading…

Unzipping…

Starting jj2…

Loading level…

Ok, now I tell what terrible I saw.

When the level began I fell down, and then I fell across the tube, and then, eeeeek! At least two million enemies wait me here, Luckily I chose the Spaz to character, so I could use his special attack, but in vain. It was terrible. It’s better to call your level mission too impossible. Also there’s some tile bugs, I died several times, and faced the gameover title twice, but I still tried it. At last, I were tired to try to finish it, I typed jjinv, And when I Came to the end boss. There was more than zillion of those lizards, suckers and tuf turtles. OH SH*T!

Design 7/10
Eyecandy 7/10
Originality 7/10
Gameplay 4/10
Including 3/10
Pickup and enemy placement 5/10
Effects + other 5/10
+ or – points
-4 points off because the bad enemy placement

Overall 4.8571249
Your level rank is average level.
Practice!

MISSING TILES: The author uses the Industrius tileset that comes with JJ2 as a base, which might not be the best idea. As it is, the author included the tiles in the original JJ2 conversion, but not many others, and we all (I hope) know how accurate the original JJ1 tilesets were.. anyway, I’m not going to bother listing all the missing tiles, but there are several, most notable the ceilling spikes, city type background, the background itself, and the thing for where sucker tubes meet.
Pros: Enough tiles for a good level, as the example shows.
Cons: Pretty much nothing from Industrius that wasn’t already there.
Rating: 6.2

ANIMATIONS: Ouch ouch ouch. Industrius the JJ1 planet had a lot of animations (though not more then Nippius, I do believe), and this tileset gets none of them. Indeed, the only animation in the tileset is a not-perfect quality rip of the flashing thing from Tubelectric and Labrat.
Pros: None.
Cons: Everything’s missing.
Rating: 2.0

COLORS: The colors seem pretty good, except for some transparency bugs and some of the windows. The author also included a pretty well done Night version.
Pros: The night version isn’t hideously garbled, for the most part the colors are good.
Cons: A few problems.
Rating: 7.5

ADDED TILES: The author has added a ripped animation from Tubelectric/Labrat, a working (!!) textured background, text and exit signs (from JJ2), */!/bouncy blocks (from JJ2), and some stuff I can’t figure out. (I still don’t know what they’re for…)
Pros: Some good stuff.
Cons: Not enough.
Rating: 7.2

MASKING: Masking’s not too good. Bumpy walls, automasked parts.. oh, and there’s a mask message in the textured background, by the way.
Pros: Few.
Cons: Things for the most part aren’t masked right.
Rating: 5.5

OVERALL (not an average): This is a decent JJ1 conversion with a background and stuff, but it misses so many tiles (in paticular the animations) that I can’t give it too much of a recommendation. If you liked Industrius, get JJ1: NeW’s Mayhem.
Pros: The night version is pretty well done, some nice added stuff.
Cons: Not very good masking, not enough original stuff.
Rating: 7.0

Like already said, this is nothing new.
This is the normal industrial jj1 tileset, but he added a few things. This isn’t worth to download.
The music file and the example level were cool, though.

Nothing new… just the old jj1 titlet. Only a few new blocks. Not to good. The music is alright, the example level is a little small but thats okay. The sucker tubes are old. Nothing new. No dowload reccomdend.

This isnt 1.23 and when i try to load it up it cant find the tileset

This is a T.S.F. only pack, meaning over 3/4 or Jazz Jackrabbit 2 players cannot see or play it. It looks suprisingly like Carrotus, and I have no Pros. This level pack should be deleted from the server. RATING: 1
-Sparky2002B, 9:41PM, Fri 2/21/03

[Updated 5:30AM, Sat 2/22/03]
[I have to admit, after playing this, I’m sorry I gave the level pack a 1. I played it again, in detail, and I decided to give it a 4.7 instead of a 1. I’m sorry, guys.][This review has been edited by Sparky2002B]

COOL version of diamondus!!!Try to make your own drawing.

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I realy like your levels!!-I like this this one but the SUC was better-and one more thing -why toxicfactory-fullpack-why fullpack-I give you 9.2

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cough not 1.23 cough

Can you even make 1.23 tilesets? I would be willing to help…

^^Original Review by BlurredD
I Agree with him.

Can`t you say that this is made withe the TSF JCS (at least?)
You`re two example levels are good….
I wait for the time somebody here makes a program which is making TSF tilesets v1.23 compatible. (I think I`m dead when this is really)

So, back to you`re Pack…

LEVELS: Good

TILESET: I just see it in you`re levels
(I have TSF but i use the 1.23 JCS because my TSF JCS always crash)
so i think it`s really good.

I`t can be a 9 but i give you a 8 Because it`s JUST TSF.

yeah!!is cool tileset as fanatic I love it!!The Space Under Carrotus is the best!!!!!!

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Nice titleset. The carrots in the wall are funny, and now you can stand on top of the carrot! The example level workt out very well. But theres one bad thing: It looks very like Carrotus…

This is so cool. It’s some sort of bizarre mix between an ET style tileset and Carrotus. It’s called the space under carrotus, so I presume it’s supposed to be underground. As part of the background eyecandy, you see misty stuff (doesn’t tile well) with carrots coming out of it, which is a cool effect.
The basic contents of the tileset is a purple platform in both dark and light varieties, which can be switched between fairly well. Also a lot of tiles from Carrotus, like carrots, big carrots, pumpkins, vines and a sign. The author made new spiky thorn things, which unfortunately don’t look very good. I’m actually not sure why so much Carrotus stuff is underground, but oh well.
For eyecandy, you get a non working blue textured background (I advise just using the cave tile instead), and misty carrot stuff. The background is good idea wise, but could use some work graphically.
The zip also comes with a readme with a list of Norbii’s tilesets, two single player example levels, a night version of the tileset, and a green version of the tileset, in which the raddish looks awful.
What’s new and/or exciting about this tileset? Just the style.. ripping without being evil about it. While not taking Quite so many tiles from Carrotus would have been nice, and the masking on the carrots isn’t all that good, it makes an interesting effect. I can’t quite give it an 8 though.

Actually, I have to say that I like this tileset, though I am not exactly sure why the author did not just make his own signs and Carrotus tiles, etcetera. This is a fairly basic tileset featuring tiles ripped from the Carrotus tileset and the Diamondus tileset. The latter is mainly just “Kill this Rabbit” posters modified to say some other things. The grass is easily the oddest part of this tileset. The grass sort of reminds me of that of mEzMeRiZe in that it is excessively sparkly and unrealisitc. When building a level, this translated to some fairly weird-looking grass, but I can not complain that much. It still looks alright. There is plenty of eyecandy there, some of which is disappointingly ripped. I would rather, even if another tileset happens to provide exactly what the tileset needs, see authors draw their own content for their tilesets. Regardless, it does not look bad, even though there was some degree of color loss during the rip. Beyond that, this is a fairly solid tileset that would have made a perfectly good 1.23 tileset. In fact, next time you make a tileset, please try to make it 1.23. More people will look at it and review it than with 1.24 tilesets. Besides, these tilesets are not that big and could fit perfectly well in a 1.23 tileset. Overall, this is a good but strange-ish tileset that is worth download for anyone who likes Carrotus or is a tileset collector.

+ PROS: An interesting twist on Carrotus. The abstractness could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.

- CONS: Might be too abstract. Ripped tiles make the tileset look neophyte-like. Should have been a 1.23 tileset.

VERDICT: Overall, I give this tileset a 7.2 and a download recommendation for those who collect tilesets, like Carrotus, and/or enjoy abstract tilesets. It is still a good tileset, though the ripping is disappointing.

Norbii strikes again with another tileset, which is better than Greenland, but not as good as Toxic Factory. It features some tilesets ripped from the official Carrotus sets, edit versions of the Diamondous “kill this rabbit” posters, and some of the funkiest grass I’ve ever seen in a tileset. It’s quite good, though, I’m just negative. ;P Keep at it; I’m really liking your tilesets, Norbii.

cough not 1.23 cough

Can you even make 1.23 tilesets? I would be willing to help…