Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Haven’t posted a review in a long time, and I didn’t exactly take notes on everything, but here is an impression.

Design -10
Brilliant. Very, very evil, but brilliant. The levels look very authentic. I’d often really sit and just look at the screen thinking “Prettyyyy…”… and the way you revisit places throughout the story, and how they change and affect stuff… a very powerful effect. Can’t really be done any better in such a simple game.

Challenge -9.5
Challenge indeed. It was there a-plenty. However, there were also a bunch of places that were just unfair. Oftentimes you’d suddenly walk into enemies without having any chance to evade them. At least a carrot follows right after most of the most unfair spots, but still.
However, apart from those points, the pack is excellent in this field. There were many great challenges that were just that: Challenging. In the ???? level, I almost panicked when I suddenly found that a lot of the bees instantly respawned after being shot, but when I got a grip of the situation, it was just challenging to evade bees. Rushing through a landscape fleeing from and destroying enemies all the time is a quite interesting gaming sensation, very different from what you usually get, which is either a crapload of enemies all over the place or a few very meanly placed ones, which slows down gameplay a lot.
Another really cool place was the one in the end of the castle with the collapsing scenery and freeze enemies.
Examples of unfair places are the room with the animated disappearing blocks and the spikes underneath in the Temple, which is extremely hard to beat with Spaz, as well as one spot in the castle where you have to bomb through pillars with spikes inbetween, where the TNT is quite likely to just blow you right into the spikes, and a place right after that with a high wall right after you fall down a pit at the bottom of which two bats will immediately attack.. I never did figure out how to get up there without cheating… although that probably doesn’t count as an unfair spot.
Anyway.

Story -8.7
The story seems decent. Of course, I cannot say much about it yet, not knowing about plot twists that will follow, although I can guess that Devan will be resurrected in the second episode… it has been done before, but the plot works well in that it creates suspense, with unexpected plot-twists such as the setting of the bomb.
I don’t know what was up with Bilsy and the green place, but oh well. I hope it will be explained in a later episode.

And before I sputter any more unintelligible nonsense, take a few extra points for cool stuff like effects ( teleport-effect, flood, intro and outro, eavesdropping scene, etc. ), and take the 9.5.

I definitely do not believe it’s a bad remix.
It does not only work, it has some very nice parts to it, both streams flowing nicely along each other. Other parts aren’t as well fitting, but they are outweighed.
I also do not believe that it was simply two mp3s put together. One who pays attention can easily realize that there were adjustments of speed, parts cut out, repeated, etc, etc.
While this is not a perfect remix, it’s by no means a bad one and the author deserves positive feedback.

Great remix.
It combines aspects from Medivo and Labrat in a quite interesting manner, and it even sounds good for the most part. Well-pulled of and original.
The only drawback I believe is that the song stays the same too much, something like adding those monk-like voices sing somewhere in the middle of the song like in the beginning of the original Medivo would be nice, and also, the bagpipe-y part in this remix sounds a bit too flat to have any great impact.
Overall, the only problem is a lack of dynamic and flatness of the volume… the basis is quite original and solid, though, and would do great if used in a level.