Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Very decent levers for the beginner. Of course they’re far inferior to the original ones, but still worth downloading. By the way “Knight Vision” inspired me to make my own single player pack “Stone Abyss” The first level of that pack is a heavily rebuilded version of “Knight Vision”

I remember downloading this level when it had just appeared in J2O… That time it wasn’t worth playing, but seems that you had improved it.
I really like the idea of custom boss fights, but it would be much more enjoyable to resurrect some of unused bosses… For example, some of tilesets like Colon, Psych, Diam,Tube,Jungle were deprived of bosses in the original JJ2. It would be much cooler if you tried to make some of unused bosses with Angel Script and placed them into the planets that didn’t have a boss in original levels! I don’t even speak about Bilsy (If I’m not mistaken it was supposed to be situated in Jungle) which works well without Angel Script. If you manage to make something like that, I’d go mad with joy and give you 10.0.

Now what about this level.

Tileset
I liked the tileset you’ve used- it looks great, but maybe you should have used a recolored version of it, since there are plenty of its recolors in J2O.

Layout
I agree with Stijn, the level is too big to make the boss fight difficult enough. Firstly, I was a bit confused by a big unused area in the upper part of the level, however it’s probably just nitpicking, as this empty area doesn’t have any impact on anything… There are also some flipped spikes in the left side of the level, you could make them hurt the player by placing some event like bees at them. The area available for the running form of Devan is to small, so you can easily defeat him with not powered-up bouncers while staying in a safe place in the lower right corner of the arena. Maybe you should reduce the slope, so Devan would be able to reach that area. The respawning bee can be easily avoided (if you aren’t gonna break that TV-sets) as it’s situated far from the boss. Too much powerups and carrots… I don’t see any sence in them. Boss isn’t hard even without them. And finally, hard difficulty adds nothing.

Eyecandy
Yeah, I’ve seen those falling leaves. That’s fine. But why didn’t you use the trees, mountains and a lake in the background? The way you’ve made it the level shares the same problem with Haunted House: an empty background! Just a bare sky! However, I liked the use of flowers, shrooms, small trees, ect on the 4th layer, so it doesn’t look too dull. Looks like you have some sence of beauty!

In the conclusion I’d like to say that you’re not a bad level-maker, everything is tidy, good-looking, the secret with a shield isn’t too obvious, I wish you to believe in yourself and make some bigger single player levels someday.

When I saw the title of this I thought about real boss fights. The descriptions of bosses are also fascinating and intriguing. I even hoped to see some unused villians in this pack, though you didn’t use Angel Script…

Layout is rather simple, but I liked the use of trigger zones and moving platforms in the last level.

Tilesets… I don’t like these tilesets at all. Probably overusing the original ones from JJ2 isn’t the best idea and maybe fans of JJ1 may enjoy gaming within these tilesets, but as for me the tilesets you have used are dull and annoying.

Gameplay. In fact, every level represent some kind of obstacle course instead of boss fight. There are no bosses at all! So the title is a little bit confusing. I have to admit that trigger zones are widely used, which adds some new mechanic to the common JJ2 gameplay, that’s fine.

I see that the levels are neat and tidy, whithout bad tiles, seems like they were made wisely like you aren’t a newbee in levelmaking. So I’ll try to rate as high as I can.

Sorry for nitpicking and not recommending download, probably I simply misunderstood your idea…