Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Well, this level and tileset is certainly a mixed bag… Let’s take a look at the items by themselves.

The Tileset: Well, you certainly made an effort to connect tiles together… unfortunately it looks like you ripped out each 128×128 block wholesale and then cut out blank spaces. Eases level making, but gives WAY too many redundant tiles. Masking is good, but there were some masking problems. And would it be too much to ask to have those small propellers rotate?

The Level: Pretty good, though I’ve seen better. Putting the passages in from the original should’ve been easy, and does the event ‘One Way’ mean anything to you? at least you prepared for someone falling and had them teleport to a ‘safe spot’. One minor gripe I had is the part on the outside of the ship right before you hit the button to fight the boss wasn’t included.

The Music: Ouch, ouch, ouch… it was almost painful to listen to the music. It sounds like you opened a MIDI in ModPlug, and saved the result. Would it have killed you to loop it beforehand?

Despite these flaws, this isn’t the worst tileset I’ve seen, and it might see another use or two… Based on its merits alone, it gets a 2, but you get 4 for effort.

Very interesting idea. As a fellow Sonic-level tileset maker (I’m working on a Hidden Palace one, which I hope will be the best out there), I know my stages quite well.

One major gripe I have is it screams ‘JPG’. Now, there IS a way to fix that, and that’s by downloading one of the recent versions of Sonic 2 Delta. The patches can be found with a search for “Sonic 2 Delta”, but be warned, the proper site will be in Portuguese. Yep, this guy actually put Dust Hill into the game, and it looks REALLY nice. And if you really feel you need those wooden ledges, rip ‘em from Mystic Cave.

Tiles look pretty well planned, though I can’t see an entire level being planned with just what’s there.

The music’s nice, but if you like, I can send an Oil Ocean Zone XM (this is the same music Esrael uses in his hack).

It appears that in order to make certain parts like you did, you have to reverse the tiles. Ease of use takes a hit there.

But like the score says, the idea makes up for it. I can’t wait to see a V2 of this.

(Warez removal edit, sense drain edit. ~Violet)
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(Reviewer Edit: fine, I removed the actual link, and put the actual names back in. I fail to see how IPS files can be considered ROMs, but feel free to contact me elsewhere if there’s anything you feel the need to discuss.)[This review has been edited by Tiberious]