Review by Shen

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
8.5

It is clear that Agama puts a lot of work into his tilesets, and Sirius is no exception. Sirius is composed of three tilesets, Dimensions1-3, each with a different colour scheme. They come in blue-gold, pink-light blue, and green-blue flavour my personal favourite is the blue-gold one, the others seem to hurt my eyes). There is also an example level, which illustrates the tileset’s many uses to the full.

Graphics: 9.5/10
In Sirius, you walk along a series of pipes (gold, pink or green) with stars as more solid scenery. The pipes can slope up and down, with tiles for each. These pipes have variations, with kinks and scratches in them. There are also T and + junctions for the pipes, but with the stars as denser scenery there are a lot of junctions and it can be difficult to find what you want. There is an 8×8 parallax background, and some layer 6 and 7 tiles if you put your mind to what you want. There are also pipes to walk through, diamond ‘backgrounds’ (light and dark versions), and more. The one problem is that the stars have gaps in and you can see through them, making it hard to conceal secrets in the walls. However, there are a lot of tiles (about 700!) and they all look beautiful, so graphics get a high mark.

Ease of use: 6/10
I actually found this tileset quite hard to use. Maybe it was because of the number of tiles (there are a lot) but most of the time I couldn’t find the tile I wanted. In most cases it was hidden among a group of similar-looking tiles, in other cases it wasn’t in the tileset at all. For example, there’s a pipe sloping at about 30 degrees to the left, and a similar one with stars underneath it. There isn’t any sloping to the right, and if you flip it the stars are also flipped which looks weird if you’re using non-flipped stars around it. Also, the user is forced to use some layer 5 to achieve some tiles, such as pipes ending in stars. Finally, there are tiles for layers 6 and 7, but they’re hard to find and could just as easily be part of the sprite layer. I use the diamond backgrounds for layer 6 and the blue linking boxes for layer 7. Make the backgrounds semitransparent for some cooler eye-candy (and so they aren’t confused with backgrounds from the sprite layers) On a lighter note, the animations were easy to find and follow and looked great.

Example level: 9/10
Sirius comes with an example level and music, as an example to what it can achieve. The music suits the level, with a space-y theme. The level itself is a single player level, with enemies and some secrets. It is well designed – it uses all the tiles in the tileset to the max. There are some instances where the stars have been flipped, but as there’s no other way around this I’ll let it off. The only other niggle I had with the tileset was near the end there was a big flashing blue thing. This really slowed down Jazz 2, and stars could’ve been better for the job. Also it was quite short, but it’s an example level, who cares?

Overall: 8.5/10
This is a beautiful level – the pipes and stuff are very well done, and the stars are a nice idea. This had great potential, but I found it quite hard to use with some tiles hidden or not there. Download recommendation? Yes. It’s a good tileset, but use it if you fancy a challenge![This review has been edited by Shen]

Review by Spear XD

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
9.5

Hello , this is a very good tileset !!!! You must this download!!!!

=download= =this= =NOW= =!!!!!=

spear XD

(Rating removal due to lack of detail and sense. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
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Review by Psycho_Man_333

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
8

although it is a good tileset, it is a difficult one to make a good level.

(Interesting. Several people have been disagreeing with you. Could you expand on why you think this, and maybe talk about the rest of the tileset some as well? Rating removal. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
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Review by MoonBlazE

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Swamps of The Sleeping Jaguar
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
10

This is my most favorite set.
Enough with being plenty usefriendly and only mising a few tiles, the quality is much better than Epic’s own, unique, and simply unbeliveable. Even here, Agama amazed us with whole 3 versions of the tileset. A must download, and my 10 goes to this.[This review has been edited by Moonblaze]

Review by MoonBlazE

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
9

For saying it honestly, a Sirius is absolutely on my top10 tileset list, its very cool, and it’s userfriendly.
Well done indeed.

Review by MoonBlazE

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
9

If anyone didn’t saw it really, I miss a suckertube, exit and text sign, spikes, so even its great, its still mising stuff.

Review by DanYjel

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Night World
Level rating: 8.7
Rating
9

+Quality like original levels.
+Fun.
+Fun.
-Secret are not secret. (In level 2: Coin teleport isn’t needs for “secret” area. Or level 5. And that is not only in Lvl2)
+Lot of new ideas
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Level 1: Night world
Layers&Eyecandy: 95 %
Gameplay: 90 %
Level design: 85 %
Event placement: 85 %
Bugs: 90 %
Originallity: 85 %
Size: 75 %
Difficulty: Medium
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87 %
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Level 2: Jungle Party
Layers&Eyecandy: 90 %
Gameplay: 92 %
Level design: 90 %
Event placement: 90 %
Bugs: 80 %
Originallity: 80 %
Size: 80 %
Difficulty: Medium
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86 %
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Level 3: Carrot Lane
Layers&Eyecandy: 85 %
Gameplay: 85 %
Level design: 80 %
Event placement: 90 %
Bugs: 70 %
Originallity: 85 %
Size: 85 %
Difficulty: Medium
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83 %
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Level 4: Here lives Jack
Layers&Eyecandy: 90 %
Gameplay: 95 %
Level design: 95 %
Event placement: 90 %
Bugs: 90 %
Originallity: 85 %
Size: 85 %
Difficulty: Medium
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90 %
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Level 5: Chemical X
Layers&Eyecandy: 85 %
Gameplay: 90 %
Level design: 95 %
Event placement: 95 %
Bugs: 85 %
Originallity: 90 %
Size: 75 %
Difficulty: Medium
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89 %
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Level 6: Medieval Rabbit
Layers&Eyecandy: 85 %
Gameplay: 90 %
Level design: 90 %
Event placement: 95 %
Bugs: 65 %
Originallity: 85 %
Size: 75 %
Difficulty: Medium
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84 %
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Level 7: Back at Carrotus
Layers&Eyecandy: 85 %
Gameplay: 80 %
Level design: 80 %
Event placement: 85 %
Bugs: 75 %
Originallity: 80 %
Size: 75 %
Difficulty: Medium
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80 %
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OVERALL:
8.5

+ Awesome music >>> + 0.5
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9.0
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D/L recommended[This review has been edited by Danyjel][This review has been edited by Danyjel]

Review by Bill Gates

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Swamps of The Sleeping Jaguar
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
N/A

File has 1010 binar points.

(Oh. Rating removal. Original rating 10. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Review by MadRabb

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
10

Great job!
I know this is late, but I don’t usually d/l meaning I don’t usually rate. This is myfirst time rating, and I thought though it had a lot of them…it deserved another 10. It’s my favorite tileset :)
~Maddie

(All very sweet and irrelevant. I can’t be too hard on you if this is your first review, but please try to go into more detail while reviewing. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
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Review by DanYjel

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Swamps of The Sleeping Jaguar
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
10

This is tileset [TOP QUALITY] Download this everybody!!!

Easy to use: 85 % (very good, but trees are horrible)
Animations: 85 % (jaguar is nice)
Colors: 95 % (quality of Agama)
Size: 90 %
Mask: 90 %
Layers: 95 %
Bugs: 90 %
Work: 90 %
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91 %
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+ Version: 1.23 >>> + 0.5
+ This is my second favoritest tileset >>> + 0.2
+ Three tilsets >>> + 0.5
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103 % >>> 10.3, Eh >>> 10.0
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D/L recommended. |TOP 5|[This review has been edited by Danyjel][This review has been edited by Danyjel]

RecommendedReview by DanYjel

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago (edited 4 Feb 06, 08:40 by Danyjel)
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
10

great set, it’s easier to work with it than with Agama’s others, imho. Fantastic, great, awesome remake, you’ll never get something as this again.

Review by Blackraptor

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
10

What is your secret? This tileset, I am not worthy of it. Its great for creating any tipes of levels!

Not only that, but it is SO userfriendly, when u get used to it that is. The eyecandy can be great, not as good as the eyecandy in other levels, but great. The color is also great, it seriously rocks. Yes it misses somethings, but it still is great. Not as low as an 8, but a 9.9, again rounded to a 10. Yes people, a 10, go sue me now.

If you are still reading, here comes the boring part:
You can make very good levels with this, with an indoor and outdoor layout. It also has keys and switches of different color suitable for making trigger zones. Not only that, but its one of the most userfriendliest tilesets agama has to offer. It has good ground eyecandy, and you can make a cave with this tileset if you are good at using it. The holy rabbits look so cool, wiht that special light around them. It has cool inscriptions and pictures, as well as foregroudn and backround eyecandy clouds. Definetly one of the better tilesets and in the top 10 for me. Oh, and it also has animating glowing bones, and doors which you can make open and close. The fountain looks kinda cool, you can hide stuff with it. My conclusion, a great userfriendly colorful tileset made by agama. Although great to use, it is not agama’s best. Still worth a big download reccomedation and the low 10 points im giving it.[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Review by Hamtaro

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Egypt
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
10

This is a good tile set! Download it NOW!

Review by Blackraptor

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
9

Well, Its a great tileset with many many uses. Nice colour.

The colors look AWESOME. The eyecandy, is one of the best in tilesets ive ever seen. There are very few missing tiles, but i can go with that. Some nifty animations are in, and cool design. Its userfriendly ok, not to hard, not to easy. You can make some seriously great levels with this. There are even 3 versions of this, so you have a small variety to choose from. This is one of the best tilesets on j20, and should get a high rating.[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Next, my long review:
EYECANDY: There are lots of eyecandy tiles here, even though it doesnt look mych like it at first. The dark diamond tiles and the glowing blue tiles can be used as eyecandy, as well as many others. There is a good and cool backround in all of them, i was exceptionally fond of the blue backround, it looked very textured and neat. Also, there are some good ol’ tubes for layer 3, and some yellow sparkles? for eyecandy (could be used as eyecandy) There are also transparent green stuff coming out of the ground which looks like a tunnel that can be used as layer 3 (note, make the green stuff transparent for tunnel, but its not transparent automatically) So the eyecandy can be good with this, although not the best, still very good.
MAIN TILES: I was kind of missing the destruct blocks, but there are some cool sucker tubes in all of them. There were also some nice looking poles, and an exit sign (the white flag which you can make animate), but its still missing some.

ANIMATIONS: Some excellent animations here, there are lots, so far, i think these tilesets arein the top 10 of having the most animations. Some small animations include the purple fizz in the walls and the blue moving stuff in the horizontal tubes, as well as the moving disks (or platforms, whatever you call them) which are like elevators. There are wires for destruction, and waterfalls and rivers of green water (or slime). There are fans included, which do NOT look like the onbes from fanolint, similar, maybe, but not alike. There is an animating flag for the finsih etc. There are also big animations, such as all those blue walls and things, and the tubes’ cages (yes yes, this isnt a big animation, but i forgot to mention it so why not mention it now). There are also many other animations like those electrci things sticking out of the ground and all, so top marks for animations.
USERFRIENDLY: This brings the mark down a bit. It took me a while to get used to the glowing blue walls, but when i did it took me a while to get used to the golden pipes used as eyecandy (i still didnt get used to them). Then what do you now, its time for me to waste 5 days getting used to the golden sparkles. Yes, the xample level helped me get used to all those, but not entirely, i still had loads of trouble along the way. Well, these are very complicated tilesets, all 3 of them, but they are still good, but this brings the mark down loads, like i said before.
COLOR: U think this has color, oh yeah, tons of color. Each of the 3 versions of this have a different color palette, silver gold and bronze, all of them very colorful. There are glowing colorful walls, colorful sparkles, and tubes as well as colorful animations and a colorful backround and a colorful everything. The color here is great, and revives the mark by a lot.

OTHER COMMENTS: Definately in my top ten, this tileset, in my opinion, has a futuristic theme, which is kinda cool, but a bit common. Sirius, one of the best tilesets on j20 is made by agama, one of the best tileset makers on j20. Althought this is the worst tileset agama uploaded, it still gets a 9! Download this or youll be missing out on a lot, for these tilesets can make excellent and well rated levels, once you get used to the tilesets though. Download this for sure, you wont want to miss out on something like this![This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Review by Blackraptor

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Swamps of The Sleeping Jaguar
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
10

This is most likely my favorite tileset, i cant say for sure, but probably is. It has even more eyecandy than sirius, and even more colors. Just when i though the colors of sirius were unbeatable, i was wrong. The jaguar animations rock, and like moonblaze said, you can make lots of eyecandy with leaves in this. Although while doing that, i found out that some leaves have small bugs with them, and the backround trees are hard to manage. The trees rock, you can make wonderful things with them. If you’re having trouble using this tileset, download “The episode” by blade and willie which shows one of the best ways to use this set. Although it gets a 9.8 (rounded to 9.7) it still is probably the best tileset on j20. Not only that, but agama made 3 versions of this in evening, night and day!!!What more can you expect, my 9.8 has turned into a 9.999 rounded to a 10. Not a perfect 10, but very close indeed.[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Review by Blackraptor

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Night World
Level rating: 8.7
Rating
9.2

A good batch of levels. I rememeber my first level had like 40 errors in it. Keep at it Agama

Review by Blackraptor

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Egypt
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
9.7

This tileset is the best! 10x better than anything I can do! Its a bit difficult to use at times. I like the heaven tileset better, but this one is one of the best tilesets on j2o

The backround is one of the best non warp backrounds ive ever seen. The eyecandy and tiles rock, you can make many different locations here including a tomb, a crypt, a town and a desert. Although it is probably one of the hardest tilesets to use on j20, it can comeout really sweet when a good level is made with this. There are some cool tiles, like the rabbit statues and the pictures on the walls, but alas, it has to much tiles and animations, that it almost exceeds the limit therefore making you cut back on the amount of animations yoou can use. Some tiles are missing, but this definately looks just liek egypt. There are two versions, nigt and day, each unique in its own way. Just like all the other agama tilesets, its probably in my top ten of tilesets, but i just dont like it as much as swamps of the sleeping jaguar or heaven.[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Review by RSPSS FR

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Heaven v.1.1
Level rating: 9.6
Rating
9.7

UHHH…. Drools I am not worthy of this tileset! Very good, Agama, god of (good-looking) tilesets!

(This review is not worthy of this tileset either. Look, here comes a decent review! Go read it and learn. Oh, and this rating got removed. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
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Review by DevilAngel

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Sirius
Level rating: 9.1
Rating
10

This is an cool tileset too

Review by DevilAngel

Posted:
Posted more than 21 years ago
For: Egypt
Level rating: 9.5
Rating
10

Cool tileset…I wish I could make such good tilesets

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