Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Blade has never uploaded here a totally ugly tileset and as I can see he progresses in tile creation. Background tiles are brilliant, cool cartoonlike landscape that needs no drastical improvement. But tiles for foreground and sprite layer are still a bit monotonous one coloured, I’d like to see some pattern and shading on the walls. It is possible to do and there are good examples in some tilesets uploaded to this site. 8 points is my final rating – read it as: good but needs some serious improvements to be perfect.

That is really good levelpack. As a first impression I didn’t like Spaz to be the only playable character, but on second thought there are many packs playable only by Jazz. Leveldesign is really great – many triggers, teleporters all levelspace is pretty well used. Dividing it into chapters is fun idea it gives the taste of storyline but it’s not as boring as in many other episodes, we’re not sentenced to watch long intros with slowly flowing text.
Eyecandy is perfect even colums in the foreground in first levels didn’t annoy me and the tileset usage couldn’t be much better.
Playability – it’s the strongest part of this pack. Challenging levels with strategically placed enemies and items made me to think and plan before rushing forward.
Putting levels into separate subfolder is great idea, thanks to this, levelpack didn’t mess my main jazz2 folder too much I wish other leveldesigners did the same thing.
A tileset is missing for 3-1 level so I cannot rate this levelpack. Fix the problems and I will gladly rate this pack to 9.0 with recommendation.

Well designed levels, quite enjoyable and a bit challenging, but way too short, exit is found where one would expect it’s just the beginning. Using short intro music in first level and Lizard room where you may stuck are bad ideas either. 7 points is fair enough.

I’m giving you low rating. Why? Because you’re very annoying person – you’re insulting players in your comments (see above and the readme file). Releasing a levelpack doesn’t make you a god. It wouldn’t be bad if I’d enjoyed this pack a bit, but I didn’t – it’s not about difficulty it’s about: I’m not going to dance how you play me… sorry. Whole levelpack is not as hard as … just boring, especially because there was no gameplay flow and I had to find something hidden too much times. Putting the action on the desert probably made it easier to not care too much about eyecandiness.
In case you are stupid or just suck: the rating would be higher if your attitude was different, but not much since I didn’t enjoy playing these levels. And it was an insult for me that I couldn’t play for long with Lori character.

[Unsupported rating removal (5.0). You’ve given invalid reasons for your rating. Please only take into consideration the quality of the download when rating, not your dislike of the author. – FQuist]

Ladies and Gents. Here it is, another XMas pack, only 3 levels, but … WHAT FUN! It is sooo playable so enjoyable and looks great too. This pack is rather underrated, but I see it is quite normal here that good packs has lower ratings than worthless and boring.
What’s inside levels? Of course they are finely designed: a lot of springflying, treetops jumping, baddies shooting. Yep, it’s all right there and the filesize is only 30kB big, because it only uses original game resources. Yes, I’d like more levels or bigger levels, I’d like to hear music in XMas Night level. That’s why it gets 9.7 not 10 out of 10.
Highly recommended.

No, do not cancel this project, just fix some levels add two more and we would have another excellent episode.
What to fix?
First level is perfect, second level has bad tileset maybe it could be improved.
I didn’t like the rain on 3rd level and there was only one place that made Lori character impossible to play: maze puzzle though it could be fixed by adding a skateboard.
Fourth level pretty challenging and really good, I even play this one with Lori and I must say it was fun. I only hated the background.
So overall that would be great episode if you hadn’t cancelled it and fix some issues. But now we have good four levels to play that are worth 8 points. At least try to make some update to these: change the speed of background in levels 2 and 4 also add a skateboard at the maze and I’ll surely rate it higher 1 whole point.

Do not finish it have mercy for players, yuck. :P

This is not cartoonish, it’s some pix of antitalented child put to tileset. Ungliness and sillyness at its best.
(Unsupported rating (1) removal, wide attack removal. Try to go into more detail and don’t be quite so negative, okay? ~Violet)

No this can’t be – another worthless piece of file with HIGH RATING. This episode is the worst thing I’ve ever seen or play (not for long I must admit) the graphic is just stupid, do not make anymore tilesets for Jazz go play with your crayons :P Yuck yuck yuck, it just disgusts me. (See more about it in tileset review)
Music in the first level is as stupid as the graphics are.
Leveldesign as far as I was able to bear to see was hopeless – far below average. Do not touch JCS again and when you do don’t upload effects here. I don’t know what talents you’ve got but tileset and level creating are your anti-talents for sure.
Now I must search through whole my download and delete everything ‘made by satan’. Another such shock would kill me.
Oh and the last thing: change the name of this episode to Silly Childish Episode and look at some cartoons (or original Jazz graphics) to know what does cartoon means.

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and here’s my answer to da man’s comment:

I’m expanding rating list and what do I see: aahh -> ‘1’ (it is right there believe me). Now, let’s say I find some episode “no fun at all”, should I:
a) rate it 1.0 because that’s my opinion about this pack
b) rate it higher just because other players do so ?
In service Jazz 2 Online we have democratic way of posting reviews and rating uploaded files. Some may like it others may not, but only administration of this site decides about it. What’s that democratic system then – it means: majority decides, but minority preserves its rights to have different point of view.
As you all can see: majority of high ratings gives current file a high overall rating even though I rated it lowest possible way. Well, 7.5 is still very high rating …
There is another system which is not practiced on this website and it is called totalitarism. It’s when all people must act the same even when some think other way. In that case I had to choose option ‘b’.
I know satan has made an effort and spent some of his free time to make this pack. But I’m not here to rate how much work he did but how good is the effect. Surprisingly I do not see any comments from authors of levels that i’m reviewing. Why do other play a role of their advocates is not my problem. Being a new person on this site doesn’t make me any worse than people who are here longer (well, at least I do not see it in “The rules”) very often a new point of view is something positive.
I apologize all offended (if there are any) authors for my reviews, but honesty is what I appreciate most.
P.S. User Snooz must try harder to offend me in reviews area or PMs. Silly insults only make me laugh ;)

Average levelpack. Many issues and bugs were already pointed out in other reviews. But I also have my own cons: don’t say anything about music in readme when there’s NO music at all in the zip-file. No, I’m not going to download mods especially for your pack, you didn’t includ’em = there’s no music. You always could use one of the original tracks.
Some of the tilesets you’ve used are good others are not – especially 3rd level, but that was your choice.
Covering some area with leaves on 2nd is really annoying – well, I know it’s for increasing difficulty, but that’s cheap method, couldn’t you do better?
I’m stuck on last level and can’t find the way to trigger crate – that’s bad. I know puzzles are nice and everything, but if I want a puzzle I play a puzzle game which JJ2 is not. The gameplay should flow rather continously but it doesn’t. Puzzles in JJ2 are usually based on finding secrets in walls and not on logic thinking and I hate spending my time on hitting every wall I see.
And last but not least – why do I see all levels on my homecooked list when it’s levelset/episode. There should be only the first one, I was quite confused – which level should I start with.
The only pro is that you can play with Lori. But my overall rating is averge unless some things in this pack are improved in upgraded version.

I had not much fun playing this pack. Good there were just 2 levels, nice tileset though, but the background should be less eyetwisting. I wonder why you didn’t use blocks to build something good looking in the background. And when the player finds secret passage, he shouldn’t have problems with getting out. There were more irritating details in leveldesign, sometimes passages were too small, sometimes spaces too huge and empty. A bit over average: 6 points.

I enjoyed playing this pack much and that’s important. Big levels, great eyecandy … if someone likes original episodes should try this one. Pack uses only original tileset and music, probably that’s why Bjossi concentrated on leveldesign. It isn’t perfect but near perfection and since many worse levelpacks have better ratings I give 9.5. This pack really deserves it.

A bit over average pack… the lack of variety in levels is quite painful in long terms – you get bored far too early. Eyecandy pretty average too, using good tileset like heaven is not enough – important thing is also how to use it. Another pack with missing tilesets – bonus level made my JJ2 to quit. This bug lowers the overall rating because it happens in the middle of the game.

It might be good levelpack but graphics just ruined a lot of things. It should be rather called MEH (My Eyes Hurt) Levelpack and my eyes did hurt after playing level with fog, underwater level and dark castle level. This graphic was so annoying that I used jjnext few times. Since leveldesign is well but eyecandy is horrible it makes the whole thing pretty average – so 5.5 is my final rating.

OK, here’s my few words about this package, since Agama is real guru in making tilesets and I hope that users high ratings are big encouragement for Agama to create more masterpieces. Of course it gets 10 and recomandation and now some words about this tileset. It was made on a base of original beach tileset – good to know, because I see no similarities (maybe a bit in a colour palette) this rather looks like made from scratch because every element, every tile is changed. Imagine a scenery for JJ2 on which you see a swamp with tall trees with rather dark brown and green colors and beautiful background. Now open your eyes and look at sample level of swamp tileset… and teach your imagination to create such amazing images.
P.S. still few Agama’s tileset’s to see, I’m sure I won’t be dissapointed.

Yes, it’s Agama’s tileset and yes, it is great. Although I don’t quite like some elements like black holes among bricks, and the river in the background is takin’ player attention (at least my attention) but it’s still a masterpiece. Look at those pictures on the walls, one word – genius. Hard to compare it to other Agama’s works, it’s quite similar in style, just different scenery. One thing is certain these tilesets are real jewels in j2o downloads and it would be a crime if I’d rate it lower than 10.
P.S. Filesize is quite big, but trust me – it’s worth waiting!

I really like these tiles… they’re neat and preserve the cartoonish style of whole game. Now, that work deserve really high rating beacuse this stuff fits well to original tilesets. Level designers: use Heaven and your levels will just look great. That’s how good tileset should look like, so… maximum rating and recomended for download :)

Quite playable and enjoyable levelpack… some ideas originally implemented other not, eyecandy below average – it’s not just because of poor quality tilesets, even on levels with better tiles there are too small repetitive patterns and lack of details. There are even more cons – like too narrow passages making levels buggy. But the most important bug is that some files are probably missing making the game to quit with fatal error… and there’s no readme file. I can’t give more than 6.5

I can’t believe this levelpack is so underrated it is MUCH MUCH better than many high rated so called episodes. It totally beats original XMas Chronicles it is about as long as Secret Files, but although there’s only one tileset these levels aren’t monotonous <- this has such serious impact on playability.
Wille you know what tiles are for and you know where to place enemies. I like the way you use levelspace, steges were almost like mazes but ones that you won’t get stuck for long. The game just flawed sucking the player for a looong time. I agree with the rest of reviewers this pack is SUPERB, but I’m surprised with all those rather low ratings.
Eyecandy – marvelous
Leveldesign – perfect and I found no bugs
Playability at the top
You get 10 and you really deserve it, two thumbs up and … I WANT MORE LEVELS made by you. :)

Great episode, good leveldesign, even with the “bug” in ending the eyecandy is fine. I like the idea of using darker tileset instead of darkening the whole castle. I really hope this is not your “last word” ;)