Not recommendedReview by n00b

Posted:
7 Aug 2005, 19:34
For: Lost in other worlds(fixed)
Level rating: 2.5
Rating
1.8

Iluz knows that Iluz land was too large for it’s own good, so then he/she(I don’t know) creates a new pack that feels the same, but smaller. And it’s every bit as good as Iluz Land, and maybe even better. A sentence which here means ‘Still below a 5’
Let’s start off with Mission Metroid. Ok, there are plenty of sprite sites around. A quick tileset is all what was needed(seriously). Instead we have Blade’s tileset for Space stuff. It’s a good tileset, but for Metroid? Ah-no.The Music is even worse. It’s some generic 70s techno mixed with people laughing. The Music has a horrendously Un-metroid feel. Oh, and in pure Iluz fashion you collect lots of gems. To destroy the motherbrain(Which is just a bunch of computers) you collect some TNT. Beat some badly placed enemies and move on. To where? To Devan. Who apparently has decided to stop you with THE SUPER BOT!(Fear it.) The Superbot is an easy boss. Give it some advantage, people. Placing it in a small flat area with Devan watching ovehead is giving me the advantage. Anyways beat it and Devan says: “Impossible I lose.” Hopefully you like Engrish for our next level is..
LOTS OF BOSSES! WHich starts of giving you tons of fastfires(in pure Tons of Bosses level fasion) and some NPCs spouting out engrish Star wars phrases. Next comes a bunch of bosses. But all I got to was Devan, an unused Super bot(You need a different devan for that to work. I know. Shocker), Bolly, and Bubba. My shots hurt Bubba so I decided to focus my time on him. And when I beat him I get the message of “Lori:Lot’s of bosses”
The next level seems to be done by someone else because it’s worse than usual and it starts with “Welcome to my level” but eventually it feels like Iluz made it because you collect crap for no reason. Then fight 5 bosses in one arena or something. i wasn’t in the mood to fight umpteen bosses on an airboard flying near 90 too many hurt events being chased by uterus. So Iskipped it. The next level has a bad placement of tiles(A masked erm, I’m not in the mood I’ll get a pic up maybe) so I had cheat to get past that. Then theres tons of lizards, a big fall, more float lizards and a fight with 1(WHAT? ONE? What happened to 5 Shmijillion?)bilsy.
The Eyecandy is once again too plain, and everything past the first level is too lame.
If this was just the first level you would recieve a 3, maybe a 4. I liked that level to some extent, but everything else is horrible, bringing the score to 1.8.
Steer clear of this pack. If you are just craving for the SP munchies, just go play TDI,TR,FSP, and other more memeroble packs all over again.

Review by n00b

Posted:
4 Aug 2005, 16:54
For: Gameworld(fixed)
Level rating: N/A
Rating
N/A

This level does not seem to be finished so I will not review it, nice premise and the Mario level made me laugh. Puke Nukem is just that though: Puke.

Not recommendedReview by n00b

Posted:
11 Jul 2005, 19:18 (edited 26 Sep 06, 13:49 by Cooba)
For: Madness
Level rating: 1
Rating
1

True Madness? Not even. True madnes is when you’re snowboarding down a mountain in your EXTREEEME Loonatic underwear being chased by 3 pirates to get to… Right, anyways what Iluz has made is a normal test like level, which is enough to bore you to death, but like Kramer did with the blue flower stuff in Batman Begins, Iluz has weaponized an otherwise rather harmless level. Not even Low Detail will save you from this, oh and near the end when Jazz is trapped in the pit of doom, don’t fly you’re way out wait a bit and get hit by a smoke ring, thats EXTREEEEME!
Right, since the level’s design is linear and puts you in two situations where the objective is “Don’t get hurt!” and one situation where its “Copter ears? Erm… I’m Spaz… But I can doble jump to the end of the pit and then double jump out of it. And Lori can just sidekick her way out.” The only challenge comes from not being swift, and not being distracted. It took me about 4 minutes to have my eyes hurt so I just jjgod’d my way out of the level(I for some reason always wanted to destroy every last being in the pit)
And then you are treated to a sucker tube ending and then you’re done.
You get a .1 because gameplay and level just plain sucked, the eyecandy did more harm then good, and heck I had more fun playing A Sad Beach(You’ve done the impossible since I promised never to mention a Sad Beach ever again so an other .1 for you). In fact a Sad beach is more fun than this.
Download Reccomendation: HECK NO. Unless you want something thats trippy for about 5 seconds(See:Smoke ring part) then I would never hit that Download button. EVER.
To Iluz: the gameplay could be improved if the situations were much harder(For example, have all of the spike balls go fast, and have the bird part be in a smaller area so the enemies have an advantage) and NEVER HAVE THAT HORRIBLE FLASHY TILE THING EVER EVER AGAIN
[Edit- Some inconsistences and a spelling error]

[Adjusted to use 1 as rating. Original rating 0.2. ~Cooba]

Review by PHT

Posted:
11 Jul 2005, 15:41
For: Madness
Level rating: 1
Rating
N/A

This will be a pain for every epileptic, please put in a normal background.

I typed jjq after 20 seconds when my eyes began hurting.

Not recommendedReview by n00b

Posted:
1 Jul 2005, 23:57
For: ilus land
Level rating: 3.3
Rating
3.3

Bleh, what a poorly constructed pack. However, for first levels there are somewhat nice, but to be fair I must rate these as I would any SP level (pack).
Story-NA/10
None. I remember someone saying the Forgotten Gems pack was just a bunch of levels loosely strung together. Quite simply, this pack is the same, only being connected by a ‘Next level’ option in the JCS, and not a weak storyline. From the first few levels you’d guess that Ilus is some random dude who has lots of lands and Jazz/Spaz/Lori must go and stop some turtle infestation.
Eyecandy-5/10
Bare minimum, and some tiles just seem to be tossed in( See: Randomly animated blocks that aren’t there for any real apparent reason in the Tubelectric level)
Gameplay-4/10
Repetive, Repetive, repetive. Fight enemies, collect a HUGE ammount of goodies, enter a coin warp, rinse wash, repeat. However the Easter level was actually pretty fun, bringing this from a 3 to a 4.
Placement-3/10
Enemies in logical, predictable places, too many goodies(I must of gotten 5 sugar rushes at times when I didn’t need them), and sometimes coins seem tossed in just for no reason(Example: the ice level, if there was a working bonus warp, I never found it). However I stopped playing at the beach level(It simply got too boring), so it might have gotten better. Also, some levels have Bosses in rather dull arenas.
Difficulty-1/10
None, it’s so incredibly easy, the only way the levels would pose a challenge is if you can’t hurt anything.
Final Score-3.3/10
Verdict- Not bad for a first level pack, but compared to the average SP level, it is very poor.

Download Reccomendation? No, not yet anyhow. Wait until this person becomes very good or average at level making, then download this to see how far they have come. Otherwise, steer clear of this.
Co-op? No. A second player wouldn’t add much to the expereice.

Review by cooba

Posted:
1 Jul 2005, 18:54
For: ilus land
Level rating: 3.3
Rating
N/A

Why not use the “REUPLOAD” function…

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