Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

OMG. YOU JUST SEEM TO BE UPLOADING A TILESET OF MINE, WHILE IT IS IN BETA VERSION PLUS IT ISNT RELEASED PLUS YOU HAVENT ASKED FOR IT?

Kindly asking to either remove the tileset from the pack, or the pack from the site.

Oh yeah, you forgot the credits.

EDIT: Castube has been released. Please update v0.10.4 to v1.0.3 and add at least one credit tile.

I’ve heard a lot of Super Mario but never actually played it myself. So I don’t whether this pack has eyecandy like the origional or has almost the same gameplay. I’ll rate anyway:

INTRO:
Is just a basic intro level. You walk for a few seconds then bump into some characters and a text screen. The end is hiding in some tubes you walk into after. There is a secret full of items in the intro level to make in fun-ish. But those are the only items in the level.
RATING: 6.8

UNDERGROUND:
This level was a lot longer than any of the other levels in this pack. There was origional gameplay in this level but some ideas were pointless. There were coins you couldn’t pick up and some crates were positioned when you could have done with them earlier. There was eyecandy bugs in some places and there wasn’t really much to explore. You just stuck to a main path for most of the time. The level was also easy. There were extra lives in places too close to the main path that were not guarded in any way. The level takes you to an underground castle.
RATING: 6.4

CASTLE LEVEL:
Is very small and has very few items again. There is a huge gap between the amount of items and the amount of enemies. The level ends with a boss….a very easy one. All you do is jump over the boss and walk over to a switch. That opens a door which ends the pack.
RATING: 4.4

AVERAGE RATING: 5.9

BONUSSES:

MUSIC:
The origional Mushromm Kingdom music and Castle music used in Mario (I think) And a file i’m not sure where it came from. +0.2

TILESETS:
Mario conversions. One of them is good and that is the mushroom kingdom. +0.1

BONUS: 0.3
FINAL RATING: 6.2
RANK: 6 OK
DOWNLOAD: N/A (Yes requires 7)
FINAl COMMENT:
A reasonable Mario episode. Could have been longer.

It was a long time since i played a super mario-level. Here’s my review:

Introlevel:
Just an ordinary intro level, you walk a little bit and then you get to a castle and read a textstring. The Eyecandy was good, its looks very uch like Super Mario :p. There is a secret place were you can find a toaster powerup and a LOT of toaster ammo. I think its a little too much, it would have been better if it just wasa the ammo or the powerup. The story is quite fun because you help bowser.

Level 2:
This was a really big level and it took quite much time to finnish. The enemies are used good, especially the bats in some places.
The Eyecandy was quite good, the background was just black and that was a little boring. The first thing I notised was the coins. They fit quite good to the rest of the eyecandy but you overused them a bit.
The level was quite hard and thats good because I like hard levels.

Level 3:
Just a small level with some enemies which ends up with a bossfight. I think the boss (devan) is too easy because all you have to do is to push a button and then you win.

Final rating: 7

Well, this is a Mario-style episode. It hasn’t got ratings so I’m going to rate it.

EYECANDY
Good, nothing special. Animations are standard Mario animations. The ground in the Intro level is pretty annoying, because there are too much blocks and they are all cracked and brown. I also hate the coins. Why haven’t you made JJ2 coins? :-D

ENEMIES
What are Suckers doing in the castle? And why are there monkeys? Enemies are annoying, for example Rapiers in the last level. The boss is Devil Devan, too hard I think. The episode ends just like Mario, the princess says ‘Thank you for rescuing me’.

TILESET
Where the heck did you get the tilesets? You used them good, except the ground in Intro.

DIFFICULTY
Hard. I even had to cheat – because of the lava. The three pipes (red, green and blue) are stupid, because of the ‘hurt room’.

Final rating: 6.5
Download recommendation: If you like Mario and challenging levels.

These tile layouts are not your levels but as usual I will rate.

BATTLE 1:
There is such a thing as too many shields. A better version of battles would be to have better eyecandy and more gameplay (Springs, places to get to ect.) not fill the level with bonuses. Rating: 2.0

BATTLE 2:
Same as level one. I only found 1 or 2 new areas. New areas should expand the level but it will seriously damage your rating to cut out new areas and create others from scratch. Rating: 1.5

BATTLE 3:
Same old comment. NOTE: Overusing pinball events do not improve the level and again damages the rating. RATING: 1.7

BONUSSES AND SUBTRACTIONS:
You did not make the layout or backround. -0.2

Overusing ammo. -0.3

TOTAL BONUS/LOSS: -0.5

TOTAL RATING: 1.2

FINAL COMMENT:
Please note that you will recieve bad comments for making origonal levels worse.

Fearofdark

To be honest i found this pack pretty pointless, not to be rude :P.

If your a new level creator, dont get bummed down by this and keep creating, but seriously, what you have done is not original, nearly every jazzjackrabbit 2 player has added to the 3 defalt levels.

What you actually added took away from the gameplay and the eyecandy of these 3 levels – battle 1 has some shields added – this just makes it silly because everyone will just have a shield and be indestructable all the time. You have also put fires in the walls (where they really dont look right).

The sections you added to battle 2 dont do anything other than crap the level up – by putting masses and masses of extra ammo available – which really makes the level look over the top and will damage the gameplay.

Battle 3 is hardly altered, you have changed the destructable blocks into flashing blocks and added some TNT ammo and stuff – it really doesn’t work and i don’t know why you wanted to remake these battle levels, surely everyone has done a similar sort of thing before – but realise, you need to make fresh levels and start looking into real detail about gameplay and eyecandy factors.

I refuse to review this due to the fact that it has exactly the same flaws as the Ice Episode. There is no need to review this again, if the author doesn’t do anything to improve his levels.

With level names like ‘Rocks AND Bombs’
and ‘The great tree’ I’ll have to play this pack to see if my fears are correct: There is a pack worse than the first Iluz land.
EDIT-
I’d like to point out, DX, that some people only have 1.24.

Sorry,low rating! :) This pack is too.. how can i say??.. Well there are no eyecandy, no original ideas. Just shoot some bad guys by passing the areas with wrong backgrounding and find the exit. The levels were filled with bad guys everywhere that makes you cheat while playing.
So, the author has to pay attention to this.
I loved the tileset Castube. Good looking and may be usefull sometimes.

However 4.0 from me..

You stole levelnames from me! ;O

…why is it TSF ( 1.24)…

…why does this extract to another folder…

Playability:

Good for a first try, but too less to be enjoyable. Most of the time you simply have to follow a straight line and kill enemies, hunt down a boss at the end and get to the next level. Sometimes there were things like airboards or water, which provided a little change of pace, but even then you just had to kill enemies + endboss. The flying level was an endless row of a tree with a gem crate on it and enemies around, which got so boring that I typed jjnxt. The pickup placement was poor, food was mostly placed in a single row and I just had to use my copter ears to pick it all up and get a sugar rush. The levels were quiet short also. At one point in the second level I fell down and found myself in a pit full of dragons. After I killed them all, I found arrows pointing up the wall but no way to get up, so I had to cheat to get up again. Overall poor gameplay, needs work.

Balance:

Very easy except for the fly level, which was impossible to beat. Enemies were not placed strategically at all, instead the author massed enemies to make it difficult, which failed. Bosses alone are very easy to beat also.

Creativity:

Some good ideas, but poorly executed. An airboard level is not a bad idea, but copying a tree with crate and a few enemies 500 times is one. In one level you have to fight Bolly under water, but he doesn’t seem to move out of his small arena, so it was easy to kill him with TNT. All levels follow the same pattern, kill enemies and pick up food, then destroy a boss in a boring arena.

Eyecandy:

Bad eyecandy. Nothing more than neccessary was done, which looks very dull. Some nasty tilebugs aswell.

Fun Factor:

There wasn’t really anything like a story, so I have to rate fun facor, which unfortunately, turns out not so well for the above stated reasons. A few puzzles, better eyecandy and event placement would have made this better.

Overall:

A good first attempt at making a level (I’ve seen worse), but not really good. Try to make your levels more balanced and to give them some sense: killing a hundred turtles for no reason is not the most thrilling experience.

Yup, that was a real challenge for me (FOR MY EYES)
These lvls are… not bad (ugh)
But that was your first lvls… So GJ ;-)
Im happy because new players makes a map :)

Cold Water
Interesting map…
The best thing was…
A FIGHT WITH A BOSS IN WATER!
Eyecandy It’s bad… but that’s your first lvls :)
Music I like the music :O

Icy Land
Uhm… don’t you think this is stupid?
Lot’s of monsters and only one (boooring) way to boss
Eyecandy Still bad… ;(
Music Next good music in the lvl =)

Fly Night Airboard… hmm… good idea… but, it’s hard and SO MUCH MONSTERS MAN!
Eyecandy …bad…
Music moody music :)))

Cold Night One question, YELLOW SNOW?!?!?:P
Eyecandy I see dark, it’s do dark! WHOAH! MOMMY!;(
Music Again the moody music ;)

On the house Don’t you think it’s so booring? Long way to destroy queen?:(
Eyecandy DAAAAAAARK!!
Music M00DY

Present So short and very amazing lvl, huh?
Eyecandy N/C
Music Same :P

The frog hunt I think the best (and the most fun) your lvl, The frog was a good idea, but, IT’S SOOO HARD :)
Eyecandy …N/c ;(…
Music Good.

Survivor Monkey, Monkey, Do you like banana?
Eyecandy YOUR THE BEST EYECANDY, But so much eyes man ;P
Music Jungle Music, very moody :P

Xmas House Why Xmas? It’s tremendous
lvl :O SO MUCH ENEMIES
Eyecandy Still DAAAAAARK!!
Music So amazing for this lvl o_o

The Last Lvl A tractable lvl :P
Eyecandy Still bad
Music Good for bail out :P

Rating : 2
Why? Because this lvl was created so fast, eyecandy was bad (DAAARK OMG NO!)
Only music was good, Mr. Wolf, you must do one’s best ;))

Download recommendation : N/A
(Because that was a first Mr. Wolf’s lvls ;))

I write it so fast too (ENGLISH – OMG) But it was like Mr. Wolf :O