Jazz Paradise 1.23 (Lite)

  • Rating: 7.6

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    Stijn 16 Sep 2005, 18:07

    7Not recommended:

    This thing is hideously overrated. The most important tiles, the ones which form the platforms you’ll probably walk on, look like some quick 10 second Paint job. They come in two flavours: tiles with an ugly funky multicoloured stone texture and tiles with some strange red and yellow texture. Both offer very little variationa and will look horrible when used to create big structures.

    The eyecandy tiles generally look a little better. Some of them are even shaded (I like the Roman-style collumns), and offer sufficient possiblities to make your level look better. Too bad some of it has that same 10-second-point-job look as the platform tiles, because your level simply doesn’t look good when half of it has been made with shaded decent-looking tiles and the other half was made with tiles that look like they were copied from a first-generation set. When it looks good, it’s not always usable: too many of those funny balloons, for example, make your level look very repetitive.

    On the contrary, the layer 6/7 eyecandy looks pretty good. There’s a mountain scene with tower castles showing behind it, and a simple 3D water scene, which does its job. You can easily make a level look like if it’s situated in a lake surrounded by castles and mountains, or something. There are some original fireworks animations to place above the castles, too.

    Apart from the basic platform and eyecandy tiles, this tileset contains a lot of text. The quality of those tiles matches the eyecandy’s: it varies. Some text is shaded and looks good, some text looks like unedited cursive Arial, and like one third of it can only be used to say you’re a JSZ member or the tileset was created by a JSZ member or whatever.

    I normally don’t care about the “event compatibility” other reviewers seem to value highly, but I think this tileset receives some extra attention for it ;). All palette-specific events seem to work, and there are even tiles to place those poles on. All destruct scenery is there too: even the ice blocks. The belts are animated and look pretty good, though they don’t really fit in with the platforms because those are 2D and the belts are semi-isometric-3D.

    If I understood correctly, this set uses 920 tiles instead of 1020 because it would contain so much animations. And indeed it does. However, those have the same problem as almost all other types of tiles: some look bad, some look good. The spinning plates with the Jackabbrit family’s heads on it look quirky, but the fireworks look decent. Overall, it’s nothing special and some of the animations could well have been left out in favour of some more useful tiles.

    So, this tileset is not as good as you may conclude out of Avarte’s review. It has a lot of tiles, sure, and some look pretty good, but there are too many badly-looking or not really useful tiles in the tileset and the platforms, as I said the most important part of your level, look horrible. However, where this set misses out on platform element completeness it compensates with its massive amount of event-specific tiles (tubes, blocks and the rest). I wouldn’t recommend downloading it, though: I don’t think anyone would use this for a level while there are so many betetr sets out there. If you really insist on giving your level a “casino”-look, use Chiyu’s set.

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    Avarte 14 Sep 2005, 12:43

    9

    This tileset are wonderful! Many of colors, atractions and eye candy. In Addition to this, it looks realy cool. However, it can by beter, because background and rest of are not good and many of tiles looks like from paint :P

    This is a short review. It has less impact on the upload's score.

    DanYjel 28 Aug 2005, 18:04

    WOW you used my music! ;p And only because of this I realized how terrible stereo it has ;) Plus I reuploaded it in version 2 some time ago ;).

    Good tileset, easy to do, with some interesting ideas.

    Sonyk 29 Aug 2005, 01:54

    I always liked those casino levels from Sonic. And, I like this tileset because of that. It’s a shame that you had to take out so much from the original though.

    Remake ice mountain zone next plz.

    NovaStar 6 Sep 2005, 05:12 (edited 16 Sep 05, 17:38 by Fquist)

    I can’t get it to work, how do you install these files?
    (ADMIN RESPONSE: You do not install them. Extract the files into the same folder as Jazz2.exe. The tileset will be available in the list of tilesets in JCS, and you will be able to play the level through various ways. ~Violet)

    Eh, I knew you didn’t install them.
    looks around What?! I’m being honest!
    Here’s the review:

    I noticed something.
    When you get the red flag and go to the blue base, it says LOSER.

    When I played, You were stuck in the top, so I custom added the starting position.

    I like the music and it\‘s fun!

    Imagine if you made a Lori level with the Lori stuff, it would be….very..um…yellow.

    Nice job, Download Recommendation but be prepared to custom add your starting point near the \‘Welcome\’ sign.

    Music-1.5/2
    Gameplay-1/2
    Tileset-2/2
    Animations-2/2 – I like the firework circles lots.
    Bonus Points- 1 – Music + Tileset = This Level. What I\‘m saying is, the music and tiles go together.

    Overall- 7.5.
    Actually, I like it, +1 lol. But I meant that.
    Overall+LikeIt Point= 8.5
    Download Recommendation? Yes.

    EDITED BY SHADOWRABBIT 9/9/05 (How coincedental)

    Just now I realised. +1 for the FANTASTIC eyecandy. It’s everywhere, and I love it. That makes it 9.5. Well done!

    [Unsupported rating removal. You reviewed the level in the pack, while this is a tileset upload. Please review the tileset instead. – FQuist]

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    n00b 8 Sep 2005, 23:34

    Shadow rabbit: Thats a CTF level, you need to play it in CTF mode for it to work(Capture the flag ot CTF is in Party Mode.)