Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

The uploading date is far back, but I never came to write a review. I just replayed, so here it shall be.

“Time Tripping – JJ2” is a nice conversion of the game Hocus Pocus made by Apogee. I haven’t played the original, so I can’t rate on that.

No one needs the original though, as Violet did exactly convert the game as accurate as possible. Some may like that, but I don’t. Of course it gets unbalanced if one uses running, stomping, etc., but without running it’s kinda boring. I had put less carrots instead, most of them I really did not need. There were also put sucker tubes to prevent high jumping, which often through me into spikes unfairly, which was annoying. The enemy placement of the original must have sucked, because so it does in this pack. Clumped together enemies on every platform, it’s annoying. There were a lot of places were I got unfairly hurt also, because for example a warp target was put directly above spikes in the last level. That’s not Violet’s fault as he didn’t make the gameplay, but I hate it. I just don’t like that Violet sticked to the original so much, leave a little room for creativity. That doesn’t mean the pack wasn’t creative though, some things were done profesionally. I had never thought off stopping Tuf Bosses from shooting with belts. There are a lot of tricks used to make it as accurate to the original as possible. That, however, often ruins the gameplay and looks just weird. It was not bad, but it could’ve been a lot better and I don’t think it does deserve a 10. On a final note, the music annoyed me to hell.

The pack is a nice and very accurate conversion, but freaking overrated.

If you’re a fan of this kind of gameplay then download, otherwise don’t.

I can really spot the upgrades you have made, so you’ll be rewarded +1.0 to your rating.

EYECANDY: Not bad, you have used the foregroung layers and the backround layers well. 19/25

ITEMS: Some places are empty, but others have some items. You could put in some hidden items. 16/25

GAMEPLAY: Good use of springs. I couldn’t find any warps or coins. But other uses are good. 17/25

SIZE: It’s big, but could be bigger. 19/25

Score = 81/100

Rating (Including the added 1.0) = 9.0

Final Comment: Er……Great Level….

Yo, Tubz/Tublear here. Easy rater, I gotta say this song…

Linkin Park – Points of Authority (DJ JSZ JazZ Remix) is hot! You did a great job, dawg, have a nice 9! Download recommendation haha!

You can’t get a 10 because It’s a remix, sorry.
(Unsupported rating removal. You really did nothing more than say that this is good, twice. Try explaining your rating and giving me a feeling of what the upload is like. ~Violet)

More people can play it if it’s 1.23… though 1.24 makes no real difference.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the 53rd review for this darned overrated pack. Oh well.

What we have here is a 17.5 MB package including 12 levels, ambient soundtracks, 5 3D cutscenes and lots of other stuff which I’m too lazy to mention.

A huge amount of effort has gone into creating this episode, however, that doesn’t make it perfect for me.

The story tells the quest of young Jazz, stranded on an island inhabited by dinosaurs – yes, the story’s stolen from Jurassic Park. However, that didn’t matter for me at all.

The levels are all pretty well designed, some with very original stuff, however way too short and easy. I played through this in around 20 minutes I believe (can’t remember correctly), which is way too short considering what could have been possible. The levels are mostly outdoor areas with lots of evil enemies and a few puzzles scattered about. Those were pretty easy though, could’ve had some more depth. The dino hunt level was cool, but too short and easy again.

Like I said, the difficulty of this episode isn’t very high. The enemies are mostly not strategically placed, the puzzles aren’t that hard to solve, what else? Boosted difficulty had made this a lot more fun.

A good aspect of the pack is that it’s pretty creative. There are some ideas and tricks I’ve never seen before, and the dino hunt was spectacular. The puzzles could’ve been better, but overall very nice.

Eyecandy is so-so. In the outside areas it looks nice, while in the caves it’s dull. The tileset is not the best, which could be the main reason. It’s not bad, but it needs a lot more detail, especially in walls. Level 8 had exactly 10 different tiles I believe. Some tricks are neat though.

The story is told in a nice way through short dialoges of the character, and it’s easily understandable even for someone who didn’t watch the film. Some things don’t really fit in like the ammo, but that doesn’t matter.

Overall this pack is nice, especially for those caring about lots of extra features like cutscenes and makros (that are those little recorded games showing up if you do nothing in the main menu), but the levels were a little dissapointment due to easieness and shortness.

Those are my two cents, agree with it or not.

It’s a decent pack though, and worth the download.

EDIT:

I’ve played with my friend in Coop mode yesterday. It was fun, so I’ll increase the rating a bit. :)

(7.7 -> 8.0)

DX let him decide himself

im not going to rate it. but i do think its neat. who cares if he worked hard on it or not, i had fun playing it.

Stuff Placement: cool

Enemies: this is a multiplayer battle

Eyecandy: real cool

Funness: only in multiplayer

if you are in need of a real good battle level for multiplayer, then this is the level fer you.

my only complaint is that the level is too small. you should totally download this.

Stuff Placement: well, there’s black

Enemies: darkness

Eyecandy: howbout you

Funness: not really

just kind of a usefull level.

download this if you like to take screenshots without the backround.

The fog is incredibly annoying. The music is trash, but the game is sort of fun, It’s a challenge only because of the fog in the first level. It will annoy the hell out of you!

How long has it been that I reviewed something?? Well, lets see…

“Island in the saphire sea”… sounds good to me =P, lets download it.
….downloading left…3.2.1.all downloads are finished.
BEEP BEEP! BAP! KAZOW!

Wow! This tileset is really great! everything is in it, even a treashure chest. How long have you working on this?

The tileset contains enough eyecandy, like treashure chests, caves, spikes, cannons and beautifull background stuff.
When you want to make a nice lvl, I suggest you to use this tileset if you want a nice lvl.

But there are some tilebugs… Too bad… I would give it a nine or something! Also under water, the cannons, cannonballs and even jazz/spaz will turn in strange colours…??

But those 2 things wouldn’t get me off to download this stuff, hear me?? AARGH! I’m the captain of the black peril and next island where we will stop… the Island in th Saphire Sea! WHahaha! AARGH!

Review by Carrotpie

well i think u did a good job on this 1. ur not a BAD lvl maker so a 6 should do it.
(Unsupported rating (6) removal. Try to at least mention the level. ~Violet)

HMMMMMMMM…………………………………………………………………………. this is not a horrible set, it could use some errrrr LOTS more eyecandy. i dont really think u will need an example lvl for this. very small, easy to use ; ) any lvl u might make would be a bit boring. as PHT says, no download reccomendation

I don’t really know how to rate this. I don’t like it much but I like the fact that you can be in the audiance. S0 i’ll just give you a 4.5
(Unsupported rating (4.5) removal. I can’t really get an idea of what you’re talking about or even what the level’s like from reading this review. Try harder. ~Violet)

Please make your levels 1.23

EDIT: MAKE THE LEVELS 1.23

This lvl is quite useful, but also a pointless upload because ppl can easily create screenshot lvls for themselves. It would also help if you added some arrows to tell ppl where to go, or enabled low detail so that ppl can see where they’re going before wandering around getting lost. Apart from that…er…yeah, this lvl does its job well because everything’s black…and that’s it. There is a suckertube at the bottom, just for fun. ;-P No DL recommendation, however. :-p

The nxt lvl setting doesn’t work. You might want to fix those kinds of bugs before I start reviewing. ;-P

EDIT: Hey, wow, look, I still haven’t reviewed. How careless of me. ;-(

OMG&JC!!!
JOSEPH COLLINS DID IT!!! Sorry for my off-topicity, but this is just great. Get 8.7 from Joseph Collins, it’s fantastic. Great job you both.

it’s maybe not complete but i am not able to do anything with it. Too long time.

I will try to be not too evil. But, in true, I hate Linkin Park. I like only Numb from them, and particulary Faint. Everything other has to be killed, by my opinion.

Note: I listened only mp3 version.

It’s hard to review this, some parts are good, some are bad, some are just mashed-up, some fits greatly to each other. But reason why to download could be great fitting of second Tubelectric theme with POA. And that rap (normally I HATE rap, but this is excellent) rulezZ in combination with that second theme…

Samples are bad, just as original, too metalish. Tempo is slower than in original, beats are okay.