Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Once again………..Oops, I went much long back to the past, sorry!

OK, so what we have here can be called a remix. Yes, not just stupid sample changing, or adding two patterns, this is an actual remix. Although I don’t know what kind of a remix this is… We have more channels, more samples, old ones are replaced (all of them). It’s really a piece of hard work. The problem is… it sounds “empty”. Maybe the percussion samples are too short, or the new trumpet has a too drastic ending, but it sounds like a channel or two are missing. Besides that, everything else is very good… Maybe all that goodness isn’t combined well? Anyway, as for your first work, I will rate this 7.5. Just keep on practicing, and I hope your next work will be astonishing!

Danyjel and RoW_Odin314, these are really short reviews! Let me show you how real reviewers rates:

Cookie War:
Eye candy: Great looks like a chocolate rock
Layout: The layout also looks like chocolate nice work!
The backround: Wow, it’s really nice, I like these stars
Food: Yeah, there are many food at the buttom, nice work with that
Food machine: That’s really interesting, yeah it is!
Springs: Many springs, yeah, the most of them are blue one
Vines: Many vines but not too many
Weapon placement: That’s great many weapons
The Art: I don’t know if you made the art or not! But it reminds me of chocolate, that’s good!
The type of level: Battle
Download Recommand: Yes

Saturday Night Disco:
Eye Candy: It looks like city, nice work
Layout: It reminds me of city
The backround: It’s textured, and cool, I love textured backrounds
Springs: Fewer this time
Pizza: Yeah, there are some
Disco: A lot of disco, yahoo!
Weapon Placement: Really well!
Coins: They’re hiding somewhere! I can’t find them!
Level type: Battle
Download recommand: Yes!

Rusty Terrain:
Eye Candy: Cool, I like it!
Layout: Just like computers? That’s great!
The backround: Not different from oringal Labrat in the oringal
Sucker tube: They’re many, but not too many!
Weapon placement: Many of them, that’s great!
Belt: Many belts, many belts but not too many! That’s good!
Springs: Few, really
Level type: Battle
Download recommand: Yes!

The Dark Abyss:
Eye Candy: The eye candy is great, I love this dark eye candy
Layout: Looks like rocks, and it’s good!
Backround: Textured and I love that!
Sucker tube: Only two, one long one short, they’re both hidden somewhere in this level!
Weapon placement: Few, really few!
Springs: They’re also few!
Buttstomp: Yeah, there are some in this level!
Level type: Battle
Download recommand: Yes!

The StarBreaker:
Eye candy: Great copy of JJ2
Layout: See above
The backround: Really nice, it’s blue, I love blue!
Shields and powerups: Many of them hidden somewhere in this level! ;D
Fake Spaz: He is pretty funny!
Frog: He is just here all the day!
Weapon placement: Many, but not too many!
Springs: Fewer then last time!
Teleporters: Yeah, there are some in this level!
Level type: Battle
Download recommand: Yes!

Cargo Section 5:
Eye candy: just like you’re in gameship
Layout: well, it’s also just like I said about the eye candy
Backround: Space backround of course!
Weapon placement: None!
Sucker tube: One and long!
Food: Much food to eat here!
Morph placement: Only one!
Belt: Defently with the sucker tube
Level type: Unknown
Download recommand: Yes!

The Leprechaun forest:
Eye candy: I love it it reminds me of the autum
Layout: Well, reminds me of buituiful garden!
Backround: Textured!
Warp: There are many warps in the buttom of this level
The food waterfall: It’s so great, I love it!
The coins bar: No point of getting the coins, there’s nothing interesting!
Going up to the top: No, we can’t!
Weapon placement: None!
Level type: Unknown
Download recommand: Yes!

Inside the Pit:
Eye candy: The other one was better!
Layout: So normal
Backround: Textured
Weapon placement: None
Foods: Many foods, nothing much more
Level type: Unknown
Download recommand: No!

Stereo Motion:
Eye candy: Not good, not bad either!
Layout: Not good or bad!
Backround: Textured!
Foods: Many foods
Sucker tube: Many, really many!
Morph: Hidden somewhere in this level!
Warp: Really few
Level type: Unknown
Download recommand: Yes!
The Gumball Machine:
Eye Candy: So gold
Layout: Green waterfall, junk!
Backround: So many diamondus
candy bar: Good! I love candy!
Weapon placement: None!
Sucker tube: It looks like but isn’t!
Level type: Unknown
Download recommand: Yes!
Warps: All of them does let the candy bar make candy, mmmmmmm!!!!

Comments: This is really nice work, of all these levels, some levels are battle, and some type that I don’t know what I can say! Really nice work, good luck with your next protject! ;-)

~Bjarni Haraldur Sigfússon

RoW_Odin314: Bjarney is English name, and I’m Icelandic, please call me just Bjarni![This review has been edited by the real one Bjarni]

My longer review:

StreetFight ®*

All of the StreetFight levels are good, with the expection of the one made with the Wisteyness tileset. Now THAT one was suck.

9/10

InstaGib ®*

All of the instagib levels were good, expect the one with the wisey tileset. That one was suck.

8/10

9 + 8 = 17 / 2 = 8.5

There. Happy Barney- err… Bjarni?

-ThO

[This review has been edited by RoW_Odin314]
(Personal attack removal edit. Be nice! ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]

Yeah, I totally agree! Please help us!

I promised a review so here I am.

Now for the review itself i find myself in a difficult position.
I like the tune, melody is catchy and I liked it the moment I heard it the first time. But nothing has been altered here.

I have no clue if the speed has changed but it sounds a little bit too slow to have ingame, if it was ever meant for a level.

The instruments are chosen nicely, although I would have chosen the trumpets differently. And in the beginning an instrument is being stretched too long.

In remixes I really like when cords (don’t know if the word is correct) are changed and the whole song sounds a little bit different. sadly this was not attempted.

Afterall this is his first mix and it’s a great start. Thumbs up from me
And a rating of 7.5
[This review has been edited by Pyromanus]

jes indeed its not much bud how kan i revieuw a level that dosnt have all levels i coldent find the level that_after_jou_die whi that 4 wel that because of the other 2 levels the first two
(Unsupported rating removal edit. Please provide more detail in your reviews – assuming I understand you, all you’ve really said is that the next level setting is messed up. Why is is not so much bud? What’s the eyecandy, design, gameplay, or anything at all like? What could be improved? Etc. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]

Well, I din’t play the old version but it seems that I have to review this, so let’s go on.

At first, like the author mentioned above, this is the fixed version of his old level “Party in Castle”. Well, What this has to do with a party isn’t clear for me (ok, except the bridge thingy), the level has, sadly, no story. You come in a castle, and fight multiple enemies. Well, in the readme (Yes, I read it!!) you can read what Bjarni changed, but there are still very much things which aren’t right.

LVL DESIGN
I think the level design should probably be remade fully, alltough nothing does have a totally understandable reason (I don’t mean spelling errors in text signs). For example the area with that bridge which will break if you walk over it. A text sign tells you that over you Lizards are dancing and the bridge could break. Well, you see Lizards dancing on a bridge above you, and not on that one you are standing so there’s no reason why this thing breaks. Also, the water part. There’s no reason why suddenly water comes up and after a short swimming it doesn’t exist anymore. Sorry Bjarni, but I’m such a perfectionist :-)

EYECANDY
Well, there aren’t tile bugs (maybe some minor), but even with the fact there aren’t any, you should know that you have to change it. Why? Because it is all out of time. Some years ago this might have been reasonable eyecandy, but not today. Not after “Demon Invasation” from Moonblaze, “Tomb Rabbit” from Kejero and so on. There are some background layers, but they are stolen from “Formerly A Prince” from Cliff Bleszinski. Also you could have used some different tiles for the wall.

CONCLUSION
Well, Bjarni, I see your “fixing” of levels is, just done wrong. Listen to ALL what a reviewer says is wrong and if it needs to, rebuild your level. There are several more downfalls (like ammo and food placement, enemy placement and more) but I’m too lazy to mention them all. Sorry, if you want to fix a level, then put effort in it.
DOWNLOAD RECCOMENDATION: No, maybe if you want to see how to NOT fix a level.
HOST: nope
LEVEL RANK: Above average
FINAL RATING: 4.0

NOTES:
….Leole, could you work on your english some? I don’t understand a word, sorry =P[This review has been edited by PHT]

please admins delete ratings…[This review has been edited by Danyjel]

What the heck..?

I will not write a lot, there’s nothing much to tell about.

Just random resample pack, no song from pack is better than original. Firstly it’s because of poor sample quality, secondly about that it’s detuned, next reason is in that it’s totally randomly sampled. Just take samples and put it there.

(+) Lot of sounds which will make your neighbour angry
(-) Everything else

Download recommendation? Yes, if you have something to block your ears, you have loud reproductors and you want make your neighbour angry. Else not.

I like it. Awesome eyecandy, good gameplay. Only little bad ammo placement… Fun in it is good, but not for long time. But if you are glad with 45 minutes of hosting with good fun…

Alright, here goes:

I was actually pretty surprised with the quality of the music, it reminded me of the original menu remix and had a rux beat, and I liked it, a lot of cool notes and beats. I like how it sounded a lot different and yet still reminded me of the original menu song. Pretty good for a first try. And yeah, next time make the music title a bit shorter. Overall, I’d say this would get about an 8 from me. Good Job, and download reccomended. (I can’t ever seem to do long enough reviews on music =\)

Edit: After a while I’ve grown to like this tune more. Rating upgraded to an 8.2.

Yay, another tileset realase by BlurredD. lets review.

Well.. this pack comes with four cool diamondus edits, proably the best edits
ive ever seen. there’s upside down versions too, which are evil to build with. ;p
i really love palettes too, color combinations are really cool looking. and tiles you added. waterfalls for example, are very nice. i think ill make a level with this set, but now let me continue, if you thought this was my whole review, you’re wrong. this was the intro. oh well..

Diamond dust 01/upside down edit:
COLORS: Pretty nice.. i love them. colors aren’t boring. in other words, there’s many colors. blue, white.. light blue, orange, green.. and other neat colors. my favorite palette edit. gives noon atmosphere, and its probably very nice to build with.

CONCLUSION:Really nice.

Diamond dust02/F version:
COLORS:Well.. i dissapointed. colors are usually blue… and dark. mostly beetween black and blue. grass looks neat though, and levels using this set will probably have a nice night atmosphere. well.. colors could be better. but they’re still nice. or something.
DD 02/F – DD 01/F
TILES ADDED:You added some more tiles, like waterfalls, some caves [ which can be used for a background ]
water.. for trees.. and some other tiles. 1337.

OVERALL:Really neat edits. im thinking to make a level with these tilesets.. my rating is 8.5

Well.. Danyjel asked me to review this but i dunno how to rate music, so ill comment this instead.

Well.. i like this remix alot. its probably one of my favorites. samples and sounds are very nice.. il hope we see more remixes from ya. the end, because im too lazy to write more.

So we have Jazz Jackrabbit Advance Title Mix. Do we have to be happy?

For firstly, I don’t like JJA title. It’s unproffessional, with really bad rhythm, bad melody, if there is any. So my review can be quite biased.

We have some kind of rock remix here. Guitar lead is okay like almost all samples. Rhythm is 100 times better than in original, we have nice loop here.

Whole song is very different from original, I see there was some work on it.

But I don’t think it’s so much better than original. There are too much loud, it sounds whole more than music like some sound effects from sci-fi movie…

(+) Samples
(+) Rhythm
(-) Hurts ears
(-) Random music

Now, I have to say if it’s enough to download recommendation. If you liked original, you will be surprised, you will apparentely like this piece very much. But if you don’t like JJA title, this is not much better. As a man who really doesn’t like original, I say don’t download. You will not miss anything.

Lemme Review this,
Eyecandy: Hmm, i’ll review it, even if you said not to, then there is hardly to review on if i dont. You used wall blocks for the sprite layer on the background layer. The animating tiles are terrible too, there is an animation of a buttstomp block, which changes to a sign and then to a blank. Also, none of the layers were edited, and you wasted a lot of space; you could have made the sprite layer smaller. -1/2

Enemies: No bad guys, well how fun… NOT! All i can say is, never forget enemies!!!!!!! -1/2

Pickups: None, again, levels are a lot better with pickups, and, there were none included! -1/2

Fun Factor: Well, if you enjoy dropping from the top of a level to the bottom, and moving about 80 tiles, i’d say this is fun, otherwise i hate falling for no reason, so it isn’t fun. Like the Labratkid said, it is only fun timing yourself. -1/2

Others: Well there is horrible gameplay even for a tutorial, you are meant to learn something from tutorials! The sign is written in a really stupid way, and if you jump over the exit, you fall off the level, which then you are stuck unless you cheat or quit. The only good thing is that there is a boll platform, but that isn’t really good, it is the only thing that caught my eye, please try harder like this, overall the events were placed terribly, and i only learnt one thing from the level, that there is no point to this. You are not terrible, you just need to try harder. -1/2

Overall: -1/2 × 5 = -5/10
=P I wanna see part two now!
[This review has been edited by sabaspaz]

Bjarni, when an author makes the music format in a module file, rather than a .j2b, you can use it for multiple things. If it’s a .j2b, it will only work with JJ2. At its current state, you can use this file in Winamp, and other things. If you want to listen to this in JJ2, Bjarni, include the file extension when you type in the music name.

In this case, you’d have to type…
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 menusong music remix.s3m
…to use this in JJ2, rather than typing…
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 menusong music remix
…without the .s3m at the end.

Okay, Danyjel wanted me to rate this, but I’m not sure what to give it, so I’ll just comment on it. Anyway, this is a pretty good remix. I don’t like the first 20 seconds all that much, but after that, I like it a lot! =) Good job, keep up the good work. I hope to see more remixes from you in the future. =D[This review has been edited by labratkid]

What are you talking about Bajarni S3M is one of the most common and workable formats for JJ2. Your crazy.

Now onto the review:
It has a nice base to it. It really brings out how catchy the theme song is. I’m listening to it right now and bobbing my head. I don’t know much about music but I know whats catchy and what I like and I like this.

Overall I say this is a wonderful remix of the Jazz theme because it portrays how catchy it is and is arranged nicely with good instrument choice. Good job Danyjel you get my thumbs up and an 8 outa ten!

Another Leole level. Is this one better than GET OFF THE TRAIN STATION.

EYECANDY: Sorry, but it is my duty to review the eyecandy, speaking of that review you said not to. You learned something, puting things on forground layers (HORRAH!!!) There are somewhat 3 bridges if I can count. They all blink, and that is annoying because you bounce with them. I’ve had enough talking about eyecandy (Witch is good news).

ENIMIES: No enimies means no review.

ITEMS: No items also means no review.

SIZE: Every level has a size. It’s tiny, just like Get off the train station. It takes at least 2 seconds to do. So it’s more like tinyer than Get off the train station.

FINAL RATING:1.0

FINAL COMMENT: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGG!!!! Why are your levels so bad??. I hope you have learned something from me, DON’T PUT PRACTICE OR TRUTORIAL LEVELES ONT THE WEBSITE!!!.

I’m not the ASSULT type, so correct me if I am wrong. Anyway, how did you get on.

EYECANDY: Top secret tileset used here. You worked on the eyecandy witch is good, but even better because you worked on it so hard. The eyecandy is exquisite here, and someone actually found a way to use Layar 1.

SIZE: I don’t know if you have the right size, but this is becouse I don’t know a thing about assalts. Anyway there are 6 sectors if you count the DEFENCE SECTOR and the other one. I find Sector 1 harder and bigger than Sector 2, 3 and 4.I’m just going to say that the size for 6 sectors and a ‘Shoot the core area’ is good.

FINAL RATING: 6.5

FINAL COMMENT: I’m just going to give you 6.5, because I don’t really know assalts.

Fearofdark