Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Well, the level does work, and a few of the bugs that were reported were removed. Still, I am not convinced that this is a good level. Most of this review is identical to the last review, and for good reason. Simply put, this does not deserve a seperate file. REUPLOAD NEXT TIME.

TILESET/TILESET USE: At least I know that GenEX has been listening to some suggestions, albeit not the ones that were extremely important. More eyecandy has been added in this version, definitely. But it still is not very good at all. Simply put, this level still remains ugly and plain.
Pros: It looks better than it did last time, sort of.
Cons: This tileset has just used up all of its worth, GenEX. Not anything new. At all.
Rating: 3.7

WEAPON/ITEM PLACEMENT: Not much to say here other than that there is nothing new and nothing astounding.
Rating: 3.7

ORIGINALITY: The level is original. The idea behind it is interesting. Still, there is nothing that was not in the last level. It’s getting old.
Pros: It’s quite original.
Cons: It is original because no one else wants to do it, for it is not a good idea in the first place.
Rating: 3.0

GAMEPLAY/DESIGN: Gameplay and design is unacceptable. Now that the level works, one can finally actually test this level. Still, there is nothing better. In many respects, I liked this level more when it did not work. Gameplay remains uninteresting and mainly focused on sucker kills. This level bares far too much simularity to “Rat Race,” an Onag level which was released ages ago, and is still better than GenEX’s level, despite its age.
Pros: New gameplay, kind of.
Cons: It is not a very good gameplay.
Rating: 3.7

REPLAY VALUE/FUN FACTOR: Replay is…well…just as interesting as first play. This level might be striking at first, but it does not improve with time.
Pros: None.
Cons: Nothing interesting here, other than the new gametype (sort of kind of new).
Rating: 3.0

OVERALL (not an average). Sure, it’s original. And sure it has improved in some ways. But regardless, this is not a good level. For all of the effort that the author took to make it work, this is not a good level at all. Next time, put a lot more time and a lot more effort into levelmaking. And use the reupload function.
Pros: It’s original.
Cons: It’s bad.
Rating: 4.0

GAMEPLAY: D
Flow: D
Layout: D+
Creativity: C-
Bugs: C

EYECANDY: D+
Tileset use: C-
Eyecandy look: D+
Creativity: D
Bugs: C-

PLACEMENT: C
Weapons: C+
Bases: C
Carrots: C

THE FINAL GRADE: D+

THE FINAL RATING: 4.0

+ PROS: Interesting idea.
- CONS: It may be an interesting idea, but any interestingness in this bad level was worn out by the second upload, if not a lot earlier.

- Trafton

EDIT: He has uploaded a non-working version. Sigh. Rating lowered to 2.2, accordingly.

EDIT: New, still subpar version reuploaded. This one works – unfortunately.
[This review has been edited by Trafton AT][This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Ok… here we go again

Story: no story? umm… N/A

Tileset use: not so good… Especially the background is made very badly… 5

Desgin: Everything is a bit monotonious… and there’re few places I couldn’t get out from… 4

Eye Candy – well… didn’t notice to much of that… 4

Weapons and Enemies – the balance is maintaned but there’s one place where there’s too many enemies… There’re pickups here and there but perhaps too much of some of them. 6 will be enough

Originality – This is a very average two-level episode… nothing interesting nor original cought my eye… 2

Difficulty – T’was quite easy… 2

Gameplay – gets boring very fast… 2

Replay Value – none what-so-ever – 1

Overall Rating – Practice more and never use that music :) – 3

Daniel.

I tried doing something like this not so long ago, but I gave up because the results weren’t very pretty. I give you a 3 because I pity you.

GAH! IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO USE THIS!

Wow. Blocks. How incredibly LAME.

As much as we all love rayman, this still is a piece of crap.

I have three complaints about this level that are quite major. The first is that it should have naturally been simply reuploaded as opposed to posting it again – it will only lower your average score. The second? The second is that this level was not improved at all. And the third, perhaps most major of all, is that this level does not function. This is absolutely unexcusable and it is obvious this went through no testing at all. So here we go.

First, let me congratulate the author on actually deciding what the name of this level is. Now, I am rating this as a bug fix, and not a seperate level, because I’m too lazy to type out everything again.
TILESET/TILESET USE: The author has, since the last upload, added some more eyecandy. However, I liked the white rings in the background better then the very prominent gems in the foreground.
Pros: Things do look better then last time.
Cons: Still not used very well. Choose a tileset with more possibilities, Gen.
Rating: 4.0

WEAPON/ITEM PLACEMENT: There’s a full energy carrot, two powerups, some fastfire, and a little Bouncy/Toaster ammo. There is, simply put, not enough ammo and too much of everything else.
Pros: A little more thought seems to have been spent here then last time.
Cons: Still not very good. Seekers are kind of a must for a level like this.
Rating: 3.5

ORIGINALITY: The level is decidedly more original now, because I’ve never heard of using springs/vines to move vertically, and sucker tubes to move horizontally. :P
Pros: It’s original.
Cons: The originality doesn’t really work (I’ll explain soon), and I still can’t say I care for it.
Rating: 3.2

GAMEPLAY/DESIGN: Ok, here’s the main problem (Bjarni was right, btw). The sucker tubes do not work. You can not go through them. Thus, both teams are condemned to stay on their own side of the level, unable to get at each other.
Pros: None.
Cons: It is simply NOT playable.
Rating: 1.0

REPLAY VALUE/FUN FACTOR: In the level’s current state, there is no replay value.
Pros: None.
Cons: It is, again, NOT playable.
Rating: 1.0

OVERALL (not an average). This is an interesting level, but I must say I liked it better before. Especially because you could play it then.
Pros: It’s interesting.
Cons: You can’t play it, the gems in the foreground are annoying, and there’s not enough ammo.
Rating: 3.2

This is one of the many levels that makes me wonder why J2O doesn’t have a 0 rating…

I’m not going to type nearly as much as everyone else, but I’ll review this as I saw it in online play yesterday.

My first comment was that Onag did something very similiar to this, but I liked it better. It wasn’t so obvious about where you were going (routes) and also had more routes to choose from. Also, I find tons of warps to be annoying and Onag’s used hidden tunnels. Sorry for comparing this, if you’ve never played Onag’s. :P

I think that also you need a better reward for collecting so many coins for the coin warp. When everyone else is also getting coins, it takes a while to get that many.

Overall, 4. I wouldn’t play/host it much.

This is not worth download, the levels are just to small and boring, at the second “demo” level, there are no enemys and you only collect coins…
Download not reccomend…

EDIT: Forgot the rating.[This review has been edited by spazz]

The eycandy is good, only a lot of bad guys, and leave that poles on the foreground out, it’s irritating me! That pole, that was a V-pole, bounced me into baddies, there tons of them: Doggy Dogs, some Cristmas guys. To bad there is no background eyecandy, but that doesn’t matter that much, as you can make on layer 5, stuff thats masked on layer 4 and then it isn’t masked! But you din’t used layer 5… and next time, make it a bit longer, I completed the level in no time… but if you want to play a quick single player level, download this, if you want to play big and very good levels, don’t download this.

INCLUDE THE TITLESET FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE THIS TITLESET!!!

Well, it’s good, with that mario n stuff, only I think it’s not very usefull. I won’t rate…

I don’t call this an episode, because this has only three levels and the other two levels are not hidden. The levels have lots of tile bugs, so the tiles were place badly. Pickup and enemy placement, that’s ok good. And so on this has some good and bad things, but, because this is not from you sonictth, I can’t rate this, but if I could, I would rate this to a 4.2 or something like that. Texts are german, next time translate those texts on english. It’s the official language here at j2o. Ya and your dad should practise anyway. Your dad levels shows that your dad is not very experienced to use jcs, but practise makes PERFECT!

Though I don’t really like this level, I find it kinda original. The way you placed these metal-like structures gives it a in-construction like aspect. Weapon placement is kinda bad though. Gameplay average. No special Download recomandations…

Now…For a first race level, it’s really good. And I have a few remarks concerning Flash’ review :
This Is a long race level. I personnaly finished one lap in 42 sec. That’s definetely long. The eyecandy is indeed not wonderfull, but I believe the author made a tileset specifically for race levels, and I believe he did it quite well. Second : there are three very good places to place your explosives, towards the end. There isn’t much ammo, but there never is in official ones.
Further : Waz could’ve made more levels than just one, and on your Whammo Ammo° panel you wrote : “Sields Weapons” instead of “Shield Weapons”.

Download recomandation (even though it’s more for the tileset)

It’s good for your first episode. Only the eyecandy is a little bad, but that doesn’t matter. The gameplay worked out very well for your fist episode. Only to bad some text strings are in German. Since this is your first episode, I want give a rating. Otherwise it will be round a 4, 5 points. And one thing: PRACTICE! When you practice your levels will be great, I think…

I see another gameplay concept for CTF. How good is it? look at the previous and this review for yourself.

Covering the gameplay, this is very confusing and frustrating at first to play you jump into warps over and over… It’s different but not one of the most successful concepts as even when you get used to it, it’s still quite boring.

The eyecandy was a bit below average
but not the worst i’ve seen. You see bubbles floating around and plain, blue background… Thats about it.

The originality is one of the
best aspects of this level. I don’t
think i’ve ever seen the use of warps quite like this before.

Weapon and Ammo placement wasn’t too good. I found like 1 toaster pu and toaster ammo in some places. Nothing really interesting here. Carrot placement wasn’t too bad imo since it uses warps like this, however I still think 1 full NRG in the middle of the level would’ve served this level much better.

You could already see the replay value from reading this and other reviews of this. So it’s not important to discuss any further.

Overall, this level is below average and nothing really interesting.

Sorry no download reccomendation.

Also try: Double Trouble CTF by GenEx