Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Menu / Pull Back The Bass
Added 2025-06-07 04:08:05 +0000 UTC[VGMV12]
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Thanks for listening to my suggestion! Here's some more information about the game: Just so you know you reacted to Jazz Jackrabbit 1 (1994) before and this is Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (1998). Robert A Allen composed jazz1, the menu music and a handful of tracks were kept and remixed by Alexander Brandon for Jazz 2. Pull Back the Bass is an original Jazz 2 soundtrack written by Alexander Brandon. He also did the vocals himself for the menu theme in the second game. Alexander later moved to the games Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament, you also saw them on the channel. Both Jazz games were actually very succesful in Europe, but had poor marketing and global distribution. Jazz2 DLC only released in Europe and not in America. Also on PC there were a lot of illegal copies. And also, the timing of Jazz2 in 1998, a 2D sidescroller was seen as immensely 'uncool' when the same year saw 3D platformers like Rayman and Mario. It was that time where everyone thought 3D was more interesting. For example, Super mario 64 came out BEFORE Jazz2. Nowadays people look at it very different, and Jazz2 being one of the last nineties platformers aged a lot better than early 3D games. It slots more perfectly into the indie game realm. And having a 1998 multiplayer game in 2D was just wild. Later the game got further improvements with the community patch JJ2+ too, such as faster online internet speeds, server commands and better graphic options. in 1998 this game was probably the best multiplayer experience online until shortly after arena shooters like Quake and Unreal Tournament came around. The game still feels special in that it allows you to create your own levels and host them in an online battle. Not just that but the editor for this game is like super mario maker levels of powerful, you can even draw your own tileset images and then build levels with them. The game draws many inspirations from earthworm jim, but also sonic (but with a gun). It's just interesting how it came to be. The game is vibrant and colorful, the music has relatively simple chord progressions but always great and catchy melody lines. Also the entire soundtrack is fire, no bad songs at all. Definitely worth to check out more. It's a hidden gem.
Japie
2025-06-07 18:20:32 +0000 UTCI totally agree that Jazz Jackrabbit 2 has the most '90s sound of any game I've ever heard. This was also the game I grew up with and had many fond hours in it. Oh yeah, and this game also had custom-made levels in it. I don't know how to make them though, but they were there. As for the credits screen, you could just exit that very quickly too. It was just there as a "thank you for playing". I never really listened to this theme until way later. It's definitely a hidden gem. The gameplay is extremely fluid, sounds are crisp and impactful, the levels are colourful... It's genuinely one to look up.
Damien Bongers
2025-06-07 05:03:40 +0000 UTC
