Doodle Jump 2 for Pc

Having played the original the app Jump since 2011 and thoroughly enjoying it, I can safely safely say that the sequel is a good follow up. The overall level design is still easy to pick up but significantly harder to master. Having high scores attached to each level is also a nice touch, and requiring players to unlock each level with stars is a nice incentive to discover and master each level. That being said, there are a few things that prevents me from giving the game a perfect score. For one, there are many features from the original game that are missing, including achievements, multiplayer races and tournaments. The levels themselves, while fun to play through, feel like a lazy re-skinning of the first level (in contrast to the expressive ad creative levels in the first). Finally, there are instances of trap placement that feel legitimately impossible to bypass. Overall though, this is a good game in which I feel the negatives I pointed out will be patched up in future updates. I would recommend trying it (but be prepared to either deal with constant ads or fork over $5 to permanently get rid of them)

It’s really fun and I’ve already played it a whole lot. However there are some things that need to be addressed I feel like. I do like the difficulty increase from the app jump one and the mechanics feel good after playing with them for a while. One thing I personally have an issue with though is the jet pack feels too much of a RNG way to die right now. When you get out of the jet pack you have an extremely small amount of time to react and can lead to deaths where you can’t get to a platform quick enough or the platform you want to land on disappears off the screen as you land. It’s not a big issue but it makes me not want to pick up the jet pack. Overall though the game is great and I love how the breakable platforms break the platforms below, it’s really satisfying.

I still play the original the app Jump, so I was excited to get the sequel. Firstly, the 5$ price tag for no ads, compared to the original’s 1$ full game is pretty steep. Secondly, this game is about 10x more annoying and chance-dependent than the first. Beating your high score is more about luck than personal improvement, sure you can memorize the patterns, but some are very conniving. The game has a myriad ways of forcing you to jump into a black hole, from traps placed all around it, to springs and elevator platforms that send you directly into them. My second try at the rain level I got 5.4k score, which I’ve yet to get close to since, cause that run I happened to get reasonably lucky with the layout. Lastly, where’s the stats screen? The first game had a great little stats screen with your personal statistics, averages, ways you died, etc. Seems like something a sequel could at least carry over, if not outright improve. Yet here, it’s just gone. Overall the game is alright. I like the new challenges, platforms, etc. I don’t mind the star collection to advance in levels, actually. But the pure chance of some of these patterns is pretty frustrating. When someone like AWPrince, who scored 20million on the original DoodleJump is only getting 10x my score, I think it speaks volumes.

This just feels like a stripped down version of the original the app Jump with some added animation tweaks. There are only 8 worlds (compared to 12 in the original game) and most of them have the exact same background and enemies. There’s more ads between levels and less gimmicks to make levels worth replaying time and time again like the original. The level generator has gotten way worse and will now gladly place hazards in impossible to dodge areas, meaning you’ll get less score and stars per level because of cheap forced losses. Oh, and new levels are locked until you earn an absurd number of star per level, so you’ll mostly be playing the same thing over and over and over and over and over with little variation. This shouldn’t be crowned as an official sequel when it’s a worse product than the original game. This feels like they accidentally pushed a beta build to the App Store. I’ll update my review if they add anything else but the game shouldn’t have released like this to begin with. EDIT: On top of this being a bad sequel, you are now greeted by two ads for it when launching the first game, one being a fullscreen ad you can’t skip for three seconds and then a banner you have to dismiss. Scummy practice from what I assumed to be the last good mobile gaming company out there.