Jill of the Jungle

Moby ID: 774

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Jill of the Jungle is the first episode of a shareware series. It is a platform game where the player takes the role of the titular character: an amazon woman who takes the untypical role of monster-slaying, leather-wearing feminist warrior. Jill's most distinguishing ability is morphing into various creatures, such as a bird, a fish, and others, which allow her to explore specific areas. Levels often feature platform structures that must be navigate precisely, as well as keys that must be found in order to advance. There are no boss battles in the game. The game can be saved anywhere.

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Average score: 74% (based on 3 ratings)

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Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 47 ratings with 6 reviews)

It's great... but a little bit too short.

The Good
Jill of the Jungle has good graphics (because they require 256 colors, but you can run this game with 16 or even 4 colors). It supports joystick and Sound Blaster (any other sound cards aren't welcome). During the gameplay you will face many different enemies, such as snails, frogs and enormous ants, even bigger than you! But you aren't unarmed, you've got a spinning blade and a knife. You may ask, "What? Only two weapons?". And I answer: it's enough. Both weapons are powerful, you can throw a spinning blade to one of these enormous ants and they are dead! And you can morph into frog, bird and fish! Each animal has its own abilities. For example, when you are bird, you can throw fire, but you are very vulnerable to water. You will visit many different places, such as castle and plateau. Some levels also contain puzzles. Sounds are sometimes a little bit bizarre, but they're very funny and they sound pretty good. Music is just wonderful. It's various - some tracks are spooky, other are dynamic or just great. I wish I could have some of these tracks on my cell phone...

The Bad
Unfortunately, this game may look excellent, but there are some things, which decreased my rate. First, Jill has very ugly blue sky background. All puzzles can be very easily beaten (except this castle one, where you have to collect keys and jump to the right platforms. It requires some thinking and reflex). And the worst thing about Jill is length of gameplay. You can finish this game in one afternoon.

The Bottom Line
It's a very good game, if you want to play for 15 minutes or you just love 2D platform games (like me!). Unfortunately there aren't any level editors to keep this game alive longer. What a pity!

DOS · by Sir Gofermajster (485) · 2008

Cool.

The Good
A simple and neat shareware platform game, I got Jill of the Jungle when I was about 9 or 10 as a gift in a chocolate package. It didn't work on my computer (XT) of course, so I had to go to the neighbours to play it on their 386. But it was worth it: cool (if not amazing) graphics, good music, great (or so I thought) PC-speaker sound effects and fun, fun gameplay made it an instant favorite of mine (and my brother's too). It's just plain cool, and I still play it from time to time to this day (pathetic, I know).

The Bad
The controls are programmed slightly on the bad side and tend to occasionally function erratically; the sound effects/music routines aren't very well programmed either and do not work on newer computers (mine at least). Also, the premise is really stupid - but that's part of the charm :-)

The Bottom Line
A really cool shareware game. Play it, you'll like it.

DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4539) · 2000

A great, albeit simple platform game.

The Good
I've been a fan of this game ever since I was very young. In my opinion it looks fantastic; the VGA graphics look colourful and striking. The gameplay is fun and not too hard to master, and the music is very catchy.

The Bad
Some of the puzzles aren't very difficult, but this is balanced out by the others that are. I also have a few problems with the knife-that-comes-back-when-you-fire, which can be a bit difficult to control and indeed doesn't always come back.

The Bottom Line
A bit of fun for those who like platformers. It's hardly a lengthy or challenging game; it's just a great bit of fun.

DOS · by Adam Holman (3) · 2005

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Trivia

Noise Maker

One of the 'non-game' features in Jill of the Jungle is the 'Mega Noise Maker', which obviously only does just that: Make noise. Press any letter key/qwerty key and it delivers state of the art...Noise.

Release

Jill of the Jungle was given as a gift if you bought three packages of local Israeli chocolate (Elite).

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Game added by Tomer Gabel.

Additional contributors: Depeche Mike, DJP Mom, Patrick Bregger.

Game added January 22, 2000. Last modified January 24, 2024.