Doodle Jump 2 Reviews

This just feels like a stripped down version of the original Doodle 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 DoodleJump2 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.

This game is significantly worse than the original. The bounce is not the same, the gravity feels stronger and the tilt controls are overly sensitive. It is slightly more challenging because they give you no wiggle room with the platforms below you. But none of those are deal breakers or even make the game necessarily worse.
No, the og doodle jump is so much superior because of the one thing that hooked me to the game for a good two months- rpg mechanics. Doodle jump 2 is a total bastardization of the collectible mechanic that made the og pirate and ninja theme so captivating. There is no incentive for me to collect the orbs besides unlocking essentially color palette swaps. The variations in some of the levels doesn’t make it any better either. Bring back the rpg and character options, then we can start giving better scores.

I’ve been playing regular doodle jump for a while and was excited to try this version. It took a bit to adjust to the height gaining difference which was ok but the game mechanics are so frustrating in this version. Black holes seem to get you from a much further distance, platforms are easier to miss, jumps don’t feel as uniform, and the most frustrating thing is that jet packs drop you at the bottom of the screen where it’s tough to catch a platform. Additionally due to a higher level of difficulty games end much sooner and there’s ads after every game. I definitely won’t be shelling out $5 to get rid of ads on this game.

The new platforms are cool but can be too much all at once. The amount of traps that occur all at once is ridiculous for a fast moving game. Way too many black holes. The original eases into difficulty way better than this one which just throws you in the deep end where a skilled player can die in the first 500. I will say im not the best at the original but I’ve scored over 200k and 100k a handful of times where in this game 2 minutes of playing gets to the difficulty seen around 10 minutes of playing the original. I suspect that scoring is scaled down 10x but it seems so unnecessary. I’d give the game 4-5 stars if they fixed black holes, difficulty easing, and scoring.

This game has three things wrong with it:

1. Ads: After almost every time you lose, there’s an ad, even when you win. That definitely needs to be fixed because that consumes the time that I (and some people) have to play the game.

2. The final level has nothing to it: the last level in most games is like the ultimate, ultimate thing. So of course I got all excited when I reached the last one, but it’s basically what you do in all of the other levels. I don’t think the last level is as difficult nor as exciting as it should be. Plus, the stars (gold stuff) don’t even count. There’s absolutely nothing afterwards. I know that’s it’s the last level and everything, but there’s no exciting thing afterwards. Like in “Astro’s Playroom” in the PS5 there’s fireworks and cool letters and remainders of all the stuff you won in all of the worlds and levels. But here, it’s like you won. So what? So I don’t think that gives the motivation to go to the next game, that’s saying if they’re planning to make another Doodle jump.

3. I honestly think there should be more creativity while in the making of each level. Like, some of the levels are the same. There’s so many scenarios that the creators could use, the big city, space (but each time you reach a certain distance it changes galaxy scene, etc. And for the last level, a combination of all the levels and ultimate bad guys (or at least the ones that people usually struggle the most). I think it would make it really cool.

I’ve played the original doodle jump since it came out pretty much. It’s always been such a good game for me. The levels were so creative with lots in store!! The character you could unlock were fun and made you work at it.

However doodle jump 2 is honestly awful lol. I don’t want to be too critical. But literally it’s just a less fun version of doodle jump 1. The score goes up less which is dumb, it’s harder in an annoying way, the jump speed and lading is worse, the levels are so bland. Like it looks like such little fort was put into this game. Not to mention the whole collecting stars to u lock levels that are all the same is just not fun. Yes there are better animations but it’s just not impressive.

The only reason I download in this is because I appreciated the first one enough,But what really bothers me I didn’t download it because I thought oh this will be fun it’s because it wouldn’t let me play the first one with the stupid pop up add so I was technically forced into downloading it so I can play the first one now I knew that there was a this app I don’t care I like the first one The only reason I’m giving it three stars yes because it wasn’t that bad don’t see this as a satisfaction of I put an ad on the game that I made and someone download it in the actually liked it I didn’t care for it I didn’t like how you have a number of stars to collect and then you get to play the next level I like the first one you just free roam nothing to do it was just what you wanted to do which is what I like freedom Play the game that you want and you violated it made me do something and I didn’t want to do. But if you really want to experience this if you really want to download this app I encourage you.

This game is okay. But I feel like they are just milking it for cash :/. The original felt fun, and it was fun to play with friends and family and tournaments. This just doesn’t feel the same. It feels like it’s “rushing” you go move on to the next stage in some sort of way, instead of playing endlessly and no rush like the og.

You can’t really chose which level you play, untill you’ve unlocked all of them. So it seems like it’s rushing you just to play all the levels. And the ads are just to many. It ruins it.

Not to mention, almost every step moves the camera extremely fast. It makes me feel sick and dizzy on how much is going on, so I deleted it.

In terms of its core gameplay, Doodle Jump 2 improves upon that of the original Doodle Jump while maintaining the style and charm of the original. However, there are a few glaring issues that hold it back from its full potential. Firstly, the level design is such that there is not really a significant difference between the levels other than a reskin, but the star system requires you to play each unlocked level more than the last in order to unlock the next level. It would be far better if the stars were collected cumulatively, so that the player could choose their favorite level and play that while collecting stars to unlock the latest level. Additionally, the ads are far too frequent, appearing after nearly every level. This is annoying to the point that I often turn on airplane mode to play the game. There is an option to remove the ads for $2.99, but that seems an unjustified price tag given the original is available for $0.99 and doesn’t have many of the same issues.

I still play the original Doodle 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.

I love doodle jump. I played this game throughout my early childhood and this new sequel brings back this sense of nostalgia for me. The new game is awesome, but can’t compete with the old one if I’m being honest. My only complaint is the insane amount of ads. And I’m talking loads and loads of them. Every single time I die, a stupid gardenscape comes up. And if you decide to remove ads, you’ll have to cough up $5.00. Most games would make you pay $1.00 or sometimes $2.00 to remove them, but for a game like this it just seems unreasonable. Other than that I’d recommend this game to anybody who can put up with this many ads. 👍

It’s not bad, but it is not nearly as much fun as the original game. It costs more to prevent ads, there is less variety in worlds, and the gameplay of the sequel is terrible. Not a fan of how it takes like 10 years to reach 1000 score, I regularly surpass 100,000 in the original, while i have never even reached 10,000 in this version. I have played Doodle Jump on and off for probably around 10 years and have never died in a black hole the amount of times I have in the day of playing this game. Some of the jumps are near impossible and sometimes I just have to give up and die. The whole unlocking worlds thing is a little bit annoying, but not too much of a problem, gives you incentive to play each world however it does drag and get annoying. Half the worlds are also the exact same as the default world with some minor tweaks which I am not a fan of, especially because the more creative worlds are even better than the worlds in the original game. By no means it is a bad game, but it will never come close to being as good as the original Doodle Jump, unfortunately.

I have been enjoying Doodle Jump 2, but I have found a few things that don’t seem to work the same way as the other Doodle Jump versions. First, whenever you get a propeller hat, a jet pack or a rocket, as you fly upward and pass by stars, you don’t collect them as you would in the other versions, you just go right past them. And when you get a magnet, it doesn’t draw the stars to you, as it does in the other versions, they seem to do absolutely nothing. I also have a question about the final gold mine level: Why don’t the gold nuggets that you collect accumulate like the stars and other items in the other versions of Doodle Jump, like the Christmas and Batman ones? Those games allow you to accumulate the things you collect in order to purchase various things, like power-ups and different characters & outfits. Again, I am enjoying Doodle Jump 2, I think it could just use some improvements so it functions as well as the other versions of Doodle Jump.

doodle jump is one of my favorite games ever so I was happy to see the sequel and it’s super fun! Wish there were more worlds, and newer monsters to face but other than that it s a great game :) recently however, and the reason I’m not giving it 5 stars, is that it keeps telling me “connection to the scores server could not be made” which prevents me from checking any scores :( I tried deleting DoodleJump2 and redownloaded it but that o lay erased all my date so I have to start anew...maybe it’s just a tiny bug that’ll get fixed in a future update? Hope so! Because i love the conceptiva nature of this game. Great great game just please fix that scores bug it’s killin me!

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Doodle Jump 2 is just like the original, get as high as you can, shoot monsters etc. But, with every new level you unlock, some new element is introduced(for example, sand platforms in level 3). My only complaint is that the star requirements to unlock each level get a little bit too much. 600 is going to take forever. Maybe make each level take 200 stars to unlock after the first 3?
BUG REPORT
On the iPhone SE(not the 2020 version), the screen size does not fill the entire screen. I’m assuming this is a bug, because on my sister’s iPhone 7, the entire screen is filled

Some sort of story with the enemies. I think it’d be something really fun to have more if a reason for them being there other than “they just are.” I think it’d be awesome if they had some sort reason to try and knock “The Doodle” down, names for each one, and a log to keep track of how many of each type you’ve defeated.

Also, it’d be nice to have something else to spend stars on. After you’ve unlocked all 8 worlds, there’s literally no purpose for them. It’d be cool if you could spend them on things like head starts, extra lives (1 per game), things like that

Other than that I think this is a really good game 👍

Having played the original Doodle 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 doodle 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.

So I’ve actually been a huge fan of doodle jump for over a decade. I’ve loved the simplicity of the game and was addicted from the very beginning. During the first game I was super impressed by the new styles being introduced and the different achievements and unlockables you could obtain. With Dood Jump 2 I feel like there’s a lot of wasted potential. Don’t get me wrong, I think some of the levels are really charming, but overwhelmingly there’s really no creative license with most the levels. Like the rain and final level! I would have loved little puddles on platforms that cause splashing animations and sounds as you boosted off of them, or a bit of thunder and lightning. It would have been so cool if there where platforms you had to avoid because lightning was about to strike it! Idk.. just lacking soul I guess.

I’d like to add just how disappointed I was to not see any great creative backgrounds like on doodle jump 1. They where boring :/. And I know y’all have it in you!
Don’t even get me started on the final stage lol. I don’t understand it’s theme at all. It was boring and just as significant as the first stage except of the annoying background music.

I’m not trying to sound hyper critical of this game, because I honestly still love it. But I’m just so disappointed at the lack of challenges, unlockables and creativity put into some of the levels.

This game is great. First off you can play offline. Secondly it is just really fun to play when you don’t have anything to do. I have a suggestion though, it should be when you kill a monster it gives you a star. That way stars are a little easier. My second suggestion would be to have the platforms that break on level 6 count towards the platforms broken counter. The counter should give you a star for every ten or five even platforms broken. This game is great and I thank you for making it!

This is a fun game. If you enjoy the multiplayer and tournament features of the original, I’m afraid you won’t find those here.

The single player game is at least as fun as the original (more fun in my opinion). They’ve amped up the difficulty, which is welcome since the original becomes too easy and repetitive after a bit of practice.

The latest update now allows you to pay for an ad free experience, which was my primary complaint. Thank you.