Details
Jet Set Willy II is an expansion of the original JSW rather than a new game unto itself. Its map is primarily an expanded version of the original mansion, with only a few new original elements over its predecessor, several of which are based on rumoured events in JSW that were in fact never programmed (such as being able to launch the titular ship in the screen called "The Yacht" and explore an island). In the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and MSX versions Willy is blasted from the Rocket Room into space, for which 33 rooms he dons a spacesuit.
Due to the proliferation of hacking and cheating in the original game Jet Set Willy II pays homage to this and includes a screen - appropriately called Cheat - that can only be accessed by cheating.
Control of Willy also differs from the original:
- The player can jump in the opposite direction immediately upon landing, without releasing the jump button.
- Willy now takes a step forward before jumping from a standstill.
- The Willy character is mapped differently, so although Willy looks the same, some previous "safe spots" in Jet Set Willy are now hazardous to the player in Jet Set Willy II - The tall candle in The Chapel for example.
Jet Set Willy II was not written by the original programmer, Matthew Smith, and was instead developed by Derrick P. Rowson.
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