It has an interesting design, being a gigantic vertical shaft with the boss at the very bottom. The third level is more original, and uses 'MCEs', basically glitched events, to make clones of Jazz that attack you. The second level is just an easy bonus level, a nice break from the other two, much harder, levels. And the penalty for getting through the maze without finding all the secrets (which is a very likely situation)? You guessed it! Death! You get to play the level all over again!ДЄs for the other two levels, they are more forgettable. In this section of the level, a large maze is completely obscured by an opaque green foreground, and the goal is to get through it while finding a number of 'secrets' hidden in the maze. Oops!ДЇor the few players who manage to get past that little guessing game successfully (or for the vast majority of players who just cheat), an even more asinine challenge awaits: the blind maze. There is actually a warning before this point that advises you to save the game, but it neglects to mention that a memory limitation in JJ2 means the game will likely crash if this is attempted. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a checkpoint before this area and some sort of hint, but unfortunately there is nothing like that, and the penalty for failure is starting the (very, very big) level all over again. Guess wrong, and that's it: Sorry! You lose. One example is of a section near the end of the level where the player has to guess which one of eighteen different paths is the correct one. The biggest problem is that many of the obstacles are simply unfair. Unfortunately the execution is poor, and ultimately results in a level that is boring, repetitious, and extremely frustrating. It's a unique concept, to be sure: instead of making a level challenging by loading it with enemies and various other standard obstacles, make the challenge a more intellectual one. The difficulty comes from finding the right path through the level, and getting past obstacles that require mental work rather than reflexes. The maze level is one of the hardest levels ever made, and it doesn't even have any enemies. A more likely reason why people only remember the first level though, is that most people can't even get past it. It's also the namesake of the level pack.

One reason for this is that the first level is the biggest one by far, and it is the most original and challenging.

Most people, when they think of this episode, only think of the first level. The first is a sprawling maze, the second is a bonus level of sorts, and the third is a more standard level that culminates in a boss fight. The main part of Queen of Board consists of three levels. Queen of Board is neither, and while it may be a bit innovative, it's simply not very fun. My bias stems from a fairly simple reason: this level pack has received way more praise than it ever deserved, with people calling it things like 'brilliant' and 'epic'. And that includes some really bad ones, many which are objectively worse than Queen of Board. Out of all episodes ever released, this one is my least favourite.

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