Woolie Wool
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I've finished nine levels of this wad so far. It is truly an amazing piece of work, and it's a shame pcorf makes so many jokewads because this is better than ten thousand Spacias or New Adventures. The architecture is great, the texture usage almost faultless, and the gameplay is exciting while retaining a classic feel instead of relying on slaughtermap gameplay (a style I intensely dislike).
The music is certainly different from Paul's previous work, much moodier and gloomier, and more consistent in theme and feel. While there's something to be said for the oddball charm of the music in 2002: A Doom Odyssey, it was kind of distracting for the music to suddenly burst into some goofy little motif out of nowhere (there was one such track, I think for 2002ADO's "Halls of Ebola" map, that started out as dark and almost funereal and ended up devolving into something out of Looney Tunes). The music in WOS is great and contributes to the atmosphere of the wad.
I would agree that map06 is comparatively weak (although in such an elite mapset even the weak maps are pretty good), but map07 more than makes up for it, especially the absolutely kickass music.
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