The Vilecore

Good stuff. A very pleasant surprise. I stumbled upon this by chance. Someone mentioned it and I realized it was something I had not played before. I dove right in completely blind and I'm glad I did. Not too complex or overwhelming, but with enough action to keep you consistently engaged. Right up my alley.  

Vilecore is a easy difficulty megawad with a lot of incidental combat and almost no traps, which I find interesting. When you get a key or press a switch nothing happens, unlike the vast majorities of megawad I've played. The monster count varies between 150 ~ 280 in all the maps and I haven't found any bad map throught the whole megawad. Some players won't like the incessant pursuit for switches to progress but I don't mind them as long they aren't confusing to figure out which is fortunately the case with this megawad. Doom_Dude did a great job with these maps and I would recommend for a beginner or intermediate skill player, as expert players could find this one boring due to low threat of death.

Vilecore, a.k.a. the shining example of mediocre in megawad-making. you'll find nothing here that can truly be hateful, but there's just about nothing that stands out at all in this megawad. basically, you run through it, fighting off combat that is actually quite fun and doing the occasional search, backtrack, key grab, secret grab, whatever. nothing stands out at all here. because I'm more into gameplay rather than graphics, that's why I give it a better score, and I still recommend it since the visuals aren't everything. it sort of reminds me of Illuminatus, another wad that's similarly mediocre, but the backtracking here isn't as excessive.

I guess if there's one map to note, it's MAP15, because for some reason, one of the switches doesn't work (at least in ZDoom).