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The Cistern

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A series of stone corridors arranged around a reservoir of blood somewhere in Hades. You can SEE the exit (it's right in the middle) but how do you GET there? Plenty of tactical choices as to when and where to fight.


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Small, easy, kind of fun. The strength here is the progression. You'll teleport to different ledges surrounding the exit, to finally raise a ledge stratching out to it. The texturing scheme is boring though, grey stone almost everywhere. Considering that the texture alignment is so-so, it's ironic that the secret doors are perfectly aligned, making them impossible to find outside of trial-and-error. Still, it plays well, and could have been very good if the author had more experience. --3/5

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This is dated March 1995. Awful name, sort-of decent-ish level. It's very angular and simple, a kind of stone-walled blood sewer with an irritating back-and-forth progression. The action is plentiful but undemanding, and it feels as if it could have been pretty good if the designer had done it in the modern era, and worked on it. As the other reviewer points out, half the secrets are unguessable and will languish unfound forevermore.

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    • By Walter confetti · Posted
      A really frantic and fun DM map with pretty neat stuff like invisible pillar in the middle of the arena, doesn't have anything to do with the title but the level can become a BFG spamming fest soon, especially with bots. Less fun in SP but the arch-ville+bunch of nazi combo is a nice feat.
    • By Fireseth · Posted
      Only six enemies (played on UV) and no working exit. Other than that, it is a pretty detailed map for 1995. I enjoyed the general design and the poisonous vats of acid. Very cool, but not practical for good gameplay.   EDIT: Just discovered this is a ideally a DM wad… haha, for that purpose, it seems good. My original rating was 2/5, will change it now.
    • By CravenCoyote · Posted
      Lots of traps and monster closets. Some switches are activated by shooting but there's nothing to really tell you about this because they look the same as other switches.   Texturing is good and enemy placement proved rather difficult at times. There aren't may health pickups on UV so it was a fight to get through.
    • By costadevale · Posted
      It's pretty good for 1994. If you don't mind having no health items at all (except in a few maps) and the outrageous amounts of cyberdemons per map, you should give it a try. It's pretty challenging and I like it. E2M3 is a bit 'eh...' though.
    • By entropy122 · Posted
      What the actual f*ck is this map. I love having 4 rockets, a shit ton of bullets and like 10 shotgun shells to take out a revenant, and whatever was in that cage. Doesn't look too bad, maybe this negativity is cus im no expert, also rather unskilled at the game?
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