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Dark Side of Deimos

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Summer Deep

  

Played with pistol starts, UV, GLBoom+

 

This doesn't really get the balance right at all, in my opinion. First five levels are very straightforward, too much so in fact, and can quite easily be completed without dying on most attempts.

 

The final three levels go to the other extreme. There doesn't seem to be any armour whatever provided, and ammo is fairly scarce. Six and seven are a pretty decent challenge, but in the final map there is barely enough ammo to beat the Cyberdemon, at least on the top difficulty level. I eventually killed him with my final bullet after about 20 failed attempts, but it wasn't much fun by the end.

 

I'd also agree with the reviewer who thought the levels looked too similar, with little to distinguish them. There are better E2 replacements than this. It doesn't quite merit a full three stars: 55/100 would be more like it.

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Visuals are good, layouts are inspired, but weapon and monster distribution is completely awkward. How about teleport face-to-face to some spectres, or three maps in row without chaingun but with regular dozens of these damned bastards? So -fast is playable, but without much fun, that mean (for me at least) low replayability. /hth

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Pedro VC

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Some nice levels with solid level design and fun, not too hard gameplay.

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Zalewa

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Latter levels get horribly confusing when it comes to switch hunts and figuring out what the switches do, but all in all the levels are done pretty well so I can't actually give it less than 4 stars.

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Guest

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I certainly liked this a lot.

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Guest

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Now this was really enjoyable little episode!:) Just what I needed after -barely- managing to slog through D2INO.

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Chainie

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Отл ;ичl 5;ый вад ;.

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Guest

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switch hunts galore and rooms with no purpose. I didn't like this at all.

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Reisal

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Interesting and rather nice level design along with reasonable challenges and atmosphere. Recommended.

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Guest

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Amount of work: 4/5. Very good lightning: 4/5. Having said that, it looks like a half succeeded yet-another-attempt to improve E2. Extremely rectangular, switch hunts thus endless walking, very little variation in architecture. Monster placement is very unbalanced. Gameplay just does not gets exciting. Overall: a small 4/5 for the attempt/efford, but I won't play it a 2nd time.

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Pretty good episode. Fine map design and enjoyable challenging gameplay. 4/5

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Guest

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Vintage Doom fun! Perfectly balanced old school maps. No cheap difficulty, no frustrating traps, nothing of that crap so many modern mapmakers love. Visuals are pleasing and clean, just good ol classic Doom look. These maps are easily up there with "...the Way id Did" wads. Must play if you are tired of endless slaughtermaps and gimmick ridden wads, and want to be reminded why so many of us fell in love with Doom. 5/5, I hope to see more from this author

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Highly enjoyable classical maps, with almost professional level of balancing and polish (this appears to be author's first wad, but based on quality of this wad I have a feeling he have probably been mapping for quite some time under different aliases). Definite recommendation!

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Guest

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Excellent episode that oozes professionalism, full of classic Doom 1 fun. Manages to be challenging but never frustrating. 5/5

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cs99cjb

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If you don't love these maps then you don't love Doom. No gimmicks, just solid, professional-standar d map design with well-balanced difficulty and varied gameplay. Textures aren't simply unthinkingly 'aligned', they actually fit the architecture. My few nitpicks (e.g. huge steps in E2M1) are minor. This episode is a real treat, especially for anyone sick of being mobbed by revenants and arch-viles.

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    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      It turned out to be a surprise for me because I didn't expect it to be such a fun level, when he said he wanted a lot of monsters in his level I didn't imagine that amount of monsters, but it was definitely fun.   I consider it a very good map, for its time, for a first map made by him, for a very humble map.   But overall I don't consider it a great or extraordinary experience, I don't see myself revisiting Crusher, but I can't call it Average because what he did is super interesting.   And it's a long level, which I also didn't expect, but to be more precise, the exploration is interesting, the layout was a little diverse, and the action on the map kept me focused and entertained, some rooms had poorly aligned textures and didn't seem to have been looked at at the last minute, which is a bit strange because he said he spent a lot of time developing the map, but I imagine why since at that time there wasn't an "Ultimate DOOM Builder" with automatic texture alignment, or maybe there was one automatic alignment?   And the maze everyone mentioned was annoying, yes I admit it lasted a lot longer than it should have, and I feel like it could have been shortened in Wad's release, it made the level feel longer than it is too, but I don't feel so much that the level it got worse because of it.   The positioning of enemies isn't that great, but they make you take cautious measures at times, but at times I was like... "It could be better..."   But that's it, it's a good level, it hasn't aged well, it could be better, but I feel like it would be unfair to call this level average, it's a level that I enjoyed, did things that weren't that common at the time, and seemed to use of resources that at the time many used wrongly, I don't feel like I wasted my time. I deserve to see more from the mapper.... (If he released something after that of course...)
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      Surprising even, one of the newest community maps out there, 1994, wow, but it's still a bad map, the encounters are interesting, the layout is the most superior aspect here, but it still doesn't support the technical errors that even for 1994 were already guaranteed by the original DOOM maps. Weird textures, lack of variety, lack of a more interesting design than platforms going down or going up in the dark, some moments were really fun like the dark cave itself, but the fun lasts very little, with spaces that are too tight, and a shallow exploration.
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      I love Quake, it's my favorite Shooter, and I totally forgive the lack of detail and technical refinement that Mapper concluded here, but I have to say that even though the map is still recognizable compared to the classic E1M1 from Quake... The map just doesn't have such a refined texturing, a good light variation, and many of the areas don't even carry the classic Quake identity, as the best example: The part where we get the Nailgun, there aren't even monsters and an encounter with Zombiemans in that room , there is very little positive to consider here unfortunately, but it was a bit fun in some parts. Either way, there are a lot of negative things that make it impossible to ignore while playing the level, a horrible map, how sad.
    • By Mizuki_Jun10 · Posted
      Normally I would define these two maps as maps with interesting premises whose execution does not positively complement the result, Chicken.wad has such a simple layout that it is disappointing at first sight, which keeps you at a higher height than Cyberdemons that you They wait in sectors that flash between dark and very light, I can only be direct in saying that although the battle between the Cyberdemons is fun, the map doesn't present you with anything other than that, and it is even impossible to cross the other side of the bridge endless to eliminate the rest of Cyberdemons. Completing Chicken (Even though Chicken doesn't have an exit on his map.).   Let's go to Gangstar.wad, you can see a somewhat open space, different from the previous experience, but with the classic theme of a UAC warehouse style E2M2 from DOOM, but the boxes here are a little distorted? (Perhaps spacetime begged the mappers not to finish the maps so it distorted the map space causing this visual curse.) As much as the open spaces of the map are fun to navigate, the fun is short-lived with several of the structures being distorted. carrying with them ill-adjusted texturing. Clearly a superior map to the previous one, but unfortunately still poor, the repetitiveness of the texturing, plus a bland design and several other missing details, make this map yet another disappointment unfortunately.   The verdict is that both maps are completely disposable, I would love for the mappers to continue with their work after such complicated work, so they would at least be able to build more and improve the quality of their design work.
    • By Devalaous · Posted
      One of the classic megawads, and the successor to TNT Evilution. I've played this several times over the years, and its grown on me more with each play as my tastes mature.   Still has a bunch of maps that got me killed in 2024, after ive finished stuff like HR and AV, and plenty of maps are memorable. Only real downsides is some of the levels have little content, showing its age.
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