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Marbland

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2 maps for Boom with castle-style design. Textures: Memento Mori II, Requiem, Plutonia, Kuchitsu, Greenday, Gravity, Nordhell, Kobal, VooDoo Guns. Music: map01 - "Rage" by Mark Klem, map02 - untitled track by Eternal from freak4.wad map07. Sliding door idea: VooDoo Guns.


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Buhseo_

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Enjoyable, I liked the aesthetics and the fights 
My only complaint is that the final fight disrupts the flow of the world by being too difficult

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baja blast rd.

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Plut is a Russian speedrunner who has released a handful of maps, mostly small ones like these. In Marbland, one learns that basically every room is bugged with some sort of point-blank trap, most containing just a few monsters. Both maps are relentless with these traps, far past skillsaw or the Casalis or whoever you consider trappy, to the point that I even started laughing. If you are focused on survival, the meta shifts towards preemptively deciding where to run upon hearing the fizzle of a teleport flash or the clunk of a lowering floor, rather than engaging the encounters on their own terms.  

 

But despite the crude staging, I thought the encounters themselves were consistently enjoyable and well made, like Crumpets stripped down, or cramped takes on Skepland skirmishes. (Now the name makes another layer of sense.) If you blur together the fights into an average pictorial representation -- like those "face of the average human" composites -- you'd probably get a 4.5-monster encounter with an imp and a hitscanner and a revvie and a hell knight, the latter with a suspiciously pink torso. Oh, that still leaves the 0.5 to account for, so toss in maybe half an archvile (the lower half of course) or caco horns mixed with pain elemental arms. Mancubi and arachnotrons are conspicuously absent, being too thicc to navigate these claustrophobic rooms. 

 

The aesthetics aren't bad. As the stamp-sized versions of the screenshots might hint, the attractive texture choices and pleasant combinations of natural colors go a long way. The looks don't hold up quite as well to closer inspection, though. Although there are nice-looking areas, the mix of assets in a scene can be sloppy, and distinct textures and flats aren't always separated in tidy ways.

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Zalewa

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Difficult, but fun and pretty. A bit claustrophobic, but it works here quite well. Nice application of textures.

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Guest

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Two short maps. Layout is very compact, feels a bit like 1024 maps. Texture use & decoration are quite good. Gameplay (UV) fails imho on two aspects: 1) too many popups, and 2) too little variation in choosen monsters per popup; all-over it feels very uninspired. As gameplay is the most important aspect of a wad: 2/5. BTW HOM @ transparent door (map01) on open/close.

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I liked it. The cramped fights were awesome, and the detail was pretty good as well. Hope to see more stuff from you in the future.

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Shit. Enter the path and you fall 200 monster . uninspired . I want to play , no magic tricks to practice . no one to play with .

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If you like warp teleport ambush traps, you'll like this one. Personally, I am more of an room ambush traps person. Map looks a bit small, but pretty good. Yes, there is a possibility of death. ~2/5

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