Lost maps

I genuinely like joe-ilya's maps. Maybe its because they don't try to be what everyone on Doomworld wants to make, which is hyper-detailed stupidly hard maps. These maps have a classic 90s charm to em. They honestly don't look bad at all and they play pretty well. One complaint I have is that the epilogue maps are a little weird and unnecessary.

Looks very surreal, the texutre placements are kind of weird and not all that compelling. But hey, the megaWAD has it's moments, and doesn't deserve the HUGE amount of complete flak it gets.

meh

Wow i didnt knew that you can do maps :P, The style looks ok in the 90's age but today thats just a lot of amateur maps, missalinged textures and texture placement in some senseless part of the maps,however i like the way of the gameplay, pretty funny in my opinion. With some practice, you can do a good remake of those maps, you have a potential inside, just you need to show it. Oh! and for those haters can suck his dick! You did a mark in doom world and not everyone does this everyday. Rating: 3/5

why did i play this

Nothing beautiful to look at, but I never ever dropped a sweat during fights and has some original ideas I've never seen before. Had its moments and is a quite solid effort from Joe himself. 3/5

Some maps are OK, some are not. But this WAD sucks balls. It doesn't even have full set of 32 levels: when you complete 22 level (Epilogue) - the game doesn't even show the cast screen,no. Instead of this, it shoves you into MAP 23 of DOOM 2. And it continues until MAP 30. No ending title screen. And yes, the final 21st level is dumb: you have to deal with 4 Icons of Sins (I think,it is parody on Master Levels map "Mephisto").

Even worse than BOB BOBOS speedmapping session

Sadly, I thought this would be better than I expected , which was simply bad possibly mediocre at best. That wasn't the case... It was much much worse...

I don't understand why this has such a low note. I've played through all maps here, not just the first three. Most of them are very fun to play with good difficulty balance. They're also well laid out so that the flow is rarely interrupted. Yes, the visuals are odd, but they're not rubbish and you can get accustomed to them after a while. Gameplay before visuals, and gameplay rules here.

One star for actually admitting these maps were rejects. I can't believe I actually played through all of this and came out alive. I think one the maps ripped my ears off with it's terrible MIDI. I'll live though it, hopefully.

A well intentioned effort suffering from a lack of playtesting and an unfortunately rather insufferable author.

Good luck,joe-ilya.

No offense to Joe-lya, but these maps aren't good by any standard today. I played through maps 01-03 and I just couldn't play anymore after that. I don't like the rectangular sectors, random designs, and random monster placement. It's just a mish-mosh of sloppy editing.

if you can muster up the courage to actually play through the whole thing like I did and not be bothered too much by the awkward texturing, then it certainly would be quite the experience. is it a good one? well, the gameplay in some maps are varied, and some are total clusterfucks in both design and gameplay (looks at MAP15). I would give this a 1.5 or 2 and hope that joe's ego doesn't get shit out of hand the next time someone gives him constructive advice.

The maps don't seem to have any coherent layout, and look like a bunch of sectors strung together with unusual texture choices. Monster placements are fairly random, and at times, not even balanced (Was there any playtesting involved?). Theres also some unnecessary and tedious gameplay elements, like having to shoot 12 switches while being attacked by barons. Overall, this wad is downright a catastrophe. Avoid like the plague.

Pure rubbish.

The maps are very cryptic in some spots and also enemy placement was non-existent. Also TEXTURE ALIGNMENT!

Keep at it. You'll get better, man.

Played first five maps: these are your typical bizarre and utterly awful 1994 maps... except they were apparently made during last two years. Just for the record: i have no issues with low end visuals as long as map provides decent fun. Sadly, these play exactly the way they look. I absolutely refuse to believe that author is serious.

The Main Thrill of doom isGameplay which is exciting and perfectly fine here...visulas arnt bad too. dont know why so negitive reviews.... 3.7/5

I agree with insaneoflex312, the author can't take constructive criticism and thus I'm going to give 0 stars. The maps are really shitty btw. :P

Average maps. Terrible geeky music, even Hexen's GROVER.MID sounds better (that is my least favorite song from Hexen and Hexen has a very good soundtrack) -P

Playing this is about as fun as having a horse take a dump on my face.

Maximum Doom : The Mapset.