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SKYEWOOD

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Play Doom outside in a forest,complete with angry trees,groovy mushrooms,exploding toads and a real DRAGON!


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I Drink Lava

  

In terms of pure gameplay, Skyewood is a bit of a letdown with weak geometry, small-scale encounters, and confusing map progression. In terms of pure creativity, however, Skyewood stands out even 25 years later due to its surreal visuals and originality. The forests are quite convincing for 1996 taking mouselook limitations into consideration, and the early attempts at the "void" style are quite captivating.

 

There are a lot of Doom maps of varying quality set inside techbases on Phobos. You won't find nearly as many that feature fire-breathing dragons, chattering trees, or exploding toads in the archives. I have to give it points for that alone.

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Let's go. Trippy alice in wonderland experience. Mumbling trees, mushrooms and giant toads. Really groovy. Excellent midis. The final boss (so fluffy) makes the adventure close like a dream.

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^^ Oh dear, someone needs to take a chill pill. It's a surreal experience that I guess won't appeal to some. But I love good wads that aren't run of the mill. There are many "military base" levels (etc.) and too few that take us into a different reality of some sort. 5/5

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Fucking Awesome, considering it's age -NMN

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Three maps filled with nice ideas. Especially cool considering the age! -- 5/5

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Nothing special in terms of gameplay, but was at least interesting for some of the trippy ideas and resources. The Evil Dead sound bites were a bit excessive in places, though. Now back to hobbit hunting.

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Very nice looking wad, nothing special though. I like outdoors maps very much. Also, is that the "let's go" sound from Raiders of The Lost Ark?

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Jeez, is this WAD set fugly. Annoying noises too. Just take some real shrooms instead. You'll have more fun. - PrinceOfDorkness

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One of the best!

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Brilliantly surreal and beautiful map. The "angry tree" was creepy enough too. 5*

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This is NOT Doom.

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who cares, it's cool

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A very interesting set of maps that do try to use Vanilla Doom effects to create a new style of game. Although my favourite level is the first, the second was also quite playable. Interesting features include interesting sounds and thoughful use of textures to increase detail. The dragon boss well-inspired however not as well executed. I would give this wad 4 stars if it had been released today. I grant it an extra star for being 12 years old. 5/5 -Kilkakon.

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Absolutely brilliant. Steve Rescoe later worked on Doom3 (credited as a "Designer").

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Very unconventional, very refreshing, and very good indeed.

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I think I like this one more now than I did when it came out. Really awkward and interesting. **** -sargebaldy

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Steve Rescoe also worked on Daikatana. What stories he must have. This is a visual feast. It looks wonderful even today, and goes to show that style doesn't age. Best of all, it's the author's own work, not just sprites taken from another wad. It has a real Alice in Wonderland acid nightmare quality. Map01 is an introduction, Map02 is the meat, Map03 is a let-down (it's just a big maze). The dragon is cute and silly.

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cool 5

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    • 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.
    • By Walter confetti · Posted
      One of the earliest Doom user maps and It shows. Despite the raw and empty design, the author take a good use of 3D space creating a small fortress surrounded by mountains, the level Is fun to play and not hard. A fancy escapade and a piece of modding history.
    • By Walter confetti · Posted
      Third and final released map of a WIP episode by David Rager, it's more long, complex and hard than the previous entries in the series. A well made map with pretty challenging parts with a mix of monster usage, envoirnmental hazards and some puzzle gameplay. Fun but pretty harsh.
    • By Walter confetti · Posted
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    • By Walter confetti · Posted
      This is like the physical version of the "we have X at home" meme in DM map format for Quake E1M1. Very poorly made, broken exit and missing textures here and there but at least the level KINDA resembles the original source somehow.
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