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this wad SAVED MY MARRIAGE. 3/5

Mini adventure on 3 maps. Go back to Phobos first by solving a small mechanism. Then explore the surroundings of e2m2. You finally escape on a ship. Fun wad.

Now this wad is sorta conflicting, for one if you suffer from any of the following problems: lack of ammo,regenerating health,the maps,multiple deaths. You can't play doom for shit but the i also have issues with this wad. 1. The doom 3 type design disgusts me, mainly because i don't like doom 3 that much 2. I hate the painkiller esque moments 3. It's unfinished and dead That's all. RATING:3/10

If this was the 2001 year I would rate this 5/5. But in 2022 this wad is nothing but a lame retro. I got the feeling that this wad was trying to showcase the advanced Zdoom capabilities rather than trying to create a good game play, and even with the advanced features the design still feels flat! HMP or lower players will probably enjoy this as it is a below average difficulty with plenty of ammo/items. I wanted to rate this 2.5/5 stars, but since half star cannot be selected I rated it 3 stars. We really need to be able to select half a star in rating.

Did you like doom2.wad? This is like doom2.wad, only harder. In that respect, D2TWID succeeds quite handily. That said, I find the maps are good in pretty much inverse proportion to how "experimental" they are, "experimental" being a euphemism for "forget everything the community has learned since 1994 on what makes maps fun to play" or "relive Sandy Petersen's worst ideas". There are many great maps like 3, 6, 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, and 29 that have either fast, fluid combat, rewarding exploration, or both, interspersed with "experimental" maps like 5, 9, 10, 19, 24, and 28 that "experiment" with every possible way to annoy and frustrate the player--mandatory treks across damaging floors sans radsuit, health-tax teleports into crowds of enemies at close range, irritating teleport puzzles, heinous Pain Elemental spam encounters (the entire wad could be treated as a course in how not to use Pain Elementals), awkward platforming, hideous texture combinations. Overall this map has more highs than lows but the lows can get really, really low.

This map gets a 5 star from me for 3 reasons namely: Firstly, the gigantic architecture of this really inspired my mapping process, as this was probably my 4th or 5th wad i ever played after i finished making my 1st ever map. 2nd-ly, because this was made using DCK. And lastly, this gets a 5 from me as this map has the coolest looking sky I've ever seen in any maps I played or seen other people playing... (Horsehead nebula ftw!!!)

lagged on my 3060 Ti, 5/5 perfect Romero-approved WAD Seriously though, it's an interesting piece of Doom history but honestly serves no purpose other than pure ridiculousness. And I like that sort of thing. 3/5 Edit: I'm now realizing it was lagging because I used GZDoom. This is a true Kappa moment.

Designers had no idea what they were doing with the gameplay. Uncreative layouts with basic progression, too much symmetry and boring gameplay really make this a wad worth skipping... The soundtrack is alright, until episodes 2 and 3... then it becomes laughable at best.

An all killer no filler wad with a novel color palette and fitting synth soundtrack. The first 3 levels fly by (in a good way) and the 4th is a beast of a closer with just over 500 demons to murder. The level design is open and begs to be properly routed/optimized, and looping back to previous areas is well implemented and feels natural. It's not a difficult map set by any means—you'll probably beat each map on your first playthrough—so don't be afraid to let loose with your weapon of choosing. 5/5, this wad accomplished what it wanted to.

The Darkening episodes are an interesting look back at the turning point in the Doom community. Episode 1 represented a swan song for the classic era, while Episode 2 ushered in a brand new era of meticulously-detailed maps. Darkening E2 is certainly a huge step up from E1 in terms of visuals, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better-looking singleplayer map made prior to its release. However, this high detail comes at the price of the gameplay. It's obvious the team hit the wall with the vanilla engine, and the result are 12 extremely claustrophobic and tedious maps. The first 6 maps are a slog to play through, as the monster counts are low and the only challenge comes from the utter lack of health pickups. The episode picks up considerably in the 2nd half when maps are allowed to have greater opposition than just 3 Revenants, but the core loop never goes beyond the most basic, predictable ambushes and tedious switch hunts. Not helping matters is the soundtrack, which might just be the worst original MIDIs I've heard in any Doom WAD. There's a piano solo in the MAP09 track that's so horrible, I thought my MIDI player actually broke! The Darkening E2's importance in Doom modding history can't be overlooked, but there were far better levels in earlier WADs like "Icarus" and "Dystopia 3". In other words, Darkening E2 is exactly as good as you'd expect a product derivative of Quake II to be.

I tried my hardest to play a good amount of this one just to have the rights to put a review but I could not bare anymore after I completely explored level 3 and gave up out of being lost. I understand this wad has a puzzle gimmick going on but when I got to level 3 I almost thought my game was bugged because they literally copy and pasted the entry room...like why? The detail was OK at best considering it was 1996 but with games like Duke Nukem and Quake out, and even comparing to The Ultimate Doom the level design and overall detail is just garbage and cryptic for no good reason. Just for the sake of poking fun I will also say when I opened up the readme and read "I'm your average heavy metal freak" I had a feeling I should have just turned away. Not recommended. Played with crispy doom on UV