Game:

Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 8:53

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Inevitable Revenant Shite.

Yeah, go on all you US citizens. Try and make some shit tax-related joke with that acronym, I sure as hell can't be bothered. Probably because it'd never be funny, because there's absolutely no humour in any aspect of taxes whatsoever.

But enough of that shit.

What can I say? It's a map featuring the loathed Revenant. This one was (oddly) going well enough, when I remembered about halfway through the map that I was supposed to be out somewhere holding a glass of beer and talking shit to about four other people. Normally I'd have just thought "fuck it" and been late for my drinks (I can always play 'catchup', and it's not even like anyone I know shows up on time anyway), but I really couldn't be bothered with doing this one 'by the book' and showing it all off. You can see where this shocking change of mind happens too; I just start bolting around for things and ignoring anything that can't follow me. As a result, there's a near-nine minute video of relatively sloppy play, followed by a really crap score on the intermission screen.

Given that I'd recorded Cacophony (the previous map) on the same day though (only some 15 minutes beforehand at that), it wasn't really likely that I was going to put much effort into trashing this map. I can't stand packs of Revenants on a good day -- never mind a whole fucking map of them after having just fried my fucking brain from fighting with 400 Cacodemons -- so I really wasn't going to enjoy adventuring around this poxy map no matter what day of the week it was.

Architecture? It's alright, I wasn't really paying attention to any aesthetic detail though. Predictably the playing space is a bit cramped here; either the corridors are narrow, or you're running around on a not-very-wide ledge near some toxic shit. Or you're in a narrow corridor of toxic shit. It's bollocks to try and dodge homing missiles in any of these situations, and often just another excuse for authors to wank themselves stupid thinking they've created something legitimately challenging when really it's just a cheap and nasty way of making things more difficult than they should be.

I'll say it's definitely a reasonably challenging map (obviously), but not for any particularly fun/enjoyable reasons. Unless you get off on wading around in nuclear waste while some lanky undead cretin tries punching your fucking head off like something out of Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

It takes all sorts.

Whatever. It's over now, and (as far as I'm concerned) it can be fucked off to the dark corner of my WAD folder where 'levels I never intend to play again' can go.

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