Doom Wads/Mods #465:Akeldama
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/akeldama Polarizing wads/mods are among the ones I dread the most about doing episodes on because on one hand they do so much right but sadly they do a lot wrong, and there's 4 of these particular wads and mods in this season that are so polarizing that they are a doubled edged sword to me.
Akeldama is a 32 level megawad which was released on May 31rst 2020 was given a honorable mention for the 2020 caocawards, and was the brainchild of Michael Jan Krizik, who, you may know better as Valkiriforce who gained a 2011 cacoaward for Reverie and a runner up for the 2022 cacoaward for Anomaly Report. Several a-list mappers including Gothic, Khorus, and Pcrof helped with the mapping while AD_79, Stewboy, Pcrof and Viscra Maelstrom laying down a hodgepodge of tunes.
For the pros of this megawad? It's made according to text file as wearing the influence of Memento Mori and Alien Vendetta but I can also seem influence from Scythe and two wads that featured the name Whitemare which was made by the Russian Doom Community, All it's maps follow techbase, hellish landscape, nature settings that look well made and each map flows into the next which I greatly appreciate.
Akeldama's Ammo placement and health placement could be better as it feels like some maps were made as ammo puzzles, something I don't really.. like but I put up with, I've seen some often feel that the maps drag on too much but I'm neutral, only two seem to drag on for about 20 minutes or more and a wad coming up I'll talk of REALLY wears out the welcome on long maps.
The bad part? Akeldama's difficulty is all over the place with the beginning maps being very easy even on Ultra-Violence, but oooh boy, once you past the first part of Episode 1 in the megawad things go off the rails before long with Scythe II style ambushes and so much abuse of locked doors that you'll be gasping for air, Despite that the final map is whew, a chef's kiss, It's by far my favorite final map in a megawad in so long, and while Akeldama frustrates me to no end with the mentioned issues it's still a amazing wad worth playing.
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