[Pagodia] MAP01: Lean Machine (UV-Max Demo)
5time to add something new into the rotation. this is a squonker wad that came out a couple of years ago. i could play cannibal instead... but i like to wait for final releases of things. plus this one seems pretty cool. it's got an aggressively altered purple and green palette that i like, although i haven't figured out how to apply it to exported assets. it's also got a kitschy japan theme, the sort of japan where the doors are labeled with the kanji for door (戸) and there's a spike spiegel sign pointing out where the super shotgun is. we even get a gendo ikari themed doomguy for the intermission screen.
also of note from this wad: several tracks were pulled from an album called "POWER! SC-55" that features music performed on a roland sound canvas sc-55. as of somewhat recently, the soundfont from this device was extracted and decrypted. so i figured: why not, instead of my usual arachno sound font, use the sc-55 soundfont instead? i was looking for an excuse to add per-wad port options to my doom command center*, and so i've set that all up. it's pretty nice!
anyway, this level is relatively straightforward, although there are a few parts that are pretty spicy, in traditional squonker fashion. notably picking up the super shotgun is pretty hazardous for your health, trapping you in a pit with an archvile, a few other enemies, and only a couple pillars for cover. you also get to meet the crackodemon, a faster cacodemon that thankfully does not make horrifying noises, and the green cyberdemon, a cyberdemon with less health. i have no idea what the origins of the latter are but it's been in tons of wads. the green cybers have also been rigged to perform the commander keen behavior of opening sector 666 when they all die. not sure that gets used here though.
anyway i'm sure this will be a perfectly fine and relaxing adventure. looks at last map in wad, sees "by juza" it'll be perfectly fine!
* a ~50-line shell script.
pagodia: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/lev...
get the demo: https://s3.yrriban.net/doom/pagodia_m...
source port used: dsda-doom 0.27.5
sound font used: SC-55.SoundFont.v1.2b.sf2
flags: -complevel 2
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