Punching Barons - Episode 59 - netbeast
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4/13/1994
Chris Schultz
Editor: DEU 5.0
Doom Version: 1.2
If you thought we had seen the last of the generic STARTAN levels, you would be incorrect! We got yet another entry into the depressing and generic world of STARTAN, where everything ends up looking the same and you start to forget what level you were playing.
Looking past the rough STARTAN exterior, we get a level that spawns us in a square-like area with four Barons, a mob of Demons, and some Shotgun Guys. We have a nearby room with a Rocket Launcher and one of the corners has a Shotgun. We also get some Soulspheres and Megaarmor, but they are all trapped and are actually impossible to get. Needless to say, we are in for a world of pain.
Except for the fact that we are rewarded for exploration here. There are a couple of secrets thrown around a particular area, though it is not unfairly hidden, we actually are not required to spam any walls here to find the secrets. Instead, we just need to detect the misaligned walls, which lead us to heaps of ammo which will definitely allow us to take everything out. Plus, the mixture of enemies in this map means we can definitely thin the herd through a lot of infighting, as I do here.
This map isn't the greatest by any means, it is still just a generic STARTAN level made of a few squarish rooms. Still, it has the feel of being an actual challenge with viable methods to actually work through the complications. At the end of the day, gameplay is the most important thing, and I think in some avenues this level has it right.
I do not like the choice to make the Soul Spheres impossible to get, mainly because this prevents 100 percent completion. If this was Quake, a trap like this would work perfectly fine since there is no Items counter, but here that counter results in this level just feeling like it is cheating me. Still, levels happen all the time where you cannot get 100 percent completion, so this is but a small annoyance.
The generic STARTAN makes this level pretty boring and generic, you aren't going to see anything that will be memorable or interesting. If you want a quick level with some difficult fights, this might be a viable choice, though out of the millions of levels out there, this is probably not the greatest of choices. Still, for a WAD to get combat correct seems to be a rarity indeed, so perhaps it is actually one that people should overlook the abysmal texturing in order to enjoy the actual level.
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