What if — and I know this is hard to imagine — but what if… Hexen was good? I kid the Hexen fans. I know there’s a lot of love for the game for some reason, and I don’t mean to offend. On the other hand, this is my review series, so… indulge me just a moment while I tell you a few of the many ways that Hexen sucks. I mean, Heretic’s enemies weren’t tanky enough already? Okay, with modern modding tools you could easily tweak the HP values a bit yourself for a significantly better experience, but what’s
Tag: 2020 WADs
The City of Damned Children
I’ve never had the pleasure of watching the ’90s cult flick The City of Lost Children, but having played the Doom WAD inspired by it, I really feel like I should. The City of Damned Children is a 2020 community project, part of the long-running Doomer Board Project series, in which Auger;Zenith was a later installment. I’m hard-pressed to think of two mapsets more thematically at odds. Zenith was all bright colors and wicked fights, lots of in-jokes and silly references, while Damned Children is more sedate and moody; not easy on the combat but certainly more concerned about establishing
The Montiverse
You knew this was coming. How could I ever, ever end this column without taking a look at what Nicolás Monti has been up to lately? Some time in 2018 was the point where I started paying a lot less attention to Doom WAD releases. That was coincidentally around the same time Monti was taking a break from Doom. Even still, in the time since my review of Mano Laikas: A road to Gamzatti in 2017, our benevolent mapmaker has graced us with no less than ten new WADs. I’ve caught up on most of those and now I have