![]() This trades the claustrophobia of the originals for more intense player exposure, particularly during the super strong key ambush in the inner yard which has a couple of sneaky pain elementals. The setting feels more spacious than its Doom 64 precursors. It's very pretty though bereft of 1997's rugged charm. The love-letter starts you in the outskirts and has you work your way toward the central keep in order to access the southern and then northern towers. I especially like the fun detail of pouring the same baleful, red light over everything exposed overhead.Ī Kaiser re-take of the nested layer fortress approach of, most obviously, "Altar of Pain" and "Unholy Temple". Kaiser has a lot of fun with the colored lighting, here, giving all of the wall sconces their own particular shades. I enjoy the scripting since your initial panic at seeing the former is stoked even higher when the floor drops out to level the playing field for the latter. The solid core of pain elementals with an outer ring of arachnotrons makes for something that's still risky to blitz with the nearby, secret BFG. The opening outdoor area looks great with its beams of hanging corpses but the western bit has the biggest brawl. ![]() Not that you won't find a few of the latter. This gothic fortress takes the basic theme of "Spawned Fear" and errs toward the side of slaughteryards over dark dungeons. The author isn't quick to throw the hate on but there are tons of zombies, even more imps (normal and nightmare), and cacodemon waves. ![]() This is more of an attrition level than anything as far as difficulty goes. I dig the toxic trench, accessed early on, and the architecture of the northwestern area is cool. The architecture is wicked cool and I'm sure that more fun stuff will come given how intimately Kaiser must know the engine's capabilities. It's a complex outing, though, whose navigable layers must be explored via teleporters while the many apertures allow the imp varieties to harry the player. Some of the visuals offer thematic echoes of "Staging Area" and it even shares the same sort of long, winding pathway that links everything together. The first thing that hits me upon seeing this techbase level is how cool it is having more "modern" level design tropes rendered in Doom 64.
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