DOOM: Attempt Cereson, MAP10—MAP11, no commentary

Описание: Demonic Meatball's Attempt Cereson community project on Doomworld: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic...

0:03 MAP10: "Tentacle Soda Incident" by MoiraHeart
Atmosphere: it's an important part of crafting a megawad, and a great way to enhance it is by curating a few short, story-driven maps like this one. Well, I'm not quite sure what is going on story-wise, but the sudden introduction of the tentacle objects hardly feels irrelevant to what's going on in the wad. Are we fighting off some sort of cosmic infection now? Or is this just a new manifestation of the hellish influence we've been battling all along?

The level itself is straightforward, but that extra bit of environmental storytelling makes it stand out. You shoot your way through a small, infested techbase. There's a nukage maze that you'll have to solve at least once, but other than that it's just incidental combat and atmosphere. I quite like the exterior section as well where we can find what I assume is a shuttlecraft to take us off of this outpost.

Still wondering how soda got involved... unless the purple nukage has been grape soda all along. Sounds hellish enough to me, an avid grape soda hater.

6:08 MAP11: "Cosmic Threshold" by AshtralFiend
Woah, speaking of atmosphere. This intimidating space base is packed to the brim with detail, hinting at a larger scale tragedy inflicted by the tentacle/demon onslaught. It's quite the behemoth map, taking me over 20 minutes to finish (not counting time spent replaying sections). It flows pretty well, with some clever use of locked doors to string you along to where you need to be. The combat here is tough. Like ambushes of mid-tier monsters tough. It's not quite Plutonia levels, but it does feel like it's toeing the line of late-game TNT. AshtralFiend definitely set the stove to medium-high and delivered a badass level.

28:31 Missed secrets