Review giopep 5/5 · May 16, 2024
I feared replaying this and finding out it didn’t age well. I was being crazy. First of all, I immediately felt at home, I guess because I played it so much back then, and that must have helped (even though I honestly think it aged so much better than many of its contemporaries). Also, I played the fan-patched version that …
Read moreI feared replaying this and finding out it didn’t age well. I was being crazy. First of all, I immediately felt at home, I guess because I played it so much back then, and that must have helped (even though I honestly think it aged so much better than many of its contemporaries). Also, I played the fan-patched version that makes it run on modern OS and adds some quality of life stuff. And that must have helped too. But really, it still is amazing, and not just because of the general vibe, the visual style, the music, that bunch of great ideas (the mirror! The mouse! The twin!), no, it really still is so much fun. And it still is so much fun for the same reason that makes the original Doom still so much fun: you can feel in every pixel how it was maniacally designed and tragically polished to the edge of madness. It belongs in the “Perfect & Immortal” club.
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