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The Madness of Mergatroid

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Well, this is a very impressive episode including 9 _excellent_ levels. All the levels in this episode were created by myself, excluding e1m5, which was designed by a friend. We feel that any DOOM fanatic will enjoy this episode and will be completely impressed by the work put into it.

Most levels on the Internet suck. It's a fact, but these 9 levels do not suck. id Software, if they ever saw this, would most likely want to know where the two of us were when they were designing the original DOOM levels. It's taken roughly a year to design the levels, in fact...I never planned to have any nice levels...much less a whole episode. It seems that after I figured out how to use DEU that level making just sorda seemed fun, so I designed levels like mad. ...but, I am a perfectionist (in most respects) and therefore I insisted that the levels I designed were no less greater than those in the actual game. I felt that if they could make complex levels, then so can I...and I did :) Most of the levels in here have been zipped and distributed via local BBS, but even those were completely checked and re- checked for bugs/parts I found to be lacking "id" quality. So, what you have here is pure DOOM art. ...not to mention my last DOOM work that will ever be. I am _tired_ of making levels. My creativity is draining (I also want to maintain a life :), etc., so I have decided to stop while I'm ahead.

So, play this all the way through...it is arranged as the original DOOM, smaller/easier levels first which work up in size/difficulty. You will see the quality, and you may also wonder how I kept my sanity...so, have a blast!

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Reisal

  

A solid E1 replacement, pretty easy and plenty of homagey architecture that is noticeable.

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NuMetalManiak

  
yeah, didn't see much difference between this and Fava Beans.

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No conceit in his family, the author has it all.These maps are awful.

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One of the better episode replacements. Mid-size levels, very much with the feel of the original. Beats me why whiners hate traditional maps so much - don't like authentic Doom wads? Piss off and find a game that's to your taste then. Easy.

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I really like the way the levels are layed out, it really re-creates a new feeling for playing doom. It's a good set of maps, but some textures are missing, making the overrall gameplay a bit hard. And there's a few similarities with the original doom maps, making some of the gameplay feel the same. But the layouts are great, so it's given me a new doom feeling.

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This is an old version of Fava Beans.

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it's just a first version of Fava Beans (id=3163). differences is minimal. ***** due to my respect to FB.

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^ I agree, the author, who surprisingly remains anonymous, in my opinion, could do with a damn good beating. The levels however are not too bad, considering they are 1995 wads, or are they? Who cares... 4/5 - 3.75 for being a big-headed twat! 0.25/5

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I can't see anything past the author's head. Sorry...gave it a 0

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If you're a fan of E1 style levels, check this out!

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