Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri's hot start throws you headlong into what is quite enjoyable combat for the time, a small sandboxy city brawl with imps and pinkies and hell knights and revenants after you, mancubi around corners, pain elementals to take out, and lots of roaming and sniping zombies of every type. That is the highlight, and it's all graced with cheesy sound replacements and James Bond music. The '90s. 

It's plain-looking by today's standards but has character, and there's a nifty hyper-dithered nebula sky replacement, although fans of Downtown (lol) won't get their verticality fix. The progression is charmingly incoherent. Lots of random illogical random teleports from one area to another, a lot of what feel like secrets but are actually unmarked … wait you use that key where again? 

The major fault is that the puzzly exploration parts are very divorced from the action. It's easy to kill 95% of the monsters before making much actual progress, since most of them are roaming about and demand your attention. Then you  end up with five minutes of teasing out what to do and where to go to exit, in silence, knowing you won't even get to use the extra "fake secret" resources you can find on much.

A pretty good city map sets in this little village that somehow resemble a compact version of Downtown (and Plutonia MAP10 "Onslaught" in the level flow), is not at levels of other's map by this author Rigel I in layout and details term, but is still pretty entertaining. Also the new sky is pretty rad, a dark erupting volcano in the night. The mission impossible midi is...ok, fits the map but unfortunately plays one time and time only (at least in gzdoom), for some bizarre reason. Fun map overall.