kuchitsu

Essential easy Doom, supported by a beautiful sky, choice midis, and a serene green aesthetic. Has one of the best status bar replacements I've ever seen.

Too stingy with ammo and health to really be considered "easy". Map geometry is reasonably polished, but gameplay is mostly just running around shooting at hitscanners / imps / pinkies with the regular shotty. Inoffensive but forgettable. 

Easy WAD on UV, except rather tight on health and ammo. Lots of hitscanners. Maps 01-02 are trivial in their difficulty, 03-04 are relatively easy, although I got lost on 04 for a bit. 05-06 are quite nice. Mostly good monster placement. Some very tight corridors.

If you play each map with a pistol start, things can get hard somtimes, because you are barely going to have ammo or health. Overall it was challenging.

I loved the textures and the layouts were creative.

it's pretty much average at the very best. nothing to it for the average player although resource starvation could be a problem in the first two maps.

Done with these settings:

- Crispy Doom 4.2

- Ultra-Violence.

- Continuous combined with pistol start mindset, and pistol starts.

- No saves.

Quick fun mapset. It's visually pleasing with some love for brown and green in city-esque structures, under a beautiful deep blue sky. Funny detailing too, which is appreciated for its old-school vibes, like many DoomCute trees, a boat from Alien Vendetta, a vending machine that gives free drinks, and more. Also, cool chill midis from the 90's era, or at least the majority.

Gameplay is rather simple but freewheeling, meaning that these maps can be played at any pace you want, with your typical incidental enemies awaiting for your arrival, and they generally appear individually or in small packs without much pressure applied to the player. It doesn't mean it's going to be an easy ride. To compensate the low monster counts (not over 100), Memfis restricted resources to make players respect their opposition, such as health and ammo are tight in the first couple maps, armor debuts later. This is a good sign that continuous won't precisely make your life easier, until the middle maps, so any form of gameplay works fine. Progression is linear, but space is generally reused to avoid long backtrack, which is a plus. As said above, combat is on iwad-level, a few sneaky hitscanners here and there, some ambushes than surprised me like the labyrinth in map 05, just old-school fun a la classic Doom II or Requiem, or any quality wad from the era.

There isn't much to say about secrets, although a couple will grant the player extra options to tackle monsters. I also don't have favourite maps, nor disliked ones, they're all lovely in the same way. Be aware that it's not possible to get 100% items in a couple maps due to some existing for decoration. 

Overall, recommended to anyone looking for an excuse to play Doom at work, during breaks of course, or just a good half an hour at home. My rate is 9/10.