Mutiny Monday

In many ways, the visual design is rudimentary -- common are misalignments, cutoffs, and ugly joins between two distinct textures or flats. The aesthetics aren't woeful, though; attention to theme- and setting-building, as well as narrative detailing, kept some of my interest. The music choices are good. 

Gameplay is easygoing and bloody. Tough fights are used sparingly, like seasoning. The author is good at using monsters in ways that pose little threat but are still fun to fight. The opening map sets the tone -- mixed squadrons of zombies to be mowed down with the shotgun and chaingun. While the other maps rely more on traditional mixed-species fights, they keep a similar spirit. A lot of my enjoyment came from my ability to maintain a maniacally blitzing pace while riling up chaos, manufacturing my own trouble, and generally being hyperactive. 

Conveyance was occasionally an issue. Once in a while, I'd press a dead-end switch and be left unsure what it could have possibly done. The first two maps were short enough to just press everything and hope it worked out, but map03 had an irritatingly convoluted method to lower its exit bars. Since I'd done everything else, I skipped to the next map after consulting the editor. (I had suspected the map was broken.) 

And outright brokenness could not be ruled out. The text file says that no advanced ports are needed -- a determination made by guessing. prBoom+ fails to run due to a texture error, so this is a Z-compatible wad. 

I mostly liked this, but the conveyance disaster was hard to be remotely soft on. It directly undercuts what I enjoyed about the set.