Glaive

UV continuous without saves

Port: GLBoom+ 2.5.1.5 -complevel 2

Total IGT: 0:27.19

Personal Difficulty Evaluation: 0.9 (1 = Plutonia)

Personal Rating: 7.4 (out of 10)

Died twice, on Map01 and Map08.

Pretty fun short mapset. Have some interesting traps to surprise the player. I played this against some of my friends in a 20 min race, and later I finished it by my own. I like it because everything is stock, but it's not very outstanding because everything is stock too.

Solid, short and sweet, nice to look at! Really enjoyed Map 4 and ended up doing a demo of it!

Scythe, Scythe, Scythey Scythe. when has Scythe not made someone want to try their luck with making short, fun levels? Glaive is basically Scythe-lite, the levels sadly won't be as memorable as what inspired them (this may be because they don't have names on the automap) but they are genuine at heart and provide plenty of fun for even the novice players. there's not a whole lot of maps and this goes by the techbase theme, but at least Glaive 2 has been recently released on idgames, so there's more to do with those.

Fantastic design, and the gameplay is just really smooth. I love the fact that this is a Scythe inspired wad, because the difficulty rises towards the end of the wad, but the maps are never complicated. John Romero has 8 tips (rules) for designing great maps. You really nailed this one: (8. Creating easily recognizable landmarks in several places for easier navigation.)

Pretty good Scythe inspired set of levels. The only real downside is that there's not more levels.

Good Scythe-like wad. Definitely delivers on what's advertised! 4/5 since it is nothing 'legendary' or groundbreaking.