HEXEN BADLANDS

Perhaps I am being unfair as this wad was made a long time ago but this wad was very boring. There is a surplus of unnecessary nothingness throughout the map especially in the starting area. You also spawn immediately under attack by a serpent that is not even in your view which is very cheap. There were no real challenges or obstacles offered by the map. The end was very anti-climactic as there was no boss fight or big battle. There was a krater towards the end that was completely useless given that there is an abundance of mana around the map.

Adding more detail around the map would have been nice. I noticed efforts here and there like the blood stain in one of the prison cells. There are a lot of tall walls around the map which could use some 3D texturing. I like having a vast space but there needs to be some variety in the space. Some mounds here and there, more enemies, perhaps some vegetation... it's all very bland as it stands. With the huge space, there is a good opportunity to have a grand boss fight in my opinion. 

Large but uninteresting level. There is a lot of vast, empty space, and when you do get to a building or cave it's very undetailed and usually uninteresting, full of corridors and boxy rooms. The enemy encounters are also pretty repetitive and uninteresting. There aren't very many artifacts to use (except for flechettes, which the author seems biased towards), which is unfortunate because artifacts greatly contribute to Hexen's gameplay. As for the puzzles... there really aren't any. The author's idea of a puzzle is putting a key in a dark corner. That's not puzzling, that's just lame. Also there seems to be zero scripting, which again is a big part of what distinguishes Hexen.

Although this wad isn't outright terrible, it's not very good either.