This is the best single wad I've ever played, and also my favorite horror game of 2023, doubt that it'll change.
I had only simple expectations for this map at the beginning, but slowly and surely it turned everything from slightly creepy to nightmare inducing to gut wrenchingly depressing. It had multiple qualities to it, and it brought out more than a singular emotion while playing.
And the ambient music that plays, it hit me really hard and made me feel things even when I was busy killing demons. Is it from somewhere or is it original and made for this wad? Has anyone got a name?
This is the right way to do horror content btw, by completely taking the user by surprise. The moment you know what you are in for, you have the edge. From the innocuous first look of the map, to the weird non-vanilla monsters that make a sudden appearance right at the perfect timing to throw you off all contribute to that. As it turns out having the guns didn't necessarily matter to make one feel safe.
This is a tremendous result to come back to after 15 years of break from mapmaking, so much so that it almost feels like boasting Kappa
And Tom was definitely a lucky person to have Veddge as a friend.
I didn't have much time to think about while going through at first, but I wonder if someone have attempted to compile a comprehensive narrative / storyline from everything that we've got from the map? Seriously, slowly going through the timeline of someone who had seemingly unfortunate things happened to him was subtle but yet more emotionally harrowing than I've first expected going into this.
