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I HATE THAT ELF!

Just finished episode the first three episodes of Heretic on Smite-meister, all wand starts.

The inventory system is cool, but most of the items are just Doom pickups or only somewhat useful, and I never used the Chaos Device once. They're all still way more useful than the items in the Build games. The Tome of Power is a pretty interesting idea to mix up a level's dynamics, though by the end I mostly just used the wand and the crossbow's powered up versions because I hardly ever had the mace.

There's a lot more random chance than Doom; enemies might drop ammo or items, the Firemace might appear on a map, and enemies like the Iron Lich or the Maulotaur have multiple attacks that are randomly chosen. I'm generally not a fan of randomness, especially in games that aren't Rogue-influenced, but given that Heretic usually gives you enough ammo in the map, randomness is usually just a matter of "I guess I got a Tome from that dude, nice," or "I guess I've got more ammo, nice."

It's certainly harder than the first three episodes of Doom, though not exactly "hard". The level architecture and texturing is interesting, detailed and has lots of transitions from indoor to wide outdoor areas, but the difficulty comes primarily from stuffing those levels with tons of enemies; just about every level past the first few has at least 100. The DoomWiki says that Eps 4 and 5 are much harder, so I'm excited to see how that plays out.

The enemies themselves look muddy and kinda boring compared to the clear, distinct, and iconic Doom monsters (except for the Iron Lich, which just looks fuckin weird). The weapons are whatever, just Doom dressed up in fantasy. Crossbow looks cool, but just adds more randomness. The gauntlets sound fucking rad.

It's fun, but mostly because Doom is fun, and this just keeps that going with slightly new tech. Thy Flesh Consumed was my favorite Doom episode, so I'm hoping Heretic's Ep 4 will be as cool.

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What is that sound meant to be anyway? Its in Unreal too.