Recent reviews by Squeena

There's a level of freedom in the gameplay here that's not available in Guilty Gear 2 -OVERTURE-, simply impeccable!

This game does the same thing all the 3d GTA trilogy games do to different degrees, where they have some cool characters and cool mission ideas and an awesome soundtrack but they ♥♥♥♥ the whole thing up by having genuinely awful plot pacing and some absolutely painfully dated and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mission designs that roadblock you from progress for like an hour. Vice City arguably has the best story out of it, 3, and San Andreas, but also has probably the worst example of padding I've ever personally experienced in a game; That being the part where the game literally becomes a glorified Roblox tycoon and makes you wait to grind enough money for property right before the final mission, all the while nothing interesting plot-wise happens for like 2 to 3 hours.

That being said, you can't buy this game officially anymore and the new "definitive" edition made these games worse somehow so its all moot anyways lmfao

Its a classic game that's deeply beloved by many and also you can't buy it anymore so it genuinely doesn't matter what one person thinks at this point. That being said, I flat out didn't enjoy this game. The story didn't engage with me, the silent protagonist felt very bluntly implemented and all the missions just felt kind of annoying to complete. I pretty much just spaced out to the drum and bass radio station any time I was in a car until the game ended.

I don't really hold it's shortcomings against it for what its worth, but it doesn't mean I liked playing it lol.

Buy it for the files and then source-port that ♥♥♥♥ IMMEDIATELY because the mouse smoothing in this port sucks balls

briefly funny but still gimmicky shovelware.

This game's gimmick sucks, buy bejeweled 2 or 3 they're way way better

This ♥♥♥♥ sucks ass

THIS GAME DOES NOT HAVE SUBTITLES. I WANT TO SAY THAT FIRST AND FOREMOST BECAUSE THAT'S GENUINELY PATHETIC LMAO.

As a heads up, I have never played the original version of DOOM 3 and honestly, I don't really want to after this lol.
It sucks that I didn't like this game because there honestly were a handful of things I actually kinda liked. (Particularly the world building and atmosphere in the early game levels.)
Despite going into this installment with the expectation that it wouldn't be like the rest of the games in the series, I was still pretty unimpressed with what I played; if this was meant to be a survival horror take on the DOOM formula, I would say it failed pretty miserably.
Even though I was playing on the second hardest difficulty, there was pretty much never any point where I had to manage my health, ammo, or armor because I was always either maxed out on all three or would find resources every five feet that I walked. DOOM 3 also makes the completely asinine decision to tie your sprint stamina and flashlight battery to their own meters, but they drain so slowly and recharge so quickly that they pretty much do nothing other than be kinda of annoying. I get that the original version of the game had a different flashlight mechanic and they had to adjust for the BFG edition but whatever it doesn't work well now.
Now, those issues would be more permissible if the game wasn't trying to be a survival horror, because then it wouldn't come off as bad game design necessarily, BUT the game decides to try and go back to being a regular action heavy DOOM game near the end of the game. The problem with that change is that the game isn't designed around that kind of game play. For example: doom guy (or unnamed marine I don't know or care who he's supposed to be in cannon) moves pretty sluggishly and a lot of the weapons have been changed to be less consistent, (hold onto that thought cause I'll come back to it) which makes it more annoying than tense when trying to interact with conventional combat arenas.
This next point is mostly personal preference so take it as you will, but the way the game presents its story and the designs it chose to go with for enemies and human npcs frankly bore me to death lol. Pretty much all npc dialogue is practically incomprehensible due to the aforementioned lack of subtitles, so I literally had to stop my eyes from glazing over whenever white, bald, gruff marine number 400 decided to monologue at me about the next objective while my character silently stared back with zero interaction. Also, the demon redesigns are kinda cool sometimes but for the most part have pretty much none of the charm that the original designs had from the original games.

As a final note ♥♥♥♥ THE DOOM 3 SHOTGUN! WHO TOLD GAME DEVS THAT SHOTGUNS ARE INACCURATE FROM MORE THAN 2 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FEET AWAY? IF THAT WAS HOW THEY WORKED CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING WOULDN'T EXIST AS A SPORT! ITS NOT IMMERSIVE ITS JUST STUPID AND ANNOYING.

tl;dr: DOOM 64 is a waaaay better horror-focused DOOM game if that's what you want out of this series, just go buy it instead.

Its better than episode 1 but that's only really because episode 1 was a flaming pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and it would be genuinely mind boggling if it didn't at least accidentally end up being better.
Regardless of that I still wouldn't recommend this game over playing any of the classic 2d Sonic games or Mania LOL.

Its super refreshing to play a game that's genuinely really funny, has an amazing soundtrack, an amazing art-style, and doesn't have a single bad level or mechanic throughout its whole playtime. It's incredibly easy for me to consider this game of the year; its just that good.

GOTY material right here!!!