Ancient Aliens
By skillsaw - 32 Maps
Format: Boom
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Started: March 16th 2025
Finished: March 19th 2025
Status: Completed
Disclaimer: All maps were played using Final Doomer's Ancient Aliens themed weapon set.
Huh. Explaining how I feel about AA is a little weird. It's incredibly well done, I love the custom texture set and original soundtrack by stewboy, and almost all the maps are very fun and well designed, but somehow I only feel meh about this one. There's only like 2 maps I didn't like but it almost feels like everything here is too consistent. Nothing really stands out or is especially bad, so its a constant plateau of 8.5-9/10 quality maps the entire way through, but no big 11/10 moments that ended up hitting really hard. The visual theme kinda blends together near the end, E1's ancient temples and early E2's neon space stations are very distinctive, but after around the halfway point there's a lot of temple-y maps in a somewhat alien planet setting that don't quite cohere together into giving E3 its own theme, kinda like skillsaw forgot to make new textures and just had to awkwardly reuse the ones that were already made. The secret maps are some of the weakest maps here, stewboy's cramped and confusing alien ship is a good idea that needed a second draft in terms of both gameplay and visuals, and map32 feels like it was made for fun randomly and thrown in here just to fill up the map slot.
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Favorite Map - ???: I can't really place my overall favorite with how similar the quality level is overall.
Least Favorite Map - Map 26: "Egyptian Metaphysics"