Blitz: Race Against Time
By Russian Doom Community - 32 Maps
Format: MBF21
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Started: April 30th 2025
Finished: April 30th 2025
Status: Completed
(Played on UV)
Blitz is a wild thrill ride through a whole community megawad of maps with all sorts of visual and gameplay themes with a pretty cool gimmick tying it all together: The exit on each map closes after 30 seconds have passed. You'd think this would lead to all the maps blending together into nothing but surprisingly not. Maps have enough variety between just being straightforward speedrun platforming or requring you to figure out a fast enough path that it keeps things fresh, and the constant visual variety is very nice. This gimmick also leads blitz to being short as hell, you can easily slice through it in under an hour, though I suppose that does lead to the experience feeling a bit shallow. Another weird thing is that the 30 second timer gimmick is only on UV and Nightmare, all difficulties below UV have the timer completely removed. Even if you're like me and primarily play on HMP I highly recommend playing blitz on UV to preserve the timer gimmick, but if you end up hating the timer or just wanna explore these maps more thoroughly I still suggest giving blitz a try on the other difficulties. It's no absolute masterpiece, there's quite a few very jank and uninspired maps here, but the novel concept and extreme variety make blitz a very unique highlight among doom wads. (I also have no idea where the secret exit was supposed to be but maps 31 and 32 aren't super fantastic anyway.)
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐½
Favorite Map - Map 23: "SpinOnIt"
Least Favorite Map - Map 7: "I just can't stop thinking about balls"