Blues Brothers 2025
By Ravendesk and General Roasterock - 24 Maps
Format: MBF21
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Started: November 6th 2025
Finished: November 18th 2025
Status: Shelved
I got bored. Blues Brothers is definitely a quality wad, but it does kinda suffer from having an overly repetitive design framework. Much like Wormwood 5, bullets (and as a result, the chaingun as well) are totally gone, and the BFG has its own special version of plasma, but unlike Wormwood 5, Blues Brothers also cuts both shotguns and lacks the extra high damage melee weapon, meaning your arsenal is stripped down to basically just 2 guns (since the fists are as usual not viable and the pistol now also does literally zero damage) 90% of the time, and when you do get the BFG you're heavily restricted in how much you get to use it. None of the maps here are badly designed, but with your main weapon being the plasma rifle for the whole game and only sometimes getting the rocket launcher and BFG makes things kinda blend together, not helped by the very gray concrete visuals that every map has. All hitscanners have also been changed to shoot plasma, with a new doom 2016 looking enemy that vomits a nonstop stream of death at you being a constant source of annoyance. Nothing about Blues Brothers is remotely bad, things are competently designed and if you want a bunch of slaughtery maps in a cool monochrome cityscape you've got exactly what you want right here, but the insanely limited arsenal and kinda repetitive map feel makes me just wanna definitively put this one down so I can go try out something else.
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐½
Favorite/Least Favorite Map skipped because the WAD wasn't completed.