Pirate Doom II
By Darch - 32 Maps
Format: MBF
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Started: February 9th 2026
Finished: February 9th 2026
Status: Completed
A massive improvement over the original version, wow. Pirate Doom 2 does basically everything better than the first game and addresses all my major issues. The reskins have been touched up and look even better, and the game in general just looks WAY more vibrant than the first one. All the GZDoom aspects have been gutted in favor of making things work much similarly to standard Doom 2, but a handful of the unique enemy behaviors have been kept around. This also means the obnoxious way too dark dynamic lighting has been swapped for regular doom lighting, and that plus the generally more vibrant everything makes these maps infinitely more fun to exist in. Level design has also been cleaned up significantly, things feel way more doom-like and less reliant on weird gimmicky stuff like the annoying circus level. I do kinda feel like the length is a bit much. Granted I did play literally the whole thing in a single day, but some of these maps can feel a bit filler-y, and some of the earlier maps probably could've been cut in favor of having more of some of the later map themes that only get one level before never showing up again.
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Favorite Map - Map 22: "Scuffle Town"
Least Favorite Map - Map 27: "Hell"