Was gonna play some Diddy Kong Racing for the DS, but the cartridge I got isn't working. Probably just dirty, but I need some cleaning solvent first, so instead of a cute racing game with cartoon animals I played through the original Doom (1993) for the first time instead (well, I might have played it on some computer as a kid back in the 90's, but I can't recall it). Bought it on Switch together with the sequel and Doom 64. It was rather fun. Mind you, I played it on the easiest setting. Basically you are a marine stationed on Mars that have to clean up a demon invasion after a failed experiment by some military force. You travel through different maps looking for weapons, ammunitions and healing items. Takes pretty much 10 to 30 minutes. Of course, you can do it around a couple of minutes if you know what you do and where to go. After battling a Hell Baron you get ambushed by a horde of demons awakening on another moon around mars that disappeared a couple of years ago. Battling through more hoards of infernal kind makes you confront the Cyberdemon. I was rather lucky in that fight since, he was caught in a room where I could pummel him with the Plasma Gun before he was able to get out and then continue with the rocket launcher.
Do you get back to earth now? No, time to fight the demons in hell itself, ending with the confrontation of the Spider Mastermind. Got the BFG so was able to fight him off and finally return to earth. And then supposed to play through the 4th episode. I think we are reaching the point where my abilities don't match the task at hand. I got to the second chapter and after that is stuck. Read up on it and apparently a very hard episode overall so I won't probably be able to overcome it without training and I don't really feel like it. Still, all you get is an end screen with the doom marine vowing vengeance on the demons for invading earth and killing his pet bunny.
Still, it was fun and enjoyable. The music is classic and the graphics are rather good. Somehow the smooth movement of the hand and weapons as you run is almost hypnotising. As much as its seen as an FPS, it's also a bit of puzzle and platforming. What is a bit irritating is how they put floor hazards in several rooms, give you a suit to walk over it, but this one map wants you to explore a maze and if you (like say, a newbie) takes all suits and still not find the key you are supposed to find. Still, overall find it rather fun. Also noticed there's a documentary on the game on the Swedish Public Channel so might check that out, although it seemed to focus on the ultra violence aspect of the game. Which, granted, are a lot, but you fight the legions of hell, isn't that something good? (As I write this I'm watching the 4th season of Seven Deadly Sins that pretty much put some grey morality of good and evil so maybe not).
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