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02 April 2021

The Slayer Arc: Good Start & Familiar Misdirection

DOOM 25th Anniversary Wallpaper. Taken from Slayers Club.

With the release of The Ancient Gods Part 2, "Doom Slayer Saga" has concluded and its finale was quite rough. If you're keeping an eye on DOOM community (or, more specifically, it's "nu-DOOM" part), you would've noticed how latest DLC for DOOM Eternal got rather mixed reviews in various aspects: gameplay, story, lore... And, even from "observer perspective", it's easy to see why. Thankfully, situation wasn't that bad: id Software and community listened to each other, so it seems more peaceful now.

That's partically what I want to talk about this time. However, since I'm just not able to play "DOOM 16" (not to mention DOOM Eternal), I would like to focus on story/lore from both games as an retrospective of this modern take on the franchise. I think it's a good moment to do that as we have a complete arc in this current DOOM universe.