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I just hate to feel alienated from a franchise so near and dear to my heart because of its staunchest flag-wavers: 'This is ours it was made for us!' And maybe it was. It can be exciting to know that something was lovingly made, and just for you.

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I also think the original series wasn't nearly as overt in its singular camaraderie as Doom Eternal is. And I feel like I should: I played Doom (1993) throughout the '90s, and consider myself a fan. These exhibitions are a blast to watch they also fill chat rooms with men obnoxiously shouting 'DOOOOOOOOOOM!' I love a good bloodbath I just don't feel the same surge of euphoria by posturing that some obviously do. Devilman Crybaby (2018), I hardly knew ye.ĭoom Eternal is made for the Twitch crowd, a tough-as-nails game aimed squarely at the best of the best.

All we're left with is the outmoded, homosocial worshiping of the Doom marine by a largely male audience: the giga-Chad admired by Real Men everywhere. None of these things exist in Doom Eternal. 2020 is more than a nostalgic Pax Deorum for '90s kids it has girls and queer people in it, and open-if-optional sexual preferences. I couldn't shake the feeling of a didactic series of action figures brought out of the closet for les enfants terrible to reclaim their lost childhoods.Īnd honestly this would be fine if that past wasn't so sexless, so ostensibly 'neutral' and male-centric. The game plays like an ultraviolent, 'Saturday morning' cartoon, worshiping the bulging bicep, not the bosom. Its target community is effectively an all-boys club, filled to capacity with men who loved Doom (1993) in the good ol' days. Unfortunately the game's cultural attitudes are equally dated. So does its in-game cache of nerdy secrets-floppy discs and vinyl record repressings. With its floating 1-Ups and obvious item roster, Doom Eternal feels unapologetically retro. It's just an unbroken sequence of different locales with seemingly no relation to one another, a colorful Rubik's cube of combat. If it were open-ended, or selected from a map screen a la Mega Man (1987), perhaps it would have worked better.

You're effectively a tourist, skipping from place to place. The areas in Castlevania (1986) and Metroid (1986) sit inside a larger eponymous structure Doom Eternal is all over the map. Returning to the levels, they remain visually varied, but there isn't much visual progression. Give me some Mercyful Fate, or better yet, Aubrey Hodges! Nothing comes close to rivaling 'Rip and Tear' or 'BFG Division.' Instead, the new material works best to complement the action. Likewise, the lonesome, 2016 chorus is gone, replaced with dubstep and nu-metal-anathema to the thrash crowd of the 1980s.įor a longtime metal fan like myself, Mick Gordon's second Doom entry feels like a solid 'B,' but hardly a magnum opus. Gaze upon torture chambers, abandoned castles, and lakes of fire. Its levels aren't mazes to lose yourself in they're scenic, and have only one direction by which to move: forwards.

It's all highly Romantic from a visual standpoint deliberately antiquated.ĭoom Eternal ignores many of the other ways a Gothic space can function. These robed outsiders announce themselves with gaudy icons, skulls and yawning spires also an outside, the Slayer belongs to an order of medieval knights called the Sentinels. By visiting Hell on Earth, Doom Eternal returns an 'older,' devilish religion to the mortal plane: the Hell priests. In Britain, the Neo-Gothic movement initially focused on the return-of a Romanticized past, imprinted on the Catholic faith as demonized during the Reformation.