(played exclusively the shareware release using ecwolf)
your environment hates you, you can barely take more than a couple hits, and you don't know where you're going. wolf3D is pretty good! absolutely fascinating too look back at the beginnings of the genre, with levels closer to the mazelike dungeons of wizardry (notably, featuring a level designer that wants you dead, and those potted plants are no joke) and a tempo that's closer to wolfenstein's ancestral stealth games. this is where the game suffered, the stealth design wasn't developed enough, and at odds with the best moments of the game, where you find yourself running around with guns blazing. your health is low enough that you die just a little too much, and enemies are always positioned around corners in a way that'll mess you up if you aren't taking your time. also, the keyboard controls are overhated. super chill laptop game, don't even need a mouse. and bonus points for choosing an enemy that i'll never have moral qualms shooting.
your environment hates you, you can barely take more than a couple hits, and you don't know where you're going. wolf3D is pretty good! absolutely fascinating too look back at the beginnings of the genre, with levels closer to the mazelike dungeons of wizardry (notably, featuring a level designer that wants you dead, and those potted plants are no joke) and a tempo that's closer to wolfenstein's ancestral stealth games. this is where the game suffered, the stealth design wasn't developed enough, and at odds with the best moments of the game, where you find yourself running around with guns blazing. your health is low enough that you die just a little too much, and enemies are always positioned around corners in a way that'll mess you up if you aren't taking your time. also, the keyboard controls are overhated. super chill laptop game, don't even need a mouse. and bonus points for choosing an enemy that i'll never have moral qualms shooting.