Very nice map; the previous training with speedmaps have paid off! Nicely balanced, mood set with quite efficient lighting, sounds and music, and of course a lot of good brushwork - well, what's not to like?

Very nice! Thanks for your efforts, and thanks for sharing!

Absolutely loved the visuals, very sinister, a true evolution of the runic theme, with great lighting. Combat was a little tedious at times, but it doesn't take away much from the overall package.

Aesthetics: nice balance of details and minimalist flat textures. Rooms are flat, but doesn't feel boring and id1-like. It feels modern, and the combat with those rooms is really dynamic and fun. I.e, really looks nice, and uses some really creative ideas with the battles, too.

Combat: my only complaint is that I ran out of ammo for the last fight (skill 2). Couldn't beat it without cheats, simply due to ammo shortage (can't fight a shambo in a room with moving pillars with just an axe). Also, a couple of times throughout the map I was fighting hell knights and ogres with only a shotgun, even though I had already gotten other weapons. Ammo was just too scarce. Drop a few more nails across the map, and it's a really, really solid map.

I got soft-locked by falling into one of the small elevators with monsters in them (which get shut off by encountering a secret). If the player falls into those holes, there's no way out; had to noclip.

Very Nice, give it a 4 !

There is a lot to love about this — the non-linearity, the mechanisms, the scope. Yet somehow I found I wasn't enjoying it much. I wish I could be more helpful in explaining why, but too much of the map somehow left like a trudge rather than a flight. I think perhaps part of it is that a fair few combats are of the locked-in-with-newly-spawned-monster ambush type. After a couple of those, I started not really trusting the map to play fair, which meant that even when it did play fair I was suspicious. Sorry.

Oh yes, those pits you can fall into! These violate an unwritten, but I think important, rule: you should never be able to get yourself into a situation that you can't get out of. (And if you do, the map should kill you, for example by flooding the pits with lava.)

Also: no grenade launcher until right near the end, when I had maybe half a dozen monsters left to kill. No doubt there is one in a secret earlier on, but it's hard to overstate how frustrating it is to complete subquest after subquest without the reward of explosives.

@MikeTaylor "I wish I could be more helpful in explaining why..." I can explain - it's over-designed. Too much. To the point it feels unnatural. It's not the worst sin of course. It's looks & plays more or less fine. And yet you will never get fully immersed into something unnatural & overdesigned