Mass Extinction

I said we’d see Nicolás Monti one more time, didn’t I? I’m nothing if not true to my word. Mr. Monti in fact commented on a previous review of mine, quite a few years ago now, recommending that I play his megaWAD Mass Extinction. His “most mature work” as he called it, and believed it would be up my alley. Well, I’m ashamed to say that it took me until late in 2021 to take him up on that, but he was spot on. Mass Extinction is more of the Nicolás Monti that I love. What else do you say

The Montiverse

You knew this was coming. How could I ever, ever end this column without taking a look at what Nicolás Monti has been up to lately? Some time in 2018 was the point where I started paying a lot less attention to Doom WAD releases. That was coincidentally around the same time Monti was taking a break from Doom. Even still, in the time since my review of Mano Laikas: A road to Gamzatti in 2017, our benevolent mapmaker has graced us with no less than ten new WADs. I’ve caught up on most of those and now I have