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DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations DLC Review: 9/10, Here's Why
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Next up on JVGS, we got a review of
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Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations, which
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is which is the new DLC that released uh
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July 7th uh developed by ID ID Software
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and uh published by Bethesda Softworks
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and it's on all Courien Systems PC minus
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the Switch 2, I believe. Uh people don't
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sleep on this. Yes. Uh, it cost $19, but
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to me, uh, Doom: The Dark Ages
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Revelations. Well, [ __ ] it. I'm just
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going to give you the score off the bat
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cuz that's what I was supposed to do.
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Uh, I'm going to give it a nine
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a nine out of a 10. Uh, which I believe
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is the same score I gave uh Doom: The
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Dark Ages, which I love. I love all the
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modern Doom games. Okay. Uh, starting
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back in Doom 20 2016, that was like the
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fast Doom, the kill as fast as possible
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Doom. Then you have Doom Eternal, which
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actually is the true uh ending of the
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modern uh trilogy of Doom. And that's
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more of like a platformer, you know,
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bigger, you know, grandiose uh Doom uh
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that a lot of people actually swerve by
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today is the best one. Uh, and then you
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got Doom: The Dark Ages, which is like
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the prologue to the story of the Slayer
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and uh, Hell, the the makers ahead in
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hell, the demons of hell versus try to
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invade Earth and all this [ __ ] that I
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really don't understand cuz I really
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don't understand the Dooms modern Doom
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story too much. But, uh,
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so I would say uh, I played this on the
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Xbox Series X and I beat this. I turned
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all the sliders down. not, you know, I'm
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not into the dick measuring, uh, you
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know, gameplay, uh, playing [ __ ] on
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hardcore unless I have to. Uh, so I
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turned all the sliders down to easy and
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I power through the game in like five or
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six hours just because I'm busy and I
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got to get ready for Assassin's Creed
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Reync in a couple hours. So I beat the
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game really fast. Five, six hours of
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campaign and that's just me going
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through all the chapters. Um,
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Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations takes
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the best parts of Doom: The Dark Ages,
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takes the best parts of Doom 2016, and
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takes the best parts of Doom Eternal and
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makes it into a concise five to six hour
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campaign in my, you know, uh, in my
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playthrough. Like, if you turn the
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sliders up, you will die a lot and the
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game will take hours longer just to
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beat. Um,
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so that's basically the gist of that's
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why I'm giving it a nine. Okay, it takes
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the best parts. It doesn't add any
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fluff. It doesn't add too many puzzles.
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Doesn't add too many platforming
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sections. Doesn't add too much combat.
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Although the combat and music are
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amazing in Doom Revelations. Uh to me,
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that's one of the best parts of it. The
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puzzles were good. Uh the hub, which is
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you, you know, Slayer sent to Purgatory.
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That's the hub and it branches out until
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uh Acus Cha Chazm of Zgorath and Hell's
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Core and another one uh into these
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areas. And this is like a huge Metroid
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Revana and it's designed very well. Uh
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there's parts that you can't get to
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until you beat the game and you get the
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in-game unlock rewards. So we could go
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back and complete challenges and more
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upgrades for the chain spear which is by
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the way
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it to me the chain spear transforms the
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game play from Doom the Dark Ages into
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Doom Eternal into Doom Doom uh 2016. Uh
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at first I hated it. You know, I I was
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like I was having these issues with the
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cuz you have to key bind at least I did
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on the Xbox Series X. I had to keybind
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the spear uh to uh parry to dash and to
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um
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and to basically slash and [ __ ] So, it
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took me a while to get used to it
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because of the muscle memory. It does
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not play anything like the shield. The
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the uh cuz you can't double dash, you
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can't dash with the shield. You could
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dash with the spear and you could attack
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from distance. There are unlocks also
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with the spear where you can like throw
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it and you can like swing around and hit
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enemies, but it literally changed the
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whole game play. What? Let's just say
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this. By the end of the game, I was
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actually prefer preferring the spear
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compared to the shield. Although the
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shear the shield is much easier from
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Doom Eternal. That's how you play with.
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That's what you play with in the whole
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game of Doom Eternal. But the spear it
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really transforms the gameplay and is
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also a part of the story, too. Uh, all
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right. Let's get into the story a little
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bit here because the gameplay, the
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music, all that's amazing. Okay, the
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loop is amazing. The puzzles are really
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good. The level design is really good.
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Oh, yeah. There's also these hollow
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shrines where you upgrade the shield and
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the um the spear and your armor and your
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ammo and uh your health. Okay, so these
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are like little hub spots within the
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maps and stuff that you can uh unlock.
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you unlock you you you gather
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collectibles or relics and um
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uh platinum to upgrade uh is part is the
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upgrade system basically. So yeah,
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there's collectibles and everything.
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Metro Deania, that's what a lot of this
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game is really. Uh so the story goes
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that the Slayer basically travels to the
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Council of Hell or whatever and he gets
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his ass literally stumped. No, not it
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starts on Earth, but then he's gets his
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ass kicked by this boss called the
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henchman, which is, you know, spoiler
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alert, you know, he's the ending boss,
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too. But, uh, anyways,
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Slayer gets his ass kicked and he's
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basically his armor is destroyed, his
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shield is destroyed. He's sent to
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purgatory where he's weak but uh uh a
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creature I don't say creature but like a
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demon or or the wretch which is called
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the architect who's I guess is also part
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of the the previous uh Doom games and
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then part of the story actually of the
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whole you know trilogy. He actually
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helps Slayer. Okay. There are also these
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sequences where uh after you beat a
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certain level there are also boss fights
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which which are really good. I don't
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really want to name too many of them,
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but boss fights are good. And at the end
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of the chapters
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um of the maps, the areas that you
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complete, uh there is these sequences
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where it takes place in 2046, I believe,
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in January, and there are these
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counterinsurgent
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uh missions where you're a doomarine.
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So, the Slayer actually I it has to be
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the Slayer. You know, they show his
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history as a regular Doom Marine and
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he's doing these counter terrorism
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missions and there's this girl with his
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teddy bear and stuff. I wish there was
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actually more of that because that was
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interesting as hell. I didn't know I'm
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not a Doom nerd. I don't really know
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[ __ ] about it. Uh but it really to shows
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another side that the Doomslayer, you
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know, and everything. Shows his face a
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lot in this uh
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in the Revelations, too, by the way. But
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the story is basically that he sees King
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Navik's death. And King Navvice is a
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father of Commander Thera who basically
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is running like I think they're called
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the Night Sentinels and they run like
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the [ __ ] galaxies like they're like
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the army of humans of the galaxy. And he
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returns gets it Slayer gets his [ __ ]
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together, returns to uh Earth with the
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help of the wretch, the architect, the
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demon guy. and he basically uh shows
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what happened to her father, the
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kingmaker, who is a main antagonist in
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uh Doom Eternal. She's like this holy
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relic and she wants to use the the
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armies of hell to further her soul or
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some weird [ __ ] and uh use demons to
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kill humans and collect their souls and
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stuff. just like I said, I don't know
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what the [ __ ] going on really in the
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story, but uh anyways, Slayer returns to
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Earth uh into a place called Uprising
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and he shows Commander Thera how her
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father actually died, you know, by
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treachery of uh Con Maker, the
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antagonist of Doom Eternal, who's like
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the ending boss in that that game. So
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Khan Maker is a big part of uh Doom
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Revelations. So, Doom Revelations
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basically wraps up the whole true
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prologue that the the true start of a
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Slayer and what happens to him and you
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know why he's fighting the devils and
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demons and [ __ ] and con maker and you
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know you already know the end of the
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story especially if you uh beat Doom
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Eternal and you beat um
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the the gods DLC for Doom Eternal. So
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you you know how everything's going to
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end. So this is kind of like that pole
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fiction story where the the modern
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series starts in the middle goes to the
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end and then then the next game or the
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next movie basically is a the true
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prologue of it. The little story does
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that you know but um I enjoyed it's okay
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as far as story is concerned but like I
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said this this game is basically just
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pure Doom. Has a lot of metal music, a
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lot of gore, a lot of fast action. you
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know, the action is much faster than in
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um than in dark ages with the the spear,
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but the spear does take a lot of muscle
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memory to get used to.
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So, the game uh I I thought this game
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should have been a standalone product
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actually because it's that good. It It
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reminds me of uh Dlight the Beast where
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it could easily be its own standalone.
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Now, it does cost $19.99. I personally
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just uh bought the upgrade because I had
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it on Game Pass, but it is 1999, so it's
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not cheap. But to me, it is worth it
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because it just takes the best part of
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the modern Doom series and
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puts it into a concise five to six hour
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campaign. And after you beat it, there's
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a lot of unlocks, a lot of challenges
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and stuff. Um, the game is could easily
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be super challenging if you want to turn
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the sliders up and everything. So, uh,
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yeah, I'm going to give it a nine out of
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10. Don't sleep on this. If you're a fan
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of Doom, the modern Doom series, uh,
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definitely get this game, but you do
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have to have, uh, Doom: The Dark Ages, I
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believe. And I think that will be it for
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the review for, uh, Doom Revelations.
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I'll see you in the next one.
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And yeah, you also got to collect these
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keys and everything, these skulls and
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stuff,
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but that's basically it.
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Next up, Assassin's Creed Reync. See
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you.
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