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Doom: Eternal

Doom: Eternal is everything I didn't want from a sequel to Doom (2016).

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Joseph T.L. Clark
Feb 04, 2021
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I wrote this review immediately following the completion of Eternal back in March. I did not enjoy the experience. Although the game has since experienced the usual, and confounding, phenomenon of "Regression to Critical Acclaim"--that is to say, now people like it for some reason--my opinion has not changed. So here it is.

Purgatory

I completed this game…

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