The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?

finished it a week ago, and it was a good game, however Doom Eternal is still the best Doom game and so much higher in quality and enjoyment than this one that it was kinda disappointed. Played it on Nightmare with 130% speed, and min low parry window and I feel like wthe weapons in this game are really meh, second class citizens while the shield does most of the work, 75% of the game I was using just the basic shotgun because on Nightmare I really needed the armor drops and fully upgraded it drops a ton of armor from everyone. The melee weapons are trash except the last one so theres absolute no point in them, the parry upgrades are overall average and I ended up just using the stun one while the rest were trash. Speaking of weapons, I take it back a bit, I did love the rocket launcher as once you parry you can heal yourself quite decently with it. The BFC was shit and outside of some challenges I completely forgot I even had it. The music is fine, but I have 0 favorite songs while Doom Eternal I have quite a few, so another minus compared to it. Visuals are pretty fucking bad, theres absolutely 0 reasons why this should require raytracing hardware, nothing looks advanced, projectiles dont feel better or better looking, the architecture was absolutely boring. Level design was ok, but inferior to previous ones. The story was shit, I had 0 investment in its lore and they just memed the Doom Guy being an unstopable force, while in previous games, especially Doom Eternal, it made a huge impact, you could see in the voice recordings, the lore was amazingly written, here it's just generic stuff.
Now all this sounds very negative, but it's still a good game, like an 8ish/10, but compared to Doom Eternal it's not very good, at all. Considering how long it took them to make this short game, being a gamepass product and an 80+euro game that's inferior to its previous ones, it seems that id's future is in the shitter imo.