I will slowly pick away at EROTT but for now I'm saying it is complete. It's a pretty unique shooter that has a lot of good going for it though I think all the tanky enemies while having to use the MP40 gets quite tedious. The new episode suffers from that the least as the map creators recognized this and provided a nice cathartic monk killing level. It's cool that it's basically an advanced Wolfenstein 3D 2, I just wish there was a shotgun because again killing things can be tedious, as well as almost everything being a hitscanner. Also some of the most annoying (but funny) sounds in gaming. DOOM is my FPS GOAT but wow this OST is probably better than DOOM.

Amazing remaster of a already great game, easily the best way to play this game in my opinion. There's a lot of content here, and most of it is good, although I didn't really care for the shareware episode too much, it felt too slow paced and didn't give me enough weapons and enemies to play with. The main part of the game is great, and there's a new episode called The Hunt Continues that's pretty good as well. It took me about 20 hours to play the shareware episode, the main game, and the new episode while getting all the steam achievements and I think that the game overstays its welcome if you do all that. But the main part of the game is easily my favourite part and it alone is worth the price in my opinion. I also loved how you can use the soundtrack from the Rise of the Triad remake, which was awesome. I will say though, that the new lighting option makes the game harder by restricting how far you can see while enemies can still shoot you just as easily as before from far away, I had to turn this setting off because it made the game much harder for minimal gain. All in all, this game is weird and I love it for that, I highly recommend it.

After making it my mission to play through as many iconic FPS games as possible, I gave this game a go shortly after the release of the remaster and hated it, resolving to never play the damned thing again.

Fast forward a few months and I gave it another try, and I'm glad I did.

First of all, I love everything about how the game looks, feels and sounds. Digitized actors are a fetish of mine, and I adore the bizarre and often hellish liminal spaces the game makes you inhabit.

My first issue is the weapons. They look and feel good, generally. But the machinegun is so much more useful than anything else in the game that you'll only be switching off it if you have ammo to spare for one of your special weapons (almost all of which are explosives.)

This means that while it's cool to dual-wield pistols, you never feel the need to. And many of the more interesting special weapons are lost in the crowd amidst one another, reduced to serving the same purpose of nuking the stronger enemies on sight.

Then there's the level design which is labyrinthian, obsessed with hidden switches and invisible touchplates and obnoxious traps.

That being said, the game does several things I adore, particularly with the way it handles having multiple playable characters. And the powerups, while often annoying on purpose (shrooms and elasto come to mind) are a fun novelty.

There's also so much character to everything, for better or for worse. The game is ridiculous and doesn't take a single moment of itself seriously. And I never got tired of seeing a cultist get down on their knees and beg for mercy.

It also has an absolute banger of a soundtrack.

In summary, I find myself endeared to the game despite it's problems. And I just might play it again someday with another character or try out the new episode.