Journal #6911

I just played Kasperg's Idol Hunt and a nameless czech mod, Worst Holiday. What happened was that over at planetphillip, Kasperg and a hamster posing as a HL mod reviewer were having a row because the hamster wanted storytelling in the gameplay which he felt Kasperg didn't do well at in the mod. I'm not going to go into detail because I'm a gamer, not some debate mediator. Whatever.

Anyway if you want to find idol hunt on twhl, it's been deleted sadly, for reasons that I wasn't here to know of. What I do know is that the mapping in Idol hunt is really good.

That's only a taster. The detail is astounding, the rope you see in the pic actually sways back and forth a bit. I also found the fact that in the beginning, every light pole was linked to the generator was impressive. The puzzles were also pretty impressive, mostly because the architecture involved in them were very well made. But you know there were some parts where I died unfairly. Take a look at this.

Guess what's behind the door? So what happens you have to go IN the door and retrieve a paper-thin artifact so you can unlock a door. But to get the thing means you have to rush into the room and get singed, which isn't healthy. You prolly don't have enough ammo to destroy it because another one appears near the beginning too, so what can you do.

At one point in the mod I died like 10 times screaming because of a broken bridge. You had to jump across like a maniac but obviously it isn't easy to do. I hope the jumping skills you built up while on Xen are still polished.

Anyway that's Idol Hunt. On the other hand, the czech mod has you going on the worst holiday of your life. In the beginning you start in a pyramid where the door is about to close locking you in forever. Now I don't know about you but that is a horrible way to start a mod. Locked in forever. Why!?

Anyway you can go and wander the pyramid unarmed, getting attacked by zombies and scary crabs (scarabs) and having to take damage and all that. Until you happen across a big ball of teleportation. It then takes you to a snowy facility, and the words "Canada" appears on-screen.

Now Jeff who lives in Canada was complaining about how it only just started snowing, and lo and behold in this mod it's so freaking cold that I'm taking cold damage just walking outside. Not only that, I found PENGUINS in the freaking field. Penguins in Canada I have never heard of that. Oh, you mappers and your silly imagination.

So you noclip into this facility and fight American Marines for some reason or another. It some kind of combined science facility-military training camp in Canada, is all I can say.

Notice the strategic enemy placement, lol.

So in the final area there were like 10 soldiers and piles of snow on the ground. I walked into them and guess what, they were snow mines. Boom. Game over. Good mod.

Alright, stop comparing desktops, go check these out.