I just played the gayest map on earth

I love Struggle Anteresian Legacy but I've never understood why this map and boss was made/included. It doesn't feel necessary at all, especially when the maps proceeding it are quite beautiful and climactic on their own. If you don't have any ideas for the map30 then just make it a credits / atmospheric map like Ancient Aliens or something. Antares also made the horrible map30 boss for Eviternity as well, why.

Without context I don't get what's wrong with this map. It looks short and fast

Iron Leech being Terrywads average appreciator.
Not that Terrywads are shit (they are not... well, not all of them at least), but the boss itself is the fucking AIDS.

i played maybe the first 10 maps, i don't really like the gameplay changes and the arena combat stuff, maybe when i'm older and wiser
in unrelated news, watching mtpain's nova 3 review reminded me it has a wereknight map, which i actually remembered pretty well (it's a cool megawad in general), now after reading all his shitposts it takes a whole new meaning... jk. nova 3 > nova 1 > nova 2

I think once you play enough final maps where you circlestrafe a custom monster that bodies you into red-flash oblivion the second you fuck it up, you start to appreciate the old gold Icon of Sin map again. At least id was trying to do something unique with the boss that ended the Doom-Doom II diptych -- with its suddenly serious atmosphere, its integrating the puzzle aspect of Doom into the level, showcasing a new mechanic (the mob spawning), presenting you with a monster immune to direct attack, that seems to have cursed you with a black speech which is the only significant speech in either WAD--, even if the years since have exhausted the concept to oblivion. If you regard the level in terms of the atmospheric effect it might have on someone playing Doom II for their first time, novice to the first-person-shooter genre, it's class. Yeah the gameplay might not be great now but we've near thirty years hindsight on the thing.

Au contraire, how is a map like this different than being slammed into by a pic of carnevil in a terrywad? It's not, it's just that it uses Raven assets so it's Oll Korrect. Or w/e. At least the terrywads own how shitty playing against a monster like this is.

I think Doom with how the engine is designed isn't really suited to having single monsters being extremely powerful anyway, I'm not sure it's really a thing that works with any FPS. The WADs that either end with just a really tough map (eg sf2012) or something still non-trivial but easy enough to act as a victory lap (eg aaliens, discounting map30 as it's basically an extended 'thank you'-map) end the set on a far higher note.

I must have played this wad once. I remember the color palette and atmosphere of some maps.
I don't even remember this boss though, probably ragequit on it and iddqded.

90s WADs are more simple and nostalgic.