Somehow I had never heard of Doom Retro before this week. While I don’t really like the change to how stimpacks work (it seems like you can bank yhem?) it’s otherwise the best ‘enhanced’ doom port I’ve messed with.
Even at high rez it looks so much better than GZDoom’s vasaline nightmare, plus one button changes it to the original resolution. And the mouse controls confine you to one axis so it doesn’t fuck with the gameplay too much! BUT IT ALSO ACCEPTS THE KEYBOARD CONTROLS WITHOUT REMAPPING. The graphical enhancements, like the screen shake and differebt blood colors kind of annoy me as purist but also are well considered and don’t feel jarring. Plus it does a decent job emulating the original invisibility effect too.
The rotating map is confusing though, for the kind of game that doom is but that’s a quibble.
I still think chocolate doom or dosbox is the best way to play doom but at least I have something for folks who can’t get over it’s weird old ways now.