Hmmm... nice topic. The ghoul section needs more posts like this one to stay alive. Keep the good work!
Yeah, the map dissapointed me too, not only because the huge, geometric C&P trees, but also because the ugly, rotating, pixelized sky, the lack of interesting places (like the grave and the swamp) and the large empty spaces left between each tree. In the original GF3, trees were a commom obstacle when dodging ghouls, but not here. The map was giant, not a problem at all, it was really nice when we got lost and helpless. Also, there was 20 souls lurking around the forest, and if you collected all, they unlocked the good ending and some secret ghouls.
Doomkiller stole the ghouls from the other wads, and made nasty experiments with them (and at the same time ruining them IMO). He made Soul Harvester, a bastard sjas-clone version of Slaughtereur (my favorite ghoul from IcyTux Addon
), an GODLIKE Yurei that moves at the speed of light, an suicide Jugulum that spam fireballs like theres no tomorrow and never stops bleeding, a Creeper with balls that causes horrible headaches but was no stun effects after all (not only that, but also a flying, charging version of him, Ravager), an Choke that randomly stops and spits blood "balls" (more like vomit), an Eyesore that creates entire baby armies when hit, Clowny and Misty (also from IcyTux Addon) on steroids, Billy Mays ghost (ok, a joke ghoul, but also a sjas-clone...) and... TADDAH! the mother of all ghouls... an flying bone dragon with the bestiary diabloist fire attack... (now THATS a joke). Not only that, but the ghouls had a LOT more health (it was really boring to kill them), and came always in the SAME ORDER (not like in GF3, where it was a surprise which ghoul was the next). Good old Sjas and Uncle Jitty were left without any changes.
The dual shotties were fine, low damage but good for hunting the souls, but the fire arrow? Useless! Taked forever to shoot, and was not so powerfull. The music was the same from GF3, but it changed when the mother of all ghouls was on the map (i really liked her music) and during the ending sequence.
Of course, its not so good like GhoulsWorld and IcyTux Addon, but, it still being ghouls forest.