Thy Flesh Consumed

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Thy Flesh Consumed is the fourth and final episode in Ultimate Doom.

All the level names, and the episode title, are phrases taken directly from the Bible. The list was compiled by Kevin Cloud, and John Romero assigned names to the individual levels. This episode was also Tim Willits' first contribution to the Doom series, as he joined id Software after the release of the original Doom (version 1.666) and Doom II.

Story-wise, the episode is both a sequel to Doom and a prequel to Doom II. It chronicles the Doomguy's battles against the legions of demons that the Spider Mastermind had sent through the doorway between Hell and Earth, the very same gateway that the player had earlier used to return to his home planet. (It is presumed that that there are two distinct regions of "Hell". The first is what the Deimos moon floats over and where Episode 3: Inferno takes place. The second is the marine's home of Earth which will undergo terraformation at the hands of demons and become a Hell in is own right.) Ultimately, though the player is victorious, inflicting heavy losses on the invaders and avenging the death of his pet rabbit Daisy, it turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory as the demons eventually overrun the major cities and the stage is set for Hell on Earth.

It is set on Earth, with the background sky being a light brownish-yellowish with white hazes (clouds), similar to the ending cutscene of Inferno and the starport levels of Doom II. The graphical style is generally hellish, though there are a handful of techbase themes used. While there are some features carried over from Doom II, such as switches that require keys, otherwise all of the music, textures, monsters, and weapons are of the original Doom.

The levels are considered much harder than the levels of the three other episodes and Doom II. Unlike the other episodes, the difficulty in Thy Flesh Consumed does not follow the expected learning curve as one progresses through the levels. It could be argued that E4M2: Perfect Hatred is the most difficult, not only of the entire episode but also the whole Doom series, as the player faces a large number of monsters all at once, while having little cover. By contrast, E4M7: And Hell Followed and E4M8: Unto the Cruel are tricky but relatively straightforward, as the monsters are more dispersed and can be dealt with piecemeal.

1 Levels
2 Speedrunning
- 2.1 Current records
3 Notes

[edit] Levels

Ultimate Doom episodes
Knee-Deep in the Dead The Shores of Hell Inferno Thy Flesh Consumed

[edit] Speedrunning

[edit] Current records

The Compet-N records for the episode are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File
UV Episode	04:26	Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore	2002-09-19	ep4-0426.zip
NM Episode	05:54	Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore	2002-09-16	e4nm0554.zip
UV Max Episode	22:07	Radek Pecka	2001-12-16	ep4-2207.zip
NS Episode	09:13	Vincent Catalaá	2002-01-06	e4ns0913.zip
UV -fast Episode	36:00	Chris "Ryback" Ratcliff	2001-03-23	e4fa3600.zip

[edit] Notes

The level names were taken from the following passages in the King James Version of the Bible:

Thy Flesh Consumed: Proverbs 5:11 - And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed

E4M1: Hell Beneath: Proverbs 15:24 - The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from Hell beneath.

E4M2: Perfect Hatred: Psalm 139:22 - I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

E4M3: Sever The Wicked: Matthew 13:49 - So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just

E4M4: Unruly Evil: James 3:8 - But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

E4M5: They Will Repent: Luke 16:30 - And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

E4M6: Against Thee Wickedly: Psalm 139:20 - For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

E4M7: And Hell Followed: Revelation 6:8 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.