The fact that nearly all of the extreme violence in the game seems to be happening TO the demons and not inflicted by them only reinforces their non-spookiness.Īlthough some designs are still fantastic. It almost makes the demons (well, again, mainly the cyber) look cartoony and non-threatening, despite all the blood everywhere and stuff. I think his horns are a big contributor, like on creepy/satanic demons you'd see pretty much regular horns, maybe even straight up animal horns (like a bull's or or a goat's), and IMO that is much more interesting than the boring old 'rocky hide + thousands of spikes' trope. The cyber stands out for some reason, as the most 'generic fantasy'-looking out of all of them (well, apart from his rocket launcher I guess). The worst offender for me is the cyber-demon, but I feel like in general they are moving from creepy and/or satanic demons from Doom1+2 towards generic fantasy demons as seen in every fantasy game ever. I admit I am a little worried about the demons' design.

I honestly assumed it was the floating ball things, cacodemons or no (why did they just fly off anyway?), but if this is true then it's cool. Nice spot! They did say in the post-showcase interview that they hid another baddie somewhere in the background almost as an easter egg to find.

Baron of hell doom 3