i love the guy and i hardly play games. fairly sure he's a leftist too but that doesn't surface in his videos much. not many game reviews—much less ones about doom!—contain sentences like "Sooner or later, life is at last a list of things you every day deal silently with not having done."
highly recommended! don't be put off by the running time! easily digestible in chunks if that's more your style
honestly, I think that's what makes it. he puts a whole experience together in his reviews and I think it works best if you don't actually go play the game after.
i think you're on to something there. he does such a great job of conveying what the sensation of playing the game—as tim rogers, in the 90s, without a soundblaster— felt like. when it works, and it often does for me, it's a distinct experience that uses the game as a touchstone to jump off of to explore more than just the game