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>>10393982
>how can you know in advance if you're going to be enjoying the map enough?
I don't, but if I die once or twice, I get a feel for how sadistic the map may be, so I start using saves from that point. Hell, sometimes I don't even use saves until a dozen tries in if the map is ball-busting but a blast. That's how I recently played through Actinia, and I only used saves on MAP03 and 04—and I didn't even end up using the save on MAP04, the run where I saved ended-up being my first clear.
I'm taken to trying the map without saves at first, but that's a good instance of me being willing to use them earlier once I get a feeling for the general difficulty of a WAD after a few maps. I won't say somebody should or shouldn't use maps, tho; just in my experience, strength, and hope, there's a heckin' valid approach to single-segment attempting as well as saving and loading.