/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it considered cheating to skip a map in a WAD during a continuous playthrough? I'm playing 10 Sectors and there's been at least two completely shitty maps that I ended up skipping to the next, losing my inventory in the process but I accepted that as a trade-off just to move on to the next map already.

In particular, it was Map21: Crunch!, which is this map:

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP21:_Crunch!_(10_Sectors)

It's not only a stupid-ass clusterfuck, but most of your time playing this map is waiting on a bunch of high-rising, slow-moving lifts that are littered around the entire map, and the gimmick is to find several switches scattered throughout the map to raise a damaging floor to a high-enough level to reach the exit. I ended up missing one switch in the end and I spent about half an hour trying to find it, so I said Fuck It and just went to the next map, losing my inventory and all weapons I had but fuck that shit. Not gonna spend another minute in that map again.