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Post by deadshadowrunner on Mar 27, 2014 11:28:09 GMT
Like stevendoig is doing,I'll also play through gamebooks and post them here.Just don't expect them to be funny.
If,for some reason you are overcome with an urge to post a playthrough here,then please do.
Next up:A gamebook that greenspine hates,written by "Jak Shadow"
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Mar 27, 2014 11:52:24 GMT
The F.E.A.R. Agency
Thought I'd start with something small for the first one,so I chose this 80 reference one that everyone hates.
You are a secret agent blah blah.I'll just cut to the chase.If you really want the full background you should go to Adventure Gameblog. So right now I have to choose between four simulations of secret missions that just happen to be the shorter version of the other four books.Which leads me to believe that Jak Shadow,aka Jonathan Sutherland wants to make more money by just abridging the other books into one book,and then tricking you to buy it.
Anyway,out of the four I choose to go to Big Ben,because it is the shortened version of the only other book in the series I own,Spy Master. I am told that the bad guy,Triton,wants to put London to sleep with music that hypnotises them.Then the simulation begins and I am teleported to Westminster Bridge.I spot a large stage and speakers in the square,and a band practising onstage,which I infer to be how Triton tried to hypnotise Londoners.
Nearby I spot a suspicious-looking man and decide to confront him.He says that he works for one of his clients who had his background music tape stolen.Then he tells me that his client is a funny looking man and he hopes to catch him.Or,at least,that was what I thought because of Jonathan Sutherland's bad phrasing.He was actually refering to the person who stole the tape.After further questioning,he revealed that the thief had green,warty skin and that his client,Gary Smile,will be on in an hour.
After this I realise that all these references were for padding because it leads me back to the other choice at the beginning,which is to head to the stage.Feeling frustrated,I decide to end this quickly and I try to run past a policeman but I get caught instead.
Next up:Horror!
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 2, 2014 20:27:51 GMT
Not a series Ive ever heard of, Im afraid!! keep it up though, its guid to know whats out there!
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Apr 3, 2014 7:16:56 GMT
Thanks,that's because I'm trying to play some more obscure series.interesting to read your playthroughs too-because I don't own any CYOA books!
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Apr 3, 2014 7:39:02 GMT
Anyway,like promised,Horror!I mean,iHorror.But it doesn't matter,just turn the exclamation mark upside down and you still get iHorror.
The gamebook I'm playing today is a book in the iHorror series entitled Werewolf Hunter.In this series you hunt monsters:vampires,zombies,werewolves and demons.
I am contacted by Marty Boyd,who is the director of a logging firm.One of his logging crews went missing in a Canadian forest.A search party found the mutilated body of one of the loggers.After studying the photo of the logger,I conclude that he was attacked by a werewolf.I tell him that I would head over to the logging camp immediately.After packing my equipment,I fly off in a plane.
After I land a few miles from the camp,a team of security guards meet me there to bring me to the camp.Chatting with their leader,Chuck,I am shocked to hear that they stored the body in a storeroom,as it could come alive as a werewolf.I tell him to bring me to the storeroom first,before heading to the camp.
When we reach the storeroom,Chuck and another guard enter with me.Chuck gasps and explains that the body was placed on the table.Now,it was gone!I spot several scratches on the floor leading away from the table and leading behind a pile of crates.I shoot at the crates and whatdoyouknow,a werewolf staggers out from behind the crates.I shoot,but it pounces on the unnamed guard and "plunges its teeth into his neck and rips off a hunk of flesh".Yeah,a bit graphic,I know.I shoot at it again,and this time proves more successful.(In case you were wondering,I have a gun armed with silver bullets and a flamethrower)I decide to examine the dead guard.Then he transforms before our eyes!Quickly,I shoot him just as he completes the transformation.
Stay tuned for part 2.
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 6, 2014 19:31:46 GMT
Hope you don't mind me interrupting - Id start a new thread but the four might get cluttered.
Wizards, Warriors And You - The Haunted Castle Of Ravencurse.
A slim book - even smaller than it looks coz the Wizards quest and the Warriors are entirely independent, but I always loved this book when I was a wee laddie!
Anyway, one playthrough so far and it was great fun. I played the Warrior, I picked three weapons at random and me and my pal the wizard climbed up a cliff and found our way into the castle after killing a scary ogre by pushing him off a cliff. We then ventured inside to look for the Bottomless bascket which was guarded by a giant talking spider! I sweet talked this fairly charming arachnid and he gave me the bascket but the poor spider got killed by some bad stuff. Anyway, a Raven then pecked me on my arm, it was sore then I died....
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 6, 2014 19:44:50 GMT
Trying the Wizard this time - We meet a Cyclops, I cast a shrink spell , the Cyclops becomes aboot half a foot high, and there is a really lovely picture of the warrior away to cut his wee head off!
we met the big spider again, and thank goodness 'Sunday' has an even number of letters or we would have been doomed! - Anyway we got the bottomless baskets.
oh jings - zombies! they are having a wee dance.... now what time is it? Between 3PM and midnight.
That means the Zombies kill me...
Haud on, that's daft!
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 6, 2014 19:52:23 GMT
I've just read it through another two times btw. I tried different routes, but it was the wrong day of the week once, and then that bloody Raven got me again!! However, apart from the forced random choices I still really like this book, it has charm of its on. The Wizard and Warrior are quite distinct charcters for a Gamebook, and the story as a whole is decently written with very nice illustrations. I might get some more of this series!
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Apr 7, 2014 8:30:52 GMT
If,for some reason you are overcome with an urge to post a playthrough here,then please do. I don't mind people posting playthroughs here.My first post states that.(As quoted above)
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Post by a moderator on Apr 7, 2014 12:28:16 GMT
The WW&Y books are a bit variable. I've played four of them on my blog so far, and Ravencurse will be the next in the series that I play, when I get that far. There's some wonderfully insane stuff in book 3, Who Kidnapped Princess Saralinda?, so I'd recommend trying to track that one down. Just try and avoid the path where the 'random' factor that determines success or failure is based on the day you were born.
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 7, 2014 19:26:36 GMT
Think I will, most of them seem to be going for pennies on ebay!
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 7, 2014 19:30:15 GMT
SAGARD Book 3 - The Crimson Sea
I don't remember buying this book, and I've clearly never read it as it is immaculate!
I do mind one of my pals at school back in the day raving aboot the series (in fact he wouldn't read anything else.)
Now, I've said before that I'm not a clever lad by any means... But after reading the instructions for battle, I cannot make head nor tail of it - I;m no' kidding! So it looks like I'll just do a playthrough and assume I win fights. (One presumes I'm at a major disadvantage anyway as your level is increased by playing the previous books - again, I think so anyway.....)
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Post by stevendoig on Apr 7, 2014 20:30:10 GMT
Oh dear. I have been trying to approach my non FF books with an open mind.
This book is awful! Even finding the correct reference is a pain in the arse - I'm sailing around the Crimson sea and it just goes on and on.. I did have one interesting encounter with a bunch of bonny lassies who turn into crabs, but apart from that, I'm giving up!
Very poor, very unengaging, the most battle heavy gamebook I've seen (if I was actually playing the battles I would have given up long before now.
Oh aye - and the art is crappy as well!
Onto the next one...
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Post by kieran on Apr 8, 2014 12:16:57 GMT
I always thought that was the best of the Sagard books. I liked the rules for navigating your ship and the unexpected events that could happen. It is battle-heavy though, there's no denying that. Still,I always thought the series had one of the better combat systems.
Book 3 can be beaten by people who haven't played the previous two, but it definitely makes things a lot harder
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