sylas
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"Don't just adventure for treasure; treasure the adventure!"
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy, Way of the Tiger
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Post by sylas on Jul 8, 2021 19:35:11 GMT
Hope it's okay to post this here. Jon Green's next book in the ACE series will be launched on Kickstarter on 16th July.
I'll post the link here:
Discounts have been mentioned for first week backers and double discounts for first day backers. There'll be more details on the KS page when it goes live and on Facebook if you want to follow updates. The project looks great especially for any fan of Kaiju material.
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Post by dragonwarrior8 on Sept 23, 2022 19:10:29 GMT
Just wanted to mention that Ronin 47 is available online from the usual places if anyone wasn't yet aware. Looks like it just got wide release last month.
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cj
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Post by cj on Sept 26, 2022 20:43:25 GMT
Just wanted to mention that Ronin 47 is available online from the usual places if anyone wasn't yet aware. Looks like it just got wide release last month. Yep, got mine upstairs ready for the weekend. Looks awesome. |
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cj
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Post by cj on Oct 9, 2022 16:09:25 GMT
Has anyone else played and managed to complete this yet? After my fourth failure, for lack of items or required information, I gave up playing and took to simply reading. Having now dug through the various branches, I am left to wonder if there are some errors/omissions that break the game at the end - I certainly cannot find a path to victory. Specifically: If you choose to travel west towards Honshu and enter the underwater research base how can you obtain the first half of the GPS coordinates? There is no encounter with the ninja mech to hack the computer; you end up with only half and cannot progress.
However, if you travel east (and get the coordinates), how can you obtain a DNA bomb or Signal Transmitter - both are seemingly essential to enter the Fuji base?
Perhaps I am missing something in my playthroughs; I would dearly love someone to tell me I am wrong and explain how. |
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Post by misomiso on Nov 12, 2022 17:54:57 GMT
Any solution to this at all available? It's hard!
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cj
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Post by cj on Nov 13, 2022 14:44:03 GMT
As far as I can tell the only way to complete the book is to go to the underwater research laboratory or, if you go the other way (where you get ambushed by the ninja mech) you must have the booster rocket to get from Tokyo to Fuji. However, the latter route means you must enter on foot and not in your mech (which restricts you to one of the two endings). Unless I am missing something really obvious there is no way to enter the base if you pick the non-research base route and do not have a booster rocket as the kaiju convergence on Fuji requires one of the two special items obtained at the base.
If it were not for that fact I would happily declare this as the best game book I have ever read (the art is incredible). I loathe 'one-true path' books and was happy with the book's difficulty until I kept hitting a brick wall. If someone could show me I am wrong I would love to hear it.
For the mech setup, I choose to make it rapid and close-combat focused but select the upgrades for armour and targetting. You can take a bit of a kicking in the ranged rounds but once you enter close-combat you are lethal. It is also pretty essential to get the spider-bot upgrade at the island armoury (where you also get the booster rocket).
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Jonathan Green
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Feb 15, 2023 15:18:37 GMT
As far as I can tell the only way to complete the book is to go to the underwater research laboratory or, if you go the other way (where you get ambushed by the ninja mech) you must have the booster rocket to get from Tokyo to Fuji. However, the latter route means you must enter on foot and not in your mech (which restricts you to one of the two endings). Unless I am missing something really obvious there is no way to enter the base if you pick the non-research base route and do not have a booster rocket as the kaiju convergence on Fuji requires one of the two special items obtained at the base. If it were not for that fact I would happily declare this as the best game book I have ever read (the art is incredible). I loathe 'one-true path' books and was happy with the book's difficulty until I kept hitting a brick wall. If someone could show me I am wrong I would love to hear it. For the mech setup, I choose to make it rapid and close-combat focused but select the upgrades for armour and targetting. You can take a bit of a kicking in the ranged rounds but once you enter close-combat you are lethal. It is also pretty essential to get the spider-bot upgrade at the island armoury (where you also get the booster rocket). Hi CJ There is more than one way through the book. You can either go with the mech option (tooling up your Samurai class mech) or the kaiju option (collecting the wherewithal to use the kaiju against Kira). |
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Post by misomiso on Mar 26, 2023 8:30:48 GMT
Sylas the adventure The Dead City is one idea I jotted down when I didn't have easy access to Titan so I tried to write the idea off memory. I would say it was my least favourite idea. Also I have no desire to publish it privately as I the only reason I want to publish anything is because I want to be part of fighting fantasy. You said in a thread that you did playtesting fighting fantasy. Do you have any contacts I could send my proposals to? Not really. Jon Green asked if I was interested and I said YES! previously I had playtested Jon Greens ACE gamebooks series and made improvements to some of his combat systems. I had also revised Knights of Doom unofficially. But other than corresponding with Jon I didn't have anything to do with Scholastic publishing it. Note also that Jon Green himself has only just come on board the Scholastic series even though we'd expected him to have been quite an important part of FF already. So if it's that tough for him, it'll be much harder for everyone else without a big name. @sylas is there any news as to the next Jon Green book at the moment? He said something about choosing the next book to write on facebook recently.
In general I like the Ace gamebooks but I find the combat system very complex; I get he's going for a different audience but it seems like such a barrier to entry. Ronin 47 was great but the combat is bonkers! Do you think he would do a book with a much reduced complexity? Maybe just a tad more complex than FF but with skills?
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Post by philsadler on Mar 26, 2023 11:30:36 GMT
I don't have Ronin 47 yet, but why is the combat bonkers?
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Post by tyrion on Mar 26, 2023 17:41:18 GMT
The mech fights involve lots of stats and are subdivided into shooting and melee combat. It's a lot to manage. That being said, there is a set of simplified rules as well.
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Jonathan Green
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Apr 17, 2023 13:37:09 GMT
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Post by CharlesX on Apr 17, 2023 14:23:17 GMT
That's funny, 'cause just a couple of days ago I posted a message under other minor series about '80s series Marvel Superheroes Adventures. I guess this new book (and Jonathan Green's previous Marvel ones) might be just my thing!
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Jonathan Green
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Apr 26, 2023 13:22:54 GMT
That's funny, 'cause just a couple of days ago I posted a message under other minor series about '80s series Marvel Superheroes Adventures. I guess this new book (and Jonathan Green's previous Marvel ones) might be just my thing! Moon Knight: Age of Anubis is my first Marvel gamebook. |
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Post by CharlesX on Apr 26, 2023 13:28:09 GMT
That's funny, 'cause just a couple of days ago I posted a message under other minor series about '80s series Marvel Superheroes Adventures. I guess this new book (and Jonathan Green's previous Marvel ones) might be just my thing! Moon Knight: Age of Anubis is my first Marvel gamebook. I was basing my passing remark on your website (and link) which mentions you provided technical assistance for two other Marvel books. I imagine that this paid work wasn't without some input? |
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Jonathan Green
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on May 4, 2023 9:16:12 GMT
Moon Knight: Age of Anubis is my first Marvel gamebook. I was basing my passing remark on your website (and link) which mentions you provided technical assistance for two other Marvel books. I imagine that this paid work wasn't without some input? I provided technical assistance by proofreading the book and making sure that all the links connected up. |
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