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Post by dragonwarrior8 on Nov 17, 2021 21:19:32 GMT
Just finished this series and wondered what others may have thought. I felt the character creation was fantastic and the map movement system had a lot of promise. Its too bad then that most of the adventures themselves were quite lackluster in my opinion. They also used a lot of first time gamebook authors (and many of which never did any other gamebooks at all) which probably didnt help on the design front. The system seems to be designed to carry over your character from book to book, sometimes awarding you powerful weapons in the very last section and having you track experience points. But then you are playing a different individual in almost every book, so narratively it doesnt make any sense to carry things over. The Time mechanic seemed overused and a bit pointless after the first book as well. Still, it was fun enough to travel around Middle-earth and interact with some well known characters, so I would say it was decent if nothing special, which it could have been with more work. Has anyone else played any of these? And if so, what did you think?
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Post by a moderator on Nov 17, 2021 21:40:42 GMT
I own a couple of them, and have played one other online. A while back I covered one of the ones I own at my blog. It did a pretty good job of involving my character in a significant event from The Lord of the Rings without stealing the thunder of any of Tolkien's heroes. I had a few minor issues with it, but can think of plenty of gamebooks with more serious flaws.
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