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Post by hynreck on Jun 11, 2019 18:16:01 GMT
I would suggest stuff like the Necronomicon.
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vagsancho
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Post by vagsancho on Jan 3, 2020 14:48:02 GMT
Why is Curse of the Mummy the best FF book ever made?
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kieran
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Post by kieran on Jan 3, 2020 17:02:31 GMT
Why is Curse of the Mummy the best FF book ever made? Is it? Doubt it would be in most people's top 20.
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Post by a moderator on Jan 5, 2020 0:13:27 GMT
Moved a couple of posts here because posts about a specific book should go in the dedicated thread rather than whatever random part of the forum vagsancho happens to be visiting when he gets the urge to comment.
OT: Curse is in my top 10 FF gamebooks published after Revenge of the Vampire. But not in my top 5 Jonathan Green FF gamebooks.
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Post by The Count on Jan 18, 2020 2:10:23 GMT
Why is Curse of the Mummy the best FF book ever made? Does it document the searing passion of the forbidden affair between Razaak and Akharis - with illicit, explicit pictures to boot?
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Post by vagsancho on Oct 18, 2020 18:48:31 GMT
I am playing/feeling this book right now. Once in the past, I've said this book was perfect, a score 9 out of 10, and I gave it a place somewhere out of top 10. This book is absolutely fantastic. I think it will go now directly to my top 5.
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Post by vagsancho on Oct 27, 2020 13:49:46 GMT
I finished curse of the mummy today. I won it. I felt it. Very good atmosphere. Good nemesis. Very good drawings. Very good development. Certainly top 10.
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Post by slloyd14 on Jul 9, 2022 11:23:25 GMT
It has a very late 50s feel to it - lots of combats, lots of hard opponents, lots of items to use and lots of numbers for secret references, all of which I have come to not like.
Other things:
There's lots of treasure. If you succeed, you must get very rich.
There is a way to reduce the skill of the final opponent, and he only starts with a skill of 13, so at least that is good!
It captures the ancient Egyptian feel very well.
The final battle is awesome when you have to face down a snake demon and escape by the skin of your teeth.
Your companion must have come from the Ian Livingstone School of dying in about 10 minutes (boo!)
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IoannesKantakouzenos
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Post by IoannesKantakouzenos on Jul 13, 2022 14:07:05 GMT
I would thoroughly enjoy this adventure if the Death Spider wasn't such an unbeatable mofo - we in Portugal got the Sk. 14 version of it. Loaded dice never seemed so appealing...
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Post by aeris2001x2 on May 1, 2023 6:36:10 GMT
Used to love this book when I was young, but tumbled down the rankings over the years. Still have a soft spot for it. I just automatically give myself stats of 12, 24, 12 for this, same as Cavern of Snow Witch, Return to Firetop Mountain and Crypt of the Sorcerer. This helps mitigate the difficulty.
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Post by CharlesX on May 1, 2023 15:12:38 GMT
Used to love this book when I was young, but tumbled down the rankings over the years. Still have a soft spot for it. I just automatically give myself stats of 12, 24, 12 for this, same as Cavern of Snow Witch, Return to Firetop Mountain and Crypt of the Sorcerer. This helps mitigate the difficulty. I assume you're aware a later Wizard edition makes substantial changes to Puffin edition's enemies statistics in mitigation of this excessive difficulty, which effectively cuts the level down from "outrageous" to merely "very difficult" (although in my and I think most people's books, around 39.5% victories on maximum stats is still the wrong side of "frustrating but ultimately enjoyable"). So, which edition do you play, if you don't mind my asking?
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Post by a moderator on May 2, 2023 12:12:04 GMT
It's a pity that, while the Wizard edits to this book weren't handled as poorly as the bulk of the changes to Spellbreaker, there's still a half-heartedness to them which introduces new flaws, reducing certain opponents' Skill scores in places while not updating other numbers affected by those amendments (section 242, for instance, where the Skill 8 Giant Scorpion's two claws are to be treated as separate opponents, each with 10 Skill).
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roidhun
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Post by roidhun on Nov 15, 2023 5:43:47 GMT
Am I the only person who noticed that, in the illustration that accompanies Paragraph 149 in the Wizard Books edition, the mummy in the left of the background is a visual homage to the android mummies from the 1970s Doctor Who story "The Pyramids Of Mars"?
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Post by a moderator on Nov 15, 2023 13:15:57 GMT
Am I the only person who noticed that, in the illustration that accompanies Paragraph 149 in the Wizard Books edition, the mummy in the left of the background is a visual homage to the android mummies from the 1970s Doctor Who story "The Pyramids Of Mars"? It's been brought up in an earlier, no longer extant forum. If you have either the Puffin or the first Wizard edition of Curse, you can find another visual reference to Pyramids of Mars on the cover (the 'porthole' design of the second Wizard edition hides most of the sarcophagus in question).
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