vagsancho
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Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Sept 5, 2020 0:44:28 GMT
Franklins.
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Post by a moderator on Sept 5, 2020 1:06:41 GMT
The depth of the backstory.
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sylas
Baron
"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 Sept 5, 2020 10:09:44 GMT
The instant deaths and the paragraphs leading to them.
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Post by linflas on Sept 5, 2020 11:08:36 GMT
Tim Sell.
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vagsancho
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Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Sept 5, 2020 12:27:07 GMT
I never quite understood if Franklins had an independent personality, if he was a guinea pig, a host, or the Demon's deepest lover, or even if he was the Demon himself, only in disguise. A very, very good mystery.
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Post by stevendoig on Sept 5, 2020 15:27:00 GMT
I like the bit in the cellar with the human sacrifice and all that.
Phew!! - thank goodness it's not on the viable route through the book.
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Post by tyrion on Sept 5, 2020 16:01:02 GMT
The final paragraph.
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vagsancho
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Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Sept 5, 2020 16:23:55 GMT
All things listed till now pretty, pretty good. All them.
Amazing book.
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kieran
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Sept 5, 2020 16:35:04 GMT
I like how plain sneaky it is at times.
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Post by The Count on Sept 8, 2020 0:50:21 GMT
The kitchen - I remain convinced that there MUST be a way out that everyone has missed...
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Post by Wilf on Sept 8, 2020 10:46:37 GMT
So many things to love about this superbly written and plotted book, that it makes me feel a tad guilty for picking up on something that wasn't by Steve Jackson.
However, the one thing that made an instant impression on child-Wilf was *that* illustration. No, not the one they took out - that one was pretty tame. And no, not Ian Miller's fantastic cover art, either. I mean *that* one. The one that made me jump out of my skin when I turned the page and saw it. The one I never wanted to look at. The single most effective illustration in any FF book.
The ZOMBIE...
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Post by tyrion on Sept 8, 2020 16:24:45 GMT
Still scares the crap out of me. Best zombie illustration ever.
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Post by a moderator on Sept 8, 2020 16:35:49 GMT
The moment you mentioned the word 'illustration', there was no doubt about which one you meant.
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Post by daredevil123 on Sept 8, 2020 17:32:20 GMT
Speaking of zombie illustrations, the ones in the otherwise-terrible Blood of the Zombies are incredible.
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Post by linflas on Sept 8, 2020 18:56:00 GMT
Before writing "Tim Sell" above, I actually wrote "Tim Sell's Balthus Zombie" and backspaced  |
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Post by vastariner on Sept 8, 2020 19:59:36 GMT
The room names that are redolent with evil and just thrown out there with abandon (Abaddon). I don't think I'd like to be in the Shaitan Room in any place.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Sept 12, 2020 2:51:47 GMT
The kitchen - I remain convinced that there MUST be a way out that everyone has missed... Although it's not a way out, you've reminded me that someone wrote up an additional option for the kitchen out of frustration. Turn to 400 blog: No 10 - House of HellIt's worth reading the whole post if you haven't before, I think it's pretty funny. (Not sure if it's written by someone on here...?) |
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Sept 13, 2020 17:57:55 GMT
The overall atmosphere of horror which was unlike any book I had read up til then [1984, so still at junior school], the feeling enhanced by the seeming inevitability of getting killed - whether in the kitchen, or after the sacrifice, or wherever...
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Post by philsadler on Sept 14, 2020 15:53:31 GMT
I loved that cover and I'm still convinced that there used to be someone at that lighted window (obviously this is either not true, but you get the idea: maybe you have to stare at the picture for a while).
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