Always offer the reader some kind of choice.
More choices. It would be good to avoid single choice paragraphs, particularly if they lead to more single choice paragraphs.Sometimes choices are in bold font, and sometimes not. Towards the end of the book, when the opponents get tougher, the combats tend to grind a little, and all the various special abilities can be tricky to remember and implement correctly. I can see why it is like this, and I do enjoy it, but it just feels wrong somehow. Instead you simply respawn and begin anew. There is no character death which is a bit of a shock for someone brought up on a steady diet of books by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. Although I realise the logistics of commissioning and inserting pictures into a gamebook this size are daunting, I do miss the gamebook with pix format. Again, unlike Fabled Lands where you characters tend to do the same quests, raise the same abilities and gain the same powerful items, the character specialisation and unique item upgrades means that your character is likely very different from someone else's. You start DestinyQuest as a generic adventurer, but by the end of it you can pick not only a profession but also a career specialisation. In other words, what you carry is all you have. Unlike Fabled Lands where you tend to accumulate huge quantities of items and artefacts scattered across numerous bolt-holes throughout Harkuna, in DestinyQuest equipment upgrades mean losing whatever is being replaced. But wait! What would you prefer? Ebon Boots or the Hood of Night? You can only pick one, so choose wisely. In this way the entire map essentially functions as a hub paragraph, with all encounters and their consequences radiating out from it like a web of choices.
If you want to go to visit the weather wizard, turn to 66. No endless trekking from A to B, dealing with a host of random encounters along the way. It's the Skyrim of gamebooks in this way. Go where you want, do what you want, when you want. The location-based layout for equipment is intuitive and far more comprehendable than, say, Lone Wolf. It's a nice, simple, easy to understand two page spread. Just looking at the maps that accompany the three Acts in the book (Tithebury Mistwood and Blackmarsh and The Bone Fields), is an invitation to continue adventuring.
There's more adventure here than you could wave your character's main weapon at.
Fabled lands grinding series#
Rather than drag this out into a lengthy series of posts, I thought I'd try a quicker review process where I summarize all the bits I like the bits I think could do with more work and a concluding statement containing my final thoughts.įor the record, I purchased my copy direct from the author via eBay as a special deal including a rare weapon card, a DestinyQuest postcard, and a set of four DQ dice in a little red velvet bag. For those not in the know, this is the first in a brand new series of fantasy gamebooks, notable especially for its size (790+ pages), non-linearity, and character advancement. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but it's probably about time to get a review done of DestinyQuest Book 1: The Legion of Shadows by Michael J.
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