Thanks for the kind words and feedback! I'm so gland you're enjoying the adventure.
You do need to find a special item to succeed in the adventure. It's a good idea, as you've been doing, to scroll through the other comments for hints. But if you ever decide that you need a complete walk-through, feel free to send me an email (see the message at the very start of the adventure).
Whoa, came here cuz I love Fighting Fantasy and I love the concept of choose your own actions/path type books, I've always liked them since I was a kid.
FF books are expensive in my country, so as I was desperately searching for a FF alternative, I came across this website. The authors have done a fantastic job from what my brief scanning over here told me, but this was the first book I tried and played. So here are my thoughts;
The writing, language use and story are all absolutely fantastic - as I said, this was the first story I clicked on and I genuinely thought it was a FF book that I'd missed, till I took a look at the rest of the books and realized that they were all fantastic models of authors' own versions of the FF concept. The writing of this one got me hooked instantly - and also prevented me from not completing the book (I've had that problem with other books, probably cuz I have ADHD and my attention sometimes wonders/needs a change) despite the story being quite hard for me, personally.
I liked the characters, they were quite different from one another and memorable. I don't think they were too hard to battle, (though some people found so), they weren't easy of course but I liked that challenge.
About, the story, I personally found it quite hard. I died many times over fear, or just dead ends that got me killed, rather than through battles. I had to have the comments help, but not too much (since I still wanted a challenge), and that's when I realized that it was a OTP (One True Path) type story. That clicked all the pieces of the puzzle in my head - for some reason I thought it WASN'T an OTP, and was very puzzled and frustrated as to why I kept dying, LOL. The OTP is pretty specific which is why it proved to be hard.
After I learnt this, I managed to find my way; however,
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I still died at the end with the house catching on fire/ sacrificial death. After I finished it, I went back on the comments searching for an alternative ending where I survive and found that there IS one, but you need some sort of amulet or something? If anyone could tell me what I need and how to get it, that would be much appreciated. I want to do one last run through with the perfect ending before I go onto another book.
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Even with the actual FF books, I wasn't much a fan with the OTP style books; it wasn't that I disliked them, I just preferred the other type (idk what its called), but that's my personal opinion. Regardless, this was super super enjoyable and I'm looking forward to read more of your books even if they are OTP.
All in all, writing was great, characters were memorable, story was great (ESPECIALLY once I found out it was OTP, haha), even the choices and path differences with their endings were pretty cool, amazing adaptation/spinoff of House of Hell (I'm sorry, idk what exactly).
Cheers to the author and Good Luck to everyone who's giving this a go!
Hi Norman, thanks for playing, hope you enjoyed it, and well done for completing the adventure. In truth 'House of Hell' was one of my favourite FF titles back in the day - both in concept and design. But when writing a sequel, I didn't want to do something too similar, i.e. a house or dungeon layout. While 'The Curse of Drumer' lacks that sense of claustrophobic horror, and part of the adventure does take place indoors, it still has many terrifying twists and turns in the night. Use of guns was an added element of which I'm glad you approve - it worked for some, and not for others - and I reworked the Fear attribute in similar fashion to the Luck mechanic. I wanted it to penalize rather than simply accumulate to the dreaded max reached. From the beginning, in more ways than one, I didn't want it to be a clone of 'House of Hell'.
I can only assume the author was personally hurt by the House of Hell book and wanted to make a fun book where you blow away all the demons. I heartily approve.
Wow, what a game! I love it. There is also another website that hosts community-made storygames called ChooseYourStory.com. Tell them that Zag sent you!
Fun, hadn't played one of these in a long time._ based loosely House of Hell?(i wrote a short F.F. Demo, 50 passages, like in some of the newer gamebooks, called Return to House of Hell, but I don't have it anymore.)