Tue Mar 4 20:31:03 2014
The Black Lobster |
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Andrew Wright Tue Mar 4 20:31:03 2014
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| Beat my own gamebook - yay! :-) |
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Yaztromo Thu Mar 6 22:10:27 2014 |
| Great to see you around, Andrew! |
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Luis Fri Mar 7 02:59:11 2014
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| Great fun and tough to get through, many thanks to the Author! |
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Tammy Sat May 3 16:43:23 2014 
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| Arson? And I never DID get that bracelet off. |
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Shadow Sun Nov 23 02:53:30 2014
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| Last fight was pretty epic XD |
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Jonathan Sun Mar 22 23:01:37 2015
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I've completed a day's work at the Black Lobster! What a place... Great game! |
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dark Mon Apr 6 15:57:18 2015
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A short and fun adventure. A little tougher than impudent peasant and I want to explore some of the other alternatives sinse I do think there is probably another way through, indeed I don't think the ending I got there was the one I had originally, although it seems this is a game where most fights are dam dangerous and likely to get you killed. I got the ending with the bargaining but I'm sure there is another where you get rid of Thord. |
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e Mon Apr 6 16:15:23 2015
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Ah cool, there is the other ending, hurrah! although imho that is imho harder.
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lee Fri May 1 19:26:06 2015
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| one hell of a game with plenty of twists and turns, but also providing a variety of ways to get your character a decent edge needed to survive. don't ask me, look out for the extortionist. |
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Danny Sun May 15 22:56:27 2016
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| The adventure is way too short. |
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Lorian Fri Nov 25 15:54:55 2016
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Very good,
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Bumwise the Warlock Sun Dec 4 13:18:02 2016 |
| Is the author still active, or do we read the 'final edition' of the gamebook? |
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yay Wed Feb 22 01:41:29 2017
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| this was awesome |
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amerikranian Thu Feb 23 00:22:57 2017
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| so short, that it isn't werth playing. |
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Gol Vareth Sun Mar 19 10:55:43 2017 |
| Hello Andrew Wright. I've been hunting for your Deathtrap Dungeon 3. It was very good last time I remember erading it? How can I read it again? Willing to pay. |
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Sushi Sun May 7 03:20:12 2017
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| Ouch |
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bluejuice915 Sun Jun 18 02:25:06 2017
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I played this before and decided to come back to it. This plays really well for a plot without travel or many battles. Having to nail talking to one particular person is annoying, but far less so than other books that needn't be named. Overall, very likable. Grade: 95 |
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Tammy Mon Jun 19 23:50:44 2017 |
| Deathtrap Dungeon 3 was put in the wood chipper a long time ago. All that's left is our memories. |
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Gavin Tue Jun 20 06:53:41 2017 |
| Huh? |
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Tammy Thu Jun 22 07:15:07 2017 |
| It's caput. Toast. Dust in the wind. Excremented. Stuffed in a blender and turned on for over one minute. Food for the birds and worms. Done. No more. Gone forever. Put in the paper shredder. Placed on the back burner. Dead in the water. Tits up. D.O.A. Ready for the zombie apocalypse. Waiting for Steve Jackson to write another gamebook that'll be really awesome. |
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RogueOne Wed Nov 29 19:52:49 2017
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| Done! |
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Joel Wed Jan 17 17:20:58 2018
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| You know I didn't get to use the Gold I earned for literally anything. I hope there is a sequel so I can actually use this gold. I have literally 58 gold. I could buy a lot with that. |
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Grettir Tue Mar 20 19:36:25 2018
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| Very droll. |
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Carlos Fernandes Mon Sep 24 23:35:55 2018
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Very original And funny |
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paul Tue Mar 5 11:11:14 2019
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| i like! |
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paul Mon Mar 11 18:17:51 2019
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| shouldn't have gone to bed :( |
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Adam Martin Thu Mar 28 23:18:06 2019
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| Great fun, nice to see a place fleshed out like this. Adds colour to the city of Port blacksand |
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Jest Mon Jul 22 00:05:22 2019
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| I love this one! |
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ShawnFireDragon Tue Dec 3 16:04:50 2019
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| Great story, I really enjoyed playing. I am a long time fan of Fighting Fantasy. Thanks for your wonderful adventure. |
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Yaztromo Thu Apr 9 10:10:23 2020
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| This adventure is evergreen ;) |
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Ironwolf Wed Oct 21 21:17:09 2020 |
| Amazing! Got both of the 'good' endings, and I'm not sure which is better. I only wish it had a sequel! |
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morgan painter Fri Mar 12 09:55:08 2021
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| this was very itense |
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Mage Mon Oct 18 05:52:36 2021
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| This one wasn't hard to win, but I thought I'd try for the harder troll-slayer path....just barely made it! :D |
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bluejuice915 Fri Feb 24 08:43:14 2023
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| Been making my way back through everything on this site. Got hinted that there was a second (harder) ending I hadn't done on this one & managed to find it. Yay. Still really like how good this story is despite not lacking adventure-ness. Great lead for another adventure, even if it never got used. Props. |
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YARD Thu Sep 7 15:49:46 2023
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After beating In The Footsteps Of A Hero the other day, I decided to power through the other two Blacksand-set stories on here in short order, and here we are! Not sure how I feel about this one. On one hand, I absolutely LOVED seeing that reference to Demons of the Deep - up until I found this website, it was one of the only two original gamebooks I ever came across. (The other one was Seas of Blood - I guess my initial exposure to Fighting Fantasy was rather atypically marine-themed!) And I still enjoy adventures with low-powered and atypical characters a lot. Chapter titles are also a nice addition - I was at first wondering if it was going to go all the way with ref names, like Soul Tracker, but I guess not. At the same time, it feels rather arbitrary altogether. Halron's alcoholism (why would a tavern-keeper need any real money in the first place, anyway?) strangely doesn't come into play much, when compared to even the author's own Lair of the Troglodytes. Perhaps it would have been too much of a retread, but then there wouldn't be the addition of recurring characters from Andrew's previous two stories. Unexpectedly, they are not particularly welcome here. as they appear implausibly dumbed down compared to their previous iterations. It's also strange that you have no choice but to talk to them (and lie to them out of spite), yet the follow-up from that inevitable action is completely skippable, in a way which doesn't make much sense.
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On the other hand, the final encounter is both all-but-unskippable, and doesn't make much sense. If it was that easy for someone like them to exhort taverns, how did you even get by for so long? And surely even they would have been able to understand that since your establishment generates money, they could keep coming back and claiming at regular intervals (since if you couldn' repel them once, why would you succeed the next time?) All the railroading towards that battle simply isn't very satisfying. Out of the two endings, the one which involves the axe is just not very interesting (with even a few works on here featuring variations on this ending) or even hopeful (as the character doesn't come across particularly suited for that life, to say the least). The other ending is a lot better, but the path to it is not very satisfying.
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The key conversation in the lead-up to that ending option really needed to be more involved, with more dialogue options to navigate before pulling this off. Sadly, the supporting characters don't get much of a chance to be remembered, since their encounters are rather one-note due to their brevity. I think that this would have likely worked better with the adventure Finally, proofreading.
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