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whatyoutolkienabout's review
5.0
Well this is a surprise another Aconyte Books review! But just when you thought their worlds of tie-in fiction couldn’t get any better they only release a solo adventure gamebook in the essence of the Fighting Fantasy series first published in the 80s! You can pretty much guess this is going to be a five star from me from the start, but before we get into that let’s have a little look at what you can expect.
You, yes YOU, team up or rather are forced by Deadpool to defeat predictability through mini-games and puzzles.
As the synopsis points out; ‘Things seem weird, even by Deadpool’s standards, when Matt “Daredevil” Murdock offers him a profitable – nay, straightforward! – contract. No chaos, no unpredictability, no funny business… C’mon, Murdock, that’s just not Deadpool’s style. Sensing something is up, Deadpool grabs an innocent bystander off the street to confuse any semblance of predictability the universe is trying to force on him. Good-hearted mischief spirals into a sinister plot full of impenetrable bank vaults, crime lords stroking their (lack of) mustaches in very evil ways, and an assortment of offensively stylish suits that are begging to be blown up, Deadpool discovers his choices are no longer his own – they’re yours!’”
Now obviously given the nature of the ‘game’ it’s hard to give an overall view of the story since there are some many options, endings and routes to get there and on top of that we (meaning I) don’t like to spoil much of the plot of books we review. I will say from the first introduction pages of how to play it is clear that Dedopulos knows Deadpool and can write the merc with the mouth amazingly well. I was already laughing while getting my supplies together.
There are some fun additions to the general solo roleplaying game book here and there as well which truly fit in with the chaotic Deadpool and this delightful game. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had so much fun roleplaying with just myself! You know what I mean!
As I said at the start this is almost like an amazingly weird love-letter to the books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. I grew up with those books and still have some old copies of the original. I used to wait with anticipation for the Scholastic faires in hope that one of the reprints after Wizards got the rights would be there, along with any other goodies I could find. Simply put I couldn’t find someone to play D and D in my younger years and those books scratched that itch. Now I’m older and do have friends to play roleplaying games with we all have annoying adult responsibilities and finding times we are all free can be a nightmare. So sometimes my trusty fighting fantasy books return and I can honestly say I have already recommended this to all those friends as well as pre-ordered it myself. I know it’s going to eat hours away of my free time, whether it be replying the same route, choosing something different, altering stats the replayability is endless (almost) and when you have someone as fun as Deadpool by your side you know you can never get bored!
I already cannot stop recommending this and will continue to do so. If you grew up with and enjoyed fighting fantasy it is a must, if you love Deadpool (everyone does really, even if they won’t admit it just maybe not X-men Origins Deadpool) it is a must, if you love roleplaying games it is a must, if you ever read choose your own adventure books or fanfictions it is a must. Basically buy this gamebook. You will not be disappointed, I promise you that.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
You, yes YOU, team up or rather are forced by Deadpool to defeat predictability through mini-games and puzzles.
As the synopsis points out; ‘Things seem weird, even by Deadpool’s standards, when Matt “Daredevil” Murdock offers him a profitable – nay, straightforward! – contract. No chaos, no unpredictability, no funny business… C’mon, Murdock, that’s just not Deadpool’s style. Sensing something is up, Deadpool grabs an innocent bystander off the street to confuse any semblance of predictability the universe is trying to force on him. Good-hearted mischief spirals into a sinister plot full of impenetrable bank vaults, crime lords stroking their (lack of) mustaches in very evil ways, and an assortment of offensively stylish suits that are begging to be blown up, Deadpool discovers his choices are no longer his own – they’re yours!’”
Now obviously given the nature of the ‘game’ it’s hard to give an overall view of the story since there are some many options, endings and routes to get there and on top of that we (meaning I) don’t like to spoil much of the plot of books we review. I will say from the first introduction pages of how to play it is clear that Dedopulos knows Deadpool and can write the merc with the mouth amazingly well. I was already laughing while getting my supplies together.
There are some fun additions to the general solo roleplaying game book here and there as well which truly fit in with the chaotic Deadpool and this delightful game. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had so much fun roleplaying with just myself! You know what I mean!
As I said at the start this is almost like an amazingly weird love-letter to the books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. I grew up with those books and still have some old copies of the original. I used to wait with anticipation for the Scholastic faires in hope that one of the reprints after Wizards got the rights would be there, along with any other goodies I could find. Simply put I couldn’t find someone to play D and D in my younger years and those books scratched that itch. Now I’m older and do have friends to play roleplaying games with we all have annoying adult responsibilities and finding times we are all free can be a nightmare. So sometimes my trusty fighting fantasy books return and I can honestly say I have already recommended this to all those friends as well as pre-ordered it myself. I know it’s going to eat hours away of my free time, whether it be replying the same route, choosing something different, altering stats the replayability is endless (almost) and when you have someone as fun as Deadpool by your side you know you can never get bored!
I already cannot stop recommending this and will continue to do so. If you grew up with and enjoyed fighting fantasy it is a must, if you love Deadpool (everyone does really, even if they won’t admit it just maybe not X-men Origins Deadpool) it is a must, if you love roleplaying games it is a must, if you ever read choose your own adventure books or fanfictions it is a must. Basically buy this gamebook. You will not be disappointed, I promise you that.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
jarichan's review
3.0
Dieses Buch. macht einfach nur Spass. Normalerweise bin ich nicht so begeistert von Choose Your Own Adventure-Büchern, da meine bisherigen Erfahrungen eher in die Richtung "nach 10 Minuten oberflächlichen Texts bin ich durch" gegangen sind.
Das hier ist anders. Das ist ist Deadpool. Die volle Ladung.
Wer sich also schon immer mal fragte, wie es wäre, vom Meister höchstselbst rekrutiert zu werden - hier ist das Buch für dich! Man muss Rätsel lösen, würfeln, hoffen, bangen und natürlich aufpassen, dass Deadpool am Leben bleibt.
Dabei habe ich drei Mal grossartig versagt, aber das ist ok. Wie Deadpool stehen auch wir wieder auf und machen frisch und fröhlich weiter.
Das hier ist anders. Das ist ist Deadpool. Die volle Ladung.
Wer sich also schon immer mal fragte, wie es wäre, vom Meister höchstselbst rekrutiert zu werden - hier ist das Buch für dich! Man muss Rätsel lösen, würfeln, hoffen, bangen und natürlich aufpassen, dass Deadpool am Leben bleibt.
Dabei habe ich drei Mal grossartig versagt, aber das ist ok. Wie Deadpool stehen auch wir wieder auf und machen frisch und fröhlich weiter.
jdalton's review
5.0
Thank you Netgalley and Aconyte Books for a review copy of this book.
What makes a Deadpool book a Deadpool book? A choose your own adventure RPG book of course!
Seriously if I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. And when I told my husband about it, he thought it was so cool and I told him he’s definitely getting a copy for himself.
This book is also a bit more of a family friendly version (older kids/teens) as the language is really tame, at least in my adventures I was sent on. So if your kid is into Deadpool but you’re not a fan of the “mouth”, this is a good choice.
What makes a Deadpool book a Deadpool book? A choose your own adventure RPG book of course!
Seriously if I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. And when I told my husband about it, he thought it was so cool and I told him he’s definitely getting a copy for himself.
This book is also a bit more of a family friendly version (older kids/teens) as the language is really tame, at least in my adventures I was sent on. So if your kid is into Deadpool but you’re not a fan of the “mouth”, this is a good choice.
schadenfreudian's review
4.0
Thank you to Net Galley and the kind folks of Aconyte for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
When I was a kid, I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books. It made me feel like a part of the story. As I got older, D&D took their place. This book is a great mixture of the two. As the ominously named Six, armed with only a piece of paper, pencil, and dice, you help our favorite Merc with a Mouth solve a case given to him by Matt "Daredevil" Murdock.
The characters and action feel very true to what one would expect from the Marvel comics, and it's tons of fun to play through. Solid work. I will definitely be buying a copy of this when it hit shelves in July!
starlit_reads's review
4.0
Marvel Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook: You Are (Not) Deadpool by Tim Dedopulos
This isn't like you normal book but what would you expect from Deadpool? In this book you actually become one of the main characters and help deadpool to figure out what's happening and solve the mystery and defeat the bad guys. I've never read a book anything like this before and the way that its set up is almost a mix of dnd and choose your own Adventure. If you haven't tried anything like this before don't let that put you off as it's really easy to follow along with as long as you have a couple six sided dice, a pen and paper handy to jot down your score and achievements. I loved jumping back and forth in the book deciding what to do and playing the mini games as I went along and some of the achievements I gained were "creme of the crop" and "I'm a machine". I finished playing with a score of 3 so for my first go I'm taking that as not to bad but I can't wait to read it again and see what other outcomes and achievements I can get.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review and all options and thoughts are my own.
This isn't like you normal book but what would you expect from Deadpool? In this book you actually become one of the main characters and help deadpool to figure out what's happening and solve the mystery and defeat the bad guys. I've never read a book anything like this before and the way that its set up is almost a mix of dnd and choose your own Adventure. If you haven't tried anything like this before don't let that put you off as it's really easy to follow along with as long as you have a couple six sided dice, a pen and paper handy to jot down your score and achievements. I loved jumping back and forth in the book deciding what to do and playing the mini games as I went along and some of the achievements I gained were "creme of the crop" and "I'm a machine". I finished playing with a score of 3 so for my first go I'm taking that as not to bad but I can't wait to read it again and see what other outcomes and achievements I can get.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review and all options and thoughts are my own.
chucks_library's review against another edition
5.0
This book is hours of fun. I read this, then immediately reread it to try a different path. If you love Marvel and board games then this book is a perfect mix of both. The best way to enjoy this book is with a pen, paper and a six sided dice. You are just out on a regular walk when Deadpool recruits you to help him. You get to choose which way the investigation goes, you get to battle and solve puzzles. This book has everything I look forward to reading it more and trying to unlock all the achievements.
Thanks to the amazing people at Acontye books and Netgalley for giving me an early copy in exchange for an honest review.
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About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit marvel.com. © 2022 MARVEL
Thanks to the amazing people at Acontye books and Netgalley for giving me an early copy in exchange for an honest review.
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About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit marvel.com. © 2022 MARVEL
sophiasunlitreads's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review from Aconyte Books via Netgalley
Get this, You're sitting by your window, watching the sunset and listening to the honking down below on the street.
Then suddenly a masked man with double sword and guns appears in front of you with an offer to help him save the city by uncovering a secret mission of alien guns flooding the city.
Oh hi there, forgot to introduce myself. I'm Deadpool, you might have heard of me beforehand? Right. So are you in?
You Are Not Deadpool is like a role playing game except you play this game by reading.
And our resident mutant anti-hero needs your help to solve the mystery.
Like every quest book, this book is filled with secret clues and he's the thing you're going to need a paper, a pen, and a dice before you get started.
It's an interactive game book with the readers where you get to pick the choices Deadpool makes and each choice has a different outcome and keeps you curious to find out what would happen next. I personally enjoyed reading this and getting to play the games like a superhero sidekick.
Throughout the game you'll get points from;
Merch; which is scroed from the amount of firearm and physical destruction Deadpool causes.
Mouth; which is earned from Deadpool's unfiltered vocabulary and social interaction with other people.
Focus; which is earned from Deadpool's ability to keep his mind focused on the mission and not get distracted by unicorns and candies. You know how he gets.
Overall, this was an interesting idea on interactive superhero game book for readers who are fans of gaming and comics as well. Like I always say, Aconyte Books Authors have this way of bringing the Marvel character's personalities into the books with ease that you don't miss that familiarity you're used to seeing in conics and movies.
Thank you Aconyte Books and Marvel.
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years......
Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit Marvel.com
© 2020 MARVEL
Get this, You're sitting by your window, watching the sunset and listening to the honking down below on the street.
Then suddenly a masked man with double sword and guns appears in front of you with an offer to help him save the city by uncovering a secret mission of alien guns flooding the city.
Oh hi there, forgot to introduce myself. I'm Deadpool, you might have heard of me beforehand? Right. So are you in?
You Are Not Deadpool is like a role playing game except you play this game by reading.
And our resident mutant anti-hero needs your help to solve the mystery.
Like every quest book, this book is filled with secret clues and he's the thing you're going to need a paper, a pen, and a dice before you get started.
It's an interactive game book with the readers where you get to pick the choices Deadpool makes and each choice has a different outcome and keeps you curious to find out what would happen next. I personally enjoyed reading this and getting to play the games like a superhero sidekick.
Throughout the game you'll get points from;
Merch; which is scroed from the amount of firearm and physical destruction Deadpool causes.
Mouth; which is earned from Deadpool's unfiltered vocabulary and social interaction with other people.
Focus; which is earned from Deadpool's ability to keep his mind focused on the mission and not get distracted by unicorns and candies. You know how he gets.
Overall, this was an interesting idea on interactive superhero game book for readers who are fans of gaming and comics as well. Like I always say, Aconyte Books Authors have this way of bringing the Marvel character's personalities into the books with ease that you don't miss that familiarity you're used to seeing in conics and movies.
Thank you Aconyte Books and Marvel.
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years......
Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit Marvel.com
© 2020 MARVEL
estherelle's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
A super fun adventure game in the form of a book.
It really encompasses everything from Deadpool's signature sarcasm to Marvel lore, all in the form of a choose-your-own-adventure style book that also includes some dice, stats, and inventory elements (but more on that in the book's introductions, which you really should read!).
I "played" through some parts twice and still think there is more to discover in this book! I also think You Are (Not) Deadpool: A Marvel: Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook would be a fun game/book to play/read as a group at a game night or as an interactive element for a book club.
Thank you Netgalley, Aconyte Books, Aconyte and the author Tim Dedopulos for the opportunity to read this book as an eARC in exchange for a honest review.
It really encompasses everything from Deadpool's signature sarcasm to Marvel lore, all in the form of a choose-your-own-adventure style book that also includes some dice, stats, and inventory elements (but more on that in the book's introductions, which you really should read!).
I "played" through some parts twice and still think there is more to discover in this book! I also think You Are (Not) Deadpool: A Marvel: Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook would be a fun game/book to play/read as a group at a game night or as an interactive element for a book club.
Thank you Netgalley, Aconyte Books, Aconyte and the author Tim Dedopulos for the opportunity to read this book as an eARC in exchange for a honest review.
booksjenrecs's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.25
Can I just say what a fun read/adventure this book was? You Are (Not) Deadpool by Tim Dedopulos was this amazing mix of Deadpool snark and Marvel lore combined with classic choose-your-own-adventure style and dice/chance elements.
Did you ever read choose your own adventure books? I definitely did (I even had a Goosebumps one that I read so many times some of the pages started falling out). Well, You Are (Not) Deadpool is billed as an "adventure gamebook," but the premise is the same. As you progress through the story, you help Deadpool try and save the world from Centauri weapons through a combination of puzzles, dice rolling, and the attributes you've built up over game play. Every answer takes readers to a different page and onto a different plot. When I first read these types of books, they weren't digital so it was really cool to see the same premise taken into the modern age and ebooks. Rather than flipping through to the correct next page and maybe accidentally seeing a page or plot point I wasn't supposed to see yet, the ebook version is automatically linked to the correct page making it very easy to stay on the right path.
I thought Dedopulos did an excellent job at keeping Deadpool user friendly (since the reader is playing through the adventure with Deadpool, too many obscure Deadpool references would have only taken readers out of the story) while also injecting all the wit, sarcasm, and devil-may-care attitude that Deadpool is known for.
Deadpool was truly the perfect character for a Marvel gamebook. A character known for breaking the fourth wall both in the comics and on the big screen, it was completely in character for Deadpool to spend so much time in You Are (Not) Deadpool talking directly to the reader and even relying on your opinion and knowledge throughout the story.
What I love most about these kinds of books is the fact that you can read them many, many times and read a different story each time. I read through You Are (Not) Deadpool three different times and ended up with three vastly different Deadpool adventures. This book is hours of entertainment featuring the Merc with the Mouth, and I know I have many more adventures to go with this book.
There are some roleplaying game elements in this adventure; readers do need to keep track of base stats as well as any attributes you pick up along the way. Readers will also need a set of dice in order to determine outcomes throughout the story. I kept my game play 100% digital with the use of a a note app on my phone and a pair of virtual dice.
Overall, You Are (Not) Deadpool was all around entertaining whether you are a Deadpool fan or not. I would say having some prior Deadpool knowledge is helpful in terms of full entertainment value of this book, but any Marvel fan looking to relive the excitement of choose your own adventure books will definitely want to pick this title up.
I received a review copy of You Are (Not) Deadpool from Aconyte Books. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.
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About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit marvel.com. ©2022 MARVEL
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.
For more information visit marvel.com. ©2022 MARVEL