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johnayliff's review
4.0
After the more novel-like plots of the previous books I was disappointed that this one is just a dungeon crawl, but as dungeon crawls go it's an entertaining one with a good feeling of danger and tension.
tiggum's review
4.0
This is the first Lone Wolf book I ever read and it's still my favourite. It's a castle full of weird monsters. What's not to love? Probably the best one is the giant hand that reaches out of a corridor, implying that there's actually a whole giant sort of walled into the castle, buried within the island. You never see any more of it than its hand, but it's in there somewhere!
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The collector's edition bonus adventure, The All Seeing One, is tragically, undeniably awful. It starts out really well. There are meaningful decisions that lead to different outcomes. There are multiple paths. There are tricks and traps and treasures. And then it seems like the author, Nick Robinson, must have run out of time and given up on all that because it becomes a straight path through a gauntlet of unbeatable enemies. And I mean unbeatable. If you got the highest possible rolls for your stats and picked the best abilities, there's one fight there that you'd have less than a 50% chance of winning. Add that to the sequence of unavoidable fights that follow and I don't think there's any way, short of miraculously rolling all tens forever, that you could possibly beat this one.
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The collector's edition bonus adventure, The All Seeing One, is tragically, undeniably awful. It starts out really well. There are meaningful decisions that lead to different outcomes. There are multiple paths. There are tricks and traps and treasures. And then it seems like the author, Nick Robinson, must have run out of time and given up on all that because it becomes a straight path through a gauntlet of unbeatable enemies. And I mean unbeatable. If you got the highest possible rolls for your stats and picked the best abilities, there's one fight there that you'd have less than a 50% chance of winning. Add that to the sequence of unavoidable fights that follow and I don't think there's any way, short of miraculously rolling all tens forever, that you could possibly beat this one.
paripetera's review
5.0
One of my faves of the series, it gets so hard in a fun way! If you like mazes this is it
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