Reviews

Laberinto Mortal by Ian Livingstone

emzy_moo's review against another edition

5.0

Another revisit of this classic book game.... I still didn't beat it haha

jd_mitchell's review against another edition

5.0

One of the greats of the series, and my personal favorite. The whole notion of a tournament-style dungeon crawl to find gems to solve a puzzle at the end, is just so great. This book has some of the best and most evocative illustrations in the series. Mirror Demon, anyone?

arthurbdd's review against another edition

1.0

Pointlessly arbitrary - there's too many instances where there just isn't any meaningful clues offered so you have to make a choice that could make the difference between success and failure with no real way of logically inferring what the correct choice is. Almost impossible to win without extensive replaying and use of out-of-character knowledge obtained on previous playthroughs, which means it's rubbish storytelling. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/the-reading-canary-fighting-fantasy-part-2/

remocpi's review

4.0

Los libros de lucha ficción eran juegos de rol de consumo individual. Basados en el planteamiento clásico de Elige tu propia aventura (que luego Multiaventura llevó un poco más allá), en estos libros había que ir con papel y dado, y estar dispuesto a llevar un recuento de varios estadísticos (vida, fuerza, habilidad) para progresar en la aventura. Eran muy divertidos. Tras el primer recorrido respetando las normas al pie de la letra, de repente, solía pasar que empezábamos a ganar todos los combates y las tiradas de suerte (los libros estaban bien porque aunque perdieras una tirada de suerte aún podías sobrevivir e ir por otro lado de la historia, no eran todas de sí o no).
Cada libro traía varias horas de entretenimiento. Las historias eran arquetípicas (caballero mata monstruos en misión de rescate, universo Mad Max, naves espaciales que desaparecen, misión en ruinas arqueológicas...) pero eso en realidad era un plus porque te situaba perfectamente en la misión ya desde que veías la portada del libro.
En conjunto unos libros que recuerdo con mucho cariño y que merecían mucho la pena.

sploack's review against another edition

2.0

I thought I'd love reading/playing this book, being a Tabletop RPG player myself who hasn't been able to actually play those kind of games in a while. Well, unclear rules, numerous instant death situations and the complete lack of logic in determining which choices to make ruined this book for me. After 3 or 4 tries, beating the dungeon felt like a chore. It's mostly based on random chance and making logical, prudent choices may result in an instant game over anyway.

jmanchester0's review against another edition

5.0

Spoiler: don‰ЫЄt eat the poison mushrooms.

tardycreative's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

ant's review against another edition

5.0

Raises a glass to fallen comrades, you are missed Throm.