45User Rating: 4 out of 5

Review title of ChrisGrose My favorite childhood pen-and-paper game was a book.

And so, too, does this game pretend to be. The game aims to beckon to readers, but truthfully if you jammed the entirety of this games' text between two covers, it likely couldn't be long enough to be considered a novella. Although the game claims original author Joe Dever had a hand in the development and plot, it seems perhaps the last 30 years have been tremendously unkind to his storytelling abilities. This really feels like a game intended for a phone or tablet, not a next-gen console. Yet, if that doesn't dissuade you, feel free to read on. The game is fun. When you're not dying from one of the more unforgiving RNGs in use today, it's pretty cool to kill three enemies at once with the Sommerswerd. And, no, that's not a typo. I've been thorough. The game crawls at a snail pace perfect for most any stoner. However, egregious loading times for ultra short combats leave a lot of extra time to smoke those 1/8ths right up. As a former fan, it isn't what I wanted, but I've enjoyed it.