Well it sounds like it at least actually has choices, unlike say, Alternamorphs.

Seduce him. It leads to a better ending.

@ Ace

Why, was Alternamorphs one big long But Thou Must, or something?

Every wrong choice led to instant death on the next page, so it was actually a linear story.

Oops, I just realized that my final isn't today after all. Good thing I figured that out before I walked all the way out there.

Quoth the article: So yeah, it still counts.

I really need to start being more careful about doubleposts. Anyway, here's a review if you want to find out more. I haven't actually read the book, but by all accounts, it's awful.

Well, I've been up for WAY too long tonight... I'm off to bed. Night, folks.

Wait, you were up all night Kegisak? Get some sleep!

I remember the Fighting Fantasy books... I was terrible at them

Funny you should mention... The song I'm listening to right now is called "Up All Night".

But they're not Nonstandard Game Overs. That term doesn't really apply to CYOA books anyway.

I don't think you can be bad at a book.

Yes, I delurked at 4:30 in the morning just to say that.

edited 30th Apr '12 4:28:44 AM by Crowfall

Can someone tell me why the moon from Majora's Mask is so famous?

Random thought, I know. It's just been bugging me

You can if you keep failing and choosing the wrong options

edited 30th Apr '12 4:30:45 AM by gingerninja666

Night keg!

The book has a branched structure, which has an inherent level of interaction involved. I'm rather sure that the trope is applicable, in a way.

Hell if I know. I haven't the foggiest idea what you're even talking about. /ignorantslug

edited 30th Apr '12 4:34:28 AM by KylerThatch

Yeah, but in all the CYOA books I've ever read the death routes are completely arbitrary. You might as well flip a coin.

Just about every Zelda game has several of its more important elements become pretty well known, and the moon is one of the more memorable aspects of Majora. The creepy face, the way it constantly looms overhead slowly getting bigger as your time runs out. If you played the game, that moon is one of the things that really sticks with you.

Wait, why does the moon have a creepy face on it?

According to Colin, most of the players were young and seeing the moon looming over them with that creepy face scared everyone.

Because yes.

edited 30th Apr '12 4:38:04 AM by OrionAurora

@Fighting Fantasy I loved them. Of the ones I have I completed 'Deathtrap Dungeon', 'City of Thieves' and 'Freeway Fighter' (that one has a hell of a dick move at the end. If you enter a mansion near the end, and there are no clear signs that the house is any more dangerous than anything else, you get rabies, guaranteed. The annoying thing is that the rabies doesn't kill you until the very end of the book. You literally return home, give the supplies to your home town and finish what the quest of the book was, then die. It was more of a bad ending than a game over, but it's still a pain, as you will almost definitely do this the first time. Wow, that was a long rant...)

@Orion: It's also because many Legend of Zelda fans were relatively young and the mature and dark themes of the game often hit close to home and hard. I imagine ponies like y'all might find the scenario kinda too familiar given what Luna did when she had her breakdown a thousand years back.

Also g'night Kegi.

edited 30th Apr '12 4:40:51 AM by AceOfScarabs

I don't know. I don't remember if the game ever ascribes any actual malice to the moon itself, but I don't think so. The face is probably just there to make it look creepier. Which worked.

Take five of the CYOA. Brainwashed into becoming Fluttershy's slave. Probably the best ending yet mind you...

@Cookoo I'm having Fluttercrinkle flashbacks...

... not that I've read that fic mind you