City of Thieves (Fighting Fantasy)

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The monster variety was more consistent with what I would see in a seedy city and the activities were engaging. While I'm here: thanks for publishing these fair, fun and thorough reviews, Malthus Dire, I have already enjoyed many of them and you consistently point out good things I overlooked in any given FF book.

By all accounts things get pretty difficult in the second half, but unfortunately we never made it that far, failing to acquire all the needed items before we left the city. Additionally, one piece of text - instructions from Arakor Nicodemus - was presented in a drawing of a piece of parchment (201). The villains you face aren't too hard/numerous to defeat compared to some of the other books, and even if you get lost in some of the maze-like sections, the book will usually get you back to where you need to be. All in all though,not really upset,I mean how could you be with such a great Gamebook as City of Thieves.As we’ve seen, the police are corrupt, violent crime lurks in the back streets, the masses are ready to turn to vigilantism, prisoners routinely escape from the prisons, many people are clearly criminally insane… At this moment, I thought of forgetting my mission, leaving the salvation of Silverton to another wandering hero. Like is the case with The Warlock, there's really only about one path for you to take, which is one of those things I never much liked: it means that there's little reason for all the other colorful and interesting encounters and challenges, once you've gone through them once and realized that this was the wrong way around. There were no changes to the actual systems in use and everything remained quite simplistic although still highly enjoyable.

The endgame - when you leave the city and travel to Zanbar Bone's tower - is less good, unfortunately. It is actually a reasonably easy book, and while they talk about a one true path, it is quite easy to find it. Beyond lies the most fearsome adventure of them all – the tower stronghold of the infamous Zanbar Bone! The book also incorrectly states that the player has two doses of their chosen Potion at the beginning of the book, when in fact they have only one. However, the player does not start with a shield, and may not have acquired one by this stage of the adventure.Curious as to what might happen if I went into the other room of the ship, I found that someone had poured themselves a nice hot bath. However to a culture like ours that, while believing that the soul breaks away from the corpse, our treatment of the corpse reflects our attitudes towards that person in life. I would probably try City of Thieves first since it was (in my opinion) the easiest in the series and has some excellent illustrations. I think I must have bought a larger backpack too, because I would soon be carrying a great number of items.