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[Rez]

Looks cool.  I might actually do legit playthroughs with a tool like this.  If I read the physical book, my left hand is always on the last page I made a significant choice on.  Also, can't be bothered to actually do maths when I'm reading an adventure story.

[nenjin]

Well, I finished the vidya game and felt compelled to write a Steam review. It's here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/nenjin024/recommended/279440/

Short version is, Lone Wolf fans can probably enjoy or maybe even love it. But I had some problems with the whole package, particularly the story. It's just not that good, penned and overseen by Dever or not. Not compared to the other things Lone Wolf has done, seen or killed. It's a pretty good port of a mobile game, but for a PC game it's very casual and it's all QTEs. And despite being a CYOA RPG game....I don't really think I'm going to replay it.

Honestly, SeventhSesnse stacks up better against this thing despite the lack of graphics, music, sound effects or real time combat. Simply by virtue of the story you're reading and the mechanics which back it up.

Spoiler: Bit of a rant (click to show/hide)

Leeandra really fucked this story up for me. On the one hand I respect Dever for creating a character unique to his world: a Sommerlunding who doesn't really like or trust Lone Wolf. Kudos for that. On the other hand, she is the absolute worst example of a character who supplants the main character of the story as the focus. She is the reason the whole story exists, as Dever basically expresses through her at the end of the game. He spends an inordinate amount of time dealing with who she is as a character, and how much Lone Wolf is annoyed/worried/confused by her. This makes her unique in all of the Lone Wolf stories I've ever read. I know more about Leeandra than the characters Lone Wolf knows over the course of his whole fucking life. She also completely ruins the concept of being Lone Wolf by being present for half the goddamn story, following you around, disagreeing with you and generally being a bitch. Fuck. That. Shit. That does not make for an enjoyable adventure to me, cleaning up an unrepentant wunderkind's mess and then being asked to understand her motivations and actions, which are completely selfserving so it continues to move the story forward in stupid ways. She the kind of character that, after a certain point, it dawns on you that killing her would resolve more of the story than letting her live. Alas that such a thing isn't possible.

[Rez]

I'd sure appreciate some acknowledgment that my Lone Wolf has 20 more combat rating than the mooks and angry strangers Lone Wolf meets.  I mean, surely I should be able to roll to subdue the guy who attacks me over a misunderstanding, rather than slash him to bits with the Sommerswerd.  Maybe the big crowd of starving giaks who all together have 20 less CS than me shouldn't be able to damage me at all.

I'm pretty pissed my Shield got taken away after the Grandmaster Kai rerolls, too.

[nenjin]

I'd sure appreciate some acknowledgment that my Lone Wolf has 20 more combat rating than the mooks and angry strangers Lone Wolf meets.  I mean, surely I should be able to roll to subdue the guy who attacks me over a misunderstanding, rather than slash him to bits with the Sommerswerd.  Maybe the big crowd of starving giaks who all together have 20 less CS than me shouldn't be able to damage me at all.

I'm pretty pissed my Shield got taken away after the Grandmaster Kai rerolls, too.

Are you using an updated version of SeventhSense? Because there's rules configuration for how all that stuff works.

[Rez]

I'm just doing by the book.