You Are (Not) Deadpool: A Marvel: Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook

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Well, anybody wanting to be allowed to read a particular book has to create a profile, and hope that their request to review it is accepted. You Are (Not) Deadpool, is an interesting, clever and ridiculously fun experience where genre and format are in perfect balance. Whether you’re a long-term fan of The Merc with The Mouth, aka Deadpool, or if you only know him vaguely, it’s probably easy to imagine why an adventure game book is perfect for this irresistibly outrageous, fourth wall-breaking, anti-hero. One can only express awe at how much planning and mental wiring a platform like this must require before it reaches the masses.

Nothing against Deadpool, but I'm definitely looking forward to the other Gamebook, She-Hulk Goes to Murderworld, also written by my good pal Tim (even if he doesn't know it. I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Deadpool and/or Marvel in general, trust me, you’ll not regret it. Failure to do this will result in you no longer being able to acquire Marvel titles from Aconyte Books for review.

The story in suitably bonkers fashion fits you as a lackey, sidekick, note-taker and so on to Deadpool, in his mission to prevent alien weapon tech being smuggled to someone here on Earth. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years.

Resurrecting the classic game-book format made famous with the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy series, Aconyte Books has launched the Marvel Multiverse Missions range of stories, with everyone’s favourite ‘Merc with a Mouth’ headlining the first adventure. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The skill in Tim Dedopolus’s writing is his ability to make the reader feel welcome and instantly utilised at the same time. It really encompasses everything from Deadpool's signature sarcasm to Marvel lore, all in the form of a choose-your-own-adventure style book that also includes some dice, stats, and inventory elements (but more on that in the book's introductions, which you really should read! I kept my game play 100% digital with the use of a a note app on my phone and a pair of virtual dice.A check list of achievement at the back of the book helps to show how repayable the gamebook is, as there of lots of different leads that are impossible to fully explore without may replays.

Get this, You're sitting by your window, watching the sunset and listening to the honking down below on the street. You are (not) Deadpool places you in the unenviable position as Deadpool’s latest (disposable) sidekick in an adventure to track down some dangerous alien weapons flooding the streets of New York.

Players can accrue these secondary attributes such as “Chaos” based on their choices, that’ll force them into certain paths later on in the story – it’s similar to videogames with a morality system. It was interesting as it had a good storyline but had a game to it, having to answer to progress into the book more.

Definitely a recommendation for anyone who’s a fan of any type of solo RPG, gameplay books or marvel in general! The anarchic and tongue-in-cheek tone of You are (not) Deadpool definitely distinguishes it from other books of the same format and helps create a unique relationship between reader, protagonist and author.

When I first read these types of books, they weren't digital so it was really cool to see the same premise taken into the modern age and ebooks.