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

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This book definitely reminded me of my school days where choose your own adventure books had come out. I was drawn into this book from the beginning, and I allowed it to drag me by the nose until the end. There are also many secondary qualities that you can acquire, that will also often have values attached. When host Adam Corolla asked Miller if he is close to Reynolds, who stars as the titular superhero in the movies, the guest replied, “I got along with him a lot better on the first Deadpool because he wasn’t a huge, huge movie star. Honestly I’m pretty sure I didn’t get all the endings (the one crit I have for this book, at least with an ebook, is that I had a hard time keeping track of how many endings I was hitting, and didn’t know how many endings there were) but that’ll be great for when I play this again.

Thanks to NetGalley and the cool kids at Aconyte Books, I was lucky enough to get a review copy of one of the upcoming Marvel Multiverse Mission Adventures Gamebooks. Mouth; which is earned from Deadpool's unfiltered vocabulary and social interaction with other people. Or more appropriately since you have to keep track of stats, items, and use dice to determine outcomes of various events it’s more a blending of Choose Your Own Adventure and Dungeons and Dragons. It is probably the most unboring reading experience you're likely to have all year, and yes, it’s absolutely fine to keep reliving the story until you get the ending you want… just so long as you don’t cheat along the way. I’m really hoping this series continues and that it expands to include other superhero partners (or even other genres).

You’re playing a game, you’re reading a book, you’re traversing one of the most anarchic plains of Marvel lore and having a blast along the way. All the tropes that Deadpool fans know and love are alive and present, including the wise-cracking mouth, the stark disregard for personal wellbeing, and the uncanny talent for breaking out of storyville and directly addressing you, the audience. Manic, zany and a bundle of fun from the beginning to its many endings, You are (not) Deadpool is a brilliant launch title for the Marvel Multiverse Missions range. It was funny how you made the correct choices and the dice failed you so you had to do things differently.

I thought it only logical that to really succeed you'd still have to be very Deadpool-y, despite the (naff and dodgy) title. At one point I had 8 Merc Points and my goal was to get 9 Merc Points with the help of two dice rolls. The instructions are presented in an unfussy and integrated way that gets the job done without delaying getting into the action. A genre-bending collection… This mix of horror, noir and urban fantasy plays with the boundaries of literary genre fiction. The story of the book was brilliant and cleverly wrote which made it flow really well and I was laughing alone the way.This was a great way to spend a couple of hours and i'd love to play this again with other people as it would be great to bring out for a group. I definitely did (I even had a Goosebumps one that I read so many times some of the pages started falling out). As with all game-books, players are armed with a pen, paper and dice to complete all manner of skill rolls as they navigate the multiple-choice narrative.