Item - Indiana Jones and the Giants of the Silver Tower

So far, my exposure to Find Your Fate books has been very limited. I decided to try this one because it was written by R. L. Stine, who has shown he has talent for writing good interactive stories. The book, however, proved utterly disappointing.

Other series (such as Endless Quest or Multiaventura) have shown it is possible to write an interesting gamebook based on an existing property. Given this, I simply can't understand why the authors of the different Find Your Fate series produced adaptations that are so utterly bad. None of the magic of the Indiana Jones movie franchise is felt here. The story is bland and unexciting for the most part, and the attempts at humour are so cringe-inducing they made me want to throw the book out the window. The consequences of your choices are usually very random, and all the story paths either end too abruptly or lead to silly endings.

And yes, this book does include the same randomization mechanics found in other Find Your Fate books, some of them sensible (such as asking you to pick a random number), while others are utterly absurd (such as outcomes being determined by which day of the week it is when you read the book). Since every path through the book is quite short, however, these mechanics do not add much interest to the gameplay (it is way too easy to go back and try a different choice). Overall, Giants of the Silver Tower sucks. Don't bother with it. The author's own Hark series (and even some of his Goosebumps books) are way better.

Note: aside from the book's 14 endings, there is one section which gets you stuck in an infinite loop.

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