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

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Over the last few years the 'choose your own adventure'-styled books I've seen to review have been of the more junior kind, where it's very hard to worry that your character has been killed off – the end scenes are anaemic and the chances you yourself as a reader/character have failed are slim. I know it’s going to eat hours away of my free time, whether it be replying the same route, choosing something different, altering stats the replayability is endless (almost) and when you have someone as fun as Deadpool by your side you know you can never get bored! Now awful, nothing that a few months jammed into

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. Now obviously given the nature of the ‘game’ it’s hard to give an overall view of the story since there are some many options, endings and routes to get there and on top of that we (meaning I) don’t like to spoil much of the plot of books we review. I read through You Are (Not) Deadpool three different times and ended up with three vastly different Deadpool adventures. It was funny how you made the correct choices and the dice failed you so you had to do things differently.

In truth the fact there is so much to talk about for fans of both Deadpool and especially this kind of book marks this out as a supreme example of its kind. 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. The actor, known for playing Weasel in the first two films, said that Reynolds changed after his 'Deadpool' success and added, "It's weird that he hates me. 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. This is comic based but if you're a fan of the movies, you'll no doubt read his dialog in Ryan Reynolds' voice.

You don’t necessarily have that stop and start feel that you get with a lot of gamebooks where every fight threatens to end your story at any moment. Grab the book for road trips, dentist appointment, and visits to the DMV and try not to laugh too hard. I’m really hoping this series continues and that it expands to include other superhero partners (or even other genres).Thanks so much to Aconyte and NetGalley for allowing me to read (play) and review an eARC of You Are (Not) Deadpool.

You Are (Not) Deadpool is the latest title in the Aconyte Books’ Multiverse Missions collection, where you aren’t just the reader, but the player too. Dedopulos draws from the finest conventions of the present day Marvel universe alongside painting a vivid and unmistakable portrayal of Mr Deadpool himself, a character who specialises in weaving as much trouble and collateral damage as is humanly possible. 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!The characters and action feel very true to what one would expect from the Marvel comics, and it's tons of fun to play through. Many moons ago, he had short stories published in The Bristol Short Story Prize and The Spinetinglers Anthology. You can pretty much guess this is going to be a five star from me from the start, but before we get into that let’s have a little look at what you can expect.