These game booklets are solo RPGs -- essentially choose your own adventure books, but with a character sheet (which you download and mark separately) that alters as you make your choices and roll for successes. This makes it much more flexible on your choices and luck and does feel like it splits the difference between the two.

The writing is great, very engaging while remaining very functional at getting the game information across, and with a bit of thrill and chill to it. You have your choice of three characters to play through, but though they have different stats, they don't have significantly different personalities due to all being in second tense and often hitting the same pages; I kind of wish they'd stuck with just one or two and gave them more unique versions of their own pages.

The storyline is fairly brief; very easy to get through one playthrough in about 20 minutes. Understandable since a narrative game can balloon hugely based on the number of choices available, though.

I'm not sure about why we had the secrets or super secrets in here; they're a checklist only and don't result in any additional endings to view or anything of the sort. I guess they're like a video game achievement, but it felt like an odd fit.

All in all, it's fun; I probably wouldn't replay to try to see everything, but I enjoyed the time I spent with it and it was a great example of the genre.