#Curse of the pharaoh game series
It's the first book in the series to really experiment with a variety of settings (city, desert and the dungeon-crawl inside the pyramid), but none of them is really well-done. Things wouldn't be so bad if this adventure were at least mildly interesting, but it's not.
#Curse of the pharaoh game professional
Adding insult to injury, the book has typographical, ortographical and even grammatical errors which are unforgivable in a professional publication. The writing is very weak, even for a gamebook, and Mark Dunn's artwork is very inferior to that done by Leo Hartas and Russ Nicholson for other books in this series. The real curse here seems to be that gamebook writers seldom seem to be able to get an Egypt-themed book right ( Terrors Out of Time in the Forbidden Gateway series being one notable exception). This is by far the worst book in the series. If you're the patient type though, go ahead and give this a spin. Try Eye of the Dragon or The Temple of Flame instead. In the end the book is too unbalanced to provide much entertainment. Something similar probably would've have done a lot to make Curse of the Pharaoh a more tolerable experience. There were also hints of a group of rogues trying to beat you to the treasure, but the idea of ongoing rivals was forgotten as soon as the character left the city walls, disappointing considering how well the idea of an archenemy was used in The Temple of Flame. Since you'll find very little use for gold elsewhere, it doesn't make any sense not to. The threat of the monsters is offset by the non-living perils of the tomb, which are all in all pretty easy to survive if you use some smarts and buy out the merchant at the beginning of the book. I don't mind a challenge, I really don't, but it's not a challenge if an hour of progress is completely flushed just because I rolled double 1's. As befits such lethal opponents, high rolls are required to make any sort of impact on them as well, and healing is hard to find. Almost a third of battles? That's just nuts. It's not that it's the first time Golden Dragon's included battles where that was the case, but it was one or two per book. In roughly a third of the battles in this book, if you roll snake eyes, you're dead. Especially, of course, the giant snake.īut that brings me to the book's big problem. The monsters in the pyramid itself are perfectly in synch with the atmosphere they're going for. While I'm stumbling through the desert looking for the pyramid, I can feel the heat and I'm desperate to get there before it does me in. In fact, atmospherically this game is only rivaled by Eye of the Dragon in its series. You travel to an Egypt-like realm in search of a Pharaoh's tomb which is rumoured to contain fabulous treasure.Ĭurse of the Pharaoh is another one of those books I liked as a child but found the illusion marred when I came back to it years of gamebook collecting later.Ĭurse of the Pharaoh is another dungeon crawl adventure, but I didn't find it as dry as I do most such gamebooks.
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