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Hunger Of The Wolf




Anonymous
Sat May 7 16:52:58 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
You brought me back to my boyhood... cheers!

LesseZ
Mon May 23 11:44:59 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
I'll just take a guess that the "dank" on page 216 is supposed to be "dark" ;)

It was a good read, not too long, not too short.
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Not entirely sure how I feel about the ending. Still undecided on whether it's supposed to be a happy ending or not. But I guess.. Yes?
There are still quite the amount of options I didn't explore, so I might give it another read, just for exploration purposes.

All in all, I'd say this is a solid 8.5/10, mainly because of the original twist.

Yaztromo
Tue May 24 21:20:43 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
I always end up serving faithfully the Master of Wolves until my departure... :-/

Winiestflea
Thu Jun 9 02:04:18 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
First one I have evered play, it was pretty cool.

Jonathan
Sun Jul 31 22:12:23 2016
Star - optimum ending reached
Good adventure.

Wolf
Tue Sep 6 20:14:48 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Great game

hi
Sat Dec 10 12:08:17 2016
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Was there any aim for me after I got turned into a wolf?

hi
Sat Dec 10 13:44:40 2016
Good game

adum bernie
Thu Dec 22 12:50:35 2016
I thought it was really, really bad you turn into a' wolf

Tammy
Thu Dec 22 23:30:47 2016
Then I assume you won't like Rise of the Night Creatures either, which is featured here on ffp. :)

Rai
Thu Jan 26 12:10:00 2017
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
I really enjoyed how the story's setting always kept changing, and found the
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and the
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particularly interesting.

That being said, I will complete the game once more, because I suspect that the ending I got isn't the only one, and would like to see how things turn out if I do things somewhat differently.

JSin333
Sat Apr 8 13:22:24 2017
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
An interesting and unique story.

bluejuice915
Sun Jun 18 00:35:00 2017
Star - optimum ending reached
That was great. The extensive choices made for great gameplay, not to mention an ingenious plot. I am curious as to the final piece of information you can provide to the Council and the 5th wizard in Swamp as I seem to have missed them. The battles were perfect for any skill. There were perhaps excessive luck checks, but maybe that was just the path I took. Great job with the smattering of insta-losses near the end. Overall, great and worth recommending.
Grade: 99

RogueOne
Tue Oct 17 02:34:24 2017
Star - optimum ending reached
Done!

Karl Gorman
Sun Feb 11 19:35:39 2018
Star - optimum ending reached
Oh, you have taken me back to my boyhood.

A very substantial piece of work, with a good twist that I didn't see coming!

Thank you.

Fra
Fri Apr 6 22:42:08 2018
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Dead

ur mom
Tue Jul 31 17:47:42 2018
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
that rhino was STRONG

Ben
Thu Sep 27 09:44:57 2018
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
I got killed by some fat troll because I didn't want to place a bet

paul
Tue Mar 12 21:00:38 2019
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
after all that, death by crab grass. i enjoyed this gamebook.

David
Thu May 9 20:17:03 2019
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
4th time. finally completed it.
loved this adventure

Robert Douglas
Fri May 10 00:55:45 2019
Hi David, are you sure you completed it? There should be a star instead of the dread skull'n'cross bones!

Rick
Thu Jun 20 14:22:54 2019
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Is there no way to escape becoming a wolf?

Zorg
Mon Jul 15 10:33:43 2019
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Didn't really know what I was doing, but it appears I got somewhere, I guess. Good game tho

Etienne
Tue Jan 7 00:48:27 2020
Really good book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I often wonder if an actual barbarian would refer to himself as a 'barbarian' though.

This was one the good ones to be honest. It never got frustrating, the difficulty felt just right.

Jerry
Wed Jul 8 11:54:22 2020
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
I thought I won, but...
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914002
Sat Dec 26 17:41:53 2020
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
@mazing I lovei the
stoory

Jay
Mon Jan 18 23:29:22 2021
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Ended up with the dryads. A happy ending indeed.

Jay
Tue Jan 19 15:17:46 2021
Star - optimum ending reached
Completed it, but would prefer to meet the dryads again.

Yaztromo
Sat Mar 6 14:17:06 2021
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
This time the giant bested me in combat...

JDRAFO
Sat Aug 21 22:34:24 2021
Skull - non-optimum ending reached
Pretty cool game. Just wish Luck was useable in combat.

Mage
Tue Oct 19 02:08:22 2021
Star - optimum ending reached
Nice prequel for Scorpion Swamp.

YARD
Fri Aug 25 16:10:15 2023
Star - optimum ending reached
My mini-quest of playing through all of Kieran's works is now complete! With that, I might as well give a personal ranking for all of them.

* A Princess Of Zamarra

* The Word Fell Silent

* A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

* Hunger Of The Wolf

* A Knight's Trial

* Waiting For The Light

* A Midwinter Carol

You can tell that this story is Kieran's first work as the writing style is notably less sharp, the characters less memorable and, of course, the story much more linear than in the works I rated above it, not to mention more altogether conventional than pretty much anything he wrote since. There are also some contrived moments the later works tend to be much better at avoiding.

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At the same time, it is still a perfectly good high fantasy adventure, with a fairly diverse range of creatures and encounters involved throughout. I particularly liked the Firefox and manticore fights mechanically (and a felinaur one stylistically), but there were enough other neat encounters as well, all reasonably balanced.

Now, proofreading:

119

"and a woman and her two daughter are sheltering"

172

"to see a red and blue parrot perched on a nearby branch . 'Follow me,' " (extra space) + perhaps "trying to decide what route" (not which?)

271

"Eventually you emerge on to the balcony"

296

"A group or orcs that had been"

399

"done you,' you ask." (should be a ? instead of a ,)?


349 - might misspell the name of a Council's member.


There are also quite a few moments which seem to be missing dashes where they would have come in handy: i.e. "a rather repulsive looking" at 116.

Kieran
Fri Sep 8 23:11:10 2023
Not technically my first work as I'd submitted a number of 50 section gamebooks for various competitions prior to this, but definitely an earlyish work - a lot of the content was reused in my later Revenant Rising - for better or worse.



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