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Leviathan: 12/19/22

Leviathan

Leviathan by Jason Shiga (2022) is the first book in the Adventuregame Comics series. Although it feels like it should be the second since it uses the same graphical interface as Meanwhile (2011) to turn a comic book into a choose you own adventure.

This time you're making decisions for a young villager who is looking for a quest. With your help, she can defeat the leviathan.

To be successful, you'll probably need a pad of paper or some other way to keep track of where you've been and what clues you've learned. Sometimes you'll find a blank circle where you have to supply the correct number. Of if you want to go completely nonlinearly, you can guess a number.

Like all the other Shiga comics I've read, Leviathan takes turns of logic that are unexpected but satisfying.

Five stars

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