Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks: Difference between revisions

* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: The series is unique for encouraging the reader to imagine themselves as a specific character they create. The American versions went a step further with [[Kid Hero|kids wearing armor and wielding swords on the covers]].

** Subverted in a few of the books, sadly, which decide your character's background for you.

** In ''Castle of Lost Souls'', you meet an actual lion who has a thorn in its paw. The lion {{spoiler|actually talks (in a well-mannered way, even) and will ask you to take it off. If you do, it will give you important information.}}

** In ''The Temple of Flame'', right at the beginning, you will meet a monkey being threatened by a snake. Help it, you will NOT regret it.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: In ''The Temple of Flame'', you face a boss who is called... "[[Conan the Barbarian|Sulsa Doom]]"?

* [[Dem Bones]]: What, were you [[Genre Blindness|NOT expecting]] to meet several of them to fight? There is at least one exception, though: a gold-plated skeleton who will let you cross a river in exchange of a Black Pearl.

* [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys]]: You get a monkey companion in ''The Temple of Flame''.

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Heck, the very first enemy fought in the series is {{spoiler|an iron GATE!}}

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Different treatment in different books. ''The Eye of the Dragon'' rewards the player for double dealing at one point, but ''Castle of Lost Souls'' denies you a vital item if you go around killing people who've done you no wrong.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: As success in combat relies more on luck than your character's skill in battle, and the relative scarcity of healing, ''Golden Dragon'' is generally remembered as being harder than similar books in the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' or ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' books.

* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: Two of them!

** You meet a wild girl in ''The Temple of Flame'' who is locked in a cage. If you free her, she will reveal herself to be a [[Were Cat|werecat]] and help you as you are [[Chased By Angry Natives]].