A Hashtag For Hodor
Technically, the title is a spoiler for today’s work of hyperfiction, End Game of Thrones, but since the story is just a comic take from 2014 on the future of the HBO series, it’s pretty well spoiled by now anyway. “End Game of Thrones” is the last installment in a short-lived (2012–2014) Pick Your Path CYOA series by Mike Kayatta, posted to The Escapist, “the authoritative journalistic source for the mature enthusiast of escapist entertainment.”
The story begins with a feint, and then returns, bottleneck- and show-style, inevitably to the fates of three main characters, which you may decide independently of each other. When all are dead, on the Iron Throne, and/or otherwise disposed of, there is a final, financial denouement.
The bottlenecks are too tight to reward much rereading, unless you’re particularly taken by the humor or irony of the piece. I didn’t get very far into the other four Pick Your Path stories for want of the appropriate video gaming background to appreciate them, but structurally they seemed quite similar to “End Game of Thrones”, and much too linear for a time-cave fan like me.
I’ll be at Narrascope this weekend; review(s) to follow…
© 2019 M. C. DeMarco
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