Review of 'Dishonored - The Corroded Man (Video Game Saga)' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
I wonder if the game publishers who commission video game tie-ins have ever heard of copyeditors? Dishnored: The Corroded Man reads like a first draft, but someone thought "eh, good enough, ship it" (and maybe "we'll patch it later if we need to"?). It's not entirely a bad novel; it might be a solid three-star fantasy thriller, but the writing is very clumsy and the pacing is poor. Also, at times the story reads like a series of Greatest Hits from the games, which is too bad as it also has some nice ideas of its own (and, it must be said, at times some stupid ideas of its own).
It's obvious this one is for fans of the game -- who else would it be? -- but it's like the writer is …
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
I wonder if the game publishers who commission video game tie-ins have ever heard of copyeditors? Dishnored: The Corroded Man reads like a first draft, but someone thought "eh, good enough, ship it" (and maybe "we'll patch it later if we need to"?). It's not entirely a bad novel; it might be a solid three-star fantasy thriller, but the writing is very clumsy and the pacing is poor. Also, at times the story reads like a series of Greatest Hits from the games, which is too bad as it also has some nice ideas of its own (and, it must be said, at times some stupid ideas of its own).
It's obvious this one is for fans of the game -- who else would it be? -- but it's like the writer is constrained to a rather narrow framework of how things must work out in all things Dishonored. So eh. It paid the bills, I suppose.