Apparently this book closely follows the plot of the game, such that it's practically a walkthru, and some people thus found it a boring read. That seems only natural since playing an adventure game should always give a more interesting experience than reading a book.

But I didn't play the game, so I thought the book was pretty good. Maybe it was a little formulaic, in the style of a detective novel, but there was only one point when I felt the book was transcribing an adventure game. Actually, the style of writing was quite informal, vulgar, almost adolescent, but I thought the author handled it very well. It really sounds like the earnest perspective of a young person straight out of the year 1993, and I think that extra vitality, however crass, is what I enjoyed about it.

I guess this was like the time I found that the book of The Princess Bride was very similar to the movie, and just as enjoyable, and perhaps this is because in each case, the original author was directly involved in the other production.