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Book Cudgel – Worlds of Power: Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Welcome back to the Book Cudgel, where we talk about novels based on video games. This time, it's Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, a terrible game that is terrible. Will it make for a good novel? Depends on your standards.
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Book Cudgel – Worlds of Power: Bases Loaded II: Second Season
If you're like me, you might be wondering how Bases Loaded II: Second Season, a baseball game about baseball, could be adapted to a children's book. Well, the same as any normal baseball novel, I suppose. But the surprising part is that it's far better than a story about a killer robot.
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Book Cudgel – Worlds of Power: Mega Man 2
The first entry in a possibly ongoing series of articles looking at video game novelizations. To start off, we're looking at Scholastics young reader adaptation of Mega Man 2, a game that leaves some possibilities for storytelling. However, the author here seems to have taken most things literally and taken liberties in weird ways.
