Choose-your-own-adventure books have never exactly been known for their poetic diction or political urgency. If anything, they’re more akin to text-adventure computer games than novels, and, like comics and cartoons, they’ve been subject to plenty of videogame-franchise licensing. This online collection features the deadliest and most disheartening of multiple endings. Find out how Link dies when not by your own game-controller fumbling!

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