Player Comments on The Firebird

I felt that when I made the right choices, the author forced me to do the wrong thing (like the cage, for example). It defeats the whole point of playing. It was a good idea, but the writer should have developed it further and not been so manipulative.

Very nice!
I'm a sucker for Slavic folktales, I'll say that much--and while I would have liked a few more nods to the stylistic details of Russian fairytales, it's still very nice to see them represented here. And you did a good job of it, so all's well!

VERY WELL DONE. yes it requires you to follow the path of the story, but I felt like I was in control of the outcome from the beginning non-the-less. Well put together, perfect for edutainment category. Congrats!

Loved the story

It was good but a little boring

its okay i guess

The adventure I created was interesting to me

this story can be confusing

yo its really lit my dude!

It sounds familiar to another story.

Cool

its a great story, with all the choices. Its fun. The relationship between Prince Ivan and The Wolf reminded me of to other characters in one of my favorite books, which was really made me grin.

I really Enjoyed da story. It was really suspenseful, like what wuld happen next. :)

It was awesome m8.

It had exciting characters and an exciting story.
Everything was good.
But maybe it could be longer.

i read this story in a book before

Well, this story was very interesting and it was good, for some people that may like this kind of genre of book/story. Its not really my type of thing, but it seems good for a real person that likes those kind of things in their favorite type of stories. Very nice sequence though.

i hate cliff hangers but other then that is was a great story

I like to believe that the Wolf Princess's name is Avery. I think in some cases there should be a choice to fight

I think it was good but it ended a little too quickly for my joy

Is this a Russian myth?

yo, yo, yo what up my dood. this was enlightening and very fun to read, however recees pieces can not be beat is any form of matter. GET WRECKT, thx

Wonderful Story!

this got sexual fast, and with a shape-shifting wolf...

This was a lot of fun. It was nicely written and very cute. My only complaint is that some of the choices were meaningless. I understand that this was likely by design and to further the plot, but it's still always mildly annoying to make a choice that's ultimately meaningless. Anyway, I really liked it. :)

10/10

interesting game.

this is a good story line and the golden apple was like minecraft

Fairly interesting.

Cool story

I love this story game!!! I knew I had heard the story of the firebird somewhere else before, so it was great to see it here.
There is nothing you could do to make it better!!!!

A ARROW PERICED MY HEART BECAUSE I MADE A RUN FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It ended so soon aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story was truly amazing. Getting the best ending was absolutely worth it.

I loved this book. I thought it was cunning and it was pleasurable to read 8/8 :)

Cool

I love it. It's just if I choose not to take the cage/bridle, I have to.

I hadn't even heard of the story it was based off of before, so it was kind of difficult for me, which made it fun. :3
(I ended up with the Wolf Princess ending).

Great but what is the wolf princess name?

Its really good. I have read the story way before I came across this, so it was a little too easy for me, but I liked how you told it and I loved the different endings. 7/8

it was great

Lovely

Good game... very creative

it was a very good story and it exceeded my expectations with a twist ending of ivan dying. however it would have been nice if there was a bit more choices to it because then there would be more variety in the endings that could happen. but overall it was a pretty good story thx.

I think I just ended up in an amorous relationship with the great grandmother of Jake from AT.

Either way, I enjoyed this story quite a bit.

It was very fun and creative, however when the author made us choose something it was relatively annoying. But i enjoyed it. Everything ended well even considering all of the stuff i had to do that i didn't want to do.

Is was a nice beggining, since it happens to be my first ever.

By the time I reached the firebird and the cage, I was like, "OH M GEE! I know this story! Except the 'wolf' was a dog and the 'firebird' was a canary with a beautiful voice.

Nice job

Very Beautiful

I enjoyed this tale in traditional style, though I must admit I'm not familiar enough with Russian (or similar) tales to properly appreciate it.

I liked how many favorable endings there were, even if only one was the "intended" ending. It made me feel free to choose my own ending instead of being forced to "win."

And the twist at the end was excellent.

But what about the part when Ivan gets cut up into pieces by his a-hole bros and the Wolf ransoms a crow's two children for magic water to bring him back, after which they promptly gatecrash a royal wedding, imprison/slaughter the bros and Ivan marries the love of his life?

Heck, where are the BROS regardless?

Not much of a choose your own story. Could have saved us both some valuable time and just called it a "sort of lazily written short story with some fake you out 'choices' thrown in for shits and giggles. I actually got mad reading this thing.

For a story about a magical creature in a magical kingdom during a magical time, it was a tad mundane and surprisingly predictable. It was a good idea, and has the right skin, but it needs more flesh and bones.

You're literally not allowed to make the right choices, you are given no choice but to go against the wolf's instructions even if he was right before. -.-

It was very interesting and educational. Even though it was mostly story and there were only a few choices, I still enjoyed playing it.

I loved this story! I like the edutainment games anyways because I feel like I'm doing some sort of learning while I have fun but this story was great! I had to play it a few times to get it completely right from beginning to end. I especially liked how even though the story was written in a fantasy, old-time style it was easy to read- so fun! - E

As a Russian, I greatly appreciated this. Everything was accurate, and the story was amazing. Thank you!

A cute story defiantly worth your time.

It was very short for me because I think I went the wrong way. It's great, and I'll definitely win the next time!

Ep-ic

Other than a few spelling errors in the beginning, it was well written and fairly entertaining.

Good, but all about a girl. mmm mmm mmm....

It was a nice, yet intense story

This story was amazingly beautiful. Though i am interested in Elena's heroic exploits.

I loved this storygame!!! Wow!!! This was a LOT better than some of the other storygames on here.

This was too easy! Hahaha! Just kidding! I only picked the right decisions and made it til the true end with the wolf princess simply because I've read this tale before.
But overall this was really great.

Googness gracious this is a good one. So many branching stories! Took me 3 hours to get through a 10 minute story.

Why was the only choice to take the cage even after I decided not to?

Slightly disappointing, it's a good story line but you cant really choose your own path. It kind of defeats the purpose. Like if you choose one thing and it's not the authors story line it just chooses the other for you. Good idea of a story but not a choose your own story.

Loved sooooo much!:-)

Why the Prince has to be so stupid? Why doesn't he have any other possibility than to be ineffective and misunderstood? Too much of these is actually left out of my choice, for it to be fun.

I think I got the good ending :3

i dont like how i could not steal the cage and bridle.

It was good but not great

Nice story a little too many words on a page but nice plot

Ooohhh... Forget my last comment, I get it now.

I liked it a lot! You should write a sequel where The Firebird returns to seek vengeance upon Prince Ivan!

This is pretty good! Nice and descriptive i think your a good writer and are doing really well! i thought the cutting off the head part was a bit random though...

So short!

Why do you forece me to make the bad decishion? I do the right one, but you wrote this to do the bad decishion. The ending was rather odd to. The wolf princess? What was that about?!

Meh....can't just blindly choose, but still not much fun.

Nice story! I wish it would have been longer.

nicee

Great story. You provided options, and even if you go another way, unlike other stories on here your choice actually usually doesn't end in death.

I love the Wolf Princess concept so much, this made me very happy :3

This book is pretty cool.

Pretty Good Story Keep It Up!!!

meh

Excellent story that was told well. It'd be interesting to see a treatment of Greek myths or other folk tales :)

I loved it! Ok, not a hard one, but really cool

Bravo! But I have to agree,every time I chose the right choice it gave me the other choice...

I had read the story and I still had to try it over quite a few times. Its challenging and fun and it matched the story.

I found my ending quite disappointing. Overall: A great story!

Lovely ^^

its a little to predictable no offence but its still a good book but not the best

I would have enjoyed going the touchy feely route of an unappreciated tree.

swag

Awesome!

It's very well written, but unbelievably linear. Still entertaining.

It was good and well written, but I felt forced into doing things I didn't want to do. A good story, but not really a choose your own story in a true sense.

I have never read the real story, but it sounds great! Nice game.

It is definitely interesting...

Great story told in the way of a folk tale. However, this storygame was pretty linear, and the different paths all led to pretty much the same choices. However, I guess this is to be expected as it's based on the original story anyway. Although the story is linear, I still have to commend the author for the more thorough telling of the classic folk tale, The Firebird.

Interesting. I liked it.

A really interesting and novel way to tell a folk tale. A lot of people complain about it being linear, but I think it works.

Kind of good...

It is ok

It's good.

My ending was so great :) so much fun!

I didnt like it

I really loved the fairytale-esque storytelling style, however, considering how often the story seems to corral the player into making certain choices, I'm not sure why this is a story game instead of simply a story.

It is an excellent story though, so certainly worth playing even if the forced choices detract from the feeling of choosing your own adventure.

This was a great adventure to share with my family. Thanks

It's really good.

too good for comments.
I meant that like a good thing.

Fun game, but I did not like how I had no control over the prince's character; I couldn't stop him from disobeying the wolf.
Not having a choice hurt the choose your own adventure feel.

This is quite nice. Although it would have been better if the story was written in Anglosaxon (Old English.)

Forces some choices

wel, my experience was short because i let the bird go unharmed, but the game sounds promissing.

this is a really good story game and i really do reccomend it :3 but i do wonder, what was her name anyway?

The ending was wierd with the wolf princess deal. Was the wolf a girl wolf? I didn't feel like it flowed with the story. Im still confused

Sometimes I was forced to do the wrong thing, was that for the wolf? But I loved the story a lot! Probably the best! It was really great, and showed hard work(a good thing!) Great job!!! :-D

Excellent story. And what was the name at the end anyway?

Guess I chose the wrong thing cause my game kind of ended prematurely. lol. I liked the story though, so I will try again.

I loved it! It was so creative and cute! However, what WAS the wolf princesses name?

A very sweet and enjoyably short relaxing story.

Superb. I left that story with a happy feeling on the first play-through, in addition to all the following ones. UGH but what is the naaaame?

Nice. 6/8

It was a very interesting one and I loved the shape-shifting wolf that added a lot to the plot line the only thing that could improve is if Ivan can actually get away with following the wolf's instructions but other than that it was good

It unfortunately was a bit too easy to determine the real path of the story...Still loved it though.

I loved it. *Sniff* it wa beautiful....
;-;
8/8

Amazing stuff. I loved how the story gave me mixed emotions. Beautiful!

I really liked this game. The writing in beautiful, and the pictures are wonderful. I like how you adapted the fairy tale is such a great way. 5 stars!

Quite educational, and good, actually. :)

Wow, I loved it! Beautiful story and amazingly well written.

Fun

Its so good almost cyying

very nice story, i am suprised you can turn a folk tale into a choose your adventure story

Beautiful. So many nice endings. Each with a moral.

I'm Russian, therefore I obviously loved this game, but it was also interesting to play and awesome.

Very good! I actually have a book that is a collection of shortstories, and this one is really similar to a story in the book. In that, it's a fox that helps the prince, and he has to get the golden bird, golden horse, and the princess. The fox turns out to be the princess's brother, who was enchanted by a witch.

hmm. meh

I love all the adventures. :)

Doesn't sound very much like the original folktale, and the ending was confusing (I sided with the wolf on the white horse argument). It would have been a great adaptation of the story though.

i loved the fire bird as a child and sadly this was a disgrace to the folktale. I'm disapointed and hope you will make a better version

Very interesting story. It's detailed, and gives you lots of choices.

ok

Every part except for the very end was good what I didn't like was that at the end prince Ivan was pierced in the heart and died. :.)

it was very sad but i liked the story.

An excellent folktale :D

I love this story! I really like foreign legends and folk tales and I think the whole thing was really well written. I didn't really mind that it only really had one main story line to follow because I liked the story so much.

AWESOME!!!

I got the ending where the prince and the dog um...
Yeah.
Ew.

One of the best, feels a bit like the elder scrolls, which gives me an idea, elder scrolls story.

I actually really liked this!^_^ Great story, I chose the wolf. :D ^_^ Yaaay!

I don't understand who exactly the wolf was.

Good story game.

It was cute but I wanted to hit the price because he was so stupid.

This is one of the best stories I've read here! the ending had me tearing up.

Very few choices to select

Love the story

Pretty short
But good

this story was interesting. however,the ending was confusing.it really makes you think about the other possibile endings.

I do not think that I really like the ending of the story because mystery is mystery!

The beginning of the story attracted my curiousness to read; but I was shocked with the ending because I expected a happy end!

Maybe in this time my story was badend. because the prince died. I feel he is a poor prince. I wanted to choose another way with out steal the firebird, if I could choose another way.

It was so intresting story!Making a story and bravery of Iwan were good.And I knew a music of The Fire Bird,so I enjoyed this story.

So amazing story!!
The gray wolf plays an important role in this story.
I spend much time reading this story because there are many words i don't know.

The title is " Firebird", however, Ivan(main character) couldn't made many contacts with it. What he could do was only to be injured by it. I chose unehical choices, so that's why he couldn't talk with it or capture it.

to choose and make story was very interesting! I think Prince Ivan is brave man so I hoped he could get away. However,an arrow already hit his heaet!! soooo sad:(

Very cool ending :)

Making the story was fun.

If you don't know what it is don't touch

Wow, The story is amazing. The story take the reader away from surprise to surprise the other. With many attractions and events are mysterious. But unfortunately, Prince Ivan has sacrificed his life to know the mysteries of tree and bird. He was brave. King was not wrong when he choose Ivan to be king. Thanks the author has given us a good story to it. It's a really interesting story.

It was a very good story.

it was good at the begging, in the middle like a wild goose chase and at the end it was sooooo sweet!

it was cool especialy the part with the talking grey wolf

love the story

Great story, Dude!

Wonderful story I love the ending of the wolf becoming the princess, it was a tad predictable but still nice.

This was really enjoyable. I liked the story, good job :)

It's a bit un optional there needs to be more choices.…

It was pretty awesome, great job, man.

Entertaining and funny.

Very well written.

I wish the story explained what happened to Prince Ivan. How did he die? I liked how it was like a Fairy Tale. I want to read the other adventures.

not bad

This was a fun little tale. I love the twist and turns you put in to make it a choice story. I also loved how you manged to keep the original legend pure. If you make the right choices. I know of this folk tale because of the small amount of time I wanted to be a Mythologist (no I did not make that word up)I enjoined this nice little adventure.

Bo approves. Oh, and is that a bestiality scene at the end or is the princess the shapeshifter or what? I'm confused. Please send me a message when you see this to expalin it, I would be really grateful

im not sure what i was meaning with my earlyer comment, this story is in no way bland. my bad.

Interesting

this is simply one of the best stories ive seen yet. it was simple, but done bland. A very good job.

WHAT WAS HER NAME?!

epic

I heard the story before but you did a really good job re-creating it and I sided with the wolf at the end because the princess was a jerk in my opinion. Good job!

Simply awesome! Great work!

the story inspired an awww... out of me. good job.

I think I've heard of this before, and I loved it! Obviously I always sided with the wolf, not the annoying Elena, cool! The wolf's the legendary princess! Wolves are my favorite animals anyway.

Awesome story. I wanted to give it an eight but chickened out. Beautifully written. I got the best ending. I like how you never told us the wolf's name at the end, but it was a great ending.

cool

DAMET what was the name!!?? ooooooohhhh i hate that sort of thing but anyways that was a pretty good game!

7/8 good game

Pretty darn good!

Incredible Story!!!

pretty good :)

In this game, you can only go with the story. But, if you cut the story short, some parts won't make sense.
Very Good!

WooOOOooOoOooO! thats my kind of ending!!!

THAT WAS COOOOOOOL!

An excellent modern version of the tale. Story-oriented, multiple endings, great personal story-telling voice. This is one of the best stories I've read in quite a while.

i got to the wolf princess ending without reading
ill read it later tho, it sounds cool

A good game, I have read the folk tale in question and you stuck to it, but you could have more diverse endings. 5/8.

Very nicely written and great storytelling. I thought playing your game was better than reading the book.

Very, very nice Sethaniel. Wonderfully written, great story. I like how you added the choices and that there are at least three endings I found. Excellent job!

Wow well done, nicely written, I have to go and play it again to see if there are different endings. Awesome and intelligent game.

Good story! 6/8!

Awesome story! Seriously, even if that wasn't your own original storyline, that is a brilliant storygame! Loved it.

Hey, I really liked this! It's well written, and Seth - I don't think it's linear, there's plenty of options and varied text. I didn't get the good ending, so I'm going to play it again :)

I liked it. It was well written and had more than one ending. good job seth.

very well written. nice return to the site. just more description and originality and your next one will be great.

It's pretty linear, but there are multiple non-death endings- at least three of which could be considered "good"