niffstral 's review for:

The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour by Griffin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
5.0
Rating: 4.5

I'm super biased so no one who's not already a fan of the podcast (and this arc in particular, as it's objectively the best arc of balance AND the entire podcast) should take my review into consideration when deciding to read it, but it was SO GOOD! Love the changes they made getting rid of some superfluous NPCs,
Spoilerthough I will miss Griffin doing a papyrus and sans impression of the two brother clerics of Istus (one of which happens to be a skeleton). I especially loved how they integrated the interlude scenes between chapters and how they handled everyone's chalice flashbacks, especially changing Merle's to be abandoning his family.
I'll also never get over how perfect the facial expressions of everyone are, and how cool the coloring is. Knocking it down half a point from a perfect rating because despite everything some aspects of it still felt rushed in a way that most likely could've been done better, though I'm sure it was incredibly hard deciding what to keep from this chonker of an arc. They also left out some of my favorite podcast bits, though not as many as crystal kingdom so it's got an edge on that. Wish I could tell people who haven't listened to the podcast to read it because I'm far too close to judge that sort of thing fairly lol, sorry but I gotta be honest.