Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!
Very Positive
296 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | Y | Y | Y |
It is literally a choose-your-own-adventure book with narration. No animation or real gameplay, and it looks like it was a mobile game at one point. I would totally play this on a mobile. It is short and worth some laughs and giggles, but as a PC game, it just is not enough
O Conceito: Shakespeare sob uma nova (e louca) lente
Esqueça a melancolia e o drama existencial do Bardo. Baseado no livro de Ryan North, o jogo transforma a tragédia de Hamlet em um imenso tabuleiro de escolhas do tipo "Escolha sua Própria Aventura". A premissa é simples: e se os personagens de Shakespeare tivessem um pingo de bom senso? Ou, melhor ainda, e se eles fossem completamente insanos?
Esse jogo se torna divertido e cativante por esse aspecto. Ele consegue brincar e se levar a sério ao mesmo tempo. Quantos jogos tentam fazer graça e não fazem os outros rir ( Concord). Aqui é uma diversão honesta, demora um tempo para ter todos finais. E no final voc~e sai mais animado.
Shakespeare parody, and I love it! I'm not a huge fan of visual novels, though I've played a few. However, I enjoyed this one very much. Some bits were hilarious. Who knew murder and death could be so funny? This is a choose-your-own-adventure (or as the author puts it, the book you want to write, as YOU are the author). You play 3 different characters throughout the game, and there are many different options for each scene, and for each scene, there is a checkpoint. There are multiple checkpoints in the game, so you can go back and play out different scenarios. You'll have to play many different scenarios to get all the achievements. And you'll probably have to play all scenarios (or choices) to obtain all the "artwork." There are a total of 102 art pieces, and you collect them just by playing the game, based on the different choices you make. It's not necessary, however, to acquire all (or any) of the artwork to earn all the achievements. Collecting and viewing the artwork (in the Extras section of the menu) is just a fun side thing, but you don't have to collect all of them. I collected a good amount, but I'm probably still missing about 15-20 pieces out of the 102. I did earn all achievements, however.
To Be Or Not To Be is a cleverly written game that can be quite funny at times. I would recommend this game to those who love satire, and don't mind a lot of reading.
This game is effortlessly charming and genuinely enjoyable. I hope there are more of these Choose Your Own Adventure games to come!
To Be or Not To Be es desopilante. No hay opción mala. Da igual qué decisiones vayas tomando a lo largo de los ¿cientos? de caminos posibles que hay dentro del juego: todos son divertidos. Ni siquiera hace falta ser un experto en Shakespeare. Haberse leído Hamlet, imagino, ayuda considerablemente a disfrutar y entender mejor el juego. Pero tampoco es imprescindible. Quicir, un juego que te permite matar terroristas con Ophelia o bucear con el fantasma de Hamlet no puede ser malo.
Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be is an unhinged translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet to a Choose Your Own Adventure page-turning game. This is a bloody, humorous tale with odd mini-games. I supported the Kickstarter for the print version, with some of the milestones being more and more great guest artists contributing to the work.
又名《在哈姆雷特開無雙》
生存還是毀滅？主角生存配角毀滅√
劇情腦洞大開，旁白詼諧有趣，對Ophelia的改編很酷
比較推薦讀過原著再玩
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What a great little game/book. A couple of times it made me laugh until it hurt. Absolutely lost it. Tears. Ugly snorting. I can't remember the last time I laughed like that.
I've spent a while going through and trying to find all the different major routes through the story and tick off some of the achievements I haven't managed it yet - I can't wait to discover how time travel ends up being involved.
7/10
Есть многое в природе, друг Горацио, что и не снилось нашим мудрецам. Например, визуальная новелла про Гамлета. Или, лучше сказать, жанр "выбери себе приключение", поскольку игра меньше всего похожа на традиционные японские поделки, это именно что книга с развилками и книжными же иллюстрациями.
Удивительное.
У меня есть ощущение, что автор поставил перед собой цель развить историю Гамлета вообще без тормозов. Начинается все с возможности играть (читать?) от лица Гамлета, Офелии и даже отца Гамлета. Нет, выжить в последнем случае не выйдет, но вы не представляете, какие разнообразные возможности открываются перед призраком! Концовок под сотню. В основном они вращаются вокруг нелепых способов умереть или не менее нелепых способов отомстить, но иногда автора уносит в совсем дальние дали. Призрак, ставший океанологом; путешествие во времени; рэп-баттл с могильщиком... Круче только Гамлет в исполнении Шварценеггера (это было не в игре, а в нашей с вами реальности). И самое ошеломляющее посреди всей творящейся дичи - это реальный сюжет "Гамлета". Я думал, что хорошо помню, основные его вехи, но... Там реально было сражение с пиратами?! И персонаж с абсурднейшим именем Гонзаго?! Норвежцы, вторгающиеся в Польшу?! У Шекспира?! Да, в оригинальном "Гамлете" это все реально есть.
Плюсы.
- Произведение пародийное, и больше всего автор отрывается не на массовой культуре, как это обычно бывает, а на самом сюжете "Гамлета", пытаясь понять его с позиции современного читателя. Мрачное Средневековье, что тут говорить.
- Чудесные иллюстрации.
Минусы.
- Я так-то свободно читаю по-английски, но в игре текста слишком много, а словарный запас слишком продвинутый. Писал же носитель для носителей, да еще и с Шекспиром соревновался. Без русской локализации игру осилит далеко не каждый, кто может прочесть эту рецензию.
- Чекпойнты расставлены слишком редко. Например, необходимость проматывать одну и ту же драку с пиратом ради действительно интересных развилок угнетает. А сохранений в привычном смысле нет.
Новое прочтение стародавней классики - отлично. Несколько заходов в стиле "а что если?" - хорошо. Осилить все концовки - нереально. Покупать только бесстрашным англофилам.
Fun and weirdly wholesome despite the number of stabbings. I loved the art (particularly the Kate Beaton character portraits) and how the gallery gives bios and website addresses so you can find more of the artists' work.
Maybe my sense of humour has regressed as I've aged, but as a 30 year old literature nerd who chose to willingly subject herself to reading Hamlet as a teen, I laughed a few times.
The writing was tight and pleasant to read. The music and sound effects work well.
It's a little annoying trying to find all the branches, since there are so many of them, but honestly that could also be a plus.
There's a joyfulness to this game which was refreshing.
I tried to give this a thumb up, but the game didn't let me. And I tried to refund with less than 30 min playtime, but Steam didn't let me. And so I'm never spending a cent here again.
文字选择冒险类游戏。只能说不功不过。只打了奥菲莉亚的一条线，故事脑洞比较大，be like奥菲莉亚捅死全世界（）整体来说可玩性一般吧。国王和哈姆雷特两条线pass
Cringe.
Real Funny, Great Story, 100/10 Good Baked
It's not as funny as it thinks it is. Which could be okay, but the problem is that trying to get all the endings means sitting through the same dialogue trees over and over and over again, remembering to choose option C instead of B in choice 5001 after doing everything else right because for some reason it doesn't allow you to go back to specific choices, only 'chapters.'
It's poorly designed and I would sit through the less than great humor if not for that.
Humor is hit and miss, but the creativity is commendable. I was planning to unlock all the artworks 'til I saw how many there is.
This game reminded me of the books I used to read when I was a kid. I remember one about Dumbo and another about a princess (I think), and in both you had to choose what was going to happen next. Maybe that was the beginning of my love for the "choose your own adventure" type of games?
In any case, Ryan North's version of Hamlet is a very fun way to learn about the story (in a general and "friendly" way, of course) while enjoying changing it at same time.
If you don't like reading (or having someone read to you, if you turn on the narrator's voice, which I recommend because his voices are really fun to listen to) then this game isn't for you. However, I do recommend it if you are a completionist who wants to have all achievements/endings~
You can be or not be. And also time travel
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is this supposed to be funny?
Just as fun as I had expected this to be!
As someone who has never read/watched Hamlet, I really appreciate the 'canon' options being marked, so you can speedrun a Shakespeare play.
ซื้อเกมมาตั้งแต่มอต้น หลายปีมาก 8ปีได้มั้งถึงหยิบมาเล่นอีกครั้ง เพราะเป็นเกมที่อังกฤษล้วน ภาษาลึกนิดหน่อย ดิฉันใช้เวลาเก็บเวลภาษาตัวเองนานโข จนวันนี้หยิบมาเล่น เพราะย้อนกลับไปอ่านเชคสเปียร์พอดี เพิ่งนึกออกว่า โอ้ชั้นมีเกมนี้ในคลังนี่นา
คิดว่าเป็นเกมที่เฉพาะกลุ่มในระดับหนึ่ง ถ้าจะให้สนุกก็คงต้องรู้เรื่อง hamlet มาก่อนถึงจะเก็ทมุกที่เล่น แต่ถ้าเป็นแฟนแฮมเล็ตแล้ว เกมนี้บันเทิงมาก
ระบบเป็นเกมตัวเลือก หลายฉากหลายตัวเลือกเหลือเกิน แถมไม่รู้ว่าไอที่เลือกไปมันจะยังไง เลือกตามใจไปก็เกมโอเวอร์ เลยลองเลือกตามเนื้อเรื่องบวกกับตามใจตัวเองบ้าง เอ้อก็สนุกดี
คิดว่าคนที่จะซื้อเกมนี้ก็ต้องชอบอ่านเชคสปียร์อยู่แล้วแหละ เกมนี้ก็แค่เป็นแฮมเล็ตอีกเวอร์ชั่นที่ไม่ใช่แปลไทย เป็นอังกฤษแบบเข้าใจง่ายกว่าของเชคสเปียร์เยอะ ราคาไม่ถึงหนังสือหนึ่งเล่มด้วยซ้ำ ซื้อๆมาเถอะ ส่วนมีเวลาเล่นมั้ยก็อีกเรื่อง
เสียงพากย์สนุกดี ตัวเลือก ตอนจบหลากหลาย คุ้มราคา จำไม่ได้แล้วว่าตัวเองซื้อมาตอนราคาเท่าไหร่ แต่จะราคาเต็มหรือลดก็ได้ คุ้มสุด
-(สปอยล์หนึ่งในตอนจบ ล่องเรือไปอังกฤษ)-
ส่วนตัวชอบฉากจบนี้มาก เพราะในแฮมเล็ตเองก็ไม่ได้ลงรายละเอียดฉากที่แฮมเล็ตล่องเรือแล้วโดนโจรสลัดบุกเลย แบบตัดแว้บๆ แฮมมันกลับเดนมาร์ก ปล่อยเพื่อนสองคนไปตายละ
แถมนี่ก็เป็นเมนโรเซนกิลเดน เพราะงั้นการที่เราสามารถทำให้เขาไม่ตายได้นั้น คุ้มค่าเงินที่อิชั้นเสียไปแล้วค่ะ
Very funny game. Also alot of achievements to collect for my fellow achievement hunters ;)
If you're looking for a completely unique gaming experience, To Be or Not To Be is it. This is not your traditional visual novel or point-and-click – it’s a full-on choose-your-own-adventure with countless hilarious options and endings. The humor is spot-on, often irreverent, and it takes Shakespeare’s Hamlet to places I never thought possible (but always wanted to see). The illustrations by amazing artists add even more character to the already witty dialogue. There’s something so rewarding about making a decision and seeing the crazy consequences that follow. Definitely worth multiple playthroughs to explore every ridiculous outcome. Highly recommended for anyone who loves great storytelling, humor, or just plain weird fun.
I had fun with this, Shakespearian shenanigans indeed! It's a lot of reading and absurdist humor. Every now and then, after the game rewarded you for a wild choice, it will punish you quickly for the next wild choice, and... well, there's a lot of death and dying involved there. I suppose death and dying is sort of its own reward in this game, though, as every time you find a new way to die, you get to see another piece of illustrated art, and if you feel like it you can try filling up the whole art gallery! (I don't feel like it, that's too much work.) You also get art pieces when you reach an end, SOMEHOW, where you don't die! The deaths definitely feel more frequent, though.
I do think there is, at the base, an appreciation for the original (stolen) work of Hamlet in this. It sure refreshed my memory of what happens in that play, in a way I think I will never forget.
I feel like this game sees how Shakespeare's work can be genuinely wild sometimes, and then took that to the realistic endpoint of giving the player the choice to make the plot even wilder. The art is lovely, the storytelling is pretty funny, and it gave me a recipe for some stew that I'll have to try making sometime. Overall a very nice experience whose repetition is overshadowed by the sheer possibility of finding every ending.
On the one hand, I feel the experience is better conveyed through the original book format; on the other hand, I made Ophelia become a serial-killer (multiple times) and committed cannibalism. So I'd say YEAH good enough
[h1] Excellent adaptation of a very funny Choose Your Own Adventure book [/h1]
Unlike other Tin Man Games based on Gamebook Adventures or Fighting Fantasy, this one doesn't require any dice rolls (or does it?). It's a book where you decide the fate of Hamlet/Ophelia/Hamlet Sr. by selecting between various choices to advance in the story.
The "default" Shakespearan story can be easily discovered thanks to a system of specific choice/decision highlighted with a skull but the beauty of this book is to go nuts and make crazy choices.
It's not serious at all, it often breaks the fourth wall but this is what you wanted, hopefully... It's more of a reading thing and less a game, unless you want to try to reach all the endings (of which there's a lot due to the craziness of the author and his ease to derail the story).
It's actually very well done and some part might end up repetitive but each characters' story, as well as the various branching stories are quite different and make for an enjoyable read.
It is very well done, unlike older Tin Man Game titles which can appear more dated. It looks based on the same engine as the revised Appointment with F.E.A.R.
The music also is quite good and match well the sequence that you are reading whenever it changes. Actually there are some sound effects which spice up even the "game"!
All in all, I recommend this to any Ryan North's fans, as well as people who enjoy funny, cleverly written comedic stories. The presentation of the app is very well done and supplement well the original book.
This game is all text; thus, I feel it’s not enough ‘meat’ in it for most gamers. In addition, it requires to know the script for the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark quite well. If not, a lot of the references will be lost. That set a side, it’s both quirky and funny to play.
english majors will love / hate this one!
I remember when I was a teen and saw this was kickstarted with many web comic artists contributing to the work. Well over a decade later I decided to play this and I must say this really reminds me of the "lol random" era of internet humour which I have grown out of. It just feels like the writers also dont really have any love for the original work hamlet with lots of jokes about it being boring. I also hate it when the narrator insults you for the choices you make. Very disappointing. I think I would enjoy this if I was twelve or thirteen but as an adult it was a slog. My favourite part was the choose your own adventure book withen the choose your own adventure book with art by andrew hussy, reminded me of early MSPA.
For what it is it's a very neat Idea, the branching paths and ideas the games present are fun. The voice acting is ok, good enough for what it needs to be. I wish we got some more voice actors to add to the game. I hope this studio does some more great choose your own adventure style games!
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only good for art and music. i got this because it had steam cards
"checkpoint" save system forces you to read from the beginning every time. no chat log, so you have to click past each text box rather than simply scrolling. game broke art unlock and Haml-O-Meter ranking my first session. clicking too fast also put the Haml-O-Meter onscreen permanently. fixed after relaunching the game. pretentious narration will make you sleepy. constantly rambles on tangents and mocks you for choosing something different from Shakespeare. painfully linear, mostly two choices available.
I've had this game for longer than I care to admit, and just sat down last night to play it. Finished it 100% in 3 hours, but was likely the best 3 hours I've spent reading Shakespeare in my entire life. I'm only ashamed I did not play this sooner, so if you come across this in 2023, it's still fantastic, now.
Quite a neat little game that you can easily spend some time looking through. I really liked going through the story time and time again trying to find different endings :D
I'm a fan of Hamlet. I've been a fan of Shakespeare in general and Hamlet in particular since high school. This has led me to reading the different versions of the play multiple times, seeing it live, and watching a buttload of movie and TV adaptations (can I get a hellz yeah for Slings & Arrows y'all???). This has also led to lots of crying, but that's neither here nor there.
The main point, friends, is To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure is the best, most rigorous, thorough, and feminist adaptation of Hamlet I have ever had the joy to read. If you're a fan of the Dane, you must play it.
i made ophelia go on a murder spree
It's difficult reviewing a game I actually played a long time ago, and mostly on other platforms, but I had forgotten this and it deserves the thumb up.
It's very well-done, and the best version of what you could expect reading the synopsis. I think Shakespeare would have LOVED it. For real. Although he probably would have added a few ♥♥♥♥ puns. :<
Планировала использовать эту игру как причину сначала прочитать Гамлета в оригинале, а потом уже посмеяться. В итоге решила, что жизнь слишком коротка для пьес-трагедий четырёхсотлетней давности, и прочитала краткое содержание на википедии - и этого уровня оказалось вполне достаточно
Музыка неплоха (иногда хороша), арты тоже. Юмор, возможно, сработает не для всех и не всегда, но я лично осталась в полном восторге
HAMLET MAN SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THIS STATE OF DENMARK
I don't think any other video game has ever made me actually laugh this consistently. $5 well spent. This game is to Hamlet what Galaxy Quest is to Star Trek - it's 100% making fun of Hamlet, but it's also clearly made by people who love the play as much as I do. (You don't have to be a Hamlet fan, though; the game actually mocks you if you follow the plot of the real play too closely, and you can go *completely* off-book! The humor is reminiscent of The Reduced Shakespeare company, if you've seen that.) There were times I was laughing so hard I had to gasp for breath; despite this being written by the Dinosaur Comics author, this is much funnier than his usual work, IMHO.
Visual Novels generally don't hold my interest, but I played this for 9 hours trying to find as many branching paths as I could find, and will probably come back to it again when it isn't so fresh in my memory.
Apparently there's a book version: "To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure." I imagine it's a good way to gauge whether you'd find the game's humor funny. You can read some of it on Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, but this is the website for the book: http://www.hamletbook.com/
This game is very fun, and makes me laugh out loud quite often. I went into it knowing Hamlet fairly well, but the way it presents certain events, while very silly, also makes me see the play in a different way. The result is that I feel like I understand the actual play even better. I'd love to see other literature given this same treatment!
The 51 minutes I have at review time represents a partial run-through. I chose poorly during the Death of Gonzago. So that's about, what, halfway? And I already feel like I'll get a lot from further playthroughs, even beyond just finishing the play. So I'd say lots of replay value! It's very quick to start and stop playing, so it might be the kind of game which I don't play every day, but stays installed for a very long time.
Not even half as funny as it thinks it is.
A pretty great idea for a game, let down by passable at best artwork, and a narrator which shames you for pretty much every choice you make, both those which follow the original play, and branches that the creators made themselves. Way too politically charged - every couple of minutes the game practically stops to shove wokeness down your throat.
The pirate fight is bloody cool though.
essentially what comes out in the end if you doodle painstakingly in class
Best version of hamlet ever.
I found this game really delightful. Very funny and absolutely worth the price.
Absolutely worth 5 bucks. Funny. Gets a bit samey after a while, but it's five bucks.
was fun
This game is painfully short. plot is super boring. Not to be.
Ridiculous and full of tomfoolery, a fantastic way to lose hours!
If you enjoy reading, choose your own adventure books, Shakespeare and comedy then this is the game for you. I loved everything about this game. It kept me laughing the whole time and wanting to replay it over and over. As of right now I have 2 hours into this game, but i'm expecting to put in many more. huge thumbs up!
I've only had this game for an hour but if anything happened to it I'd kill everyone in Denmark and then myself. I don't know how else to describe it besides 'relentlessly funny', cannot recommend enough!
Yes!
fun little game. Buy on discount.
really funny and hysterical. it is worth in sale.
Okay, let me sum it up for you...
It's just one repeating joke about how "un-woke" Shakespearean times were.
And it stops being funny almost immediately.
Sad. 1/10
好作品,接觸文學的好方法
So much fun, and so, so much more fun than reading the actual story of Hamlet. There are pirates!!
The checkpoints you can use to restart your story don't make any sense. There's very few of them and they're in random places of the story. The content itself is fine and can be fun, but the whole checkpoints thing is really bad for a "choose your own adventure" story. I would suggest buying a physical copy of the book, cuz the artwork is also somewhat sparse (one for every unique ending) and not worth the inconvenience imo.
Don't read Shakespeare, read SHAKESPEARE-CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE!
Wish there were more checkpoints but overall a really fun book (at least if you know the story of Hamlet)
How cute, the game thinks it's woke. About a 400-year-old piece of literature. It also manages to be condescending both to Shakespeare and to the player because you clearly buy games to be talked down to. Semi-competent writing, boring stretches, desperate attempts at humor and you can hardly hear the narrator through the sound of the author gratifying himself. Hack job.
It was hilarous, but then I am the target audience for this sort of thing, and I'm also a fan of the author's other material. If you're a literature nerd famliar with the source material and the general fare of these guys, you'll love it.
♥♥♥♥'s funny as hell. You might have to click through some choices again to explore a different narrative branch but it's not a deal breaker for me.
Classic story with fun modern twists. Choices can keep you exploring for hours and hours.
This is a cyoa game where it does it's best to prevent players from exploring other choices. The voice and text are out of sync, there isn't a way to create your own checkpoints and everything takes too long with them. There isn't even a proper flowchart.
The writing was bad too but the game engine was so bad I can't even begin to talk about the content.
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fun and adorable. the creator sounds like he has a great personality.
just something refreshing and nice to have.
“来，哈姆雷特，我们联手，做掉你叔叔。”
奥菲利亚太帅了，姐姐我可以*drooling*
活生生把哈姆雷特变成了冒险游戏。
真的很酷！
美中不足：
1.旁白和文字内容不同步（一整页内容一个音频，而不是一段内容一个音频……只有skip能对齐）
2.音量只有开和关可以选，不能调节（而旁白又很小声，所以我只能关掉BGM和音效）
3.选项框和对话框的区分不明显（虽然选项界面有点不同，但是边框不明显，切换的时候我总会懵逼一下……）
4.文字内容有一定的auto速度，但是不能调节或关闭，它会自动翻页（我还没看完呢！）
强烈推荐给：能接受上述的不足，喜欢恶搞名著，又能接受纯英阅读的朋友。
I have 28 hours logged at the time of this review because I use this game to lecture about Hamlet.
Ryan North's writing is sharp and funny, and he clearly has a strong understanding of the source material. Where he takes artistic license, it is to the reader's benefit. For example, if you choose to play as King Hamlet, the action begins with Old Hamlet's slaying of Old Fortinbras, the King of Norway, even though the text of the play places that action 30 years in the past. The license allows North to convey the essence of the character in an accessible way.
If for some reason you aren't using this game to teach, I'll just say that it's a very fun and very approachable interactive text. Key decisions are bookmarked for the reader to return to in future sessions, and the real fun is in exploring the possibilities of the text, rather than winning or losing.
Short, funny, choose-your-own-adventure game that's worth the price.
Cute
I know that in almost all English-speaking countries people spend a lot of time at school learning Shakespeare's work. So this probably mean much more to them than me who read some of his writings mostly in translation. Some who adored his work might get upset because of the interpretation that the game makes but even as a non-native English speaker with no particular memories of Shakespeare, I didn't like this game.
It's like listening to a class clown who talks too much; he knows how to humor in a way but so incessant. There are a lot of endings but it feels like improvisation because it's too abrupt. It gives a bitter laugh that every time i reach the ending it says i reached better ending than actual hamlet; no, i don't believe so. The choice that i make is a bit radical many times because there aren't lot of "sane" options to choose and gets to the unexpected ending which is not that even funny.
There are many adventure-book style games out there and they are fun because they live up to the player's expectation. Upon choosing direction when you go astray, while normal game would give three options like go left, go right, stay where i am, this game would give three options like sniffing your own crotch, killing yourself, dancing around. I know this is an absurd example but that's how I felt about this game. The choices and endings are all like that. There is a certain weird direction and taste that the developer wants to pursue and i don't want to follow.
Adventure games are to make the players engage in the story but this is just a painstaking buffoonery that is hard to follow. Just write a book or something if you want to lead the story the way people never expect. Don't make strange choices to choose and say it has multiple endings. I did not approve to get there.
Recommended for any Shakespeare-buff! High-level nerdy stuff, so slight warning for those who aren't patient with a literature weeb making his own fan-fiction based off of a Shakespeare classic. Brilliant writing, lots of branching choices and a hilarious style - To Be or Not to Be can keep you engaged for hours.
It is a nice game but I feel like its' very short and it's not very interesting to replay it. After all, how many times do you want to reread Hamlet, even if it's written from three different points of view? I personally liked the humour and I purchased it on sale for like 2 eur and I feel that it's a more appropriate price for it. I got 1h of play and a chuckle out of it.
it's pretty fun, tho the eternal dialogue skipping eventually tires. I recommend getting it on sale.
Became the Ghost King of Denmark and fixed my marriage
10/10
Best game of Tin Man studios IMO; please don't pass this game, it's cheap and it's incredible funny and full of different endings.
Basically the same as the book written by Ryan North, with an option for music and voiced narration (that has a few odd quirks but is otherwise pretty good), fixed checkpoints (rather than being able to bookmark a page and go back to it whenever you want), and achievements. That being said, the writing is hilarious and if you want to read a choose-your-own-adventure pastiche of a Shakespeare play, then you will be hard pressed to find a better read.
+便宜
+全程配音
+高质量配图
+多分支开放剧情
+幽默诙谐的语言
-音量无法调节
-无法暂停
-无中文
总体就是一本包含大量选择分支的配音小说，《哈姆雷特》的喜剧版儿童读物，6元可以图一乐。结局很多，但玩下去的动力不足，6元也就图一乐。
（想选出真结局意外地难？）
VERY silly, great game for kids (like 10+ probably, some sex/murder jokes), no-pressure gameplay with lots of reading!
I enjoyed this immensely! It's a fun little game that really makes me laugh, and doesn't require a lot of time or intense effort. It's a delightful way to spend an hour or two relaxing.
I recommend this game if you're looking for a casual, relaxing, upbeat game.
It's alright.
This game is really funny and charming. It has good art and good writing. It kind of makes me want to reread Hamlet, to be honest.
I recommend it at sale price. If you like Ryan North's sense of humor you'll have a LOT of fun for an hour or two. And then if you're like me, you'll tediously click through it for another hour trying to collect all the ending images / achievements, while not having fun. There's two problems: 1) the game layout is strange with lots of animations (clicking animations, scrolling animations, etc) that can be nauseating 2) You can't save manually, you collect key story checkpoints as you go through the game, but they can be spaced far apart. Luckily you can skip forwards and backwards easily...up until you commit to an ending (which you have to do to collect the unique image for the ending)...at which point you have to wait a while to be kicked back to the menu and then have to reload at the closest checkpoint. And there are a lot of endings, mostly abrupt joke endings. I just looked through the art gallery and there must be around 100 endings.
It's entertaining.
Amazingly short, even with replaying it, but with a total of 3 hours played through various endings before uninstalling it, I feel I've achieved a satisfactory chuckle to cash investment ratio.
The texts in this game are soooooo small that after two minutes' play my eyes have decided to leave me for another owner who would not buy such an awfully designed game.
Things I did in To Be or Not To Be
* Had Hamlet and Ophelia make out for a while and forget about the whole revenge thing, multiple times
* Rap twice, once more successfully than the other
* Die in a book and therefore die in real life
* Do a killing spree in the wrong order
* Make stew
* Invent the alcohol thermometer
* Find a sunken pirate ship
* Lie about how attracted Ophelia was to Hamlet, and receive divine retribution
* Play the entire thing canonically from start to finish, and it was somehow the funniest one because the author repeatedly called me out
10/10 would buy again
Marvelous story-telling, great love for the literature subject, nice jokes, exciting plot twists and stew. Oh, and voice-over!
I have wholeheartedly enjoyed this adventure book and recommend it to anyone with interest in Shakespear, comedy, literature or everything above.
Would you like to be (or not to be) Hamlet, Ophelia, or Hamlet Sr? Now you can! Choose your own adventure or boring course of action.
It's just perfect. The art is great, the text is as good as art. You can replay it multiple times and still find an amazing twist! You can play it for ten minutes or for a straight hour. You can imagine the wildest option--believe me, the game is even wilder than that.
Мне очень понравилась игра, такая разветвлённая визуальная новелла по Гамлету. Почему нет? С большим юмором (который, возможно, будет сложно понять порой, если не читать оригинал), хорошая озвучка, хорошо нарисовано. Интересная идея, хорошее исполнение.
I laughed so many times. The great thing about this game is you don't really have to know much about Shakespeare or Hamlet to get into the storyline, but if you do it just makes it even funnier.
Guess they don't teach the meaning of the word "awhile" in lit major
"this game f ucks" - me, a theatre kid and english major, whose favourite shakespeare play is hamlet
If you're a fan of Monster Prom's kinda quirky kinda dumb kinda annoying writing then BOY OH BOY DO I HAVE A GAME FOR YOU
I don't know how this managed to completely pass me by until now. It's Hamlet as parsed through modern English, a decidedly thick filter of comic irreverence, and a CYOA narrative structure that sees such branching paths as [spoiler]Hamlet Sr. deciding his revenge plot is boring and pursuing a lucrative career in Ghost Marine Biology[/spoiler], or [spoiler]Hamlet and Ophelia's attempt to shoot Claudius into space culminating with his drunken corpse falling out of a burst hot air balloon and exploding, as illustrated by KC Green[/spoiler]. If those sound like your idea of time well spent, go for it.
Honestly my biggest complaint is just that the checkpointing is a bit dodgy in places, but there is also text skip, so.
Tried to use this instead of SparkNotes for my English exam. Somehow got a 200/100 on it. 10/10 would recommend.
Şekspir okumak gibi ama daha eğlenceli.
