To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $6.99 | Tin Man Games Pty Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Discover sweet art as you play from some of the greatest and most attractive artists of Our Time, including Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Anthony Clark (Nedroid), Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop), Andrew Hussie (MS Paint Adventures), Zach Weiner (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and WAY more!
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** REVIEWS **
"Literally slapped my thigh" funny. "Spat water all over my iPad" funny. "Woke my girlfriend in the middle of the night" funny. Riotously, unrelentingly, brilliantly funny. - Pocket Gamer - 9/10 - Gold Award!
"Yes, it’s Shakespeare and yes, it’s easily my favorite gamebook that Tin Man has ever done." - Pocket Tactics - 5/5 stars
"...an idea that is, by most conventional literary standards, terrible, but pushed so far past terrible that it wraps around like a comet slingshotting around the sun and comes back as utterly brilliant." - Time
"To Be Or Not To Be truly is one of the most purely-entertaining experiences of the year, because Ryan North manages to both live up to my expectations with his take on this literary classic, and also manage to go to places that I just did not expect." - Touch Arcade - 5/5 stars
** FEATURES **
• Tiny Yorick skulls mark the choices Shakespeare took in his play!
• Play as Hamlet, Ophelia, and Hamlet Sr., each with their own unique adventures.
• Learn things, like the meaning of the word ‘pernicious’ and the origin of the phrase ‘Till death us do part’!
• Sensibly bring evil King Claudius to justice in a court of law! Or, stuff him into a cannon and then fire him into a wall! IT’S UP TO YOU.
• Travel through TIME! Fight PIRATES! Kill a guy IN A CHURCH (it’s totally okay, he’s a jerk!)!
• View the HAML-O-METER at the end of each story to see how well you stuck to the Bard’s vision!
To Be or Not To Be has been created using Tin Man Games’ enhanced Gamebook Adventures Engine featuring:
• Dyslexic friendly font support, to aid readers with dyslexia.
• Hidden achievements to find throughout the gamebook.
• Art you discover is unlocked in the art gallery. Find all the full colour images as you play!
• Specially composed soundtrack and sound effects.
Reviews
Trapped in loop at art gallery, cannot play
2Grimbergens
Played game for about two minutes, now useless. I bought the app yesterday. After a single event I chose to visit the “art gallery” and turn the sound on. these actions are meant to always be available and you can return back to your place. But no matter how often I select “back to the story,” I keep being sent to the art gallery. I have tried choosing other menu items, quitting and relaunching, nothing works. Sent feedback with repro steps to developer using their web form, received my cc but no contact yet. Will update if they resolve.
Stuck in menu!
iheijoushin
Very buggy. I went to change narration off and cannot get out of the menu, all buttons just reload the menu again. Trying to return to the story using the button just returns me back to the main menu. Exiting the app using the exit button brings me back to the same menu. I had to delete the app entirely to get back to the game and don’t want to change any settings for fear of getting stuck in the menu loop again. C’mon devs, this is pretty silly.
Ryan North
rcresswell
Is perhaps the funniest man on the planet. I usually get suckered into buying anything he produces.
If you can stand Dinosaur comics, you can totally stand this game
Townimbecile
Have you ever tried to read Dinosaur Comics? That one comic about the day to day issues faced by modern dinosaurs? Totally bearable, right? This game is at least as acceptable! (Seriously, great work. Ryan North is an inspiration as a comic writer, and this game is brilliant as a concept and hilarious as a thing that exists. (Double-parenthesis: and it's fun enough to buy.))
Charming but too expensive
Chrisomi
Pluses: giggle-worthy, fun & surprising, clever, fun twists on Hamlet. Obviously a fun and creative game-maker. Minuses: not enough graphic to keep attention (& I'm a reader & Shakespeare fan), replay value wanes rather quickly because of limited choices early on Would give another star if I hadn't paid 6 bucks for it. I understand a lot of work goes into making an app- and one should be paid for it- but this price was too steep for the play time I got out of it.
I would like to reward this high brow venture.
Pkaybrok
I do not know what I have paid 5 dollars for. Someone's clever project, but no fun or education for moi.
Hilarious.
silasthecat
The game is brilliantly written, stock full of amusing side quests and intelligent, though snide, commentary on Shakespeare's classic. The price is high for an app but given the effort to create the game, I'd say worth it.
Absolutely fantastic!
Tarelka24
A hilarious and captivating story combined with creative choices make for a very pleasant reading experience. My only complaints are that it would be nice if I could go back to where I was after reaching the the stats, and, more importantly, I would really appreciate if Christopher Slowe's choice map was actually readable on the iPhone. When I try to zoom in, the image quality degrades to the point where it is unreadable. Either way, I throughly enjoyed the app.
It is good but it is missing the vocies PC verson had
XenoFFChrono
This is a fun little game book but it woudl be even better if it had the vocie that reads it to you that the PC verson had. Maybe it could be an opitional download that could be done inside the app so those that don't want to increase the size of the app don't have to. I would also like to be able to zoom in on the picture that shows all the diffrent paths without it getting grainy and unreadable.
