To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North

🇺🇸 United States
Tin Man Games Pty Ltd  | 
57
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64/100
Reviews
50/100
Graphic
60/100
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App Rating
4.5
rating
Votes
119
rating
App Age
10y 9m
rating
Last Update
Sep 24, 2017

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Rating
4.48
4.61
-3%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
119
1.5M
-100%
App Age
10y 9m
7y 1m
+52%
Price
$7
$0
In-app Purchases Price
$0
$21
Update Frequency
3013d
36d
+8 330%
Title Length
30
23
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Subtitle Length
77
26
+196%
Description Length
2 604
2 628
-1%
Number of Screenshots
418
1365
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Size
0MB
876MB

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Title (
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To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North
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Play along with Hamlet's story...or veer in hilarious, unexpected directions.
Description (
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. I know! What took so long, am I right? Now it's up to YOU to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father's death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page! 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! View the full list at: http://qwantz.com/tobeornottobeartists.php ** 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.}
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Rating
4.5
119 voters

Some Latest Reviews

fojlz
20 Jun, 2020
2
Don’t buy this. This app has a good concept, but the stories are too short and a little too inconsequential even for light comedy. It’s very expensive for what it is and doesn’t even seem to be maintained anymore as there are obvious bugs as you play (floating white squares at the end, for one). Most of the comedy is derived from using modern English in the mouths of Shakespearean characters, which can only retain its novelty for so long. If you just cant get enough of a supposedly Shakespearean narrative voice constantly calling everything “awesome” and “rad” and ending sentences? With question marks? then you will like this. For everyone else, this is vastly overpriced. The art is good though. If this app were somewhere in the dollar range, I’d be satisfied with it. As it stands, I wish I could get a refund. I played through a number of scenarios with multiple endings for each character — and still only got about 20 minutes of gameplay. My advice: just play Astrologaster instead. It’s better in literally every way: it’s funnier, has better stories, better music, and better art.
Writhenwud
23 May, 2020
4
Hi! I love this game; I have it on my PC and I was delighted to find it as an app on my phone. I’ve noticed a few bugs, though. 1. When I’m trying to look through the art gallery, when I then ask it to go back to the story, it leaves me on the same page. 2. The artwork that shows for King Hamlet resuming his reign as a ghost with Gertrude is instead the same artwork you get for choosing to be upset about Gertrude marrying your brother and burying yourself in rock and digging a hole from Denmark to England. 3. The spotlights that are supposed to show on the Hamlet-o-meter are solid white squares.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.48
Voted: 119
App Store Link:
Price: 6.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy: -
Categories: Adventure, Games, Books, Role Playing
Size: -
App Age: 10 years 9 months
Release Date: Mar 17, 2015
Last Update: Sep 24, 2017
Version: 1.1
Version history
1.1
Sep 24, 2017
Updated for iOS 11/ 64 Bit
Mar 18, 2015
First release
Version history