To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North Wiki

A fantastic way to enjoy the Hamlet idea space - experiment with what might have happened if Shakespeare went off in one of billions of other directions. I’ve just started playing with this, but I love it already. How could Shakespeare have written just one play with the possibilities of this material? I’m looking forward to really digging into this! Thanks Ryan North!

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.))

Fun and clever little app in that "choose your own adventure" style based on Hamlet. Good writing, lovely art, and while a light little app, I for one definitely got my $5 worth. There is a lot of funny stuff in there that made me giggle but I fear anything I could say beyond that would give away too much.

The endings come quick and with a big laugh each time. There's never a boring moment when you're making choices for one of three Hamlet characters as you read. Hilarious, amusing, and highly addictive!

Saw this and thought the illustrations looked familiar. Looked it up here on the App Store and saw Kate Beaton and Nedroid in the credits and I had to buy it just to support these guys. I’m excited to play it, I’m a big fan of their works.

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.

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.

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.

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 love the humor of this game but it's very short (I played through all branches of the story in a single day) and it's not very interactive (it's more like reading a traditional story than making meaningful choices as a reader). Sometimes the game presents you with a question but only gives you one path or option. Why ask me? As a short story it's pretty good (but expensive). As interactive fiction it lacks.

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.

I hate reading but was looking for something entertaining to keep engaged and interested in reading. I thought this might do it, and it did, BUT each "choose your own adventure" that I did (just two to be fair) very quickly ended, and not because of poor choices. Its like they ran out of funny and clever ways to continue the story so they quickly wrapped it up. Fun, but not worth $6 for 15 minutes!

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.

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.