To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North
Step into the gaming world with To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North, one of the top $6.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Tin Man Games Pty Ltd, this captivating Books game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 18th March 2015, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 24th September 2017.
Whether you have a liking for Books, Adventure, or Role Playing games, To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North is sure to keep you hooked!
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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!
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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.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of To Be Or Not To Be -Ryan North on 24th September 2017:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated for iOS 11/ 64 Bit
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Great story telling! The artwork is great! There are many side adventures, murders, and ghosts to follow. Ryan North is brilliant!!!
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 we had to buy it just to support these guys. Im excited to play it, Im a big fan of their works.
Hi! We love this game; we have it on our PC and we were delighted to find it as an app on our phone. We’ve noticed a few bugs, though. 1. When Im trying to look through the art gallery, when we then ask it to go back to the story, it leaves us 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.
Im stuck in a loop in the menu. We want to go back to the story but every time we click that, it takes us to the extras! Meh, we havent gone too far into the story, we can try to reset it we dont want to get stuck again.
Dont buy this. This app has a good concept, but the stories are too short and a little too inconsequential even for light comedy. Its very expensive for what it is and doesnt 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, Id be satisfied with it. As it stands, we wish we could get a refund. We played through a number of scenarios with multiple endings for each character and still only got about 20 minutes of gameplay. Our advice: just play Astrologaster instead. Its better in literally every way: its funnier, has better stories, better music, and better art.
Played game for about two minutes, now useless. We bought the app yesterday. After a single event we 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 we select back to the story, we keep being sent to the art gallery. We have tried choosing other menu items, quitting and relaunching, nothing works. Sent feedback with repro steps to developer using their web form, received our cc but no contact yet. Will update if they resolve.
Very buggy. We 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 us back to the main menu. Exiting the app using the exit button brings us back to the same menu. We had to delete the app entirely to get back to the game and dont want to change any settings for fear of getting stuck in the menu loop again. Cmon devs, this is pretty silly.
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.
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. We’ve just started playing with this, but we love it already. How could Shakespeare have written just one play with the possibilities of this material? Im 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.))
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!
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, we for one definitely got our $5 worth. There is a lot of funny stuff in there that made us giggle but we fear anything we could say beyond that would give away too much.
Is perhaps the funniest man on the planet. We usually get suckered into buying anything he produces.
We love these guys and the bizarre and beautiful style they bring to things. Hope to see this taken further!
Always buy Ryan North. You will never regret.
It is utterly hilarious, and yet touchingly true to the story and characters (except where it improves them). A masterpiece of literary humor.
This game with leave your balls throughly tripped!!!!
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. We would also like to be able to zoom in on the picture that shows all the diffrent paths without it getting grainy and unreadable.
A hilarious and captivating story combined with creative choices make for a very pleasant reading experience. Our only complaints are that it would be nice if we could go back to where we were after reaching the the stats, and, more importantly, we would really appreciate if Christopher Slowe’s choice map was actually readable on the iPhone. When we try to zoom in, the image quality degrades to the point where it is unreadable. Either way, we throughly enjoyed the app.
We previously wrote a negative review whining about how the original . Mobi and . Epub formats were better than this app but we changed our mind. Playing it on our iPhone 4s, this is pretty darn cool. The text boxes work well, and overall the game plays nicely with a good overall pace and layout. Unfortunately this layout doesn’t work so well on the larger screen of the iPad. Also the graphics are not updated to full-size retina versions so they look a little crummy on our iPad Air 2. Overall, though, playing it on the phone this is really nice, and we’ll spend hours on the train reading it. We’re curious if we can find that weird Keanu reeves drawing from the original.. We forget how to get there. Anyway, great app.
Nice artworks, but the smart tone gets more and more annoying as we read alone. Maybe it’s good for kids to develop an interest in classic literature, but we fail to get much out of it in the end.
We 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 us? As a short story it’s pretty good (but expensive). As interactive fiction it lacks.
Pluses: giggle-worthy, fun & surprising, clever, fun twists on Hamlet. Obviously a fun and creative game-maker. Minuses: not enough graphic to keep attention (& we’re a reader & Shakespeare fan), replay value wanes rather quickly because of limited choices early on Would give another star if we hadn’t paid 6 bucks for it. We 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 we got out of it.
We hate reading but was looking for something entertaining to keep engaged and interested in reading. We thought this might do it, and it did, BUT each "choose your own adventure" that we 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!
Not enough content for the price. We feel ripped off.
Unfortunately, we didn’t enjoy the humor of the game and apparently it’s just a big joke from start to finish. Art is great and the "this is what Shakespeare did" indicator is a neat feature.
On an ipad all the images and even the fonts look pixelated and scaled. It makes it less pleasant to play and makes us feel like we’re playing a game for and old iphone.
We do not know what we have paid 5 dollars for. Someone’s clever project, but no fun or education for moi.
Game is an entertaining CYOA but unfortunately crashes after making certain choices. Fortunately, it saves the decision and will reload after so that we can still progress. Still, the crashes are pretty absurd considering the price tag as well as the game itself. Update: Finally reached a point where it contines to crash and does not reload after that point.
We normally don’t get books" like this on our smartphone. With all the reviews we expected more choices before the story ended. It’s not that the story ended so fast that’s the problem. It’s just even with different characters we didn’t find any of them all that entertaining. We did it a few times expecting something else to happen but it doesn’t. Just a short little story with a couple choices.