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SeabassDebeste posted...

not having played this game, you're doing yourself a big disservice by assuming shakespeare's plays are dry - especially the most famous ones. their dialogue can be impenetrable but the plot and characters are iconic for a reason.

Yeah, actually, I did want to clarify that I didn't mean that I believe Shakespeare is dry, but it was a talking point that slipped through my fingers as I talked about other stuff. I definitely have some degree of intellectual curiosity about his works even though I've never experienced any of them personally, because I know well that there's a reason these stories are probably the most important works of the English language's canon. But I DO know that they are challenging works to read or watch at the very least, which makes the effort of experiencing them thoughtfully seem like an undertaking, and in video game format I was worried that it was going to be a lot to take in; but the game made it painless to understand the story of Hamlet. The writing here is almost entirely contemporary aside from a few direct Hamlet quotes, I should add, which helps its legibility a lot especially considering you really need to carefully consider every word of the game's script.