Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? Reviews

Even though I only have a passing knowledge of Shakespeare I enjoyed this game. I really liked the fresh take on the classic characters, but how could you not when one is a werewolf and another is a robot t-rex!? The story was entertaining, has some good twists and does a very good job of capturing the essence of cliques in school. I would definitely do another couple playthroughs to check out the other love interests that I found entertaining.

Bought this for the dinosaur mod. Worked out so far for me. I wrote a much longer review but it wasn´t sent so I keep it short... All together: good - Game has really well drawn characters (in my case dinosaur mod) - You get to know other characters ask them questions and eventually date them (was dancin´ with my fav. dinosaur a few times) - If you are into that dinosaur / creature stuff this is a really good VN for the pictures and the conversations - Sound effects and musik are good, and at least at the beginning it feels like someone´s taking you on a hand and helps you out to find your stuff at the new school - Lots of different places to meet others have some talking / events - You often get the ablity to choose what you want to do. I know another game (about 50% through it) where you mostly keep clicking through text without any possibility to interact... thats not here - in that game you have lots of interaction not so good - Story is already confusing to me at the beginning. It feels like you are in a role for a performance at school theathre and what this is all about only gets (at least it did to me) revealed the more you play this game. Still ... it´s a weird storry to me - The whole System how you interact with other dinosaurs / students is very much based on hidden text messages in school. But it is very confusing if you want to ask someone out... untill I found out how it works I´ve already had wasted lots of messages - which are limited - You can end up writing lots of messages to one beeing that you like... just to (later) fail at the relationship because (in my case) she´s wasn´t into me... If there was a "direct talk" mode you could sooner see how it´s going to turn out technical - The game had a few "internal crashes" like the next picture was an error mesage. No problem, click ignore and continoue - One scene was twice where was sth in the stadium. I finished this scene but could go to the stadium aggain and it felt kinda "not supposed to be so" Update: I´ve had my 2nd play through that game right now. Lot´s of the things from above got clear to me (well seemed like I was to tired when playing it first to get the whole plot / controls) like I understood the story and also the multiple universe thing now. For the ask the person you´re interested in not directly point. It´s ... that you ask class mates about that person that was confusing first. The 2nd play through definately highly increased my oppinion about the game. It´s a solid game you sure want to check out. Only thing I´m still not aware of is why it´s called dating. You can ask all questions about one person to get him / her like 100% known but still it does not really affect anything (at least thats how it feels to me). Like you have a romantic meeting with him / her or ... you know.. dating stuff. There are various school dance parties. You get to ask who you want to dance with and in my 2 play throughs the dinosaurs I asked came with me without complaining... Still you couldn´t see much from dancing. However... good game... at least it is for me.

So far I'm having a great time, clever writing, the art is very good, and I'm enjoying the premise. A more substantial review will come later but I wanted to leave a quick endorsement!