Common Sense Media Review
By Erin Bell
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Off-kilter adventure game with fiendish puzzles.
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Hamlet or the Last Game Without MMORPG Features, Shaders, and Product Placement
Is It Any Good?
HAMLET is an unorthodox take on Shakespeare's Hamlet with puzzles that include playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a pirate monkey, battling a giant octopus, disabling Polonius' high-tech security system, and defeating an electric guitar-toting Claudius in a boss battle. Puzzles can be as simple as figuring out how to walk from one end of the room to the other by interacting with the environment, but they can be extremely challenging and border on the ridiculous at times. Hamlet is certainly a game that marches to the beat of its own drum, and as a result you'll be chuckling at its humor and creativity one minute and cursing some of its more inscrutable puzzles the next. Regardless, this off-kilter ode to one of Shakespeare's most famous plays is nothing if not creative and fresh.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
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- Release date : January 20, 2011
- Genre : Adventure Games
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.1.3 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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