Paper Shakespeare: Loves Labor(s) Lost

Paper Shakespeare: Loves Labor(s) Lost is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This e-book was slapped together with the godawfully bad RenPy Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. Of course this is more than just a bad E-book... it's a cringeworthy, godawfully bad SHAKESPEARE FAN FICTION. That's right, instead of, you know, a Sonic the Hedgehog or a Pokemon or a Star Trek fan fiction, it's directly and unacceptably assaulting the works of William Shakespeare. If his works weren't in the public domain, whoever owned them woul…

I must have got this in a bundle. Dream Quest taught me that a great game can have terrible art, so I gave it a try. It's bad. Stick figures spout boring dialogue based on one of Shakespeare's plays. There's no clever twist. It's just awful.

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