Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice

"Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice" 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. In this case you'd hope ripping off Shakespeare (hey, it's public domain, and if he's spinning in his grave, nobody knows, right?) would result in something with at least a modicum of value in terms of writing, but nope. And the bad writing is perfectly coupled with lazy "stick figure" MS-Paint "art". I wonder why nobody bothered reading thi…

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