To play, or not to play? If you like Shakespeare, definitely. But even if you dozed through high school English, the clever premise and time-loop puzzling make Elsinore a world worth exploring.
Elsinore
Golden Glitch · Jul 23, 2019
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Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
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- 8.0Elsinore can be dry sometimes, particularly when you’re hunting for the next significant step forward. There are moments when you’ll feel Bill Murray’s frustration at reliving Groundhog Day again and again, and repeatedly bumping into Elsinore’s Ned Ryerson analogue (which stops being funny after the tenth encounter). But there’s a lot of joy to be had uncovering Elisnore’s emotionally-loaded secrets and, providing you don’t push it too far, playing characters off against each other. Just don’t expect everyone to get a happy ending.
- 6.0Elsinore is simple and focused, aimed squarely at avid readers who want to manipulate Hamlet with their own hands. It succeeds at this, building a wonderfully meta-textual world that's fascinating to unravel and earns a good few gasps, laughs, and tearful moments, but the long waiting periods and frustration between different events overlapping can grate on after a while. Elsinore is time-looping Hamlet , and that premise is what will likely hook you or not.
- 8.0Elsinore ha realizado una inteligente adaptación videolúdica de la tragedia de Hamlet, donde explora con profundidad a sus personajes y otorga a Ophelia un rol más activo. Su sistema conversacional huye de las rutas rápidas y obliga al jugador a usar la investigación y la lógica para escoger concienzudamente qué información facilitar y a quién. Según nuestras acciones, los acontecimientos se ramificarán hacia múltiples derroteros que nos proporcionarán nuevas pistas que nos lleven a deshacer la maldición.
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