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* LemonyNarrator: It's a parody of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' as a choose-your-own-adventure book; this trope was practically inevitable. Sticking to the canon route mostly has him bemoaning your terrible decisions and attempting to salvage things by retconning events and/or wresting control from you, but he's got plenty of snark to dish out for the rest of the book.
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* LemonyNarrator: It's a parody of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' as a choose-your-own-adventure book; this trope was practically inevitable. Sticking to the canon route mostly has him the narrator bemoaning your terrible decisions and attempting to salvage things by retconning events and/or wresting control from you, but because he doesn't like the original play and wants to improve it. But he's got plenty of snark to dish out for the rest of the book.book, and it's possible to get him on your side by playing to more modern sensibilities, such as having Ophelia becoming an ActionGirl that takes down international terrorists or making Hamlet fight against pirates.
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* CessationOfExistence: Can happen to the Ghost of Hamlet Senior if he gets killed… again.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Hamlet's father, natch. You can play as his ghost, trying to influence events.
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* WeaselWords: During the character select, the narrator goes on about how awesome Hamlet's father is and promises that if you select him, you "MAY experience kingly glory." Of course, you start the story already dead.
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* LongTitle: Parodied with the ShowWithinAShow (or, rather, book-within-a-book), whose full name is ''The Murder of Gonzago: A "The Adventure Is Being Chosen By You" Story! Can You Murder Your Brother Gonzago and Then, Playing as Your Dead Brother's Son, Murder Your Usurping Uncle? I Sure Hope So; Choose From Over 300 Different Possible Endings''.
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** And in another KillEmAll ending:
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** And in another KillEmAll ending:
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* OffTheRails: Play your cards right, and you can derail the story in insane ways that the LemonyNarrator accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody. This is because the narrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't like the original play]], thinks it's full of UnfortunateImplications, or just finds it boring. As such, spicing it up by doing something insane will make the narrator like you if you take something far enough.[[invoked]]
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* OffTheRails: Play your cards right, and you can derail the story in insane ways that the LemonyNarrator accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody. This is because the narrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't like the original play]], thinks it's full of UnfortunateImplications, play]] or just finds it boring. As such, spicing it up by doing something insane will make the narrator like you if you take something far enough.[[invoked]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: At one point, you can encounter a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] version of Creator/ChristopherMarlowe named Chrstina Marlowe.
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** When you duel the pirate captain, he tells you that "You fight like a [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland dairy farmer]]."
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* AsYouKnow: Often used to explain details about the setting to clarify potentially confusing things to the audience. Also Lampshaded and Defied:
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* ComplexityAddiction: Hamlet and Ophelia can plan to murder Claudius by using a book to get him admit to his crimes, after which they plan to stab him. When Ophelia rejects Hamlet's attempt to write said book, they plan to plagiarize an existing book to match the situation. Hamlet shows Ophelia ''[[{{Makes Just as Much Sense in Context}} The Murder of Gonzago: A "The Adventure Is Being Chosen by You' Story! Can You Murder Your Brother Gonzago and Then, Playing as Your Dead Brother's Son, Murder Your Usurping Uncle? I Sure Hope So; Choose From Over 300 Different Possible Endings.]]'' Ophelia suggests simply showing Claudius that book, but Hamlet still wants to plagiarize it.
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* AsYouKnow: Often used to explain details about the setting to clarify potentially confusing things to the audience.
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* AsYouKnow: Often used to explain details about the setting to clarify potentially confusing things to the audience. Also Lampshaded and Defied:
-->Oh! You do figure out a way to measure the specific gravity of alcohol while Hamlet's busy. That's pretty cool.
-->All it requires is a flask that's weighed three times: once empty, once full of water, and once full of the liquid you're measuring, and then you can – but why am I telling you this?
-->You invented the whole technique!
-->Oh! You do figure out a way to measure the specific gravity of alcohol while Hamlet's busy. That's pretty cool.
-->All it requires is a flask that's weighed three times: once empty, once full of water, and once full of the liquid you're measuring, and then you can – but why am I telling you this?
-->You invented the whole technique!
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** One of the possible endings of the pirate interlude is that the pirate ship [[Music/{{Steppenwolf}} "fires all of its guns at once, and you explode in disgrace."]]
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* ButThouMust: The book has a few of these, but the most blatant is in the chess match between Ophelia and Gertrude:
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* ButThouMust: The book has a few of these, these. Occasionally, you'll be given choices, but choosing one of them will just loop you around to the correct choice anyway. For instance, you can join in with the gravedigger's song as Hamlet, but it changes nothing, as the end result of finding Yorick's skull is the same. The most blatant is in the chess match between Ophelia and Gertrude:
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* {{Dedication}}: "To Bea."
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* {{Dedication}}: "To Bea."" It's a {{pun}}.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Discussed all over the place. Namely, the LemonyNarrator makes note of the massive amounts of sexism towards women in the story. The first scene with Ophelia, if you follow the story as written, will have the narrator point out how Ophelia is agreeing to incredibly sexist things about [[StayInTheKitchen a woman's place in the world]] by her father and her brother. This includes asking about her sex life and calling her a slut for sleeping with Hamlet before marriage, yet [[{{Hypocrite}} he gets to sleep around as much as he wants with no consequences]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Discussed all over the place. Namely, the LemonyNarrator makes note of the massive amounts of sexism towards women in the story. The first scene with Ophelia, if you follow the story as written, will have the narrator point out how Ophelia is agreeing to incredibly sexist things about [[StayInTheKitchen a woman's place in the world]] by her father and her brother. This includes asking about her sex life and calling her a slut for sleeping with Hamlet before marriage, yet [[{{Hypocrite}} he gets to sleep around as much as he wants with no consequences]].
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* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Said word-for-word during the fight at Ophelia's funeral. You even have the option to turn Hamlet into an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, complete with HulkSpeak.
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* OffTheRails: Play your cards right, and you can derail the story in insane ways that the LemonyNarrator accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody. This is because the narrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't actually like the original play]], thinks it's full of UnfortunateImplications, or just finds it really boring. As such, spicing it up by doing something insane will make the narrator like you if you take something far enough.
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* {{Railroading}}: It's obvious that the LemonyNarrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't actually like the original play]] and thinks his version is superior; attempting to derail his ideas or act out the canonical version of ''Hamlet'' leads to increasingly angry tantrums and attempts to retcon away your actions, such as claiming Hamlet [[BlatantLies was only pretending to be a jerk to Ophelia]]. Play your cards right though, and you can [[OffTheRails derail the story]] in insane ways that he accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody.
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* {{Railroading}}: It's obvious that the LemonyNarrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't actually like the original play]] and thinks his version is superior; attempting to derail his ideas or act out the canonical version of ''Hamlet'' leads to increasingly angry tantrums and attempts to retcon away your actions, such as claiming Hamlet [[BlatantLies was only pretending to be a jerk to Ophelia]]. Play your cards right though, and you can [[OffTheRails derail the story]] in insane ways that he accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody.[[invoked]]
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* {{Railroading}}: The narrator likes to punish you for insisting on the stupid and/or sexist choices by forcing you along a particular path. Unsurprisingly, this happens quite a bit along the "canon" route.
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* {{Railroading}}: The narrator likes It's obvious that the LemonyNarrator [[CreatorsApathy doesn't actually like the original play]] and thinks his version is superior; attempting to punish derail his ideas or act out the canonical version of ''Hamlet'' leads to increasingly angry tantrums and attempts to retcon away your actions, such as claiming Hamlet [[BlatantLies was only pretending to be a jerk to Ophelia]]. Play your cards right though, and you for insisting on can [[OffTheRails derail the stupid and/or sexist choices by forcing you along story]] in insane ways that he accepts, such as making Hamlet shoot himself out of a particular path. Unsurprisingly, this happens quite a bit along the "canon" route.cannon or having Ophelia murder everybody.
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* RealityEnsues: You can have Hamlet try to kill Claudius by firing himself out of a cannon, at which point the narrator asks what kind of outcome you're aiming for. Choosing the realistic outcome has Hamlet turned into a fine red mist which splatters Claudius and Gertrude.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You can have Hamlet try to kill Claudius by firing himself out of a cannon, at which point the narrator asks what kind of outcome you're aiming for. Choosing the realistic outcome has Hamlet turned into a fine red mist which splatters Claudius and Gertrude.
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* UnreadablyFastText: In the Steam version, you can ''turn the page '''again''''' after the EpicFail ending above, which you can only reach by flipping the page after the introduction. But this time, the text scrolls so fast that it's difficult to read [[note]](unless you screenshot the game)[[/note]] because you somehow managed to ''break the narration'' doing so. This is it in full:
-->"Okay, wow. You... you tried to turn the page again. I hope you weren't listening to the narration, because you just managed to break that."\\
"You're persistent, I'll give you that, ESPECIALLY as this isn't even technically a book. You shouldn't be able to turn to the next page in the first place!"\\
"Points for trying, I guess."\\
''["+74 Effort Points" is displayed]''\\
"How about... 74 Effort Points out of a possible 1000?"\\
"Unfortunately, your Comprehension Points just took a HUGE nosedive."\\
''['''[[EpicFail "-53,000 Comprehension Points"]]''' is displayed]''\\
"You've got like, negative 53,000 of those now. [[LampshadeHanging I don't know how you're even reading this]]"
-->"Okay, wow. You... you tried to turn the page again. I hope you weren't listening to the narration, because you just managed to break that."\\
"You're persistent, I'll give you that, ESPECIALLY as this isn't even technically a book. You shouldn't be able to turn to the next page in the first place!"\\
"Points for trying, I guess."\\
''["+74 Effort Points" is displayed]''\\
"How about... 74 Effort Points out of a possible 1000?"\\
"Unfortunately, your Comprehension Points just took a HUGE nosedive."\\
''['''[[EpicFail "-53,000 Comprehension Points"]]''' is displayed]''\\
"You've got like, negative 53,000 of those now. [[LampshadeHanging I don't know how you're even reading this]]"
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Played with for Ophelia as though she is quite intelligent, she turns out to have never played chess, resulting in her being almost completely outmatched by Gertrude in most of the moves she makes. However, if the reader picks the right choices, they can have Ophelia get the hang of it and be flexible enough to beat Gertrude.
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* BiTheWay:
** Ophelia, judging by the fact that one of the people she can date in England is a woman.
** Also quite probably Horatio. In one of the Ophelia storylines he gives her a choose-your-own adventure book to catch her up on events at court. One of the paths in this book involves him marrying most of the girls at court and some of the guys. It's implied to be wish fulfillment on his part.
** Ophelia, judging by the fact that one of the people she can date in England is a woman.
** Also quite probably Horatio. In one of the Ophelia storylines he gives her a choose-your-own adventure book to catch her up on events at court. One of the paths in this book involves him marrying most of the girls at court and some of the guys. It's implied to be wish fulfillment on his part.
