Gamebooks based on the works of William Shakespeare are so hot right now. Well, okay, there's really just Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be [$5.99], Ryan North's Romeo And/Or Juliet, and now this one, but that's enough for me to call it a trend. A delightful, wonderful trend. But lest you think Choice of Games is merely riding the tailcoats of those previous books with A Midsummer Night's Choice [Free], let me assure you that this is an entirely different sort of animal. While North's gamebooks take the familiar situations and characters and give the reader the chance to move the story in wildly different direction, A Midsummer Night's Choice tells an almost entirely original tale, albeit with its fair share of nods to Shakespeare's famous play. So while you won't be able to follow Puck and find out just how he ended up joining Alpha Flight, you do get a whimsical, sometimes absurd tale of romance, faeries, and characters showing up in the wrong places at the most entertaining possible times. The hero of this tale is the heir to an ailing duke, who aims to solve the problems of his duchy by marrying you off. Your character is having none of that, and makes a dash into the nearby woods to try to escape that fate worse than death. With the duke and his men in hot pursuit, and the forest full of the unexpected, things get very complicated in a hurry.
If you've played any of the other adventures published by Choice of Games, the nuts and bolts will be quite familiar to you. Your ...