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With her powers, she can teleport to alternate dimensions based on Shakespeare plays, fight back the forces of Nightmare, and still get back in time for dinner!\n\nJoin Imogen, Paulina, Viola, Rosalind, Miranda, Beatrice, and Kate on an epic adventure throughout the Shakespearean metaverse in this comedy JRPG!","51513\u002Fthis-way-madness-lies-cover.jpg","51513\u002Fthis-way-madness-lies-header.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=9qead_SNBh4","2022-11-10",null,221775,"this-way-madness-lies",[18],{"company":19,"developed":21,"published":21},{"name":20},"Zeboyd Games",true,[23,24],"Role-playing (RPG)","Adventure",[26,27,28],"PC (Microsoft Windows)","Nintendo Switch","PlayStation 5",[30,46,62,78,93],{"id":31,"author":32,"outlet":35,"summary":41,"review_url":42,"review_date":43,"original_score":44,"normalized_score":45},2236549,{"id":33,"name":34},17839,"Jemma Casson",{"id":36,"logo":37,"name":38,"website_url":39,"score_format":40},158,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPurenintendo.jpeg","Pure Nintendo","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com","10","This Way Madness Lies is a retro-inspired title that combines JRPG elements with a Shakespearean narrative. 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It doesn’t all fit together perfectly, and the story is simultaneously imaginative but also frivolous and insubstantial. However, the combat is excellent and demanding, and the pixel art does a lot of cool and impressive things (including full magical girl transformation cinematics). Overall, it’s no masterpiece, but the game succeeds at being what it wants to be — a bite-sized RPG that you can play and enjoy in small doses. You don’t have to be a Sailor Moon or Shakespeare lover to enjoy it, but it will certainly help if you are at least one of the two.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.escapistmagazine.com\u002Fthis-way-madness-lies-review-zeboyd-games-pc\u002F","2022-11-06","Unscored",0,{"id":79,"author":80,"outlet":83,"summary":88,"review_url":89,"review_date":90,"original_score":91,"normalized_score":92},82643,{"id":81,"name":82},1401,"Josh Tolentino",{"id":84,"logo":85,"name":86,"website_url":87,"score_format":40},71,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FSiliconera-Logo.jpg","Siliconera","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.siliconera.com\u002F","Take to the stage with the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society to put on plays and cross dimensions saving the world of Shakespeare's canon from chaotic incursions.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.siliconera.com\u002Freview-this-way-madness-lies-is-a-sweet-and-creative-sendup\u002F","2022-11-15","7",70,{"id":94,"author":95,"outlet":98,"summary":104,"review_url":105,"review_date":106,"original_score":107,"normalized_score":108},89187,{"id":96,"name":97},6585,"Alex Fuller",{"id":99,"logo":100,"name":101,"website_url":102,"score_format":103},65,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FRPGamer-Logo.jpg","RPGamer","https:\u002F\u002Frpgamer.com\u002F","5","Can magical girls, Eldritchian horrors, and William Shakespeare all blend together seamlessly? Zeboyd Games gives it a go in their newest RPG, This Way Madness Lies.","https:\u002F\u002Frpgamer.com\u002Freview\u002Fthis-way-madness-lies-review\u002F","2022-11-08","4.5",90,5,[20],[20],[],false]