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vortexofdeduction · 7 years

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Much Ado About Nothing video game

So I was just thinking about Shakespeare themed video games and I thought it would be really fun to make a game based on the play Much Ado About Nothing.

Basically it would be an adventure type game and you would play a number of different characters through different parts of the story. You would have scenes in which you control specific characters interspersed with free time in which you can choose any of several different characters to play and do side quest, mini-games, etc. that can affect how well or poorly other scenes go.

Your main goal is to get Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love with each other. You can do this in a number of ways such as choosing the right dialogue during scenes and conversations with the characters or planting evidence that suggests they love each other. The trick is, you cannot observe the status of their relationship directly, but instead must guess based on how they talk to each other and what did they say about each other.

You get to play a number of scenes such as:

Play as one of Beatrice's or Benedick's friends and convince Beatrice or Benedick that the other loves them. This is done mainly by making good dialogue choices. However, Beatrice or Benedict is trying to hide while listening to you, and the more surprised they are, the harder it is for them to be stealthy. If they see that you have noticed them, they will leave in embarrassment and the scene ends early. (This is not a failure, it just means you don't get to bump up the relationship score as much as you could have.)

Play as Don Pedro during the masquerade ball and try to woo Hero for Claudio.

There are a number of scenes in which you can play as either Beatrice or Benedick and try to come up with the best insults. (No overall effect, just for fun.)

There are several side quests you can go on that can affect the main plot:

Play as Balthazar and take music lessons (this improves the romantic atmosphere of the tricking Benedick scene).

Play as Don John plotting to make it look like Hero cheated on Claudio. (This makes people more likely to believe John's story and allows you to play as John during the scene in which he "proves" her infidelity.)

Play as the watch (either dogberry or verges) to investigate the "cheating". (This allows you to play as either character after Hero's "death" and reveal her innocence.)

Play as one of Beatrice's or Benedick's friends and talk to Beatrice or Benedick to figure out what sort of things you should say to make them fall in love.

Play as Benedick and take Beatrice up on her offer and actually follow through on the duel with Claudio. (This improves their relationship.)

Those are just a few ideas. Does anyone think that sounds like a fun game? Because I think it does lol

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johnvengeful · 7 years

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Succession and Failure

When I came to lead Claudio to Hero’s chamber room, so he could see “Hero’s” disloyalty towards him, I heard Claudio, Don Pedro, and Leonato were planning to have Beatrice and Benedick to fall for eachother. What a waste of time… Anyways, as I lead Don Pedro and Claudio away, I told them how I have seen Hero’s disloyalty towards Claudio, and when he saw Borachio and Margaret, who was just a silhouette assumed to be Hero, he looked furious and claimed he would call her out tomorrow at the wedding. As I looked my window the same night, I saw Borachio and Conrad being hauled away by some grimy citizens and Borachio was grumbling in frustration to himself for exposing, what we had done, to Conrad in an open area. How dim-witted do those two get?

#much ado #act 3 scene 2-3

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bethanydelleman · 10 months

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Both Pride & Prejudice and Much Ado About Nothing work so well as enemies to lovers because despite surface animosity, it's clear that both end couples really respect each other and for good reasons. I think you could even argue that with Beatrice, she spars with Benedick because she considers him a worthy opponent.

When Hero and Ursuala plot to make Beatrice fall in love, Hero instructs her to speak of Benedick and "praise him more than ever man did merit" and yet when Beatrice finally speaks, she doesn't disagree with their high praise, she says of Benedick:

For others say thou dost deserve, and I Believe it better than reportingly.

Benedick likewise after his eavesdropping on Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio's praise Beatrice says:

They say the lady is fair; 'tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her.

Similarly in Pride & Prejudice, once the misunderstanding about Wickham is cleared away, Elizabeth is able to acknowledge to herself how much she respects and likes Darcy:

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgment, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

Darcy also finds that he admires Elizabeth, after initially dismissing her:

But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.

All of these characters also hear and accept criticism of themselves. Both Benedick and Beatrice hear they are too proud to accept love, which they both overcome. Elizabeth learns that she judged Darcy without sufficient information and Darcy that his behaviour was not that of a gentleman. Their mutual acceptance of this criticism and their growth as people leads to their ultimate happiness.

Unfortunately, those who reproduce this trope often forget to build this foundation of respect and the acknowledgement, either personally or publically, that the characters have been wrong. Instead we get characters who mid argument begin ripping each other's clothes off. No growth, no understanding how they have been wrong, it just becomes "thin line between hatred and love" instead of "we grew towards each other".

#enemies to lovers done right #enemies to lovers trope #trope analysis #pride and prejudice #much ado about nothing #much ado about nothing day #growing towards each other #obviously the character growth is almost instant in Much Ado #but that's just a time factor #a lot more room in a novel #shakespeare #benedick #beatrice #elizabeth bennet #mr. darcy #fitzwilliam darcy

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