After a terrific "game" based on Little Red Riding Hood, how about a "game" based on Romeo and Juliet? From Baby Eish Games, described on their site as "a family-run casual game development company, founded in 2009", comes Most Romantic Tales: Romeo & Juliet, available for $12.99 and apparently created in under three months.

I have yet to see computer characters kiss without it looking really really creepy. The screenshot above, which looks like something from a terrible Korean MMO, is a case in point. Also, consider the presentation:

Most Romantic Tales: Romeo and Juliet features an authentic, line by line translation of Shakespeare's original play, presented in contemporary colloquial American English.

As if that wouldn't set the Bard spinning in his grave, how about this?

You can follow the original storyline, or choose a happy ending.

In other words, Romeo has been poisoned and Juliet has been stabbed. Are you a bad enough dude to save them? I couldn't resist, so I downloaded the demo and discovered it's basically a set of dialogue trees with still images in the background. Between scenes there seem to be puzzles. After trying unsuccessfully to break up the fight between the Capulets and Montagues (that damn Tybalt ruined my Benvoliotic efforts at peacemaking!), I was tasked with putting together a virtual jigsaw puzzle.

The dialogue revisions are no worse than, say, Baz Luhrmann's 1996 movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Check it out:

That's me on the left. Think of this thing as a learning aid for kids rather than a videogame. I suppose all's well that ends well.