Backspace Bouken

Remember to dodge!

A fun game/typing practise full of references and [i] funny [/i] jokes (sometimes dad-jokes). It does require faster typing the further in the game you are, but not to an extreme degree, the difficulty changes based on your speed (I won't explain how, it's for you to find out). The vocabulary and frequency of words is quite good, although you really should know touch typing before you play.

I found this to be an enjoyable game even despite not having the best typing skills. The story and game play is engaging enough to continue playing through the games. The game play also included methods to avoid penalties from slow typing. Good game and worth playing. [h2]Graphics, Sounds, and Game Play[/h2] I like the old-school dungeon crawler aesthetic. Everything felt good and played well. The sound was also good and felt like an old game's soundtrack. [h2]Achievements[/h2] I only found 1 achievement being difficult to achieve but managed to get it within a few hours. When I started, I had some thought that I might not be able to get the achievements due to slow typing but I was managed them all relatively shortly. The achievements felt well placed and only a few related directly to typing speed. All together, a good game an well worth a play.

As someone who likes first person dungeon crawlers but typically doesn't play typing games, I liked this game. Encounters are fun - and once you learn how to dodge, even tough enemies are manageable. Exploring is fun too, however, completing a floor spawns a map completion npc somewhere on that floor, and finding that npc kinda ruins the flow. 100% achievement completion requires beating both modes of the game, finding every npc in them and then to practice your typing speed against the very first encounter until you manage to pull off 90 words per minute. As someone who barely manages 60, that's a tough one. Overall, It's ok.

Fun game. I finished both campaigns in one go. I thought I'm a quick typist then this game proved me wrong (I even got game over the first time I went against the final boss of the tower of f8.) Nitpicks: - Dodging mechanics is kinda weird and I'm not quite ok with that. - Save Point for the Numb Lock campaign's final boss is placed horribly. It forced me to gruel through it two or three times, having to start fighting the monster before that all over again each time.

I was having a good time, and I never died a single time until I got to the final boss, at which point I have to give up now because it feels impossible. It seems like the the difficulty of the game is based on how quickly you typed on the first encounter, as the enemies throughout the game keep referencing how you did on that first enemy, including the final boss. But somehow the balancing has made it so that the final boss has become impossible for me, and there doesn't seem to be a way to lower the difficulty, which is very frustrating. I type around 90-100 WPM, so I never would have expected to be unable to complete the game. But I've been typing for years, and 100 WPM is basically the ceiling of my typing speed, so if that's not enough to defeat the final boss then I just literally can't beat the game then. I would give this game a thumbs up if there was a way to change the difficulty, because otherwise it is a nice little typing game.