had to press enter on the main menu and no other button works...... you can't use WASD for menuing, just arrow keys
..took me a solid 30 seconds to figure out how to get into the game
the game is fun in concept, however in practice here there's a few things that made the gameplay painful for me
- you are asking me to type out a word quickly, though the animation for the next word coming up takes a solid two seconds, if it's supposed to be a skill typing game; why hold me back and give the enemy free time to hurt me?
(if it's a balance thing, make the enemy just drain me quicker!!)
- because i wasn't good enough to consistently win, nor bad enough to be losing, i just end up fighting the enemies for several minutes, and sometimes just had to give up to take a break or reset to make the damage even instead of trying to scramble back manually, i really didn't want to have to reset the game again, it was painful, something should be in place to prevent this endless tie situation?
(or resolve it faster if there is something going on under the hood that i can't detect while playing)
- the words being longer or shorter seemingly does not effect the enemy enough, i sometimes would be able to get in a lot of damage very quickly with easy words, or just as quickly go from winning to losing after seeing several difficult words in a row (back to purgatory !!! aaahh)
- the "multiplier" feels pointless; maybe you do slightly more than your enemy, but when the multiplier for me doing well makes my enemy attack harder, it encourages breaking even with the enemy, i don't lose as quick, and i don't win as fast...
(which can be fine in some cases.. but i wasn't winning, i wasn't losing, what am i to do but keep playing until i get too tired to keep up?)
- after a while, the words start to repeat, and while i understand it's a small game, as i played the meta slowly became to remember the words, personally i felt it went against the spirit of the game but it was my only real fight against the systems, though this is more of a personal gripe than anything else
TLDR, the game doesn't give any tools to players who aren't skilled enough to beat it, so either you are skilled enough to beat it, you're skilled enough to draw the enemy forever (and maybe get lucky now and then), or you just physically can't win.... typing speed isn't exactly a thing that can improve enough throughout the course of a jam game to let you win unless you're really dedicated, and i feel most players just won't be so dedicated to learn
of course, skill typing may just be the point, you just have to be skilled enough at typing to beat it; i do love evergreen game concepts, i think that a game like this could be balanced in such a way that both speed typing masters and complete beginners can have fun playing.
the art is really cute, the thumbnail is eye-catching, the designs are neat, visually, it's got character, overall i don't think it's a bad game, i just wasn't having a lot of fun because i got stuck, and there isn't anything i could do about it :(