18 hours ago
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As anyone who has edited me over the years will know, I am not a great typist. Or, ironically, as I originally spelled it: typoist. Additional letters slip in with every other keystroke, characters within words are all jumbled up, and the crime I'm most often guilty of is skipping out whole words entirely as I rush to get to the end of a sentence.
So, it was with trepidation that I installed the demo for Typing Break, a game where the only thing standing between you and the horde of enemies descending the screen is your ability to quickly and accurately type words like 'Pistol' and 'Machine gun'.
On its surface, Typing Break is a straightforward word game take on Space Invaders. Enemies move down the screen, damaging your health if they reach the bottom. You battle the encroaching enemy by typing a weapon's name to your little tank fire that weapon at the incoming wave. Complicating matters though are the affixes that you can unlock. Typing these words in addition to a weapon name will alter the behaviour of your gun when it fires. Fury, for instance, increases your fire rate. So, typing 'Fury pistol' makes your character at the bottom of the screen spit out bullets like an automatic tennis ball machine that's trying to get off work early.
Whenever you defeat a wave you are given the opportunity to upgrade one of your weapons, add a passive ability, or unlock a new weapon or affix. You might want something with a slightly faster rate of fire, such as a machine gun, or maybe something with a little more heft, like a grenade launcher. New affixes include things like Lightning to chain your attacks, Frost to slow your enemies down, or Fire to, well, set your enemies ablaze.
Like I'll even attempt to type 'Lightning' quickly...
Where Typing Break starts to get interesting is that you aren't limited to using a single affix. So, if you have them unlocked, you could type 'Fury frost grenade launcher' to rapidly pop off a salvo of slow-inducing explosives, forcing the enemy's advance to a crawl. Of course, the longer your string of commands the more likely you are to make an error and typos are punished with the entire string being deleted, forcing you to start over.
I'd recommend diving into the demo and seeing what combinations you come up with. I'll admit the most success I had was sticking with the Fury affix and investing all my upgrades into passive improvements of the starting Pistol, increasing its ammo capacity and critical hit chance. You'd think the editor of RPS would be able to rapidly type the word Shotgun without getting it wrong, but, as I say, my typing is pretty shocking.
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