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It didn’t feel hugely satisfying when I successfully passed difficult platforming areas, more just relieving that I would be able to see some more of the game and never play that section again. I just found it frustrating to repeat certain areas over and over because I made a minor mistake in on a jump.
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Typoman doesn’t become unplayable by any means, and when you fail, a reload is reasonably quick at letting you try again. Almost the entire final chapter leans on these dispenser puzzles, and they quickly become tiring.Ĭombined with some pixel-perfect platforming requirements in the final section, it feels the last section of the game really hurt the goodwill I felt during the first few areas. Most of the puzzles in the last chapter, rather than using words already existing in the world instead gives you what I’ll call letter dispensers, where you are given a set of letters to choose from and you need to make a word from a combination of them in order to affect the environment. It’s unfortunate, but maybe not unexpected. There are times when you can make words which feel like they should solve a problem, but they don’t work because they’re not the specific word you require.
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Later on though, it can often feel like you’re just trying to work out the specific word the developers want you to make. While at the start the word manipulation feels clever, the ‘a-ha!’ moments come thick and fast. Unfortunately, the ways these word puzzles are used become less enchanting as the game progresses. There are a few moments like this throughout the game, and they are some of the most enjoyable puzzles in the whole experience. Sometimes it will just then be a matter of rearranging the letters into that word, at other times you will need to manipulate the letters around the environment to get them all together for arranging.
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Often this is enough of the hint regarding the word you need, but if not, you can tap ? again and the word you need will be highlighted. At any point in the game, you can tap a ? icon on the touch screen which will bring up a line of what might be a short story, which uses words you can make in the environment. There were some puzzles that I just couldn’t quite work out though, and this is where the hint system comes in handy. Some of the ways words are used really engaged my lateral thinking, which felt great. I lost count of the times I caught myself smiling at the ways the developers used words to subvert my expectations. It’s a neat little trick that makes the first hour or so with the game feel entirely different from other games in it’s genre. Their body is literally made from letters that spell HERO. Pits are floored by sharp capital ‘A’s, and you might find an unusual word ‘PART’ lying around, only to have it rearrange into ‘TRAP’ and hurt you when you get close. Similarly, hazards in the world are made up of letters too. As an example, instead of triggering switches to move an elevator, you might find letters in the world and arrange them into the word ON to turn on a switch, or maybe RAISE to raise the platform. Now to be clear, you won’t be going through and completing crosswords to advance. The world and puzzles of Typoman are made up of word puzzles. Typoman similarly, has it’s own claim to fame to differentiate it from it’s puzzle platforming peers. Coming mostly from independent developers unrestrained by risk-averse major publishers, we players have been treated to a wonderful variety of thoughtful platformers each with their own unique take on the underlying formula. The puzzle-platformer has undergone a wonderful revival recently.