The end of the battle…critters slainĪside from exploration, puzzles are what make Epistory: Typing Chronicles tick. When the dungeon is cleared, a new patch of land is added in a rather spectacular way. Fine by me, but you can turn it off if you want to. Wave after wave is thrown at you, gotta keep a cool head and do the right combos! As I’m no ace under pressure I was happy that the game has adaptive difficulty: it watched me struggle and adjusts the monsters and combos accordingly. You get on a sort of circle, which signals that the monster attacks can now start in earnest. At least I did, things can get pretty hectic, especially at the end of each dungeon. In the Burning Hollow dungeon Adaptive DifficultyĪnd I can tell you, you’ll need the time you can get. Frost makes the critters pause after the first line of signs has been sent its way, buying you more time. For example, the fire element makes the critters get fire damage burning away the second line of signs with which you can beat him. Each has its own special way of dealing with the monsters. Later on, you will gather more of the elements, like freezing and electricity. In every dungeon you get a new weapon of sorts: in Burning Hollow those are the fire buttons. Rake those upgrades inĮventually, you will come upon your first “dungeon”: Burning Hollow, where you witness a meteor strike the land. These points accumulate, giving you new upgrades and skill points to use these upgrades when a certain threshold is reached. The quicker you type in the combo, the more points you earn. The personal story seeps into the telling Know the Buttons by Heartįor every enemy ( really, just creatures of the creepy-crawly type) you vanquish, every obstacle you clear and every piece of land you restore you get points. You witness happenings that have her despairing as if you are listening in on a conversation about love lost that you shouldn’t be witnessing. It’s a woman’s voice too, but much more intense and personal. We’ll be friends now, I’ll link after you – I promisedĪt times other voices are heard during your journey. You have to click them all in the right sequence, make one mistake and you have to start all over again. Epistory presents you with a combo of buttons from the D-pad in the left joy-con and the A, B, X and Y buttons on your right joy-con. The story is literally written on the face of the earth, and it’s up to you to progress it by opening treasure chests, demolishing barriers and slaying enemies.Įpistory: Typing Chronicles is all about typing the words that further the game, but on your Switch, you fight, demolish and explore using button combinations. At first, the Bridge is bare, but as the writer (who is of course the owner of the voice you hear) gathers inspiration more appears in the landscape. You start out on the Bridge, an area that connects all the other areas you have to uncover. A voice tells the story as the little girl experiences it, and while she talks, the blank pages fill with new landscapes, creatures and adventures. Just a small lane of paper-like tiles before you, no other choice but to follow it to see where it leads. You are a girl riding a huge red fox with three tales. Enough to intrigue me and dive in! Talk About Writers BlockĮpistory starts out in a world that is a blank canvas. And that it was developed by Belgian studio Fishing Cactus got me even more curious: Belgian is after all my neighbour country! But, as a convinced handheld gamer, I was also wondering if it would work for me. The fact that every element in the game could be controlled by typing words on an external keyboard sounded great. In the description I read that you start off with a blank space, forming the story as you go along. So when we got a review code for Epistory: Typing Chronicles I really couldn’t resist picking it up. You know how I love games that are a bit out of the ordinary, games that have ideas in their gameplay that doesn’t follow the standard. Review code used, with many thanks to QubicGames Developers | Publishers: Fishing Cactus | QubicGames
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