• Epistory - Typing Chronicles
  

  32 hours playtime

  55 of 55 achievements

#19 | Epistory - Typing Chronicles

So when I was about 7 or 8, my parents got me this educational game that teaches kids how to type. It did its job, but wasn’t fun after I completed the basics (because my typing speed couldn’t keep up.) This is not that game. Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a typing game, but it doesn’t actually teach typing. But that’s all it is - you type to kill enemies, destroy things, open chests, do magic - it’s all typing. The typing is pretty good fun though and a fresh mechanic, so I still recommend it, though it does have a few flaws.

Epistory looks gorgeous, really gorgeous, but they might have sacrificed a bit of gameplay for aesthetics. There’s some sort of blurring filter applied to objects that are further away, but that means the enemies’ words are blurred too. It’s really annoying when you can almost see the word so you take a guess, but get it wrong (of course…), and then lose your combo / die. It also tries to have a story, but I didn’t get it until the end, and I’m not sure I get it entirely either. Despite that, the voice narration was really good, and would have been better if she was given a better story to tell.

Also, I guess now I can say that I know how to spell several new words and yet I have no clue what they mean. (e.g. Ecdysis, sphenogram, unciform, etc.) Totally useful. :P

Side note for achievement hunters: Epistory has lots of grindy achievements - type 1,000 characters without a mistake, kill 10,000 enemies, and a bunch of type xxx words - largest was 17,000+. Main game took me about 10 hours (I had killed about 3,500 enemies), the remaining time was spent trying to get the other achievements. There’s a small bug(?) that can help for the no mistakes achievement. If you erase a profile and create a new one with the exact same name, your current no mistake streak carries over and continues from there. Useful if you’re prone to typos like I am, since the words are shorter and enemies are slower at the start of the game.