3/17/2024 0 Comments Typoman game review![]() ![]() ![]() It’s simple stuff that’s unlikely to tax, introducing the mechanics and word crafting in an easy to grasp manner. The prologue eases players into things gently, forming such four-letter words as ‘OPEN’ and ‘LIFT’ to manoeuvre objects and progress through the level. Or to be more concise, it’s a platformer with word game elements. Set in a hellish world where objects and obstacles are formed from various, alterable, words, our hero – constructed from the word ‘HERO’ – is out to retrieve a lost limb, taken by an evil entity. It’s a 2D platformer similar to Limbo and the recent Toby: The Secret Mine, favouring silhouettes, non-confrontational combat, and sinister shadowy beings. Typoman: Revised – which has found its way onto Xbox One after launching on PC and Wii U last year – is probably the closest we’re ever going to get to a modern day Chain Letters tie-in. Clearly the concept of changing and rearranging four letter words to make new ones was well ahead of its time. Things may have been different had the word-based quiz hit our TV screens during Nintendo’s casual market boom ten years ago. British daytime quiz show Chain Letters never received a video game adaptation before its cancellation in 1997. ![]()
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