The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

Got a credit roll about 3 hours in. As someone who gets ~140wpm on typeracer on a good day, I very much enjoyed a typing game that was actually challenging. I bought this game on a 90% off sale and do not regret it, but full price YMMV. I'm not sure if I'm interested enough to get the DLC though. What I especially liked: - I'm a sucker for pixel graphics - I'm a sucker for "dodge the shape," and this has some GREAT shapes in it - UI shows you both the word to focus on directly over the character (good for when you need to focus on dodging and want to incrementally work on a long word) as well as the longer phrase it's part of at the bottom of the screen (so when you have a breather you can look ahead, good for chaining small words together) What I did not like: - The game in between the boss fights is pretty milquetoast. - I found that when I lost in a boss fight, I often would rather close the game than go back through the early phases of it. - Some of the boss fights involve [spoiler]debuffs that do things that make it harder to read the text you're supposed to type, or jumble letters in a random order[/spoiler], and I did not care for those mechanics. - There's a "hold space t…

I quite enjoyed this game despite not being a fan of the bullet hell genre. The mix of typing + bullet hell seems very interesting , and I very much enjoyed the fact that there was a story weaved in between the 10 base game bosses. The narrative was nice, heartwarming and it kept me very interested in the game. The levels are absolutely fair, you can type without moving when you get the chance, but you sometimes need to move while typing (only in the last phase of certain bosses). The difficulty does go up with every boss, but it's still very much a beatable game. The music is SO good and thrilling, it really makes you focus and feel the intensity of every fight. Sadly, it's very annoying when you lose and need to repeat a level yet again, but luckily I only needed a few tries in order to beat the harder enemies. I think it would be cool to play with someone else, one person typing and one moving. I did not attempt to beat the bosses in hard mode, only the first 3 of them, because it just seems very hard.. you only have one life, no buffs and there is no time in between enemy attacks. There's also a boss rush mode, but I haven't tried it yet. You sadly do need to complete all bos…

I tried the game, and It is just not working. If i want to play a typing game I WANT TO TYPE - and not using Shift+aswd to dodge bullets WHILE I'm typing. Or use One hand to type - that totally defeats the reason of practicing typing - while the other hand moving the character around. WHY? Or if you decide to do that Make sure you moving with one hand while the other only covers the assigned keys - ASDF JKL: + neighbors This is just terrible idea all the way around.

30 fps lock is crazy

I'm not sure how other people feel, but not being able to customize the resolution of a game is kind of disqualifying for me. The game does not allow the window to be resized with a mouse or allow the window to be resized to standard resolutions in the settings menu. It seems like people in the discussions board are unable to find a config file to edit so I'm out of luck.

I type 160 wpm with 100% accuracy on almost any keyboard. Can't manage to get through the first actual level of this game. I will adjust key bindings for movement to see if it makes a difference, but as it stands I was looking forward to playing this and it [i]SUCKS![/i] What a stupid control scheme you guys have made, what a terrible way to take a great looking, great sounding game then make it near unplayable with the most bass-ackwards control scheme you could possibly think of. This isn't challenging, it's just built to be frustrating and that's stupid. No problem with my accuracy, but the stupid [i]literally[/i] unavoidable attacks that will often trigger in quick succession with no discernable pattern, all of it. You guys have made a great looking pile of crap. Oh, and my first time playing I got a bug where Ray ran into a pile of garbage and could not move left or right to move forward, instead just running forward without ceasing. But it looks nice and the soundtrack is great!