None of the platforming issues ever makes the game unplayable. Worse is when you are also solving a puzzle and being killed by an inconsistent jump, forcing you to redo the whole puzzle and hope that the jump works how it is supposed to. Other times, when you really need Hero to grab that edge of a platform, it just is not meant to be and you’re sent to your death. Sometimes you can grab onto an edge and you will pull yourself up painfully slowly. When jumping involves grabbing onto the edges of platforms, or uneven jumping heights, it starts to falter. When it is straightforward, running and jumping Hero controls just fine. Typoman has a pretty even spread of platforming and word puzzles, sometimes a mix of the two. There is a collectable that you can get along the way that gives more insight, and there are themes that anyone who has encountered negativity, hate or struggles with creativity can identify with. Through the 4 hours playing through the three chapters, Typoman has inklings of a story tucked away. There is a clever workaround the word (and literal obstacle) GAS, with an extra letter added it makes all the difference. There is a moment early on in the game that I thought was neat. While Hero is chased by creatures made of HATE and FEAR (like Hero, the letters make up these nasty looking enemies), positive words are used to protect and aid you. An angel or muse appears throughout the journey to assist Hero when all is bleak. While the world is sombre, there are moments of light. You overcome these by completing word puzzles. Hero is on a quest to survive the hostile and oppressive world that has you traversing graveyards, ruins, and factories as you deal with platforming hazards and obstacles. The world of Typoman is a grim and desolate one, sending Hero through what appears at first to be a world of only decay and darkness. HERO is formed by the letters of their name, each letter acting as a part of the body and the importance of words and types of words play a major role in this Hero’s journey. In Typoman, you control HERO, in a world where words have power and letters litter the landscape. Now it turns out you can just make them by putting the letters together and creating HERO. Some are born to be heroes others become heroes through hardships.
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