There aren’t enough typing games in the world. TheTyping of the Deadspin-offsare excellent examples of their incredible potential, but not enough developers and publishers have taken note. I need to give my home row a thrashing, andFromSoft Wordgives me the challenge I need.
I’ve already oversold it.FromSoft Wordis a typing thing inspired byFromSoftware’spenchant for punishing games. Don’t expect something like Typing Souls, however. Don’t even expect it to be structured. Instead, prepare to be punished for your typos as you attempt to fill a white textbox…
Textbox is apparently not a word. I guess it’s two words.
However, that’s what you get: a big, blank text document and aggressive-sounding music. That’s exactly how I work most days, but normally, my misspellings are just attacked by squiggly red lines. At worst, my editor berates me (they don’t). InFromSoft Word, I get the echo-y death sound effect along with the words “You Made a Typo.” Harsh. I don’t even get to dispute word usage.
But while my game will end if I try to use the King’s spelling of favorite, it doesn’t care about whether or not I can place a comma. In that sense, it’s less brutal than my own self-criticism.
Speaking of criticism, whileFromSoft Wordallows you to export text while you still live, the moment the game over screen hits, you lose the ability to access what you’ve written. This alone means that it won’t become my new word processor of choice. A humiliating loss may be more true to theSoulsseries, but evenElden Ringallows me to return to my point of death to atone for my failures.
FromSoft Wordcomes to us from Steven Nass and Peter Henningsen at Woe Industries. You can “play” it yourself for freeover on itch.io.
