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  • FREE GAMES: Epistory

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 19 11:12:52 2023
    Is time moving faster? It seems the weeks in 2023 are zipping by more
    quickly than they were in 2022. Wasn't it just seven days ago that I
    announced the last bunch of free games from Epic?

    Well, whatever. Here's another one.

    * Epistory - Typing Chronicles https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/epistory-typing-chronicles-445794
    When I first saw this game announced as the next Epic freebie, I
    thought to myself, "Wait, didn't they give this game away for free
    already?" But no. It was free on Steam, and Twitch, and HumbleBundle,
    and Amazon Prime, but not yet on Epic. Whew! Dodged a close one there.
    Anyway, this is a top-down adventure game featuring a girl riding a
    giant fox through a fantasy landscape (as one does). You fight
    monsters by typing out the words hovering above them (think "Typing of
    the Dead").

    Reviews indicate that while its individual parts are all satisfyingly
    well made, they don't quite gel together too well. It seems like an
    interesting experiment that could have used a bit more time in the
    oven, so fairly typical for an Indie game. Nonetheless, I guess I'll
    grab it, if only to so I can say I have it on Epic as well as
    everywhere else. I want to have a complete collection, after all.


    Seven days to add it to your library. That sounds like a lot of time,
    but just you watch; it'll seem like it's only a week.

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  • From Metal Guru@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jan 19 18:36:33 2023
    On 1/19/2023 11:12 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    * Epistory - Typing Chronicles https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/epistory-typing-chronicles-445794


    A typing game? Ha! I still type with two fingers at a speed of about
    2mpw (that's minutes per word) so obviously I took it. No intention
    whatsoever of ever playing it, though.

    I once tried one of them Mavis Bacon(?) typing courses that were popular
    back in the 90's but promptly gave up, couldn't get past level 1 on the
    easiest difficulty and that was that.

    Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice...can't fool me again!

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  • From kyonshi@21:1/5 to Metal Guru on Fri Jan 20 10:30:37 2023
    On 20/01/2023 00:36, Metal Guru wrote:
    On 1/19/2023 11:12 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    * Epistory - Typing Chronicles
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/epistory-typing-chronicles-445794


    A typing game? Ha! I still type with two fingers at a speed of about
    2mpw (that's minutes per word) so obviously I took it. No intention whatsoever of ever playing it, though.

    I once tried one of them Mavis Bacon(?) typing courses that were popular
    back in the 90's but promptly gave up, couldn't get past level 1 on the easiest difficulty and that was that.

    Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice...can't fool me again!


    I dunno, I am really fond of the Typing of the Dead series. Those
    combine the bad voice acting of House of the Dead with typing and just
    are delightfully stupid.

    Epistore is an interesting choice because it's years old, already was on
    Humble Choice ages ago (that's where I got it from), and is currently on
    sale in a bundle on Humble as well. I wonder if that was intentional.

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