Backspace Bouken
To be honest, my teacher told me about the game in computer science, he said the game was really fun and that it also helped you get better at typing. I thought I’d try it out and I personally really enjoy the game. It is good fun and it has definitely helped me improve my typing skills. I would 100% recommend this to anyone who wants to have fun and get better at typing. I bought the game yesterday and I have already played this game alone for over 8 hours. I can’t describe how great of a game this is. I enjoy coming backand trying to get faster times. But what i love most about the game is that if you are speedrunning it, eventhough the game itself is a bit short, you have to spend a long time playing it as you need to fully explore each floor to get sings so you can get spaces. This is what I love most about this game, without spaces, the game would be too easy and you could complete it in 15 minutes, but because spaces exist, you need to collect signs and earn spaces to fight each character otherwise you die. This is probably the only game I could play for long periods of time, that is how much I love this game. Overall, the game is good for speedrunning, learning how to type fast, and having fun. Thanks for such an awesoem game!
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
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Backspace Bouken is okay for what it offers, but without any real elements that would put it aside other games with similar concept. For the IG bundle price I got it for, I’d say it was totally worth the money, but the full price tag is clearly too much to ask for.
The game is really short, you can easily finish it in 4 hours with the latest numb lock expansion, even less for the base game. I can’t say that it’s a bad game, which is why I’m giving it thumbs up, but the game was getting very tedious for me by the end, as the levels are very convoluted and simply hard to navigate, with a lot of backtracking, especially if by any chance you would want to save all NPCs and do something more than just finishing the main story. The severe lack of new mechanics and the fact that the game won’t really surprise you with anything that you haven’t seen in the first few minutes, is also adding to the tediousness and boredom by the end.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Ecstasy Elf Shotenken -Naruru’s Sexy Adventure-
Very short and not much adventure or RPG-elements, game takes place in a small town without much locations to explore and without character progression.
Art-style is cute and there are silly elements in the story, but it is over before it really begins.
If you get this in a sale then it can be worth it.
Remember to patch.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
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Good sexual content doesnt justify a lousy game, but a lot of DLSite devs think thats the case.
Really weak and short sadly, I did like the fighting system and the art, but I wish they would have expanded more on that and also made it more difficult later on tho, it was piss easy.
The game tells you that you shouldnt do anything lewd to get the happy ending, but it literally doesnt matter, in the last fight you can choose the ending you want, whether MC got defiled or not.
Some parts of the game arent translated, its a nice touch imo, but feels a little half-assed.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
I am reviewing this as of May 8, 2020; the game is still in Early Access and is not complete!
Coming directly from Epistory, the movement controls are very different than what I had become accustomed to in Epistory. The great news is that you can customize your controls to suit your needs, which I promptly did. I don’t have the list on hand at the moment but if you would like the Epistory control key mapping, let me know and I’ll pull it up!
The story itself is engaging and the initial tutorial stage lets you learn quickly without too much info-dumping. I will say that all the lore tidbits in Nanotale are very interesting and flesh out the world well.
– Real player with 41.9 hrs in game
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(Long review incoming – apologies! tl;dr: I like Epistory more, but this is well worth checking out regardless. Note that my playtime here is quite artificially inflated. I’d accidentally left the game running more than once, so this is not the time required to finish the game.)
It would have been easy for Fishing Cactus to rest on their laurels and put out a game that was effectively Epistory 2, but instead they took a gamble and struck off in some new directions for Nanotale. It’s a bold move, especially in a market where typing games are infrequent at best. The result is a game which, despite sharing a lot of DNA with Epistory, ends up feeling quite a bit different. For me, the changes are a mixed bag (and I have to admit I prefer Epistory), but I’d definitely recommend the game regardless.
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game