Slash It 2
Slash It 2
Pros:
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Really Enjoyed the Soundtrack
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Lots Of Achievements
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Easy Perfect Game
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Really Improved My Typing A Nice Bit
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Cool Light Show
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Cheap
Cons:
- It’s Typing… It Gets Old
Review
Slash It 2 is a nice upgrade from the first Slash It. It has even a better soundtrack and a better look. Beef up your profile with lots of achievements and an easy perfect game. A nice little game to play for a couple hours or so. It really did improve my WPM (Words Per Minutes) from 50 WMP to 60 WPM. A great game to help improve your typing skills.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
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Slash It 2 is a fantastic game that really helps excersise touch typing skills or for those wanting to improve key pressing reaction times. Slash It 2 also has an incredible soundtrack that is different depending on which mode is chosen to play. It is cheap and very highly recommended.
First things first though, this game is one of those ‘Achivement Farming’ games where you play the game for a low amount of time and gain hundreds of achievemens. Now this may be the case here and looking over the Achievements they are all relatively the same letters, numbers and symbols with different font and styling, but it doesn’t change the fact that the game is actually lots of fun both to play and listen to.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Steno Arcade
First of all, this is a steno game. What is steno? Look here at me playing this game on a QWERTY keyboard and a steno machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtQzTUEuPWo You can see that I don’t write individual letters, rather words at a time. And writing words at a time means that my hands don’t move much, much less than a QWERTY keyboard where you have to type every letter.
The steno machine is much faster at text entry than a regular keyboard, but it takes months to become proficient. Part of the reason that many haven’t heard of steno is that for the longest time it wasn’t public information! A major stakeholder in this game, Mirabai Knight, tried to bring steno to everyone, starting in 2010. She first had a program made that interfaced with steno machines and handled all the steno logic → that program is Plover, and I use and develop it now.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
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I’ll divide this review for two audiences: Uninformed and transcribers in the shorthand trade.
Uninformed:
If you stumbled upon this game, you might be wondering “What the heck is steno?” which is fair question. This is very niche product for a speicifc trade/industry in which you might recognize in captions on Television or Court reporters (sometimes refered as stenographers). This means that you need a specific usb-equipped shorthand steno writer and download an open source software to convert what you input into that writer onto your computer - you still following me? - and also you’ll need to learn the complete theory and methodology of how to write steno. If you’re still confused or uninterested thenn this is obviously not the game for you.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Slash It Ultimate
Initially, I thought that this game was going to be a flop. This in part to the fact that it looked like it had a bunch messy graphics, hundreds of achievements (which some would say is meant to be a way to basically charge for achievements that you don’t have to actually put any effort into) and small number of reviews.
I’ve always been a fan of DDR, and Slash it ultimate reminded me of it as well. So after playing it for about 30 minutes and figuring everything out, I’ve gotta say that I’m amazed and ultimately hooked.
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
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TL;DR ‘‘Slash it Ultimate’’ Review
Slash it Ultimate is the latest game in this series and has improved graphics and way more songs to listen to while smashing your keyboard.First off,the UI is prettier and more responsive than in previous games.There are more statistics from your plays and the leaderboards are better.This game has 7 different game modes and only 3 are typing modes.There is a mode for mouse movement,arrow keys,space key and a unique mode that changes your perspective from seeing the screen from the side and then from the back if the jump button is pressed.The sad thing is the selection of music will get tiresome quickly and there is no way of adding your own songs.It also feels that the beat is not synchronized with the gameplay sometimes.Another problem I found was that while playing the numbers mode it’s very easy to confuse a spinning 6 with a spinning 9 which causes a loss in momentum.Same thing with the spinning letters W and M during alphabet modes.Also,there is some lack of input while playing the Hard mode for numbers which kinda ruins the fun of that game mode.
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game
Turtoa: Global Rhythm
🌍 Play exotic songs from around the world.
🔥 Feel the rhythm beat through your fingers.
♫ Hours and hours of music from renowned world artists including:
~~ DJ Drez - Indian fusion soundscapes
~~ David Charrier - handpan harmonics
~~ Burning Babylon - dub roots riddim
~~ Kaissa - Afrobeat soul
~~ plus Eliyahu Sills, Hola Hola and lots more!
🤟🏼 New music will be added to the game regularly during early access.
👍 Hand-crafted levels: all levels in Turtoa are created by groovy humans. No auto-generated music or content here.