Causal game

Casual game

I am actually a causal gamer and I don’t commit myself to complete every single game I play. Anyway, few months ago I decided to buy One Finger Death Punch. A game created by Silver Dollar games. 

Honestly, this game is not extremely popular, thus not much people are familiar with this game. So a very quick intro..One Finger Death Punch is falls under the category of Action game and guess what? The mechanic of the game only consists of two buttons. Basically, when your enemies appear on left or right side, you just need to hit the button accordingly. If you try to button smash or spam by clicking randomly, you end up getting injured. 

For the challenges, there are different types of enemies as you go pass to higher levels. Different enemies require different number of times you are required to attack. The best part of attacking enemies is that it comes along with a coloured indication on how many attacks It requires for you to hit the button.

There also challenges in other forms. Enemies throw weapons at you and you have to click on time to throw back the weapon to them, there is “One life” round, where you have to attack the listed number of enemies to win the round.  All these challenges make the game interesting.

The artworks are quite decent, but players play as a stick-man attacking a whole bunch of stick-man. Animation is pretty good enough for me. One top of all these, players are given skills to unlock. Players are only allowed to choose three skills which allows you to be powerful than the previous state.

To think about it, I like this game a lot because I feel that they have really made good use of the two button mechanic. I mean if I stopped playing this game and wanted to play it again, I wouldn't need to worry about the game controls because it is so straightforward.  I just feel the games should be like this.  The easy mechanics in the game allows players to pick it up and start playing it. One Button Death punch would definitely be a game that I would love to complete.

Typing of the dead

Typing of the Dead 

Typing of the dead is actually an old arcade game. According to Wikipedia, it was realised in Japanese arcades in 1999 and it was available in Dreamcast. I owe the Windows Version of Typing of the dead. There is also a play station version of this game but you get to shoot the zombie.

In the Windows version of this game, you type to kill the zombies. Yes you literally type to kill the zombies. The words will appear on the screen and you have to type as quickly as possible to kill them. It’s like a mixture of an educational game and entertainment.

In this game there are two modes. One is a story arcade mode where you follow a storyline but in the arcade style type of game. Which means there are few short cut scenes, followed by typing(Just like the Silent hill arcade game).  There is also mini games mode where player can select three different mini games.

Even though this game maybe sounds a little weird, I think it’s not that bad after all. Initially the typing seems easy. As you progress through a level, you end up noticing that the words are complex or the sentences are longer.

Sentences

 All player is required to do is to type out the word that appears on the screen. Each zombie has its own set of word or sentences to type out. Once the whole sentence or word is typed out, the zombie dies. The speed and reflexes are being tested in this game.

This game isn't extremely fun as it is all about typing. If you are very good with typing, then you might enjoy it but there will be a point of time where you will get a little bored of typing.  I found it fun only when I played it with my friend.We competed with each other to see who is a better player in this game.

I won’ exactly say it’s an ideal game for people to play, but it’s a game that you wouldn't to play all the time. It’s fun occasionally. I think this is due to the current shoot-out games out there in the market.

If this game stands alone by itself without being compared, it’s not that bad. But thanks to the ever growing game industry, this game seems like more of an boring game then a game that attempt to take a different route for PC game.

This game is definitely worth a shot to play. Even if you are not keen of typing or educational and entertainment game, you can still try it for fun.  This is a game for keyboard warriors and typist.