So now that the game has received all 24 levels and i went and redid the old ones(since they were all reset showing 1h in-game records but i had also wanted to try them all again anyways...) as well as did the six new ones from the latest update, and have 100%'d the achievements like... is this my 3rd time now? At least second. Glad i won't have to do this ever again, enough Vietnam flashbacks gained by now. ;3 After all of this(and according to steam this new session of mine took about 3,7 hours, i know i most certainly haven't played twice during the past 2 weeks :P)... i think it's appropriate that i finally give this game a small review.
So what will you find inside this game... as i said in the beginning, 24 levels. Some of them will be fun and easy enough, some can be pretty challenging, and some will likely get on your nerves and make you want to call the game a "kusoge" even though it's clear the dev has put effort into making this game a good game. Certainly, the idea is really genius! As you press keys on your keyboard, the same keys will raise like high blocks on the virtual keyboard on the screen. Using these blocks your task is to do stuff like push balls or cubes to paint other keys, come into contact with other keys, jump through hoops, in one of the last six levels even set the right combination into a combination lock(i thought that one was especially interesting to work with :D)! In another one you'll be setting new keys to missing spots on the keyboard... i hope you won't need to do this IRL too because of the game, though. D: I didn't but i know i did have to take breaks sometimes haha The idea is genius but... the controls... eh, some games just are meant to be difficult, i guess. Just keep in mind that you are likely to find some of these level frustrating because of how the objects respond to your key block manipulations but in the end... you can do it. I did it. All of them. Most more than once by now. Even the Make a Picture one which used to be impossibly annoying hard to do yet i did it. And now that the dev has tweaked that specific level after feedback(i guess i hadn't been the only one having difficulties with it? :P)... i actually somehow got the record time on the Steam leaderboards! <insert the JUST DO IT meme here> What a sweet revenge... Surely somebody will beat it eventually but i shall bask in the glory of being a record holder until then, with my record time of 4m 21s on Make a picture. :D (Also, a hint for that level: [spoiler]if an image tile is touching for example key J with its corner, if you keep tapping J key lightly, it will slowly drag the tile towards it little by little, though be careful not to flip the whole tile when doing this[/spoiler]. This technique helped me finish making the picture and bringing the two tiles close enough to each other, and it took me a long time to notice it back then, but this time after the tweak with all the other changes it yet again made things much easier on the third stage so i can thank remembering that old trick for letting me get a record time right on top. :) Good luck~ )
One thing that's really worth noting is that you are stuck with the US keyboard layout(well, recently the game did also get QWERTZ and AZERTY layouts in addition to the QWERTY layout). It probably won't be an issue for US people but for me it was kind of annoying since that right side gets really confusing since my Finnish keyboard has got Å, Ä and Ö keys to the right of P and L, and some symbols are to the right of them, sharing the two keys... So basically every time something managed to flee into that realm of shadows and regret, i had to tap on Backspace or Enter or LShift for some time and hope they will eventually come back to this side of the world... D: ...aaannd then i discovered i could just Win + Space and switch to the US keyboard layout. :DDD Doesn't make what i see IRL match what i see on screen but at least the keys on the right side started to raise the similarly placed keys on screen so... it helps, even if in the future it would be nice to have the keys matching IRL and on screen too. :P Maybe those may get added, it remains to be seen. But take that piece of advice for now, if you, too, have got a keyboard of more international variety than that of US keyboard layout. :) I wonder how much easier or harder this game would be to play on a Japanese keyboard... haha... i wouldn't acquire one just to try it, right? Right, Jan? :P (Also you probably will need to enable the US keyboard layout from Windows' language settings before you can switch between it and your default with Win + Space. Good luck, again... c: )
Oh and the music playing in the background is nice. The songs aren't made for this game but they work well for it. I need to buy that artist's music into my music collection someday... :D
Do i recommend this little indie game? Yes, just so that you too are legally binded(well, not really, but i have to put jokes everywhere... i guess.) to go through the same pain i did, playing through this game and 100% completing it! Besides, the more new players the higher the chance of my record getting beaten... come on, don't let me stay on top forever, i dare you(to not break your keyboard either while playing through this game <3). ;3 Please do take breaks though. For the sake of everyone. :DDD
