Aaaaaaaaaaa it's so much fun! For one it's great feeling empowered by a skill that rarely gets to feel cool or flashy. Adding this kind of flair to typing is endlessly satisfying along with the gunshots on each key pressed.

The rail shooter underneath all this typing business is silly and overacted enough to be a great time, but the typing adds multiple extra layers which make it an absolutely wild experience. The game totally takes advantage of the disconnect between its rail shooter and typing game elements...while you're frantically hitting keys trying to keep up, what you're actually being prompted to type seeps in, but with no time for you to linger on it. Sometimes the words and phrases are complete nonsense and sometimes they're quotes, but it really shines when they're used to tell little stories between a few prompts. Sometimes it'll make fun of the player, saying if they finish typing that paragraph, they'll be alone for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it's strangely horny. When they aren't nonsense, the prompts are immature fun.

In addition, they do a great job of switching things up and making this more than just a test of typing speed. For instance, there are these quick thinking segments where you have to answer questions instead of just typing what's shown. The player has to constantly consider target priority throughout the game, which is probably what makes it still feel like a rail shooter at the end of the day. This was my biggest downfall, as I often started typing a sentence on an enemy in the back while several in the front would kick my ass. I love this shit.

First game played on my Thinkpad R52! :)