Type: Rider - It's really cheap and you might learn a thing or two and that's about it

I picked up this game a few days ago on a PlayStation store special for a couple of dollars. I like puzzle games every now and then especially if they are casual and not too heavy on the controls. This game is both of those things and there is some interesting scenery. However, the game is pretty boring unfortunately.

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In the game you control a colon (not the anatomy type) and just roll across the screen as you progress through the years and how typeface changed throughout time. It is a little bit educational and you will run into some words that we all recognize such as Garamound and Helvetica and there is a bit of history featured in each of the various stages.

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You go to the left, solve a few rather simple puzzles and jump from letter to letter represented by the typeface that existed at that particular point in time. Certain dates such as when the telegram and morse-code were invented appear on the screen so I guess this game could be considered a bit educational if you can remember that sort of thing.

Each level ends with you finding a golden dot (which I guess is a period / full-stop) and moving it over to an area where there are 3 indentations to open a door which cannot be opened otherwise.

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Along each level there are letters and asterisks that you are meant to gather for achievements, most of which I did either accidentally or because it was within easy reach. I did not feel compelled to 100% this game. There are no bosses or really any enemies of any sort and well, I suppose it wouldn't make much sense if there was.

The fact that they show you very little of actual gameplay in the above video is kind of what i am trying to say here: The game DOES look good and it is easy to play but it just isn't very much fun. Since I only paid $1.99 for it I wasn't expecting the world so I am going to say that this game is perfectly adequate, but nothing to really get excited about. I am certain that it will be deleted from my PS4 this afternoon (even though it takes up very little space) and probably never played again.

Some completionists out there might feel compelled to shoot for 100% completion and all the trophies, and there is even a way of comparing your speed runs to everyone else in the world.... I wont be doing any of these things.

Should you pay $2 for it? Uh, maybe. It is just $2 after all, but you'll finish this game in an hour and a half if you play it all the way through and I can all but guarantee that you are not going to get stuck because it is an exceptionally easy game that was likely meant to be artistic rather than challenging. As a big fan of platformers, I found it to be a bit too boring for my liking.