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The Sword of Kumdor
“What's going on!? A spaceship came crashing down! Oh my stars, look at that hole!” “The Sword of Kumdor” (クムドールの剣) is a touch-typing RPG for the NEC PC‑98, created by Michiaki Tsubaki in 1991. You play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters by typing spells — but you lose all your keyboard keys and your QWERTY skills in a crash landing.
You play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters by typing spells — but you lose all your keyboard keys and your QWERTY skills in a crash landing. There are some similar themes: an alien invader causes chaos on a modern low-fantasy planet, RPG tropes are subverted and riffed on, and all is resolved in a slightly psychedelic final encounter. Thankfully, the text is almost all consolidated in uncompressed sections of null-separated Shift-JIS data, so finding and dumping and reimporting it was super easy.
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