Hi BeardedCynic, thank you so much for playing and for such valuable feedback! Really awesome to hear you stuck it out until the end.
Thanks for your feedback on the prose, I made a mistake choosing to make everything rhyme, as towards the end it made it much harder to write in the riddles in particular, I'm glad it paid off however!
I completey agree with your feedback on variety, the combat is probably the weakest element of the game due to this, as the main gimmick with the typing only goes so far. I would love to add spell variety, with different damage types etc. One of my original intentions was to have an enemy that can 'curse' you, which removes certain characters from your keyboard. I also played around with having a 'mana' pool which limits the total characters allowed in a word until a recharge, but all of these ideas were scrapped due to time contraints at the end.
I really appreciate your feedback, and will definitely give your game a try too!