Overview
A guide on how to play the game or modify its modes / enemies / dictionaries.
Enemies
Toxic Sharks – The letters on these sharks permutate randomly. If you just try to type what you see then you will get caught off guard. Instead wait for the letters to mutate and then type what you see. If you are fast enough then you can zap two or three toxic sharks before pausing again. In this way you can zap them with high accuracy and be very fast, with minimal pausing.
Piranhas – A lot of people read one letter, type it, and then read the next. Instead read several letters as if they are a word and type continuously. This will kill them a lot faster, kind of as if five or more piranhas are a single ghost shark.
Shark / Hammerhead / Tiger Shark – The stronger sharks are slower so kill them last, but don’t ignore them until the end. You want to zap every shark once, then repeat. Stealth versions are even slower once they’re not in stealth mode.
Bosses – Not every projectile can hurt you, so you can ignore many of them if you like. Against the squid and ghost ship you can use the same strategy as for pirhannahs by reading them as a word. You also might want to pause to make sure you’ve read them well and are ready to strike because making an error could mean dying.
Abyss Mode
To go deeper just kill waves as late as you can. Against Pirhannahs you want to wait until the last moment and then make an error to produce a deep sea fish. Then repeat again. Eventually the deep sea fish will stop spawning but you can get a lot of depth each time you do this.
Adventure Mode Points
The most important method for getting points in Adventure mode is to always get the 95% accuracy bonus on each level. You also want the 95% accuracy bonus on each wave of enemies, and to kill waves quickly so you can kill more waves on the same level. Some paths through the map might yield more points but I’m not sure which is the best at the moment. I might update this.
Modifying the Game
Right click the game in Steam and click properties. Go to Local Files tab and Browse Local Files. This will bring up the game’s folder. Go to the Data folder. In here you’ll see a lot of files and it won’t be hard to find out what they’re for. Edit one and you’ll notice that it’s not hard to figure out what does what. You can simply replace numbers or words even if you have no programming experience at all. It’s hard to overstate how simple it is to modify the game, but I’ll point out that I figured out how to do so on my own as a kid.
Modifying the game can add some fun to the experience. It’s especially fun to edit the difficulty modes since you can also modify the different enemy types there.