Clyde Teaches Reading

Clyde Teaches Reading, released in North America as Clyde's Reading Adventure, is a typing and reading-based edutainment game for the Nintendo Switch and PC, primarily serving as an educational game to teach young children how to read and type. The game was developed by Button Studios and released on May 27, 2022. It is available to play for free as a digital download.
The game's launch also saw the release of a miniature Bluetooth keyboard that can be connected to the system for easier typing, though the system's built-in digital keyboard can also be used.
Clyde Teaches Reading centers around the Classic Fantendoverse character, Clyde, as he sets out across the United Kingdom to rescue people from his nemesis, Fire Master. It serves as a revival of the long-dormant Clyde series, exclusively using content from the original Clyde and Flame games created over 10 years earlier by .
== Gameplay ==
The gameplay of Clyde Teaches Reading primarily revolves around reading and typing simple words that appear on the screen to enable Clyde to progress through linear two-dimensional levels. In each level, Clyde will automatically walk from left to right, stopping in his tracks every few seconds as he encounters one of Fire Master's prisoners trapped in a cage of fire. Above each cage is a word, which when typed out, will free the prisoner inside and allow Clyde to continue progressing.
Throughout levels, the player can earn bonuses by typing words without making any mistakes. Completing a level normally will reward the player with a Silver Star for that level, but if all words are typed without making any errors, the player will gain a Gold Star, which is essential for 100% completion.
Progression through the game is very linear to accommodate the young target audience. The game is divided into 6 worlds each divided into 8 levels, with the last of these levels being a special "Type-Off". In these challenges, which serve as this game's Boss Fights, the player is pitted against an opponent and given several words to type, with the aim of typing these words before the opponent does.
The player is also able to play through the game in Baby Clyde Mode, where Baby Clyde replaces Clyde in all levels. In this mode, shorter and easier words will be selected in levels and boss fights, making it suitable for particularly young players. However, the player cannot earn Gold Stars in this mode.
== Story ==
The game begins with Clyde enjoying a spring's day outside his house in Scotland. All of a sudden, fire begins raining down from the sky as Fire Master appears, using his powers to cover Scotland in flames and trapping many innocent civilians in Fiery Cages. Clyde manages to narrowly escape to the south of England to avoid the worst of Fire Master's widespread attack but soon learns that people all over Great Britain have been affected by Fire Master. He then sets out to reclaim his home from Fire Master while saving all of his victims along the way.
Eventually, Clyde reaches Scotland once again where he sees that Fire Master has created a fiery fortress from Edinburgh Castle. Here, the game's final level takes place, requiring Clyde to type out words without making any mistakes in order to deflect Fire Master's attacks back at him. Once 10 words in a row have been successfully typed, Fire Master is defeated and the fire disappears from across Scotland. The people of Great Britain thank Clyde for his efforts in saving them from Fire Master.
== Characters ==
 		
Clyde 		Clyde is a proud and patriotic Scottish Yoshi. Having mostly retired from adventures, he spends most of his days relaxing at his countryside home on the outskirts of Edinburgh. That is until Fire Master makes an unexpected return, and he decides to put a stop to his nemesis's antics once and for all. He's actually friends with Mario and Luigi. He is the main playable character who works to rescue the people of Britain from Fire Master after they become trapped.
Baby Clyde 		A version of Clyde from the past. As a baby, Clyde was born in Reading, England, but went on vacation to Yoshi's Island where he became separated from his family and subsequently raised by the native Yoshis there. Baby Clyde is the game's secondary playable character, playable within Baby Clyde Mode. It's not really known how both Clyde and Baby Clyde are able to exist at the same time...
Fire Master		Fire Master is Clyde's enemy, a chaotic being made of pure fire whose only goal is to take over as much of the world as possible with his fiery wrath. Fire Master has evaded capture and tussled with Clyde many times before, though, after Clyde's final adventure, it was believed he had been defeated for good. Unfortunately, that was not the case, and he makes a triumphant return to cover all of Scotland in fire while trapping many of Great Britain's citizens in fiery cages.
Snow Master		Snow Master is the younger brother of Fire Master. Unlike his brother, Snow Master is a lot more relaxed and cool-headed. In the past, he served under his brother's rule and fought against Clyde, but he eventually changed his ways and became an ally to Clyde. He serves as the first Type-Off opponent, residing in London and wanting to test that Clyde's skills are still up to scratch before he goes to face Fire Master.
Banana Jr. 		Banana Jr. is the son of Banana King, one of Fire Master's allies. However, he's personally distanced himself from his father's evil ways and instead become friends with Clyde. He's a rather chill guy and serves as Clyde's second Type-Off opponent in Nottingham. Like Snow Master, he wants to test Clyde to make sure his typing skills are good enough to take down Fire Master and his underlings.
The Bomber 		The Bomber is a cruel and hyperactive henchman of Fire Master, created from fiery powers. Though he was defeated by Clyde once before in Bomb Land, Fire Master managed to bring him back during his attempt to take over Great Britain. Being essentially a walking explosive, The Bomber is highly volatile and prone to blowing up. This is his weakness in battle when he is faced in Birmingham, making his Type-Off match an endurance battle - all Clyde needs to do to win is continue typing until The Bomber explodes.
McBoo 		McBoo is a close friend of Clyde who becomes trapped by Fire Master's fiery wrath, eventually being brainwashed by him and forced to fight against Clyde in the fourth Type-Off of the game in Cardiff. McBoo used to work for the Koopa Troop under King Boo's army but decided to leave and instead have fun with his friends in his own mansion. After he is fought by Clyde in the Type-Off, he is freed from Fire Master's control and continues to support Clyde from the sidelines as he continues northwards.
Fire Sun 		Fire Sun is the son of Fire Master, being the evil overlord's most trusted underlings. Fire Sun has a very good relationship with his father, acting just as evil and wanting to follow in his footsteps (or rather, flame trails?) and one day become commander of his army. He serves as the opponent for the game's fifth Type-Off in Newcastle, guarding the outskirts of Fire Master's captured territory in Scotland.
== Worlds ==
Clyde Teaches Reading features 6 worlds with 8 levels in each. The 8th level of each world, indicated as underlined below, is a Type-Off level where the player faces off against an opponent with the objective of typing words more quickly than them.
No.	World Name 	Levels 	Type-Off Opponent
1 	South England	Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Bournemouth, Southampton, Reading, Brighton, London 	Snow Master
2 	East Midlands	Norwich, Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Ipswich, Peterborough, King's Lynn, Nottingham	Banana Jr.
3 	West Midlands	Worcester, Coventry, Leicester, Derby, Stoke-on-Trent, Shrewsbury, Sheffield, Birmingham 	The Bomber
4 	Wales 	Newport, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Wrexham, Carmarthen, Holyhead, Cardiff 	McBoo
5 	North England	Manchester, Leeds, Harrogate, Carlisle, York, Hull, Middlesbrough, Newcastle 	Fire Sun
6 	Scotland 	Dumfries, Falkirk, Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh 	Fire Master
== Gallery ==
File:Clyde Teaches Reading.png|Game Logo
File:CTR_Clyde.png|Clyde
File:CTR Baby Clyde.png|Baby Clyde
File:CTR_Fire Master.png|Fire Master
File:CTR_Snow Master.png|Snow Master
File:CTR_Banana Jr.png|Banana Jr.
File:CTR_The Bomber.png|The Bomber
File:CTR McBoo.png|McBoo
File:CTR Fire Sun.png|Fire Sun
== Trivia ==
*Despite the game's name, Clyde Teaches Reading is focused more on typing than reading. That being said, you need to be able to read to type, so technically the game is still helping young players to practice their reading ability.
*Clyde Teaches Reading was made as a challenge to create an original game on Fantendo in less than a day. This was successful, being completed in its entirety on May 27, 2022.
*Clyde Teaches Reading is the first edutainment game developed by Button Studios, also being the company's first foray into creating new games for pre-existing Fantendo original series, a trend that was inspired by Fissure (2022) and PalmMan: Cyber Dawn.
*The idea for Clyde Teaches Reading began as a joke in a Discord DM conversation between , and .
*Clyde Teaches Reading presents a drastic change of tone between other entries in the Clyde series, some of which are even M or 18-rated due to their violence. Clyde Teaches Reading, however, takes on a much more light-hearted tone and is aimed at young children.
*The game's name is a reference to , which is Clyde's canon place of birth. Reading is also a level in the first world of the game.
*The tables used in this page are a modified version of the Biohazard table template created by .
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