After departing from their quiet hometown, they visit adorably diverse areas including a dense forest with a woodland hotel, a seaside town featuring both sunny beaches and stormswept coastline, a bustling city full of rushed business folk, and a snowy mountain peak, helping members of the community with their camera along the way. TOEM starts with smallness in premise: a young protagonist, equipped only with a camera given to them by their mother and a pair of clogs, is now old enough to journey through their little top-down, black-and-white world to see the sights, take photos, and finally witness TOEM's titular phenomenon: a spectacle described in the opening minutes with awe-struck vaguery. It's perfect for snuggling under a blanket on a quiet evening with a scented candle and a mug of cocoa to finish in one contented sitting. It's small in totality pristine, complete, and precise. But TOEM, a game about the joy of photography, is small in the way a snow-topped winter cabin is small, or a sleeping cat is small, or a plate of cube-shaped cheeses and nicely sliced meats is small. Verdict: 87%Ī heartfelt bundle of loveliness that will raise your spirits and warm your soul.It's one thing to call a game "small," maybe referring to its length or something about its quaint aesthetics. Some hats have specific uses, but mostly their sole purpose is to make you feel good and look even better.
Is there anything more exciting than getting a new hat? Obviously not, and Something We Made knows this, hence why there’s all sorts of delightful headgear to collect in TOEM. The dialogue is fleeting but fun, and the characters are beautifully drawn from just a few lines (in both the literary and graphical sense). It’s the very definition of wholesome, yet it’s not cloying in any way. But TOEM is a game that will stay with you long after it’s all over. Thankfully, there are a handful of well-hidden secrets to discover after the credits scroll off screen. A memorable holiday, one so perfect, so charming, so lovely that you never want it to end. Oh, I remember that fashion show! That balloon animal! It’s like a holiday. At the end of your trip – which will take around five hours if you dally to aid everyone you can along the way – the photos you’ve taken are displayed as the credits roll, and it’s like a trip down memory lane. It’s a wholesome twist on the hero’s journey, and an affecting one. Oh look, a yeti wants a photo of fluffy things.
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Grateful citizens award you with a stamp for your community card – acquire the requisite number of stamps and you’re granted a free bus ride to the next locale.
And there’s no conflict: your sole method of progression is by helping people in whatever way you can. But rather than a sword and shield, your only weapon is your trusty camera. A youngster leaves home on a quest – in this case, to venture up a mountain to find the mystical TOEM. For a seemingly simple black and white world, there’s so much to discover on every screen – each level a delicately created diorama. Is that an animal crawling around down there? Snap it to add to the compendium. Suddenly you can peer behind buildings and spot things that are obscured from the isometric world view. As you whip out your camera, the perspective of the world shifts. Sometimes you’ll receive a direction that’s obvious. But in TOEM you need to really look if you’re to solve any of the game’s charming puzzles.
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