Finicky controls can make the smallest tasks unnecessarily tedious
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Video games are complicated these days. There are so many facets to what gives any game its identity. There are games like Skyrim that have nearly infinite gameplay possibilities, focused on how you play with not much focus on the narrative arc. On the...
TO THE MOON When you think of Brazil, you think of beaches, huge parties, and skillful football players. Developer Swordtales is hoping to add “game design” to that list, with its first game Toren. You play as Moonchild, a young girl on a journey of...
It's either going through an identity crisis or in dire need of a chest with a boomerang in it, but for what it's worth, Toren is a strange and beautiful little adventure. Give it a look, but don't expect anything...
Toren is very rough-around-the-edges, but there is some charm during the few hours it lasts. The stylized aesthetic and narrative take the best parts from fables and mythology, giving them a poignant sense of presence.
Imagine Ico. Go on. What springs to mind? Yorda? Hand-holding? Rubbish combat? Probably all three. But floating around in there, no doubt, will be that image of the circular stairwell built into a grand, decaying tower. You know the one.Toren,...
Toren is a splendid game with superb art direction, style and presentation. It isn't without problems though. There are certain fidelity issues with the graphics where they are a bit rough, some world collision issues pop up on occasion, and the short...
Toren is a hard game to nail down. It has some platforming elements, especially in the way the camera defaults, but it never feels like a platformer, as its gameplay is very basic. The puzzles feel right at home in a platformer, but they're a bit simple...
Toren ha dalla sua una buona colonna sonora, un setting intrigante e alcune scelte di design gradevoli. Il resto non merita il vostro interesse: partendo da un comparto tecnico vecchio di almeno dieci anni, continuando con un gameplay del tutto privo di...
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