{"id":20943,"date":"2021-02-17T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20943"},"modified":"2021-02-18T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T01:40:21","slug":"tohu-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/tohu-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"TOHU (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TOHU is a point and click adventure with beautiful hand-drawn graphics.\u00a0 In the game, you play as a young girl who lives on one of several \u2018fish islands.\u2019\u00a0 These are giant fish that float in the sky and have buildings and stuff on their backs.\u00a0 Your girl character has the ability to change into a big, strong robot, which you\u2019ll use when you need to lift heavy objects.\u00a0 Change back to the girl when you need to climb obstacles or fit through small spaces.\u00a0 A hooded character has been breaking stuff on the islands, and now the girl must find out what’s going on and fix it.\u00a0 TOHU is available on most current game consoles, PC, and mobile devices, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The game does a good job of teaching you the controls, whether it be switching out characters, using items, or checking your inventory.\u00a0 Your cursor will also change when you go over objects so you know if you can pick them up, walk to them, climb up them, and more.\u00a0 You can also click on creatures and add them to a collection of card drawings for an extra challenge.\u00a0 Obviously the game\u2019s premise is strange, and that weirdness carries over to the gameplay as well, since what you must do to progress often defies logic.\u00a0 Luckily there is a hint system that you can use if you wish.<\/p>\n

To activate the hint system, you must open your menu and click on the hint tab and play a little mini-game where you must time your button presses to hit certain notches as a gauge goes back and forth.\u00a0 Luckily it\u2019s pretty easy to do.\u00a0 Then you get a little comic strip showing you the next few steps you must take to progress.\u00a0 Unfortunately, sometimes these pictures still aren\u2019t very helpful, and the fact that the puzzles do not adhere to any manner of logic doesn\u2019t help either.<\/p>\n

Here’s a couple of examples.\u00a0 To leave your fish planet, you must power a spaceship by clicking on bees and having them land on perches on your ship, so you can fly away.\u00a0 But the game doesn\u2019t tell you anything about that.\u00a0 Later on, to unlock a door, first you must collect fireflies in a jar, then put the jar on a flower like a lamp, which shines on some weeds that then shy away.\u00a0 Then you uncover some holes and must play a color pattern game to put moles in the holes.\u00a0 Then a machine will let you play a game where you must make a closed circuit out of vines, kind of like Pipe Dream.\u00a0 All that just to unlock a door!<\/p>\n

So yeah, if you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ll be using that hint system a lot.\u00a0 And speaking of that Pipe Dream puzzle, sometimes you must solve a Professor Layton-like problem like that one, or piecing together bits of broken glass like a jigsaw puzzle.\u00a0 But the game doesn\u2019t give you any hints for THOSE kinds of puzzles.\u00a0 I really like the art style of this game, and I\u2019m always up for a good point and click adventure.\u00a0 But constantly having to use the sketchy hint feature in this one made me lose interest quickly.\u00a0 There are certainly better point and click adventures out there.<\/p>\n

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TOHU is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Cartoon Violence.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice anything violent, but reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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