Now it’s got a release date, September 17th, and a new trailer below. I am thoroughly onboard with games that borrow the aesthetics of Nintendo but which are bent in some new interactive direction. Toem has wrbl-wrbl voices, and wobbly onscreen text, and pipes you jump into, and tunnelling screen transitions, and a happy cast of oddballs to help. It looks light and charming and fun - and then, the photography adds its own flavour to things. It also sounds like it’s a todo-list game of the sort I was writing about last week. A game where everyone wants a favour - normally a photo of something - and you either know immediately where to go to take that photo, or you file it away as a thing to look out for on your travels. In either case, it’s relaxed and moreish and I bet I’ll be up late doing just-one-more-favour for a balloon. The demo Lauren played is still available now via Steam, and the game will launch there on September 17th as well as on the Epic Games Store.
