{"id":4531,"date":"2025-12-05T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:11:15","slug":"video-game-toem-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/video-game-toem-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Toem (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/58\/Toem_game_cover_art.jpg\/250px-Toem_game_cover_art.jpg\" alt=\"Toem\" width=\"250\" height=\"334\" \/>Toem<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2021<br \/>Rating: E<br \/>Time Played: 273 minutes \/ 4.55 hours<\/p>\n<p>As someone who enjoys <a href=\"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/\">photography<\/a> and video games, <em>Toem<\/em> was the right fit for me. A game where you go around taking photographs for people scratched that itch by making the photography like a fetch quest\u2014providing goals to meet with each picture. The aesthetic in <em>Toem<\/em> is charming and cozy, and the choice to be almost entirely in black-and-white was interesting but understandable (as black-and-white photography is still a thing). And while there were a few control issues I had problems with, the game was just long enough for me to be entertained and accomplish most of the missions.<\/p>\n<p>My only issue with <em>Toem<\/em> is the controls for the camera itself. Seeing as this is the core element of the gameplay, it was frustrating to encounter it every time I took a picture. Mostly, I found zooming in\/out to be cumbersome as there wasn\u2019t just a button to zoom in or out but instead needed the mouse to slide the zoom setting\u2014the same mouse that is used to point the camera. I played this game on my PC, so I wonder if some of these issues would be resolved if I just connected a controller and played that way.<\/p>\n<p>Most missions felt fairly straightforward, with only a few stumping me enough to just give up on them. Each little hint with each request usually gave me a brief \u201caha moment\u201d before I headed off to complete the mission\u2014some of which required multiple steps to complete. Fortunately, you don\u2019t need to complete every mission in a level to summon the bus to move on to the next one. With a handful of levels, I appreciated that there weren\u2019t too many \u201cbacktracking\u201d missions that required photographs from other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>A cozy photography game, I give <em>Toem<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ToemYear: 2021Rating: ETime Played: 273 minutes \/ 4.55 hours As someone who enjoys photography and video games, Toem was the right fit for me. A game where you go around taking photographs for people scratched that itch by making the photography like a fetch quest\u2014providing goals to meet with each picture. The aesthetic in Toem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1900],"tags":[2715,4343,184,1714,4146,4344,4274,4272,182,8,4342,906],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-video-game","tag-2715","tag-a-photography-adventure","tag-adventure","tag-black-and-white","tag-cozy","tag-fetch-quest","tag-find","tag-finding","tag-photography","tag-review","tag-toem","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}