Welcome to our review of TOHU, a point and click game available on many platforms and we played it on Google Stadia.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Adventure as a little girl. Explore vivid and atmospheric locations, meet intriguing characters, and solve elaborate puzzles – all on your quest to repair the Sacred Engine. As The Girl you are light and nimble, and so can reach areas of the world that others can’t.
Utilize the might of Cubus. At any time you can transform into The Girl’s mechanical friend, Cubus. Need something heavy lifting? Cubus has you covered. Solve intricately crafted puzzles. You’ll need your wits about you to solve TOHU’s unique and wacky conundrums.
TOHU is a very quirky little game that is both smart and challenging at the same time. I loved that part about the game, but I feel it might be on the harder side of the spectrum which may not open it up to all players? As is common with point and click games, Tohu is all about finding your way across the story and solve many puzzles.
Those are the source of the story and boy, they were complicated at times. To give you an example, at one point, I was to put together a broken mirror. The pieces scattered all over the place, so you move around and try to find them all. After finding them all and two other random things, I went back to put the mirror back together. This was no cakewalk as the puzzle was actually anything but easy. Not like it was tough as nails, but still surprisingly hard for the beginning of the game.
Once I finished putting it back together, I was to find a way to beat my mirror image. The mirror image of my second appearance, the mighty robot called Cubus. I had the chance to be more powerful by inhaling the air from three steps down. It did not work as I needed a glove to aid me in my quest. Once I got to the location of the glove, there was the owl protecting the glove. Having to find a way around it, I had my fair share of head-scratching ahead of me and that was pretty much the majority of the time I had with this game. Hard yet not impossible. Maybe too tough for the casual player?
Next up, how did it perform on Google Stadia? Well, it is a game with little movement, yet some fun graphics that are mostly static. So needless to say this game was performing very well. I had only 60 download during my gameplay and 20 upload. More than sufficient for a good experience! Near the end of my first hour of the game, I did have some minor pixelation issues which lasted around a minute but evened out afterward.
One unusual little thing though, I played the game on my PC with the mouse, just easier for this genre, but it kept insisting I connected my controller and when that went into battery save mode, I had trouble getting out of the game once I was done at the time. A rather weird experience.
