There are of course attachments you can get for your camera, none nearly as fun as to play with than the horn (I’m sorry, I can’t get over scaring the seagulls and watching their faces contort in fear). Some of the solutions are to just take a picture and be about your merry way, where others require you to to take pictures and interact with other people/objects. You get a clue of something the local wants and have to go out and find it. I actually enjoyed the puzzle aspect of the quests regarding the camera. Take pictures to complete the quests, take pictures to earn trophies, take pictures to fill the empty picture frames in Nana’s house. This will be your main tool as you play through the game and it will help you with everything you do. So what about that camera?! Your trusty vintage camera with extra long zoom. It’s so much better to have something playing at all times so you may need to play DJ a few times to make sure that happens. You do forget that there is actual music in the game in these parts. The only thing I wish it did differently is that if you don’t choose the tapes to play, there can be moments of silence with no music at all. I appreciate that it remained background music and never really interrupted the game when it came on. Even playing a Fishing Song in the middle of a big city works out. The music will play automatically if you don’t want to change it yourself, but each number fits each area oddly well. The music in the game is provided to you through cassette tapes that you can collect along the way and pop into your Walkman (am I showing my age here? It’s the Tape Player you’ll use from you inventory). If you want to collect everything available, you can go in knowing that it won’t be too difficult to do so. Due to the map not being that large in each area and being pretty easy to navigate, completing the quests in each shouldn’t take that long at all.
Of course, the more you decide to complete, the more goodies and accessories you’ll get to customize your character with. The number required will always be less than the number available, so which ones you choose to complete will be up to you.
You need to complete small quests in order to earn yourself a bus pass before you can leave each area.
There’s no one exact path you need to take for it since there’s not an actual main questline to follow. There are no enemies to go up against, so put down your weapons and just focus on your camera. It’s not meant to stress you out and outside of a few trophies and achievements here and there, completing the game is far from a struggle. If the trailer and press kits of the game didn’t give it away, you can rest assured that TOEM is a very easy going game. Before playing this game, I had imagined that as the story went on, color would fill the world like similar artsy games of this manner, but when the game ended, I was happy that it didn’t go down that route and that the only color provided was the only color needed to provoke an emotional response at the end of your journey. For a game that provides very little color, they still somehow made you want to look at the artwork and the characters you pass by, almost inviting you to imagine what they would look like if you colored them in while somehow emphasizing the beauty in their grayscale existence. A darling adventure that will have you seeing the beauty and wonder in a black and white world.
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