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Tengami
In Tengami you explore a beautifully crafted pop-up book world, with an art style inspired by traditional Japanese arts and crafts. Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game, full of wonder and mystery, set in Japan of ancient dark fairy tales. Flip, fold, slide and pull parts of the world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
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Tengami Reviews
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Tengami is an arthouse game. It’s the kind of experience that, like Gone Home, people will dismiss for lacking action or having a narrative that doesn’t treat its players like idiots, but it’s also the kind of game that shows that the games industry is growing up and pushing the limits of what can be achieved given the freedom and resources to be properly creative.
At its best, Tengami is something you want to freeze-frame and hang on the wall. For a video game, that shouldn't be taken as a compliment.
Tengami is a masterfully designed game that delivers a level of quality that few other Wii U eShop games are able to match. It’s a wonderful audiovisual experience that assaults the senses, and one that’s enhanced further as a result of its intuitive user interface and touch control input. The painstaking effort that has gone into crafting such a unique, complex and beautiful art style inspired by pop-up books is staggering, and this feature alone makes Tengami a game that even the slightly curious should look into. It’s a short game, and while that may deliberately be the case in order to mak...
Tengami is a game that you need to experience. The lush environments, interesting gameplay and the clever uses of the pop-up book world deserve recognition. It is a short game, no doubt about that, but that grin on my face never faded for a moment. I could wish for the main character to walk faster, but I would miss the world that Nyamyam has built. I am happy that I didn't miss it and really hoping that many will feel the same.