A short sweet game, well worth the money. The art is amazing (if you ignore some technical issues) and the story is pretty good as well (if you ignore some pseudo philosophy). This game is mostly about mood, so if that doesn't excite you then you should not buy it. I played it with a controller and yes, you should have a controller to play this game, it would be pretty annoying to use a keyboard and mouse. The game mechanics are pretty basic and controls are not as responsive or polished as I'd like, but for the purposes of this game that is a very minor issue.

I completed 100% the game just in 3 hours though I admit I checked online for some pointers to get all the upgrades and achievements, I did this after I got up to chapter 9 from where I started over from the beginning and completed it. the chapters are not long and there are only 12 of them. the last couple of chapters and the payoff are quite nice though. the plot of the story is a bit hard to follow at times but I enjoyed it. in conclusion for the sale price the game is definitely worth it.

Some games will cross your mind while playing Toren, like ICO, but hold your horses because this game has nothing to do with such title. Toren may look good in some screenshots, with nice colorful graphics, but the more you play it the worse it looks. Add to all that some visual problems like tearing and the feeling that you are playing a remaster of a Playstation 2 game. Toren is filled with bugs and technical issues, but I wouldn't mind that much if it wasn't for its problems regarding gameplay. Robotic animations that lead to frustrating platforming parts, a fighting system so lame I won't bother writing about it and some of the most tedious puzzles in a videogame. Ambitious, but not what I want from a videogame

After watching the trailer for this game I was excited to play it, but was soon let down. The story is boring and bland, the graphics look like playstation 2 era and the gameplay is clunky and unexciting. I beat the game in about 5 hours and was actually happy it ended so soon as I didn't want to play it anymore. Cutscenes were half of the game it felt like and they were boring, unskippable and dragged out scenes pointlessly (a character would finish talking and the cutscene would just stay showing the characters face for around 8 seconds for no reason). I think this may have been done to extend the claimed game time out. There is only about 3 hours of actual gameplay and that gameplay will have you play for about 30 second, hit you with a 30 second cutscene, let you play for another 45 seconds before another cutscene comes in). There isn't much good about Toren, but the environment was interesting and the sound was good.

Literally spent an hour for playing the game. Finished it from start to finish within that hour (with the fact that I took some time to understand the way it works). Story isn't that good to be honest and it's totally vague and uninspired. As for a game that costs $9.99, this is not worth your money. Wait for some improvements and try to get it for $2.5 - $5 or so.