Immediately upon waking, the player is greeted by an almighty voice in the sky calling himself Elohim, who gives commands and promises eternal life. The unique thing about The Talos Principle‘s story is that it is delivered through about a half dozen different avenues. In short, the story is about existing as an artificial intelligence in a strange, computer-generated world. Part of the reason I am so intent on seeing all there is to see is that the narrative is thought-provoking, but I feel like I am still missing some pieces of it. I desperately want to see what is behind the third door and I know I would not be able to without the help of the community. The main Sigils can lead to one of two different endings, but the stars eventually lead to the sixth floor and presumably a third ending. It is a bit of a bummer, since both Sigils and stars act as keys to unlock new areas filled with new puzzles. After more than twenty hours of play time, I was able to obtain all of the main puzzle room Sigils, but I only managed to pick up a little more than half of the stars. Some are not found in the puzzle rooms at all. Some require the player to quite literally think outside the box, using elements from neighboring puzzle rooms together. Some require particularly efficient use of tools. These stars add an entire new level of difficulty to the puzzles. There are also optional stars scattered around the environment, some hidden from view and others out in plain sight but difficult to access. Each of the main Sigils is clearly designated and can be obtained with enough persistence and the right frame of mind, but it goes deeper than just those. The puzzles in The Talos Principle can be downright diabolical. Solving the toughest puzzles requires not only hard logic, but also the ability to consider everything that an object is capable of doing. Even the turrets and drones have uses in the right situations.
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A series of connectors can be arranged to create a recursive loop, activating and deactivating doors continuously. A hexahedron can act as a stepping stone over treacherous terrain. A jammer can weigh down a pressure plate while deactivating a device remotely. Later, connectors are used to manipulate lasers, hexahedra will weigh down pressure plates, fans can push objects, and more.Ī lot of the puzzles use these tools in a straightforward manner, but the best ones require the player to discover alternate functions. Initially, the main tool to deal with these obstacles is the jammer, which can shut down any electronic devices. These start out simple, with only a couple of tools available, but eventually become more complex and more devious.īarring access to the Sigils are energy barriers, automated turrets, and explosive drones. Most of these have the same basic goal: find a way to get to the Sigil (a colored tetromino) at the end of each of the small, discrete puzzle rooms. The meat of The Talos Principle is in the puzzles. Rig: AMD Phenom II X2 555 3.2 GHz, with 4GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5700, Windows 7 64-bit The Talos Principle (Linux, Mac, PC, PlayStation 4) The demand that the player really think is the thread that ties the whole game together. The real strength of the title is that while each could reasonably exist without the other, both elicit the above response in equal measure. The Talos Principle consists of two largely separate interactions: physics-based puzzles and philosophical discussion.
I can only imagine the puzzled look on my face as I considered options, ran scenarios in my head, and generally did a lot more thinking than most games ask of players. While playing The Talos Principle, much of my time was spent sitting at my desk, chin in hand, deep in thought.
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