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Talos principle tower 212/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Without anything else to do, the player completes the puzzles and moves through the myriad worlds. The player materializes in the midst of picturesque Greek ruins and is told by a booming, bodiless voice calling itself EL0HIM that they are a child who must complete the puzzles to gain eternal life. Like Portal, the Talos Principle weaves in between its puzzles a narrative. That’s not really what elevates this game to its stratospheric heights, however. All in all, mechanically the game is competent to a fault, a seamlessly entertaining and finely tuned experience that speaks of game design par excellence. While there are fail states that arise from obstacles like mines and turrets that obliterate you when you’re not careful, these rarely cause undue frustration, although the penalty for failure is somewhat dire – you restart the entire puzzle again. The game is pretty enough that a legitimate player activity is to wander around the set-pieces and take in the sights while listening to the surprisingly good background music. ![]() The puzzles primarily take place in three different environmental themes – Greek, Egyptian, and Middle Ages Europe, providing a picturesque visual backdrop for the player to appreciate in between puzzles. ![]() What The Talos Principle lacks in innovation akin to Portal’s portals, it makes up for it with the large variety of mechanics at its disposal, creative bonus puzzles, and a finely calibrated difficulty curve that ramps up the challenge in a sustainable manner that is only very rarely frustrating. In the style of Portal, the player manipulates tools like signal jammers, portable beam splitters, and crates to manipulate their environment to unlock the path to obtaining items called sigils, which, when collected, allow progress to higher levels. The Talos Principle is one of the best puzzle games I have ever played. It isn’t often that I have the pleasure of playing a game this brilliant. ![]()
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