The Talos Principle

This was really a wonderful game. My early pick for the best game I played all year. I was so impressed by this small team’s ability to make a really amazing game. It had all the wonderful puzzle-craft of Portal, with a similar AI vibe, yet completely different. The beautiful landscapes was such a wonderful change from the cold, sterile, grey/brown environment of Portal. There was definitely something to having that aesthetic in the Portal games that was fundamental to the story, of course. And this was the same: the environments themselves, mixed with the found audio clips and text files, told the story of our world, our history, our biology, our philosophy, our culture, our obsessions and weakness and victories. I was playing this game at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak and finishing it during the initial (hopefully, final) social distancing / quarantines were going on globally. So, it really hit in a heavy way. I haven’t stopped thinking about the way that the people in the game talked with each other in their last moments. Their private emails, their plans with each other, their last thoughts about life and humanity. It made me think about my own mortality, which is certain, but what it meant to be alive and what it means to leave something important behind. That our shared heritage, knowledge, and culture will continue on through our writings, our books, our broadcasts that are still floating through space. Then, how fundamentally crucial it is for us to pass on a piece of ourselves through our children. I’ve thought about it as a metaphor for the creation of life and the stories of creation in the Christian, Egyptian and Greek traditions. It is a VERY deep, philosophical journey. This game wasn’t without some issues, though. The thing that Portal did so much better than this game is the details in the way the character interacts with the environments. The platforming elements were not that crisp. Portal had a way of making everything smooth, from jumping into and flying out of portals to exactly where you needed to stand to either die or not from the turrets.

Amazing game, 10/10 would recommand!

спасибо за русскую озвучку если бы другие части были озвучены на русский тоже бы купил

самая лучшая головоломка!!!

a beautiful mind enigma , akin to a supernatural phenomenon like NHS

A good 20 hours of puzzles that really had me wracking my brain. I wish I could forget them and do it all over again.

Классная игра с загадками и интересными рассуждениями на тему экзистенциализма.