Unless they’re extremely curious and love taking apart things to see how they work, younger kids will probably be bored by The Talos Principle. It will make your child think of deeper things, and may be a good conversation starter about morality and ingenuity. That's the best part of the game, it makes the player question their entire reasoning for completing the puzzles, or scaling the tower.Īll in all, the game is good wholesome fun and easy to play. I had to be tactful, because he is learning obedience, even though I wanted to scale the tower- because I sensed the voice is lying.or is it? This was confusing for my son, because his natural instinct was to obey the voice. The player can choose either to obey the voice, or disobey the voice and scale the tower. God being the voice instructing to pursue 'The True Path' without straying, and the devil (the subtle other character) swaying you to go up the tower (a location in the game which 'the voice' forbids you to climb). The entire thing is very similar to our version of God and the devil. Their are many hints that the world is artificial, and there is another subtle character which makes you question if what your doing is actually the right thing to do. This game is poses the player a serious question: What is reality? Throughout the game the players motives are questioned, and some things glitch out. He enjoyed watching me solve them and wanted to progress. I enjoyed playing it with my 5 year old son, who could solve some puzzles, but would mostly turn it over to me after trying a few times. The AI starts up in this beautifully rendered world, and is instructed by a big voice from the sky to 'Follow the path to righteousness and eternal life', by solving puzzles and collecting 'Keys' (To progress through the game). DLC sometimes feels like a nostalgic throwback to the Internet of 90s, I really enjoyed that aspect too.This game sets the player up as an extremely advanced humanoid AI. Music and visuals are calming and peaceful. Some optional puzzles are impossible to solve by yourself, but I don't think that should stop you from playing in our Internet age. There are only a few tools at your disposal, but the puzzle designers really got everything possible out of these few tools, in the ways I couldn't imagine. Oh, by the way, the puzzles are great too. However, the game lead me to some answers for myself. A lot of questions are raised here, with not many answers (what did you expect?). Often I don't have patience to read philosophical texts, but here it just works - you read a little, go solve a puzzle, and think about what you just read in the meantime. I don't know how they did this, but that existential lore seems to be perfectly curated and broken up into digestible chunks. It's just like in the real world - we run around doing chores / making money / achieving goals that have nothing to do with who we are or what our purpose is but that's just how our life is. At first glance, this seems like a weird combination, but it all starts to make sense and fit together after a while. In this game, you are running around solving puzzles and reading a lot of lore about existential philosophy. if either of the above is not true, you must avoid it (the game has a potential to trigger an existential crisis, and the gameplay is nothing but puzzles). if you ever had an existential crisis AND if you like puzzles, you absolutely must play it. There is a very simple way to determine whether you should play this game: Having said that, it's definitely not for everyone. This game is now one of my favorites (if not THE favorite).
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