The Talos Principle

[Reach]

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Just beat the game. 23 stars, reached the top of the tower.

Fantastic game. Pretty sad to see it end, actually, though I can look forward to going back and finishing the remaining 7 stars + the 3 star world puzzles and whatever is on floor 6

Hardest puzzle in the game (so far) was definitely floor 5. God damn that puzzle mind fucked me. I had to restart it a couple of times. Got to what I thought was the end, realized there were more barriers, realized I was doing the entire puzzle wrong, saw the alternative solution, couldn't execute it...

Just not my best work. Definitely wasted a lot of time with that one. The record mechanic can allow for some ridiculously hard to picture in your head mechanics. I'm thankful they didn't get too crazy with it (had enough trouble with that 7 gate level in world C :P)

[YoshL]

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I'm gonna be streaming the talos principle at http://twitch.tv/djdai if anyone's interested

edit - i am in love with this game

[shenjoku]

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So, how 'bout that all sigils ending. That was quite something.

It was pretty dumb wth. All that work for very little reward. Oh wells, still love this game <3

[Hakulyte]

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Hey guys, I found this in World 1 Chamber 4, what do I do with it? welp

[FoJaR]

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looks expensive

[Reach]

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So, how 'bout that all sigils ending. That was quite something.

It was pretty dumb wth. All that work for very little reward. Oh wells, still love this game <3

Haven't had time to go and get all the stars yet

Shouldn't have checked the spoiler

But yeah, fantastic game regardless. Will probably replay it in the future for sure after my memory of the game has faded somewhat.

[shenjoku]

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Good luck getting all the stars, man. I gave up on some of them and once I saw the solution I felt so cheated. Some of them are such bullshit.

Have you found many of the easter eggs? There is an insane amount of hidden content in this game, it's amazing. I only found a few on my own and looked up videos of all the others and they are really impressive. Definitely worth looking up just to see everything.

[Reach]

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50% off on steam for those that were waiting for a sale!!

Amazing game, definitely worth it.

[VisD]

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Just finished this, it was awesome. It's probably best to go through the eternal life ending and floor 6 (all stars and sigils) ending before going for the main one, because that's the one that's really spectacular. A great end to a great story

The puzzles themselves were good, mostly, although after awhile they stopped having anything new to say. In that sense the game isn't as lean and polished as either of the Portal games, but if you enjoy playing through puzzles for the heck of it you won't mind one bit (I certainly didn't).

Also off the top of my head some of the best puzzles were definitely the star-level ones: Cobweb, Dumb Dumb Mine (lol), Nerve-Wrecker. Floor 4 gets special credit for being the puzzle to stump me the hardest. That one cheeky level out of all 130 got me for long enough to have to walk away from it for a couple of days, lol. In comparison to it Floor 5 was ez, although looking at the walkthroughs I didn't do it the intended way oops

tl;dr 8/10 for the puzzles, 9/10 for the mood, story and philosophy stuff, 10/10 as a whole package

[Reach]

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Did you use a guide?

I never ended up getting like 4 of the stars. A3 being one that I remember spending a lot of time on. I'm convinced it's something to do with the clock, but I can't see the star anywhere and I also can't find any codes or hints to help with the combination.

And I'm too damn stubborn to use a guide so I figure I'll just come back and do another playthrough in a few months and try again :P

I think I liked it more than Portal 2, mostly for length and puzzle difficulty. Portal 2 had cooler puzzles, but being a masochist, by the end of it I wanted more puzzles and more difficult puzzles.

Mind you, I had a blast with the editor in that game. Wanted to get into some Co-op puzzles but my girlfriend bailed on me and it never happened.

[VisD]

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Yeah, I had to use a guide to collect some of the stars, but not for any of the actual levels themselves. When I read the solution to some of them, I was like "wtf, I would never have gotten this on my own." I admire your patience lol

For A3, if you want a hint - yeah it's to do with the clock, the hint that you really want is right there in the area, but for some reason it doesn't work the way you're used to it working in-game...

I would have liked harder puzzles, definitely. I think they were really lenient in how they used the recorder, because that could have been used for much more cruel things than what we ever needed to deal with. Even the end-game recorder levels like "The Seven Chambers of Recording" and Floor5 were trivial, the one exception being Time Flies. I had more difficulty with many of the Portal 2 puzzles, but that's probably because those are more open-ended/divergent in nature, whereas Talos puzzles tended to be more convergent in nature. They were more about figuring out how to execute perfectly a general "clearly right" path, as opposed to thinking up a whole bunch of paths and then trying to deduce which path was the right one, as in P2.

[Reach]

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Oh, they definitely went easy with the recorder mechanic. They could have absolutely destroyed people. As it stood already there were one or two puzzles near the end with the recorder where I was like "That wasn't...THAT hard, but they could have mind fucked me into oblivion there if they made it any harder", so I'm guessing they probably had some harder stuff in there that ruined testers and they removed it. I could have seen it being quite frustrating if you included too many moves, at which point I think I would have had to get out pen and paper an plan the entire thing in advance.

P2 was amazing, just wish it had more content. At least it had more than P1. hah.

[VisD]

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They're coming up with a DLC full of extra-hard levels, which should be out within the next couple of months. Bring on the Twenty Doors of Recording

[Reach]

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The new DLC is out. Pick it up while it's on sale.

Started it this evening. So far it's tough. Finished all of the puzzles in the first world and got 1 star. Thought I had the one in the recorder level but screwed it up, so I'll go back to it.

The levels in world 2 are real hard.

Will definitely be playing more soon. So far, seems to be worth the $ if you're a fan of the game.



Edit: Yep, it's hard. Looks like there are 5 worlds, 24 puzzles, 16 star puzzles. Not a bad bang for your buck, given most of them are really hard. Just finished world 3, but only 3 stars so far (most of them are lmao). I'd say most of the main world puzzles are as hard as the star world puzzles in the original or harder. The stars themselves though are fucked up. Most of them seem as hard as the hardest star puzzles from the original or harder. I was pretty impressed with myself for figuring out the three solutions I've gotten so far.

[VisD]

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A lot of the stars will start to fall once you get the common "thematic idea" behind the paths to them. They look impossible now, but once you get the idea, they'll actually become really easy. I currently have just 3 more stars (1 in world 1, 1 from Crater in world 2, and 1 in world 3) and Haircut from world 2 to solve, before I go on to play the endgame/bonus star levels.

Haircut is killing me, definitely the hardest main puzzle of the 17. Have you tried to get the stars from Crater? I'd say they are hands down the hardest stars in the game - I only have the first, and even that felt a lot more appropriate for an endgame final puzzle than a random star one. Really fantastic solution, but so difficult to get at.