Because disobedience is what being human is all about, apparently. In order to be proven worthy of being uploaded to the single robot body that humankind managed to build before dying out, your final act must be to defy ELOHIM and his offer of eternal life and instead climb all the way to the top of the tower while solving yet more puzzles. This presumably is also why the simulation is loaded with archives containing all kinds of seemingly random crap.ĮLOHIM is the AI in charge of the simulation. The simulation has the strange religious tones since religion was important to humans, and a background of gregorian chants and a booming voice of God giving you faint praise will somehow enlighten the AI. It’s not at all clear why solving spatial logic puzzles is supposed to be a good way to achieve that. The game does not represent reality instead it represents a simulation where prospective AIs for the robot are created / trained / evolved / weeded out (it’s not quite clear how that bit works). In a last-ditch effort to leave something behind, they launched a project to build a robot that understands humanity.
Humans were destroyed by some kind of an uncurable but slow-moving plague. How the fuck did garbage like that make it into the game? The only way to open up the secret door to the start is by connecting an invisible light source to an invisible light receptor. Like one that where the star is completely hidden, with no hints to its location.
So I picked a few random worlds in order to puzzle these out. Because really, exploration in this game is pretty miserable.
THE TALOS PRINCIPLE STAR LOCATION HOW TO
The problem? I don’t want to hunt for the star locations, just figure out how to get the stars given the location. I kind of want to go back and do the remaining stars (I got about 15). The worst puzzles were the ones using the record + replay mechanism, they always involved lots of waiting around so that you could make sure the different executions could be synced up properly. The star puzzles of course were another thing entirely, and the way they required subverting the “rules” were absolutely delightful. Also the reliable pace it makes for nice bite-sized gaming sessions, where you actually achieve something. When you don’t and end up brute-forcing it, at least there’s no frustration of being stuck for too long. When you figure out the solution properly, you feel smart. I think the normal puzzles stay pretty straightforward all the way to the end, the solution space tends to be constrained enough that even when you don’t really understand what the final solution is going to be, there’s clearly just one or two possible next steps. And I don’t remember a time when a game made me feel so uncomfortable as the hyper-religious themes of Talos Principle did. But I got surprisingly invested in finding out the next bit of backstory. Incredibly boring and ultimately a waste of time, there didn’t seem to be any payoff for the time wasted in those menus. That should be good for chuckles.įinished the game with the normal ending last weekend, but could not have cared any less for the computer conversations. I also want to try going through Elohim’s gate. Pretty sure I got a good ending - but not sure how much that is dependent on those conversations.Īfter finishing I restored to an earlier checkpoint, and I’m using a walkthrough to get all the stars (I only found enough during my normal play to unlock one of the three gates) so I can do all those gated sections. I think I did okay with the computer conversations - when it came down to it I gave up trying to convince it I had a good argument about anything and knew anything about what I was talking about but had the opportunity to point out that neither did the computer. Quite enjoyed The Ball, Antichamber, and Q.U.B.E.
Kind of a really good puzzle game although I’ve a weakness for the genre. With all the most anticipated holiday releases sitting on my computer, I ended up playing this all week instead. Here's the jammer, and the other one's around the corner! Now you just need to get that jammer over to the star, using the tools you've learned.How did your conversations with the computer go? I kinda pissed mine off and got the bad ending there…
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