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The Talos Principle therefore pretty clearly stakes out its territory from the very beginning of the game: there are no shortcuts or kludge solutions to be found within its puzzles, and it expects you to think about what youвЂ™re doing instead of just trying random combinations of stuff to brute-force it. It also teaches you that some of the usual cheats you might expect to be present donвЂ™t work вЂ“ you cannot, for example, deploy a jammer on one side of a forcefield, move to the other side while itвЂ™s disabled and then pick up the jammer again, as your robotic avatar will simply move back to the jammer side to (one assumes) avoid having their hands chopped off as the forcefield reactivates. The jammer has unlimited range and only requires you to have line of sight to the thing you are trying to jam, and itвЂ™s this idea that these early levels hammer into you over and over again: line-of-sight is an incredibly important concept in the maze-like puzzles of the Talos Principle. The jammer is the core part of these early levels: itвЂ™s a portable, targetable device that, when deployed, will disable any of the previous three mechanisms you point it at.

Forcefields block access to some part of the level (obviously), while sentry guns instantly kill you if you wander too close to them, and the floating mines do much the same except they move around on set patrol paths.

The puzzles start off as pretty simple tutorial-level fare demonstrating the most basic components of the game: forcefields, jammers, mines, sentry guns and pressure plates. The puzzles are almost completely walled off from the rest of the level, and thereвЂ™s usually a forcefield over the entrance that stops you from taking any of the items inside it into other nearby puzzles each puzzle is tackled as a standalone entity with everything you need to complete it inside the confines of the puzzle itself. The temple acts as the first hub area of the game with teleporter links to eight levels, each of which contains 3-5 different sigils and puzzles. The catch, of course, is that each sigil is locked behind a puzzle of some description. Elohim is in charge of the simulation, and after a few tutorial segments dressed up as вЂњcalibrationвЂќ he bids you enter his temple to find the sigils of his name and thus attain eternal life. If the Talos Principle were a lesser game itвЂ™d save the fact that you are an artificial entity and that the garden is a simulated construct for some shocking twist halfway through, but itвЂ™s admirably up-front about that from the get-go вЂ“ and anyway, starting from the beginning with that information poses far more interesting questions about what precisely youвЂ™re doing here.

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You awaken in the middle of a pleasant garden full of crumbling Greek architecture, and are immediately greeted by the booming, bodiless voice of Elohim, who pronounces himself your creator and god.

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So whatвЂ™s so great about the Talos Principle? ItвЂ™s a first-person puzzle game thatвЂ™s more in the vein of Portal than SpaceChem вЂ“ less open-ended, and arranged as a series of closed levels with relatively static solutions. This is why I call it exceptional, because quite aside from the quality of the game вЂ“ which is superb вЂ“ I literally could not put it down until IвЂ™d finished it. Hell, even the Witcher 3 required a few days of picking at it before I could fully get into it. Games usually donвЂ™t grab me like that any more. I bought it on Friday evening based largely on the strength of a recommendation in the comments here six or seven months ago (not to mention that 97% Positive rating on Steam), and now itвЂ™s Sunday afternoon and IвЂ™ve just completed it after mainlining it for eleven hours of my weekend.

Infinifactory was great, a worthy successor to SpaceChem, and fully deserving of the glowing review it received a only couple of weeks back, but itвЂ™s already been eclipsed in my mind by the Talos Principle. Yes, I get a little bit twitchy throwing around adjectives like вЂњexceptionalвЂќ two reviews in a row, but the Talos Principle fully deserves it. In which Croteam answer the question of what theyвЂ™ve been doing since Serious Sam 3 kinda bombed with one of the most exceptional puzzlers IвЂ™ve ever played.

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