• swordsmanluke@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Mechanically - both games are puzzle games in the same rough 3d-platform-puzzler vein as Portal. Instead of solving puzzles with teleportation however, you’ve got laser beams and force fields.

    On a more metaphysical level, the first game is a philosophical investigation of what it means to be human - to be alive and an individual.

    The sequel is a meditation on what makes societies succeed or die.

    Both games are fun, the puzzles are just hard enough to be interesting with a sprinkling of well-hidden secrets. But the real reason to play The Talos Principle is if you’ve got an interest in philosophy - the storylines are deeply interested in asking some very big questions. … and they don’t provide answers either - the game poses questions and allows you to answer as you see fit.