The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam series, and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (Infinite Ocean). Players are tasked with solving a series of increasingly difficult series of complex puzzles woven into a metaphysical parable about intelligence.

• • Platforms:
  PC PS4
• Developer: Croteam
• Publisher:Devolver Digital
• Release: December 11, 2014

What does it mean to be sentient? It’s a favorite philosophical question with as many different answers as people trying to answer it. The Talos Principle takes its turn figuring out at one of the great mysteries of life by pitting a newly-minted AI construct in an artificial world against a series of puzzles set forth by its creator, interspersed with e-mails, notes, and snippets of corrupted data found at computer terminals throughout the worlds. Something isn’t quite right in Elohim’s peaceful puzzle gardens, and to find out what it is you’ll need to aggravate your creator by wandering off the path he’s set before you. Not completely away from his tasks, though, because while Elohim may not be completely trustworthy, he’s really good at making clever, devious puzzles for you to solve.

) Using their numbered voting cards, each player votes for the person who best fits the description. Also, don't play this with any friends who are easily offended. Looking for a new and innovative way to drink with your friends? Then everyone who got a vote has to guess who submitted it, and if they're right, that person has to fess up.Intended Audience: This one is best suited for adults; some of the cards are pretty inappropriate. And 'Who would lose an election because of something they did in high school?'

The gameplay of The Talos Principle is centered on endless puzzles set in the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations. Or at least they look like crumbling ruins, but regular glitching never lets you forget the artificial nature of the world and that maybe it’s not held together quite so well as its master would like you to think. Still, you’ll need to solve the little puzzles to figure out the big mystery, and this is done with a number of tools ranging from jammers, crystals, time-warping consoles, pressure plates, fans, and of course the ever-present crates. It’s all played from a first-person perspective, and your robotic body zips along at a pace more appropriate for a Quake-style deathmatch than a leisurely bout of puzzling. It takes a bit of getting used to but, seeing as the environments are almost as large as they are pretty, you come to appreciate the speed fairly quickly.

After a few basic learning puzzles, The Talos Principle gets down to business and starts requiring serious brain power. Use the jammer to open the blue electro-gate so you can get the crystal rod behind it that you can then use to connect a red beam of light from the emitter to the lock on another gate nearby. Get the block behind that gate, put it on top of the fan, use the crystal to link up to the emitter again but don’t connect it to anything else, put it on top of the box on the fan, and then use the second box on top of the pressure plate to activate the fan to blow the crystal high into the air so it can be seen from elsewhere in the level. But not everywhere else in the level because that would be too easy, and you wouldn’t want to be able to finally find another crystal rod and be able to use it to grab the red beam from the airborne crystal and just open any door at all without any effort, would you? The Talos Principle is equal parts logic and trial-and-error, devising a plan and then working the bugs out, but when you put all an area’s pieces together and complete the solution it almost always comes with a clever feeling of accomplishment.

It’s nowhere near as simple as all that, though, because why stop with a series of self-contained puzzles when they can link together in unexpected ways? There are three main areas in The Talos Principle (with a fourth tower that’s off limits, don’t go there, no really, Elohim means it) that act as hub worlds to smaller collections of individual puzzle areas. Each smaller area is, in practice if not geography, an island containing three to five puzzle areas that reward a sigil on completion. Each island has a computer near its spawn point with some texts that further explain the world, and signposts helpfully pointing the direction to the various puzzles. The puzzle sections are self-contained areas bound by walls, carefully designed so that the solution flows in a specific way and no external influences from elsewhere on the island can interfere. Unless they’re supposed to, of course, because each island may have a star or two that tends to be very tricky to unlock, and frequently requires figuring out how to shoot a beam of light across the walls and over the island to another section hundreds of feet away. Figuring out how to free the stars is incredibly satisfying when it involves linking up multiple areas, but not so great for the times it turns into a scavenger hunt across the island for the one tool necessary to weigh down a pressure plate.

Once you’ve got a star it turns into a special sigil, similar to the ones you’ve been gathering as the reward for each completed section. Sigils are tetronimoes, Tetris pieces that are used to unlock new tools and areas. Gather enough of the right kind and you’ll need to enter them into a rectangular grid, jigsaw puzzle style, turning and reorganizing them until they all fit in place. The flow of The Talos Principle then becomes 1) Solve puzzle, 2) Get piece of key to unlock another puzzle, 3) get the occasional verbal pat on the head from Elohim about how impressed he is with your cleverness. In the meantime, the QR code graffiti on the walls shows you’re not the first AI to come this way, and the information from the PC terminals is making it clear that something went horribly wrong in the real world.

Closing Comments:

Getting to the truth may not be an easy task, and involves sifting through a good amount of Philosophy 101 ramblings on the nature of sentience with heavy religious overtones thrown in for good measure, but extracting a solution from every puzzle and challenge along the way is fantastically satisfying. The large, beautiful worlds of The Talos Principle are filled with lovely ruins and pretty weather effects, making the time you’ll spend ramming your head against its stone walls and locked energy-doors a pleasantly relaxing experience despite its many periods of momentary frustration. One problem leads effortlessly into another and the reward for being clever is a requirement to up your game for the next area, which is exactly how a good puzzle game should be. The Talos Principle expects you to be smart and knows you’ve got the brain to figure it out, and the reward for it being right is the a sense of satisfaction at solving something properly tricky.

Version Reviewed: PC

The guide to The Talos Principle will help you easily complete the game. It will guide you through every level of the game and will help you in solving all puzzles. You won't need to worry about any puzzles. The solution to every single one of them can be found in this walkthrough. Here you will find detailed advices about items and their practical use. Thanks to this guide, you won't get lost in game world. You will find how to speed up the process of solving the puzzles. Thanks to general hints, you won't be wasting your time on learning the basic rules that makes the playing easier. The Talos Principle is a logical game that consists of few worlds. It is a game created by Croteam studios, known for Serious Sam series. The player can choose the order in which he will solve the puzzles, but to get further a specific amount of sigils or other elements found in the game is required. If you like the Portal series, this game is for you. You will spend a lots of interesting moments with this game. Hours of strenuous mental work while solving the puzzles created by the developers awaits you. If you like challenges, there is no doubt that you will find them in this game. To complete the game in 100%, you will be required to get to the top of your logical thinking. Since first moments, the game makes a good impression and doesn't bore you after first minutes. Have fun!

The guide for The Talos Principle contains:

• A detailed walkthrough of the game
• Solution to all the puzzles, location of the sigils and the stars
• Description of all the riddles
• Information about the items available in the game
• General hints that will make solving the puzzles faster
• All possible endings
• System requirements that will tell you whether the game will run on your computer.

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About The Talos Principle Game Guide

Author : Konrad 'Kondzio' Kucharski for gamepressure.com

Translator : Michal 'Czarny Wilk' Grygorcewicz Fruit ninja for pc.

last update : May 5, 2016

Guide contains : 80 pages, 435 images.

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The Talos Principle Video Game

• genre: Puzzle
• developer: Croteam
• publisher: Devolver Digital
• platform: PC, PS4

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game. The production allows the player to become a character whose mission is to solve over 120 puzzles prepared by the developer. The missions are very diverse and are based on different foundations. For instance, the player has to arrange Tetris-like tiles or use air blasts created by large windmills in order to move. In other missions he or she has to manage drones or set turrets.
The gameplay is full of numerous dangers and traps, and the level of difficulty increases with each system, providing the players with an appropriate challenge.
The game uses Serious Engine 4 technology. One of its improvements is the module using the method of scanning real locations and objects which are then reproduced in the game world.

• Croteam - Developer Website.
• Devolver Digital - Publisher Website.
• The Talos Principle - Official Website.

The Talos Principle PC version System Requirements

Recommended: Quad Core 3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce 470 GTX/Radeon HD 5850 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows 7 64-bit

Minimum: Dual Core 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce FX 8600/Radeon HD 3600 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows XP SP3