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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. 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.

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. The gameplay of The Talos Principle is centered on endless puzzles set in the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations. 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. 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.

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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. The sheer volume of text employed to argue philosophical points is impressive.What does it mean to be sentient? It’s a favorite philosophical question with as many different answers as people trying to answer it. Still, there are options to appease or ignore the program altogether, which presumably lead down different narrative paths. It seems to have a clever retort to just about everything and the player does not get to really “fight back” until near the end. In the same way that a difficult puzzle would stump me for several minutes at a time, I would often carefully consider each question it would pose, and play out how it would react to each of the given responses. In truth, navigating the dialogue trees of discussion with the Milton Library Assistant can become exhausting after a while. It asks fundamental questions about consciousness, morality, purpose, and the like, and even when it seems like the answer is obvious, it will provide a counter example that brings new perspective to the discussion. Interacting with the Milton Library Assistant is easily the most interesting non-puzzle activity in The Talos Principle. Finally, there are QR codes painted on the walls of the puzzle rooms themselves, put there by entities who have passed through previously. Scattered about, there are audio recordings from a woman whose importance to the story becomes more apparent over time. The Milton Library Assistant is a program created to catalog all of that data, but it ends up with its own thoughts and ideas.

Not long after, the player finds computer terminals, which contain catalogs of old emails, websites, and other text that gives clues to the world’s history. Immediately upon waking, the player is greeted by an almighty voice in the sky calling himself Elohim, who gives commands and promises eternal life.

The unique thing about The Talos Principle‘s story is that it is delivered through about a half dozen different avenues.

In short, the story is about existing as an artificial intelligence in a strange, computer-generated world. Part of the reason I am so intent on seeing all there is to see is that the narrative is thought-provoking, but I feel like I am still missing some pieces of it.