That's especially true for the PlayStation 4 version of the game, which comes bundled with the Road to Gehenna expansion. The Road to Gehenna expansion offers some of the more challenging puzzles that the experience has to offer, and is reserved more for those that played and mastered the main game. Issues aside, The Talos Principle certainly has no shortage of puzzles, as stated earlier.
While the game's unmistakable level of polish makes issues like these virtually a non-factor compared to lesser games in the genre, when it does happen, it's extremely disheartening. When that happens due to death, it's understandable, but there was one time when, near the end of a very lengthy puzzle, an important cube somehow got stuck on a high ledge, making it impossible to complete without resetting the entire puzzle. These little conversations are a highlight of The Talos Principle's storytelling, and the questions posed truly get the mind working.Īnother issue with the puzzles is that some of the longer ones are far more frustrating than they are fun, with one wrong move forcing players back to the start. Besides reading files on the computer, the player is able to converse with it, and it takes the player to task on a variety of subjects, from philosophy and morality. In the meantime, chatting with the computer is amusing, and it's where a great deal of The Talos Principle's philosophical elements comes into play. Virtually every level has a new batch of files to sift through, and not all of them are interesting more than a few are too long, and some aren't even important to the overall plot.
This kind of storytelling is effective for atmosphere, but there are far too many files to read. These files range from excerpts of Greek literature to personal diaries of important characters that help shape the narrative. The story in The Talos Principle is told through a few scenes but mainly through reading files and interacting with the computers that can be found in each level.
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