The Talos Principle

First off, for anybody actually playing the game who may not know this: there a key you can use to speed time up (2x), it's especially useful for puzzles where you record yourself but also handy whenever you need to travel long distances. I never understood why that feature was hidden in the option menu... If you haven't bought the game yet, you should know is The Talos Principle is actually much more focused on exploration than actual reasoning. At first, you'll spend most of your thinking time trying to figure how things are supposed to work. Once you get that, most puzzles just require lots and lots of carrying "tools" around, trying to figure out where you need to go but very little actual thinking. As you progress, you'll run into some hard puzzles. They are few and almost all focused on how to bend or break the apparent rules you learned previously. Very "meta", I'll admit it fits nicely with the narrative and is rather cleverly done. It's just not at all what I was looking for... I like those "Ah, ha !" or "Eureka!" moments, but playing The Talos Principle, I had at most three of those versus a slew of "That's it?..." The fact that the game is 3D means that it's not always easy to tell wether something is impossible or just tricky. And since it encourages you to try to bend the rules, you can also spend quite some time trying to fidget things to work, especially on levels with connectors or drones! I also found it disappointing that you cannot save partially solved puzzles. This is especially annoying when, as you progress the game, you'll run into more and more situations where you either die or end up stuck and need to tackle the whole thing again from the start. Who thought it was a good idea to punish people for making mistakes in a puzzle game? TL;DR: if you like running around, carrying tools and trying to find hidden mechanisms, buy this game. If you enjoy clear cut puzzles where you need to think hard and long to find a rational solution... maby not.