The newest sport within the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Precept 2, is getting fairly constructive reception. Developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital, the sport inevitably cribs some design logic and ideas from Portal and Portal 2, seeing as they’re in the identical style. Usually you’d simply acknowledge the giants on whose shoulders you are standing and transfer on. You would not rent them to make enjoyable of you.
That is simply what The Talos Precept 2 has achieved, nevertheless, bringing on voice of malevolent AI GLaDOS and all-around voice performing heroine Ellen McClain to roast them in a brief video referred to as GLaDOS Performs The Talos Precept 2, embedded above.
Within the little trailer GLaDOS takes Croteam to process for mimicking her sensible incandescent particle gates, cubes, portaling units, and different such improvements. She additionally makes enjoyable of their robots for taking up human kind, like cowards, and divulges a heretofore unknown fondness for cats.
Writer Devolver describes The Talos Precept 2 like this: “Born into a brand new world the place organic humanity is extinct however human tradition lives on in a metropolis of robots, you end up swept up in a mind-bending journey involving a mysterious megastructure hiding huge powers. The extra you uncover, the extra you’ll be confronted with questions in regards to the nature of the cosmos and the aim of civilization. The damaged promise of a greater tomorrow, the worry of repeating humankind’s errors, religion in purpose or renouncing humanity altogether – the alternatives you make and the edges you’re taking will decide the course of occasions.”
Reviewer Dominic Tarason actually, actually appreciated it within the PC Gamer The Talos Precept 2 overview, giving it an 89/100 and saying that it is “Not only a nice sequel, however a considerate and human narrative journey wrapped in a satisfying and exquisite puzzle sport.”
“The puzzles themselves really feel completely tuned for a squishy-brained creature comparable to myself. They’re small, self-contained challenges, every one utilizing a handful of shifting elements, much like Portal’s take a look at chambers, however with extra various puzzle items. Quite than counting on a single device like a portal gun, every chamber incorporates an assortment of units to select up and transfer round. Some so simple as blocks to face on or maintain down buttons, however principally you will be redirecting color-coded lasers to matching receivers, bypassing force-fields, rerouting bounce-pads and extra,” he mentioned.
You’ll find The Talos Precept 2 on Epic and Steam, and by itself web site.