The newest recreation within the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Precept 2, is getting fairly optimistic 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 performed, nevertheless, bringing on voice of malevolent AI GLaDOS and all-around voice appearing 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 activity for mimicking her sensible incandescent particle gates, cubes, portaling gadgets, and different such improvements. She additionally makes enjoyable of their robots for taking over 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 can be confronted with questions concerning the nature of the cosmos and the aim of civilization. The damaged promise of a greater tomorrow, the concern of repeating humankind’s errors, religion in motive 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 evaluate, 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 recreation.”
“The puzzles themselves really feel completely tuned for a squishy-brained creature comparable to myself. They’re small, self-contained challenges, each utilizing a handful of transferring elements, much like Portal’s check chambers, however with extra assorted puzzle items. Quite than counting on a single instrument like a portal gun, every chamber incorporates an assortment of gadgets to select up and transfer round. Some so simple as blocks to face on or maintain down buttons, however largely you will be redirecting color-coded lasers to matching receivers, bypassing force-fields, rerouting bounce-pads and extra,” he stated.
You could find The Talos Precept 2 on Epic and Steam, and by itself web site.