I'm disappointed with this game. The first Talos was a brilliant and challenging puzzle game, the story and philosophical ponderings was decoration. You could have stripped all that out entirely and still had a fantastic core game. Talos 2 is the inverse of that, if it was stripped of everything but the puzzles, you'd have a very short and mediocre game. The story and banal philosophizing in Talos 2 overpowers everything and makes the game a chore. There is so much walking and talking, it never stops. The long periods of walking are purely contrived as a space for the talking. You spend more time walking around and listening to droning than in the puzzles. If you're not buying into the dichotomy presented by the game then it all comes across as painfully tedious. I felt like screaming at the game to shut up and let me solve puzzles. It's very telling that the 'skip' functions of the game save you no time at all. The puzzles themselves have some cute extra twists but generally aren't nearly as clever or challenging as the first game, in fact nearly all of them are trivial and follow the same tricks. It's variations of the same puzzle over and over with a different gimmick. So many times in the first game I was completely stumped, and when I finally figured out the puzzle it was very rewarding. In Talos 2 many times it will take you longer to walk to the puzzle than it will to solve it. Maybe I've just become used to how the puzzles work? I'm still glad I played it and I can't say I didn't get my money's worth, but it I was expecting lot better.

The Talos Principle 2 é uma verdadeira obra de arte! Sem dúvida, um dos melhores jogos que já joguei na vida. Simplesmente não tem falhas, o jogo é impecável. A história é muito boa, me prendeu até o final, e a trilha sonora é fenomenal, complementando perfeitamente a atmosfera. O game design é absurdamente bom, e os visuais, especialmente os cenários, são impressionantes, um dos jogos mais lindos que eu já joguei! Evoluindo quase todos os aspectos do seu antecessor, que também é um dos meus jogos favoritos, The Talos Principle 2 superou minhas expectativas, que já eram muito altas. Eu adoro que neste jogo, ao contrário de muitos jogos de puzzle que são curtos demais, a sua duração é longa e repleta de um conteúdo excelente, o que me deixou ainda mais imerso nesse universo. Falando sobre o foco do jogo, os puzzles, posso dizer que o design deles está tão bom quanto o do primeiro jogo, se não estiver melhor, apesar de não ter uma grande evolução, o trabalho continua impecável. Antes eu achava o primeiro Talos Principle o jogo com o melhor puzzle design de todos os videogames, mas esse jogo, é provavelmente o melhor jogo de puzzle que eu já joguei na minha vida! Sua dificuldade varia, nenhum chega a ser extremamente difícil, porém, a maioria precisa pensar bastante para decifrar. E mesmo tendo alguns bem difíceis, a satisfação de resolvê-los é imediata!

Talos 2 is the expanding on the first one (in my eyes one of the greatest story about beign human) and with gameplay is way more fun, maybe a bit too easy (heavely reccomend the dlc). The first game poses a question "What is beign a human?" and the struggle humanity faces to go thru life. This game ask "How can we build a society" and what is the purpose of living. I personally preferred the talos 1 more but still this is one of the most beautiful (graphic is astonishing) and fun puzzle game ever made.