“Have you heard of portals? What about copyright infringement?”
Devolver have released a Let’s Play for robo-philosophical puzzlerThe Talos Principle 2in which the Let’s Player is GLaDOS, nemesis of Valve’sPortalgames, with whichThe Talos Principlehas a few things in common. They’ve brought on original Portal voice actress Ellen McClain to narrate the footage, and the result is genuinely quite funny. As you’d expect, GlaDOS isn’t that impressed by Croteam’s work. I score this a 7/10 on the Hoot And/Or Holler scale.
The Talos Principle 2 is out now, and isgoing down very well on Steam. Katharine is handling our review. I asked for her impressions earlier and received in response a series of electric fizzing noises and mention of “existential angst”, though I think there might be some crosstalk there with our internal discussions ofModern Warfare 3.
I’d quite like to watch a series of GLaDOS Let’s Play videos. Perhaps they could remove a few of her Personality Cores to create different streamer personas. The Anger Core would be a good fit for aLeft 4 Deadseries (its inarticulate snarling was, in fact, reused for the latter’s zombies). The Intelligence Core could take on 4X games. TheCuriosityCore could play walking sims, while the tough guy Adventure Core could host interviews with alt-right Youtubers about how woke games are these days. Go on, Devolver, make it happen.
It seems fairly likely that The Talos Principle 2 will turn out to be one of ourbest puzzle games- the original game is eighth on the list. Our review will be with you soon.
