The Turing Test

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This game is great. Steady difficultly climb with some quiet challenging puzzles at times and stellar music. As far as I can tell, there are zero or near-zero ways to ever soft lock yourself, and you can always restart the sector. The only complaint I have is in Chapter 5, Sector 34, where a new button is introduced, the backspace. However, the game only shows the icon of the backspace, and it has been years since I had a keyboard with the actual arrow, so I had to look up the solution to that puzzle only to find that I wasn't doing anything wrong; the Devs just hadn't spelled it out for my small brain.

In rund 6 Stunden ist man durch. Wenn man zuvor Entropy Center gespielt hat, kommen einem 80 Prozent der Rätsel sehr simpel vor. Die Story ist okay.

I thought i had written a review.... apparently not. POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD (you've been warned): So the story, at first seems light-hearted. That was naivete. There are various point that sound....let's just say, they sound very [spoiler]TαΙmυdιc[/spoiler]. In other words, most of what is either implied or explicitly stated later, is straight out of a certain [spoiler]Pr0τοcοΙ[/spoiler] book... Especially in Chapter 5 Section 47. The A.I. is trying to say, "well, you all agreed to it". And your m0r0nic main character said, "oops well i didn't know". Goes to show you how far from God these people are. If they were close to God, they'd know exactly what it meant to implant a certain something on your right hand. These morons damned themselves, and now they believe that they can save themselves by trying to reason with the AI...smh....lol That's like worshiping Lucifer the whole time, killing for him, and making sacrifices to him, then your life goes sideways, and completely fυcκεd, and then saying, "oops, I didn't know". In the Chapter and Section I mentioned: it's something that's already happened in places like Sweden, and they believe it's nothing and perfectly normal....sigh.... Anyway, the puzzles are sometimes real head-scratchers, but when you find the solution, it's satisfying. You feel quite lonely in the game. It's a constant battle to get out of the station, or other areas. All the while the A.i. either pretends like it doesn't kind you solving the "security" issues, or is actively trying to distract you by pretending like it wants to help you. You find information in some areas that gives you more of an idea of what happened to the others that were there. Voice acting is pretty good. Nothing bland or boring there. No game-breaking bugs. I don't believe i encountered any bugs really. if i think of anything else I'll label it as an edit.

Zur Story: Interessante Plot-Idee. Die Side-Notes die man findet sind teilweise sehr interessant, mir ist aber T.O.M. zu eindimensional. Ich hätte mir mehr philosophische Diskussionen zwischen Ava und TOM gewünscht, an einem Punkt ist der Konflikt einfach stehen geblieben und hat sich ständig wiederholt. Zu den Rätseln: Die Rätsel sind nach meinem Geschmack viel zu einfach. Bin die meiste Zeit nur durchgerannt. Was wohl daran liegt, dass es nicht mehrere Ansätze gibt ein Rätsel zu lösen, den Weg den man überhaupt nur gehen kann ist dann auch schon richtig. Es werden immer wieder neue Mechaniken eingeführt, man wartet aber vergebens auf den Moment in denen diese zu knackigen Kopfnüssen, wie in Portal 2 zum Beispiel, kombiniert werden. Also Portal 2 und The Talos Principle sind da um einiges schwerer und letzteres philosophisch auch tiefgründiger und vielschichtiger.

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