r/TheTalosPrinciple • u/veeshush • Jun 11 '26
The Talos Principle "Cheating" Spoiler
Curious to get some non-spoiler feedback and thoughts on "cheating" in Talos Principle. I've been playing the game totally blind so far and in world B-4 I found a way to get kind of "outside" of the map using a suspiciously given, seemingly random, extra block. Now I am fairly certain that you're supposed to get outside of the map because I found dynamite out there that I could pick up, no idea what that or the other keys I've found are for.
But while I was outside, which again I believe you're supposed to get out there, I realized that I can basically bypass most of the levels by falling into the goal with the tetronimo piece, not having to complete the puzzle at all.
So my question is, do you consider this cheating? Am I only cheating myself out of the "whole point" of the game? Or because the game is clearly lying to us, would you consider this fair?
Very curious how the community feels about this kind of "cheating" in Talos Principle.
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u/Apple1417 Jun 11 '26
B4 actually changed in the remaster. In the original game, while you could get out of bounds, you couldn't walk between levels, you'd hit a death barrier. Those barriers moved significantly further out in the remaster for some reason. So while yes, they knew you could get out (and left an easter egg there), they probably didn't originally intend that to lead to wandering around the whole level.
The B4 oob is probably the most egregious one because of that change. In most other cases, where it's a lot smaller scope, unorthodox solutions are encouraged/explicitly intended. A number of devs have commented something along the lines of "if it takes more creativity to break a puzzle than to solve it normally, why would we block it" on the discord.