The Talos Principle By Croteam

“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.”(Ray Bradbury). This quotation from Bradbury in its given context allows us to explore a topic widely discussed today in which many are affected by its outcome. This topic is whether or not video games have benefit and furthermore if given they have benefits what are they and how do they relate to us. To analyze this, looking at a certain puzzle video game’s qualities and features brings a unique and satisfying rebuttal to the topic aforementioned. This video game is called The Talos Principle. The Talos Principle is a video game created by Croteam and was released in 2014. The Talos Principle is a unique first-person perspective puzzle/openworld

Although many video games in society have little to no benefit to the learning mind, The Talos Principle is not one because of its system thinking puzzles, it's Socratic method discussions, and finally, the underlying philosophy implicitly discussed throughout the game. According to Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels from the Radboud University Nijmegen in their article paper called, “The Benefits of Playing Video Games” in which they wrote a synopsis of several experiments on video games they were lead a the conclusive statement, “In summary, specific types of video games seem to enhance a suite of cognitive functions, some of which appear to generalize to real-world contexts.”(5). As experts in their fields and taken for truth we can build upon this statement to explore whether or not puzzle games are included in this “specific types of video games”, how if true games of this genre can benefit cognitive functions, and finally whether or not The Talos Principle has the necessary features to be included in those puzzle games. To answer the first two questions, we should look at two academic research papers about this topic. The first is a paper by Rolf A Nelson, Ian Strachan at Wheaton College, in these