the Talos principle

[granpa]

if you like solving puzzles then I would recommend the game the Talos principle.

there are three buildings a, b, and c.
Each building leads to an underground where there are seven doors each of which leads to three or four puzzles (in one case 7 puzzles)
in addition there is a tower with seven levels.

I went through and solved all the puzzles but never even made it to level three of the tower.
When you solve all the puzzles you pass through a white door and the game just simply resets and you start over.

when I played it through the first time I assumed that the stars were just optional and were there for bragging rights.
Apparently I was wrong. Apparently to get to level 3 of the tower you do need the stars. now that I'm playing it again I'm seeing all kinds of things that I didn't see the first time through.

I could say more but I'm sure you would rather figure it out yourself.

 

[granpa]

I suspect that the "tower" will turn out to be a very dangerous place.

 

[granpa]

well I played it through and read the walkthroughs on the internet and I must say I don't understand the endings.

There are three possible endings.
If you collect all the sigils and walk through the white door you simply start over and everything resets.

Another ending is to get up to the 5th floor and climb up the stairs. then you wake up from that false reality into what is evidently supposed to be the real world.

The hardest ending of all is to solve all the puzzles and collect all of the stars and unlock the 6th floor which is actually the basement but then you just become a sleeper. That doesn't seem like a very good ending to me.

I'm a little disappointed. I really thought that the Tower of death was going to turn out to be the Great Pyramid and that the tower itself was just part of the world that we were supposed to explore.

Frankly it's like a bad movie with a politically correct ending tacked on.

 

[granpa]

and trying to talk to the computer seems to be a complete waste of time. The computer is extremely unhelpful.

 

[granpa]

also no matter how hard you try you won't be able to collect all 30 stars. Some of the stars require finding hidden objects.
a few of which are so completely hidden that you cannot possibly find them. For example an invisible walkway from a bust to a statue on a floating island and a connector hidden inside a tree (A4 Push it Further) as well as one inside the Great Pyramid and one inside the Sphinx.

one requires the use of a real QR scanner which then produces the following text: THE EAGLE HAS LANDED 31 39 36 39 2f 30 37 2f 32 30 20 32 30 3a 31 38 Now is the time of tranquillity, and I shall rest and observe the Earth. -- Uriel4

Translating the jibberish from Hex to ASCII you get: 1969/07/20 20:18
then you have to find the 24 hidden buttons

A6 has a box hidden in the outer area where you wouldn't expect anything to be.

A1 Only the Two of Us (Green) there's a switch hidden behind some bushes in the area just outside of the puzzle

 

[granpa]

in various places around the game are glowing objects that when you step into them you hear someone's recording. there are 2 objects that look like recordings but are actually real. 1 is the can of paint and the other is an axe. The can of paint is as far as I can tell useless but the ax is essential.
actually there are two axes