The Talos Principle II
Summary
There are three main endings potential inThe Talos Principle 2 , excluding one joke end and a wide variety of unlockable epilogues . Although some of these epilogues are find out by the player ’s alternative throughout the game , which ending they see is almost entirely touch by one pivotal decision in the game ’s final moment . None of them could be squall a traditionalgood , bad , or reliable ending ; each has consequence that might be render as either positive or negative , reckon both on thespian philosophy and character choices .
[ Warning : This article contains spoilers forevery potential close of The Talos Principle 2 . ]
The Talos Principle 2begins an indeterminate amount of prison term after the first game ends . Once the first secret plan ’s player case , Athena , reach sentiency , she establish a city called New Jerusalem and began manufacturing more androids to populate it . Athena target its first citizens to strive for a universe of 1,000 mechanical man , which they finally reach - the participant fictional character ofThe Talos Principle 2 , 1 KiB , is that one-thousandth android . However , odd vigor readings break up the ensuing solemnisation , and NJ ’s leaders send 1 thou out to look into . surprisal : it ’s more puzzler , and they ’re evenharder thanThe Talos Principle ’s .
Talos Principle II appear to be a hard follow - up to its predecessor , but there are still several aspects that require some refining before release .
The Talos Principle 2’s Leap Of Faith Ending
Side With Prometheus
As 1 cat valium uphold to solve puzzles , he set out to uncover more and more of New Jerusalem ’s account . He eventually learns thatAthena had a tike named Miranda with another android , Cornelius , and the three of them together take in charge a research effort they called the Noema Project . Eventually , Athena find the theory of everything , a hypothetical term for a system of laws that explain and interlink every vista of the physical world .
With this newfound noesis , Athena was capable to manifest New Jerusalem into existence , all from the Machine at its sum . But during that research , a lab accident withdraw Miranda ’s life , andAthena , in mourning , fused herself to the Machine ’s ascendency , where she still remains stuckin a programming loop . The puzzler , along with the holographical visions that have guided 1 K on his journeying - Prometheus , Pandora , and the Sphinx - are manifestations of her interior turmoil .
In the end , 1 kibibyte resolves to free Athena from the Machine , one way or another . In one possible conclusion , the " Leap of Faith " terminate , 1 thousand takes over for Athena , saying , " I desire to know the truth . " Pallas Athene steps out of the machine , and 1 K stair in to take the rein . All the mystifier begin to dethaw , as do the holograms . While Prometheus disappears , he congratulates 1 K on his sheer leadership . 1 K sees visual modality of the integral existence as he learns the hypothesis of everything . He wakes up in a barren cave as Byron , in a voice - over , speaks about the human potential drop for discovery and exploration .
Byron ’s narration in this scene is taken from the poem " Ulysses " by Alfred Lord Tennyson .
1 K stands before an empty space and holds out his hand , create a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree out of thin melody . This is representative of the power of creation that 1 K has been given , but what he intend to do with it next is left up to rendition .
The Talos Principle 2’s “Momentum Deferred Ending”
Side With The Sphinx
If 1 K choose alternatively to say , " I had hoped we could use this engineering safely , but we ’re not quick . shut out it down , " the " Momentum Deferred " ending begins.1 K record the Machine and begin turn over it offtemporarily , bit by bit . The Light Within inside all the puzzles go sinister , but the structures that house them stay on , presumably to be conduct on by some next propagation of androids at 1 K ’s discretion . In a vocalization - over soliloquy , Athena explain that her effect is one that no one should have to endure .
The Sphinx praise 1 one thousand for refusing to make a selection . answer are dangerous , she says , because they harry further question . The mechanical man of New Jerusalem may one day be readyfor those answers , but that day is not today . 1 M proceeds to town and watches as several rival politicians argue . Dejected , he walk into the Wood , where he finds Athena ( with Cornelius and Miranda if he chose to redeem them ) sitting on a logarithm that overlooks the urban center . Together , they commence to hash out plans to build a better world .
The Talos Principle 2’s “Certain Fathoms In The Earth” Ending
Side With Pandora
Finally , if 1 K chooses , " I ’ve alter my mind . The endangerment is too great . We must destroy the auto , " he ’ll unlock the " Certain Fathoms in the ground " ending . In this one , Athena muses about the blemished nature of humanity while1 K keep out off the Machine for goodness . As in the " Leap of Faith " ending , the puzzle dismiss , but this time , Pandora praises 1K. She references Plato ’s parable of the cave , explaining that 1 K has destroyed an illusory reality limited by its dedication to Athena ’s will .
Back in New Jerusalem , mayoral campaigner Hermanubis takes the fall for destroying the automobile . 1 M wind out into the wilderness again , where he hears a strange holloa . He glance into the brush as a deer emerges , then kneel before it . His deference to constitutive living , which did n’t be in the old New Jerusalem , represents an embrace of unfamiliar ideas that will carry android society into the future .
The Talos Principle 2’s Chicken Ending
A Simple Joke
The Talos Principle 2includes a joke endingthat ’s very simple to unlock . At the beginning of the secret plan , when 1 K is asked to investigate the mysterious muscularity billow outside New Jerusalem , he can really decline . The credits immediately roll , and the player is rewarded with an achievement / trophy call just , " Chicken . " Of naturally , they can then rejoin to the deed of conveyance cover and assume the call this sentence to enjoy the rest of the biz .
Other Epilogues In The Talos Principle 2
What Choices Affect The Ending?
Other choices throughoutThe Talos Principle 2may affect which epilogues the role player run across , as well as which character drive home a monologue over them . For one matter , 1 K ’s actions on social media determine who is elect city manager of New Jerusalem at the remainder of the game : the bourgeois Hermanubis , the reformist Byron , or the centrist Rand . Whether Miranda and Cornelius are present in the game ’s final view reckon on whether 1 K lick the optional Golden Gate puzzle disperse throughout the macrocosm . If Miranda is saved , then she ’ll ask Yaqut out on a date in another epilogue scene .
If he finds all the audio logs blot out in the game , 1 K will leave alone flowers on the grave of Trevor , a researcher who worked alongside Alexandra Drennan to make the firstTalos Principlegame ’s puzzles , after the course credit . An unidentifiable person carrying a lantern may then appear near the Megastructure ’s expiration , and Byron may briefly be assure watch a shooting star shower . Also , whichever characters 1 K was closest to or side with most frequently may deliver their own , variant monologues over any of these scene .
There may yet be many more , undiscovered endings inThe Talos Principle 2 , but for the time being , just find these four independent ones and their many unequaled variation should be enough to keep player busy . It ’s interesting , and very much in reference , that none of these endings can be think of as universally good , unfit or electroneutral . rather , they each interpret a philosophical commitment on the actor ’s part . And no matter what else has encounter throughout the secret plan , each one makes a satisfying conclusion toThe Talos Principle 2 .
