Honestly surpassed my expectations in most ways.
Graphics are some of the most impressive I've seen in a game to date (but it can be very demanding even for new hardware, especially with raytracing on), although it has a few technical hiccups here and there, I commend the team for quick work with resolving the majority of traversal stutters that were present in the demo.
The atmosphere of some of the locations in this game is insane, and I managed to fool a couple of friends with some of the photo mode screenshots that they were actually real vacation photos.

Puzzles feel a little too easy at times when compared to the first game, some of them really forced me to think outside the box, but it's a bit of a shame some worlds introduce new interesting mechanics that are completely discarded in the next, there are lots of great ideas that are not iterated upon properly. I managed to 100% the game with only two guide hints for some pesky Pandora's stars, so this game is much more straightforward to fully complete over TTP1 that involved a lot of equipment smuggling outside the levels. The overall puzzle design is a little bit of a hit or miss, I wish a good chunk of them were a little more complex, but there are still some real great headscratchers.

At first I felt the story was trying to be a little too much greenwashing propaganda, but over time it started introducing multiple moralistic points of view and felt similar to how Elohim is portrayed in the first game, I really have to commend the writing team for balancing out all kinds of opinions really well while still leaving a lot of agency to the player. This is one of very few games where I actually read all of the flavor text in the terminals and it genuinely entices me and encourages me to think about philosophical and moral themes a lot, that it slightly got me to a point of moral crisis at times, because the solutions to problems we face as a civilization are never just black or white. Slightly bummed we didn't get to see a little bit more aftermath after the ending, and the 'basic' one feels a little undercooked, but there are some nice extra scenes if you manage to finish all the golden puzzles that make it more satisfying.

This game is a very easy recommendation from me for anyone who likes first person puzzle games, liked the original, the philosophical and moral conundrums it gives you, and especially for the suspiciously low price in the age of normalized 70 EUR releases.

Honestly surpassed my expectations in most ways. Graphics are some of the most impressive I've seen in a game to date (but it can be very demanding even for new hardware, especially with raytracing on), although it has a few technical hiccups here and there, I commend the team for quick work with resolving the majority of traversal stutters that were present in the demo. The atmosphere of some of the locations in this game is insane, and I managed to fool a couple of friends with some of the photo mode screenshots that they were actually real vacation photos. Puzzles feel a little too easy at times when compared to the first game, some of them really forced me to think outside the box, but it's a bit of a shame some worlds introduce new interesting mechanics that are completely discarded in the next, there are lots of great ideas that are not iterated upon properly. I managed to 100% the game with only two guide hints for some pesky Pandora's stars, so this game is much more straightforward to fully complete over TTP1 that involved a lot of equipment smuggling outside the levels. The overall puzzle design is a little bit of a hit or miss, I wish a good chunk of them were a little more complex, but there are still some real great headscratchers. At first I felt the story was trying to be a little too much greenwashing propaganda, but over time it started introducing multiple moralistic points of view and felt similar to how Elohim is portrayed in the first game, I really have to commend the writing team for balancing out all kinds of opinions really well while still leaving a lot of agency to the player. This is one of very few games where I actually read all of the flavor text in the terminals and it genuinely entices me and encourages me to think about philosophical and moral themes a lot, that it slightly got me to a point of moral crisis at times, because the solutions to problems we face as a civilization are never just black or white. Slightly bummed we didn't get to see a little bit more aftermath after the ending, and the 'basic' one feels a little undercooked, but there are some nice extra scenes if you manage to finish all the golden puzzles that make it more satisfying. This game is a very easy recommendation from me for anyone who likes first person puzzle games, liked the original, the philosophical and moral conundrums it gives you, and especially for the suspiciously low price in the age of normalized 70 EUR releases.