When comparing LEGO® Star Wars™: TCS vs The Talos Principle, the Slant community recommends The Talos Principle for most people. In the question“What are the best story driven games on Xbox One?” The Talos Principle is ranked 20th while LEGO® Star Wars™: TCS is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose The Talos Principle is:
The puzzles in the game are great, but they're tied together with a thought provoking story line filled with mystery and intrigue. A story about a robot with human consciousness who is being guided by a disembodied voice, are they to be trusted? As the story progresses the player is drip fed clues which can lead them closer to the truth.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Nvidia Shield controller support
LEGO® Star Wars™: TCS has controller support for the Nvidia Shield tablet.
Pro No in app purchases
There are zero in app purchases in LEGO® Star Wars™: TCS, which keeps the trend of the LEGO games being child friendly.
Pro Huge amount of playable characters
There are over 120 different playable character that the player can unlock throughout the game to play with in game. This also gives the game quite a bit of replayability for those that want to collect all of the characters available.
Pro Great storyline
The puzzles in the game are great, but they're tied together with a thought provoking story line filled with mystery and intrigue. A story about a robot with human consciousness who is being guided by a disembodied voice, are they to be trusted? As the story progresses the player is drip fed clues which can lead them closer to the truth.
Pro Lots of side content
Many Easter eggs and more difficult puzzles as well as an ending in many parts of the game, as well as hidden lore.
Pro Difficulty ramp-up
Starts out easy enough, but gets to some truly difficult puzzles by the end. If you get stuck on a puzzle you can skip it and come back to it later.
Pro Rewards exploration and out-of-the-box thinking
It's hard to explain this without spoiling anything, but there are lots of "aha!" moments you will encounter on the areas if you get invested into the story, making the game deeper.
Pro Great original soundtrack
The soundtrack is very pleasant to listen to and fits perfectly with all the areas and themes present in the game. It varies from calm music, for those heavenly areas where you are solving puzzles, to more misterious and epic pieces for moments when things get... real. It's good to have some nice music playing while your brain is melting from solving the puzzles, or just appreciating the scenery.
Cons
Con Limited amount of devices the game will run on
Warner Bros. International Enterprises has limited the amount of devices that the game can run on, most likely to ensure that the game will run at an acceptable level.
Con Uses a lot of RAM
Being that this is a port of a console game, there can be quite a bit of lag as most Android devices do not have enough GPU RAM to play the game smoothly.
Con Working with the level editor is difficult (no documentation)
There is not much documentation for the level editor in the game, as the creators primarily use it for themselves. There are of course many hotkeys you could accidentally press as well.
Con Obtuse puzzles, especially with optional content
Mediocre game design all around. Many puzzles are ordered badly or redundant and could have been combined or removed to smoothen the experience, as well as occasionally not exercising the bounds of certain elements (like ranged pickup). The game's optional content is even more worrisome as it often leads you to play hidden object games to look in hundreds of corners instead of using more difficult puzzles. One particularly egregious example is when you have to interpret a message in a very specific way after using a decryption algorithm you may not know about into another questionable input system.