2026-09-23 · essay
The Verb of Reflecting — A Puzzle Design Grammar From Portal 2 to The Talos Principle 2
Portal 2, The Talos Principle, and The Witness all fall under the same word, "reflect," yet the answer lives in completely different places. The cube and the connector hand the answer to an object; The Witness's symmetry doubles the player's own hand. I compare them as one verb-minimalism case study.
