I really enjoyed this at the start, and it was surprisingly a long time before you got the ability to make two portals. Even with just one, some of the puzzles were really involved. Sadly, I feel like past Chapter 5, it follows similarly with Portal 2. Get sent into an abandoned area and make a new friend; have one terrible room where you do nothing but toss white gel everywhere (this seems even bigger than the one in P2); slowly get a few more complex puzzles up to ch7; introduce a new mechanic (pretty cool); and it only has easy puzzles, feeling like they need to do another sequel just to fully utilize it. Then you get to the final boss, and yeah, it is different than the others, but it is still just as repetitive. At least the dialogue here wasn't bad.

Is Portal Mel Stories worth playing, or are there any other mods? Most seem to have complaints about getting way too complicated too quickly or just annoying humour.

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2024


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4 months ago

Mel is just your average Portal mod. If you want more Portal, you play that. If you don't, you aren't missing out on anything major.
Mel's writing is definitely worse than Revolution's, though. And while they tackle a similar comcept (before Portal 2 something wants to awaken GLaDOS preemptively, shockers), Revolution prefers to stay in it's own niche while Mel tries to come up with crazier fanfic concepts while trying tie them in harder to canon. Mel is still worth playing if you have a Portal itch. The puzzles themselves are fine.
I am a weirdo who likes Portal Reloaded for being extremely hard though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.