Finished Portal. Haven’t played the advanced maps, but did enjoy my time with the main game portion. I liked how most of the game has you going through very clear test rooms, mostly because I bounced off the final third of Portal 2 on the PS3 which just became unstructured in a confusing way. Portal definitely does a similar thing in the end, but is a little more restrained. The test rooms are teaching you, which is nice, but also feels a little like the game is a tech demo. Which I guess fits with the theme of the game, your character is quite literally being tested. Enjoyed the atmosphere of the something-isn’t-quite-right that settles over the last part of the game, another aspect that Portal 2 leans into hugely, as I recall, and mostly works there. I obviously need to try some advanced maps in Portal and then give Portal 2 another try.

Reviewed on Aug 08, 2022


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