Portal

Fun puzzles with a great concept and beautiful graphics; I love brain games. Thank you.

I’ll never forget the first time I experienced this game. The atmosphere and storytelling are absolutely incredible.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

I don't like puzzle games, but Portal is something completely different for me. The game starts with us waking up from a Stasis Pod in the Short-Term Relaxation Vault. After GLaDOS welcomes us with the line, “We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one.”, the game teaches us how to use its main mechanic, the Portal Gun. Later, we learn how to use the Weighted Storage Cube and other mechanics such as the High Energy Pellet. The puzzles are generally easy, with only a few of them making you think a little. As we progress, combining the mechanics we've learned makes the puzzles more interesting. The Turrets' cute voices and GLaDOS's calm but manipulative dialogue give the game a unique atmosphere. I especially liked how she describes even dangerous situations as if they were completely normal, stays calm even when talking about the possibility of death and injury, and throws random nonsense into her serious speeches. Her constantly praising the Companion Cube while repeatedly reminding us that it cannot actually talk, along with details like “The Cake Is a Lie,” makes the game's dark humor even more entertaining. This humor and GLaDOS's way of speaking also fit nicely with Aperture Science's sterile and simple design. The strange writings outside the test chambers and the sound design also complement the atmosphere very well. Despite being released in 2007, the game still looks pretty good today. Thanks to the simple visual style of the Source Engine, it doesn't show its age too much. I also liked how it shows that it takes place in the same universe as Half-Life through a small reference. It's a nice detail that the universes of the two games are connected through such a small detail. I also found the Bonus Maps that unlock after finishing the game more enjoyable than the sections in the main story. Especially the way some of the levels are made more difficult requires us to use the portal mechanic we learned earlier more carefully. The Challenge sections were much harder than I expected. I had to try some of them over and over to complete them. Completing all of them at 100% also took quite a lot of effort, and this process turned into a long and exhausting three-day marathon. In the end, I managed to get all the achievements as well. The achievement that challenged me the most was Aperture Science. Even though I was quite tired by the end, getting 100% completion in Portal was definitely worth it. I had fun and enjoyed it much more than I expected. A short game that takes 2–2.5 hours to finish, but one I really liked. It gives you the experience it wants to offer without unnecessarily dragging things out.