There’s so many threads about people interpreting parts of Portal 2, yet there doesn’t appear to be any threads about what people thought of the game.
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If don’t want to bother reading my experiances playing the game, skip to the red TL;DR.
I thought the game was very well made. At the beginning I wasn’t very impressed and could sort of predict how everything was ending up. But when you first face GLADoS after disabling her turrets and neurotoxin. I was thinking that after Wheatly gained control, GLADoS would find a way of gaining partial control of the facility and you would find yourself in the middle of a way being waged between Wheatly and GLADoS. Yet when Wheatly betrays you, it didn’t come as a surprise, but more as a realization and a “I see what you did there Valve” moment.
What I loved about the game the most is how it takes you through the old testing chambers of Apeture Science. These all help you gain an understanding of the history of Apeture as well, it’s relations to Black Mesa, and how it became what it is today (Before GLADoS’s take over). On a side note it makes me hope Episode 3 adds on to this story and how it looked from Black Mesa’s point of view.
The final test chambers and Boss battle with Wheatly are my honest to god favorite parts of the game. I enjoy the test chambers mostly because of how you can visually see Apeture falling apart into flames and to hear GLADoS’s reactions to it.
The final battle with Wheatly, though, was a bit easier than I would have liked/ Admittedly, though, it took me a while to figure out what to do and got the last personality sphere on with less than 10 seconds left, so that made it a challenge enough for me at the time. But the moon thing kinda blew me away when it happened. Mostly because it was almost 3 am, I just wanted to finally finish Portal 2, when I was on the ground, unable to move, I had no idea what to do. In fact, I kept shooting the portal gun at Wheatly in hopes that it would do something. Finally, I just shot at the moon because I couldn’t think of anything else to shoot at. I literally shat bricks when I saw a twinkle on the moon, suddenly found everything being sucked into the portal on earth. The Apollo stuff was also pretty cool, really liked that. And the ending was really nice, especially with the Companion Cube being shot out. And the thing at the very end with Wheatly and the Space personality sphere made me laugh so loud.
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My overall impressions:
Pros: Continued the funny, dark humor that was in Portal 1 to an even greater level. Looks a lot more nicer than original. Story didn’t suck
Cons: Basically made markings showing you where portals had to be made. Also I felt like you were more limited by where you could put portals, and that in some spots it would automatically put it in a certain way. Took away some of the challenge.
Well there’s my two cents. Feel free to criticize and tell yours too.