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Topic	Exdeath Plays Every Game in the GotD 2020 Contest Part 2 (ft FO:NV, Ghost Trick)
Evillordexdeath 01/29/21 3:55:06 PM #167:	Okay, I started Portal 2 yesterday, and played about 2 hours. It seems like the game is set a large but indeterminate number of years after Portal 1 (and Half-Life 2,) with Chell having been held in suspended animation for all the time between. There are insinuations that a full-scale apocalypse has happened outside but all the player knows for sure is that Aperture Science has been rotting away for a long time. A robot named Wheatley, voiced by one of Ricky Gervais' buddies, wakes her up and asks for her help escaping the facility. They solve a few one-portal puzzles for a while until they come across the remains of GLaDOS (in a scene that reminded me a little bit of the very beginning of Super Metroid, where you find the final boss area from the first game,) and accidentally re-activate her, whereupon she forces Chell back into the testing area of the enrichment center while being super-humanly passive-aggressive toward her. I'm having fun with it so far. The writing is as sharp as ever and it does a good job adding interesting new mechanics (like the light bridge and catapult) and then mixing them with the old mechanics to make well-designed new puzzles. There are a couple of early chambers which make really good use of the turrets, which normally aren't very threatening but become a lot harder to deal with when placed precisely. I like how there's a use of visual storytelling with the murals you find which depict the events of the previous game, the derelict Aperture slowly putting itself back together once GLaDOS comes online and lots of little moments where if you're looking in the right place you can see Wheatley trying to get back to you before being shut out. For the most part this is still a game that makes really good use of the medium. I especially like how fast-paced it is. Most of the dialog and story movement happens as you're still walking around and solving the puzzles, although it does lose a tiny bit of that in comparison to the first game, because the opening and the scene where GLaDOS first awakens are both essentially traditional cutscenes. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 16/129 Currently Playing: Portal 2 <cite>Evillordexdeath posted [p:950061109] in Exdeath Pl... [t:79138705]...</cite> <quote>Okay, I started Portal 2 yesterday, and played about 2 hours. It seems like the game is set a large but indeterminate number of years after Portal 1 (and Half-Life 2,) with Chell having been held in suspended animation for all the time between. There are insinuations that a full-scale apocalypse has happened outside but all the player knows for sure is that Aperture Science has been rotting away for a long time. A robot named Wheatley, voiced by one of Ricky Gervais' buddies, wakes her up and asks for her help escaping the facility. They solve a few one-portal puzzles for a while until they come across the remains of GLaDOS (in a scene that reminded me a little bit of the very beginning of Super Metroid, where you find the final boss area from the first game,) and accidentally re-activate her, whereupon she forces Chell back into the testing area of the enrichment center while being super-humanly passive-aggressive toward her. I'm having fun with it so far. The writing is as sharp as ever and it does a good job adding interesting new mechanics (like the light bridge and catapult) and then mixing them with the old mechanics to make well-designed new puzzles. There are a couple of early chambers which make really good use of the turrets, which normally aren't very threatening but become a lot harder to deal with when placed precisely. I like how there's a use of visual storytelling with the murals you find which depict the events of the previous game, the derelict Aperture slowly putting itself back together once GLaDOS comes online and lots of little moments where if you're looking in the right place you can see Wheatley trying to get back to you before being shut out. For the most part this is still a game that makes really good use of the medium. I especially like how fast-paced it is. Most of the dialog and story movement happens as you're still walking around and solving the puzzles, although it does lose a tiny bit of that in comparison to the first game, because the opening and the scene where GLaDOS first awakens are both essentially traditional cutscenes. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 16/129 Currently Playing: Portal 2</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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