Gameplay 🎮
I enjoyed the new puzzles, they didn't feel contrived or cheat-y like a certain other mod cough Portal Prelude cough. Favourites of mine were puzzles that had very few elements and discovering the twist was super satisfying. A couple of comments I have though would be: 1. The difficulty didn't progress sequentially, some later chambers were much easier than one before them. Perhaps that's just my experience. 2. And this connects to the first point slightly, sometimes it felt like I had cheesed the chambers. Or other times it felt like the chamber was easier than the devs intended because I made it through a puzzle without evening using an entire room with a second light bridge.
Apart from that, I did enjoy myself. 😁
Visual/Style 🎨
One thing I've always loved about the Portal games is the opportunities to check out behind the scenes. Like how do these games make exploring offices really interesting?? And this game provides a lot more of that, so that was fun. Otherwise it's more Portal, and that can't be a bad thing.
Music 🎹
The new music in this game composed by Harry101UK is amazing. I felt it fit perfectly as a "Portal mod" soundtrack and made the chambers a lot more fun to play. Even listening to it while writing this 🎵
Voice Acting 🔊
I thought the voice of Virgil the core was really good. Although personally I found the Cave Johnson impression a bit off-putting, it was the one thing that made this scream "fan-made". Not a deal-breaker of course, but I thought it was still something of note. It's only there for 30%ish of the game anyway.
Story 📖
One concern I sometimes have is that maybe a fan story will delve so much into lore that it really does feel like a fan story. Thankfully this wasn't the case and it felt nice and simple. The one connection it does have is hinted at a couple of times and at the end it sort of pulls a "Star Wars Rogue One" in explaining an aspect of Portal 2. So I thought it was fun 😄
Conclusion
If you want more Portal, get this mod. It's free on Steam. More puzzles, fun story, great music. Apart from a couple of hiccups, this is a very professionally done mod. 😎👍
I enjoyed the new puzzles, they didn't feel contrived or cheat-y like a certain other mod cough Portal Prelude cough. Favourites of mine were puzzles that had very few elements and discovering the twist was super satisfying. A couple of comments I have though would be: 1. The difficulty didn't progress sequentially, some later chambers were much easier than one before them. Perhaps that's just my experience. 2. And this connects to the first point slightly, sometimes it felt like I had cheesed the chambers. Or other times it felt like the chamber was easier than the devs intended because I made it through a puzzle without evening using an entire room with a second light bridge.
Apart from that, I did enjoy myself. 😁
Visual/Style 🎨
One thing I've always loved about the Portal games is the opportunities to check out behind the scenes. Like how do these games make exploring offices really interesting?? And this game provides a lot more of that, so that was fun. Otherwise it's more Portal, and that can't be a bad thing.
Music 🎹
The new music in this game composed by Harry101UK is amazing. I felt it fit perfectly as a "Portal mod" soundtrack and made the chambers a lot more fun to play. Even listening to it while writing this 🎵
Voice Acting 🔊
I thought the voice of Virgil the core was really good. Although personally I found the Cave Johnson impression a bit off-putting, it was the one thing that made this scream "fan-made". Not a deal-breaker of course, but I thought it was still something of note. It's only there for 30%ish of the game anyway.
Story 📖
One concern I sometimes have is that maybe a fan story will delve so much into lore that it really does feel like a fan story. Thankfully this wasn't the case and it felt nice and simple. The one connection it does have is hinted at a couple of times and at the end it sort of pulls a "Star Wars Rogue One" in explaining an aspect of Portal 2. So I thought it was fun 😄
Conclusion
If you want more Portal, get this mod. It's free on Steam. More puzzles, fun story, great music. Apart from a couple of hiccups, this is a very professionally done mod. 😎👍