A short review for a short game!
Aperture Tag is a Portal mod that mixes up the usual formula by replacing the Portal Gun with a paintball gun, which is able to shoot the blue and orange gels introduced in Portal 2. It's really cool in theory, but in execution it leads to very easy puzzles in the first half and a bunch of cheesable parts in the second half. Turns out there aren't many approaches you can take with gel-based gameplay only, more than often it only boils down to "color this ramp orange" and "color this jump-pad-looking tile blue". Still, I believe the devs tried their best and it shows in the second half, where my enjoyment of the puzzles went up a fair bit with their more "innovative" nature.
Overall my highlight of the game was the narration though, Nigel is a great narrator and his voice is very pleasant to listen to; finding him slacking around in various locations on the screens in each room was also funny. Unfortunately I found the dialogue to get progressively more unfunny towards the end and the ending in general felt rather cheap to me. If you can live with that, Aperture Tag is still an entertaining and unique fangame. I'd recommend picking it up during a seasonal sale if you're interested, since 5€ for a mod can be quite the turnoff.
Aperture Tag is a Portal mod that mixes up the usual formula by replacing the Portal Gun with a paintball gun, which is able to shoot the blue and orange gels introduced in Portal 2. It's really cool in theory, but in execution it leads to very easy puzzles in the first half and a bunch of cheesable parts in the second half. Turns out there aren't many approaches you can take with gel-based gameplay only, more than often it only boils down to "color this ramp orange" and "color this jump-pad-looking tile blue". Still, I believe the devs tried their best and it shows in the second half, where my enjoyment of the puzzles went up a fair bit with their more "innovative" nature.
Overall my highlight of the game was the narration though, Nigel is a great narrator and his voice is very pleasant to listen to; finding him slacking around in various locations on the screens in each room was also funny. Unfortunately I found the dialogue to get progressively more unfunny towards the end and the ending in general felt rather cheap to me. If you can live with that, Aperture Tag is still an entertaining and unique fangame. I'd recommend picking it up during a seasonal sale if you're interested, since 5€ for a mod can be quite the turnoff.