As time goes on, I feel less and less impressed with Portal 2. It's still a bit jarring when I see that everyone I follow has it at at least a 9/10. I'd never go as far as to say i dislike it - urban exploration is THE shit - though there's not much here that I enjoy over the original game. Yes, the writing, story, and atmosphere all provide a different, cinematic take on Portal 1's premise. Yet I can't help feeling like that bigger scope and budget wasn't a good thing. Portal 1 is a leaner game, but also a meaner game. The last hour or two of puzzling here is an absolute slog, because you can only throw so many clever portaling ideas at me in the sequel to a game about clever portaling ideas before I start to get a little desensitized. The magnificence of Cave Johnson aside, I can only hear so many snarky "cleverly humorous" comments until the writing starts to feel like its running on empty and I get annoyed. Call me an insane contrarian; Portal didn't need a sequel.