That's right. I'm playing Portal. Finally. It's been on my Steam inventory for about two years now and I've never has the courage to start it up. I'm not s huge fan of first person shooters. I'm also not a huge fan of puzzle games. So a first person shooting puzzle game was, in my mind, something that I wouldn't enjoy and needed to be steered clear of. I get... Lost... easily in first person mode. With the mind bending ability to create seamless dimensional portals from point A to point B in a variety of directions, I was pretty darn sure that it was going to be hours of frustration, pain and anguish.
I was wrong. I actually found the game immensely enjoyable. The puzzles were fairly simplistic. I whipped through the game in about 45 minutes (while I waited for my Japanese food delivery to arrive) without getting lost or bungled once. The voice of GlaDOS definitely made the game though. Formal and prodding at first, then becoming coldly vicious and then brutally sarcastic, all dry voice modulated wit. The song at the end takes the cake though, literally.
All in all, I'm quite impressed by the game. I don't have a formalized rating developed for my blog yet, so... Two and a half thumbs up with a lovely arterial waveform for gameplay.
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