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Best portal 211/27/2023 ![]() And amazingly, the dialogue and voice acting of Wheatley and Cave was so damn good that they actually weren't even overshadowed by the wonderful Ellen McLain as GLaDOS. While the character arc of GLaDOS in the original Portal is brilliant in and of itself, Portal 2 had THREE main characters, ALL of whom had complex and brilliantly written character development. Portal 1 kept you interested by keeping secrets Portal 2 kept you interested by allowing you to see EVERYTHING. Unlike Portal 1, you really get to stretch and EXPLORE the facility. The comedy is less sarcastic and subtle and more laugh-out-loud funny (with some sarcasm thrown in). And GLaDOS's inane babbling at the end contains some of the best dialogue in video game history. Portal 1 also had a very dry, sarcastic sort of wit to it the humor was subtle but hilarious. The boss battle with GLaDOS is one of the all-time best. It made everything look very self-contained up until the big reveal at the end, and that's why it worked so spectacularly well. The game did what we loved in Portal 1 while still exploring new avenues and expanding on the portal universe. I am going to have to give this to Portal 2. They gave more details but still managed to leave us with some burning questions about chell, ratman, cave johnson, wheatley, and caroline. Story wise it had quite a lot more dialog and characters while still managing to maintain the simplistic run of just one (at max two) characters interacting with you at once. With the new additions of light grids, all three of the gels, water, and other things I found it far more fun and less simplistic in nature. You never felt like they moved you up to fast. The difficulty and complexity of the puzzles also ramped up properly. It has so much more variables and options in a puzzle yet they somehow manage to make sure that there is only one real way to solve it usually. ![]() Portal 2 can really be considered the first full sized portal game in the series. Left you with a lot of questions which were both frustrating and alluring. Valve managed to tell a story with very little dialog save for Glados herself. Story wise was great even if it was a little non-descriptive. Portal 1 was short but a lot of fun with some challenging puzzles. To tell you the truth portal 1 was nothing more then a (excuse the pun) experiment.
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