It shares other commonalities with the original too, such as its deft sprinkling of mystery and dark humour. It feels like something I’ve never experienced before, and my mind has to constantly adapt to accept Reloaded’s way of looking at the world. This is what I mean when I say Reloaded recaptures the “wow” factor of the original game, something which Portal 2, sly and hilarious as it was, didn’t quite manage to achieve. Teasing out the solution, experimenting with different layouts as my brain wrapped itself around thinking in four dimensions was incredibly satisfying. One of my favourite puzzles involves using redirection cubes to manipulate a single laser through two different timelines and four different spatial portals. Over the course of 25 chambers, the puzzles slowly evolve in complexity, introducing the puzzling elements from Portal 2, lasers, faith-plates, light-bridges. Including the time Portal, you’re dealing over twice the number of puzzling elements in any given situation. Portals follow the same rules, meaning you can have two spatial portals in the present, and two differently placed spatial portals in the future. If at this point your brain is starting to feel a bit stretched, that’s exactly the sensation Portal Reloaded strives to evoke. However, you must ensure you move the present cube into place first, otherwise when you move it, the future cube will disappear because you altered its timeline in the present. The solution is to go into the future, grab the future version of the cube, and bring it into the present to place it on the button. This means you can double up on cubes in the present, so long as you don’t move the present cube while the future cube occupies the same timeline.Ī simple Portal Reloaded puzzle might involve two buttons in the present that need to be pressed to open a door, but only one cube. But an object from the future can be brought back with you into the present. An object from the present cannot be taken into the future, it’ll just fizzle out of existence the moment you step through the portal. There is no tutorial, the puzzle's solution rely on a mechanic that you have to think of trying yourself without knowing it exists.This ties into the second important rule. ![]() CONS : - You have to figure out new mechanics without anyone telling you. Not easy, good challenge - When you think you broke the game.you might actually simply have found the expected solution. ![]() No repeating the same mechanic 5 times just cause. Mind frying at times - Doesn't overdue it. ![]() 85/100 Started : March 20th 2022 Finished : March 20th 2022 Playtime : 4h50 Death : 8 Crash : 3 (game doesn't like tabbing out) Recommended : Yes Controller support : didn't try Replayable : Maybe in a few years once I forget the puzzles' solutions Price : free but needs Portal 2 that often goes in sale for 2.20$ Worth to me: 5$ PROS : - Very original, new kind of puzzle mechanic I've rarely seen and well implemented. 4h 30m PlayedOverall: 8/10 Recommended: yes (free and good) Time to complete game: 4.5 hrs (Medium play speed) Controller support: only partially (for some reason) - I remapped the missing Portal 2 standard KB&M controls to gamepad in Steam and added in the 2 new buttons Gameplay: 8/10 (main focus) + very interesting mechanics that were tricky to use and satisfying to solve ~ the new mechanics made some levels feel like they were dragging out by setting and re-setting Portal or boxes in place Story: 7/10 ~ somewhat ties Portal 1 & 2 together, but mostly at the last couple chambers (and not sure what the heck happened at the very end) ~ mostly gameplay instead of creating environment or much voice acting Characters: 7/10 ~ decent voice acting, though I felt it needed.something else (not sure if I wanted it more robotic, snarky, clever, just a little something) ~ would've been fun to have more casual discussion at some point in the game ~ no "back rooms" areas to this mod, which would've made it feel more like genuine Portal Audio: 7.5/10 + had a few nice tunes in there Graphics: 7.3/10 ~ same as standard Portal, nice and clean aesthetic UI: 7/10 - seems like you can only Load the most recent save Score comparison: HLtB: 8.1/10 (82 votes) Steam: 96% positive (15,671)Ĥh 50m PlayedPortal Reloaded What is this : Mod for Portal 2 : 25 puzzles exploiting a new 3rd portal traveling between 2 timeline 20 years apart.
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