11 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 74.4 hrs on record (25.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jun 27, 2015 @ 11:53am
Updated: Jun 29, 2015 @ 9:16pm

Just a fair bit of warning that the puzzles presented in this mod are challenging. You have to have a firm understanding how the puzzle elements in Portal 2 interact with each other and understand advanced portaling techniques. There is no hand-holding here to build you up to greater challenges like in Portal 2. There is no worry to perform ninja reflexes, avoid cheap death, or pixel perfect precision like in past Portal mods. This mod won't punish you like that. Mostly true genuine puzzling test chambers. Occasionally the challenge was finding where to portal to next because there is a lot of stuff in each map you play. There was one puzzle that was really hard to comprehend and flustered me for the longest time. There was just too much information to process in one sitting.

If you need more practice, I have a collection of maps and other people's collections that range in difficulty but most are easier to understand and are worth playing.

Overall, this is a very good mod with a few minor hiccups. The musical score by Harry Callaghan lends itself there is a more dangerous side to science. Portal 2 gives me the impression of wonder while Portal Stories gives me the impression I need to survive science and that science has done bad things to me. The maps are very detailed. Too detailed. High end computers are recommended because my "acceptable" PC had frame rate lag most of the time.
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