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[Puzzlemaker]

So, my thoughts.

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The beginning was HILARIOUS.

Press jump to say apple!

They switched up the jokes enough that I found it entertaining throughout the whole game.  Steve Johnson here!

At first I didn't know what to think of potatoglados, but it grew on me for sure.

The ending with the turrets was completely unexpected, I don't know what to make of it.  When the doors opened, I was like, GLADOS YOU BITCH!  Then I was like, What?  Then I was like, what the fuck?

Seriously, what was up with that?

Edit:  Oh, and the moon.  That was an utterly awesome way to defeat a boss.  Seriously.

[Tilla]

I was really pleased to see that

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potatoes actually play a fairly sizeable role in the second act onwards. Also amusing: those poor, poor turret-cubes, what has SCIENCE done?

[Jackrabbit]

You know what's awesome? Those little musical motifs that spring up when you interact with an object, and how each object has a unique one. It's a really neat feature.

[Acanthus117]

My dad just told me that there's some schools here that are postponing exams because so many students are going to be 'absent'...

That made my day.

[umiman]

Poor turrets...

[forsaken1111]

You know what's awesome? Those little musical motifs that spring up when you interact with an object, and how each object has a unique one. It's a really neat feature.

What objects do this? I first noticed it when lighting up the 3 laser targets on one of the thermal discouragement diversion levels.

[Jackrabbit]

The jumping plates do, the pastes do, I think buttons do, and lasers do it. Probably other stuff too but I can't remember.

[forsaken1111]

Huh... well I planned to play through again so I'll look for that next time. I think I was too busy thinking 4 dimensionally.

[Draco18s]

You gotta give props to Valve though. Not many people could have made the white gel connection, but I'm willing to bet every last player

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shot that moon

before doing anything else anyway. They know how to make games.

Definitely.

You know what's awesome? Those little musical motifs that spring up when you interact with an object, and how each object has a unique one. It's a really neat feature.

Definitely.  I first noticed it with the room with the 3 Discouragement Beams you had to aim through a single portal.  I thought, "Oh, that's neat, each one has its own note!"  And then when new things were introduced, I noticed other musical motifs.

What objects do this? I first noticed it when lighting up the 3 laser targets on one of the thermal discouragement diversion levels.

EVERY new mechanic.  The lasers, the funnel (jump into one), the gels each have a sound (walk on them--though I don't recall the motif for the white gel), the light-panel-floor-wall-thing too.  The Faith Plates, too, but due to your limited interaction (i.e. momentary) with them, it's harder to notice.

[Nilocy]

My favourite part has to be

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the Old Aperture science labs; those testing spheres where excellently done. I was really interested in what Aperture was doing other than the portal stuff. And it made me wonder, what did a 1960s portal gun look like? Not to mention the mucking around with timetravel (that was only mentioned as far as I know) in that one testing chamber in the entire game. The progression of the science lab aswell is interesting; it gets closer to the surface, but everything seems to be getting worse and worse. Lack of good test subjects, lack of money and lack of proper equipment seemed to make the place more of a deathtrap that it usually is.

During the ending when you fire the portal at the moon, I was genuinely stumped and then as the portal plinged on the moon I remembered what Cave Johnson was talking about the moon rocks he was trying to buy and how its portal conductive.

Also, super spoiler, the coop game missions actually have stuff to with the story I believe, GLaDOS kinda trains you to do a specific outside the testing chamber mission. It seems to always end up finding a really really 'non-important' security disk that to override a really 'non-important' piece of software the humans just so happened to 'forget' about.

[Detrevni|inverteD]

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And it made me wonder, what did a 1960s portal gun look like?

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I found a hilarious poster outside one of the testing spheres, not sure if you caught it too:

[Comp112]

I was going to mention that poster. I found that pretty awesome, the original quantum tunneling device!

[Ivefan]

My favourite part has to be

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it gets closer to the surface, but everything seems to be getting worse and worse. Lack of good test subjects, lack of money and lack of proper equipment seemed to make the place more of a deathtrap that it usually is.
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[spoiler]No? If you ignore the decay caused since portal 1, the surface area is what looks best - until Britball breaks everything atleast.
Except for what... Cave Johnson(?) was talking about I really didnt notice that it was a lack of funding, but it rather seemed like they just changed how stuff worked. The decay was rather consistent throughout the condemned old testing area.
Oh, Did anyone else appreciate the entrance to the old area? huge vault-like door slowly opening, then the lights turns on and reveals that small door =D

[Nilocy]

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what you said

I mean, in the old labs, the new ones are fine, but I was talking about Cave Johnsons descent into bankruptcy and what not in the older labs.

[Detrevni|inverteD]

Wheatley is voiced by Steve Merchant, who works a lot with Rickie Gervaise, for anyone who doesn't know about him. He's a really funny comedian, and his voice acting in this totally completed the character.