The hell...what did I just buy?
Portal is an experience, and then blah, blah, blah, please insert here another canned phrase for an awesome game.
Really. Now.
Those crazy Valve guys take time in what they do, and so should every reviewer of this game.
Portal is a "just-long-enough" take on the FPS formulae, only it's not apparently formulaic at all. Scenario after scenario, Portal is a puzzle you solve with the greatest invention ever since popcorn and that thing they use for car tires nobody cares about: the portal gun. Instead of drafting through hordes of generic and boring enemies, you create portals through walls, and cakes, and beheaded wolves, and maybe just certain walls to get to the exit.
That's the end of it.
Except. It's plagued by wit (You've never known wit this way). Dialogue and plot-twists and...stuff? That battle-hardened Gamers have come to like but have never seen in this way. There are very few ways to convey an opinion that won't spoil you the entire game. I know you won't care anyways! So I won't even try. Too hard.
It's got sounds and...uh....3D environments? Andreallyit'sgot the best story evar.
Etc.
I found it increasingly funny, addictive. And.
The hell just go and buy this game, it's worth more than reading through pages and pages of generic reviews.
Yeah, I just did this for the kicks.
And free publicity to that Empire I love -which is Valve-.