Forum | Thinking With Portals

#31 · December 16, 2011, 1:13 am

Liked the map overall, especially the parts

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where you have to grab the cube while in midair and reverse the funnel to bring the cube out of the blocking room

. Those were very clever and rewarding once you figured them out.

I didn't care for

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the flings at the end - if you miss the portal placement on the slanted panel for the triangle symbol by even the slightest amount it doesn't stay and hitting the triangle button again (when you fly back through the dot's slanted panel) closes the glass door in front of the triangle slanted wall, thus making a second shot at placement impossible without climbing all the way back up to the top and starting again. In my opinion there's nothing worse than having the solution figured out and trying over and over and over to get the ninja moves required to pull it off. BORING!

Also, it's a little weird to have 1950's Aperture theming mixed in with the modern metal walls, but that didn't bother me too much. Overall, nice work!

#32 · December 18, 2011, 1:34 am

I enjoyed playing this map right up until the end. I play with a controller, so the pointy-shooty bits are really tough. The drop out of the ceiling isn't too bad once you can find the right alignment going into the portal. The final fling was very frustrating, because even when I hit the portals, I would land just to the side of the portal in the floor because I couldn't get turned to look at it in time.
I think having each of the last panels stay open once activated would allow clumsier players to finish, without taking away any of the fun for the speedrunners to nail it in one swell foop.
I only mention this because it may one day be possible for PS3 players to download maps like this, and those players will be frustrated to get so far and then not be able to finish.
Still, I won't let the fact that I handicap myself take away from the fact that this is a very well done puzzle. 5/5 from me.

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#33 · January 10, 2012, 3:07 am

I had a similar issue to kennkong. I am using a mouse, but the final fling was exceptionally difficult. I would hit all of the portals leading up to the end, but then just land on the floor because after hitting the last button.
I finally made it through the final portal on the floor, only to find out that the trajectory wasn't exactly right, so I landed in the water rather than at the elevator

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