Recent reviews by Puj

A fan made mod with the quality of an official sequel.
Portal Stories: Mel is set in between the timeline of Portal and Portal 2. While it may not be an official canon, this fan made arc is extremely accurate towards what was already known about the Half-Life universe. The developers really took the time to recreate the atmosphere that we all know and love from Portal, featuring amazing attention to detail and voice acting.
The level design in this game is next level, throwing the player straight into the action without having to suffer through simplistic tutorial missions. With that said, the levels in this game provide much more of a challenge than the originals, which in my opinion is a great thing because some levels in portal 2 were just too easy.
Overall, if you liked Portal 2, just download this game. It is basically a free DLC and there is no reason not to have it.

Beautiful art-style, creative control, emotional storyline.
5/5 - Masterpiece.

One of the greatest puzzle games of all time.

I do NOT recommend this game for anyone that cares about completion.

My entire experience with this Pid basically can be summarized by frustration and disappointment. There are definitely aspects of this game which I enjoyed, such as the art style and characters but they are far outweighed by the aspects which I did not enjoy. I have been constantly pulling my hair out playing this game.

The difficulty is too inconsistent. Some stages of the game I would be able to breeze through with no hassle, while other I would struggle on for hours. All of the boss fights in this game are incredibly easy and don’t feel as rewarding as they should because they are actually easier than the levels leading up to them. Other sections of the game are just randomly extremely challenging. I am especially talking about collecting the souvenirs and constellations. I can understand making the collectible items harder than the base gameplay but my God I was stuck trying to get the Children’s Book souvenir for at least an hour which is just ridiculous.

The game does not provide a retry level feature. This is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to platformers. Combined with the extremely frustrating auto saves, if you miss an item, your only option is to restart your entire play through. These kinds of mechanics are appropriate for games where the playtime may only be a couple of hours, but when the game lasts for over 10, it is unacceptable.

I am currently writing this as I have accidentally walked too far to the right causing the game to commence the next level and auto save. I have realised that collecting the next item is now impossible as I do not have the correct tools. After restarting my game twice already from this same scenario, I have finally had enough and cannot bare restarting now being 6 hours in to the run. I am playing on easy mode in order to be able to explore but now that I know it is impossible to 100% this play through I can honestly say I am done with this game.

If these simple features were included I would actually love to play this game, but until then I cannot recommend it.

Very challenging but addictive puzzle game. It can get a bit frustrating at times but always has me coming back to it