The original co-op campaign ended with a massive reveal, of huge importance to the Portal universe, and the implication throughout Art Therapy was that the final battle would further advance the story line. Diverting and modestly entertaining, but not particularly memorable. Nothing in Art Therapy evokes that same sense of accomplishment or pleasure we enter each test chamber, figure out what to do, do it, and then move on. There was one standout puzzle in the original chapterscourse 3, chamber 8that, was enormously satisfying, real Eureka! Moment. Example, combining laser redirection cubes with excursion funnelsand puzzles themselves is solid enough, but we both felt they lack some of the joy of the original chapters. Peer Review includes new ways of using tools found in test chambersfor.
If anything, difficulty was a little uneven, with the hardest maps coming in the middle of the chapter. It takes a little while to get back into Portal groove, but once we get into the swing of things, none of the puzzles present much of a challenge. Leisurely playthrough Art Therapy takes my playing partner and me about 90 minutes. Test chambers are tied together with a loose storyline GLaDOS is under attack, and we have to vanquish the attacker. Chapter has nine different test chambers, using a full range of lasers, buttons, cubes, hard light, and so on. Art installations are, of course, test chambers, and proper appreciation of GLaDOS's artwork often requires taking an acid bath or being dropped into a bottomless pit. GLaDOS has created a series of art installations that Atlas and P-Body are invited to appreciate. The theme of the new chapter, Art Therapy, is. The original game's co-op chapters were each theme after gameplay elements they introduce: gels, excursion funnels, and so on, mirroring the way single player games introduce one new element at a time.
The first DLC for Portal 2, named Peer Review, has just been release, and it added fifth chapter to the co-op campaign.
It was smartly organised fun to play, and had more than its share of delightful moments, making good use of the extra complexities that two-person, four-Portal world enable. One of the great joys of Portal 2 was the co-op campaign.
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