Portal: What Made It So Iconic? (Retrospective)

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Portal
Game:
Portal (2007)
Duration: 16:39
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Portal is a game about cake, along with solving puzzles, playing with physics and beating test chambers. This game is near flawless in my eyes and is a fantastic example of merging both story and gameplay elements together in a puzzle game. But what exactly made it as iconic as it is?

Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:31 mechanics and progression
5:26 Story and ambience
11:26 Escape and Glados fight
14:25 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Music Used:
- Portal Radio - Portal
- The Rain Formally Known as Purple - Risk of Rain 2
- Science is Fun - Portal 2
- Resurrections - Celeste
- Party Escort - Portal
- You Cant Escape, You Know - Portal
- Subject Name Here - Portal
- Still Alive - Portal



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At present, Tink has 595 views spread across 2 videos for Portal, with his channel publishing less than an hour of Portal content. This is 4.19% of the total watchable video on Tink's YouTube channel.