#portal revolution mod

[ekholocationn]

I BEAT PORTAL REVOLUTION, HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS

Here are ALL of my thoughts about the mod, good and bad! If you want the TLDR, it was a really great experience and I would definitely recommend it to fellow fans of the portal franchise!! Gonna give it a solid 8/10! It's just that there were a lot of things about the end that bugged me ^^;

SPOILER WARNING FOR THE MOD BELOW

So, let's start with the good. This mod was STUNNING visually. The graphics were incredible and very true to the game, and the added touches just brought a personal feel to it (such as a glow for the light bridges. I absolutely loved that!!!). All of those massive rooms with dynamic lighting, getting to see the surface, and getting to see the moon was cool (though the rest of the ending... i'll get to that). I had fun with all the environments and got wowed numerous times! So many moments where I would just stop and take in the scenery <3

The test chambers were also all incredibly fun to figure out, and not so difficult that I had to constantly be checking a walkthrough for how to solve something. I adored all of the new mechanics that were used, such as the vents, the waterfalls, and those laser cubes!!! Those were so much fun and brought such a cool twist to the lasers auuugh

I also ADORE the music. It feels very Aperture, and I liked how the mechanic of the different test objects playing music was implemented for this too!

And don't get me started on the characters. Sterling was a lot of fun when he was introduced (I'll touch on him more later though) but EMILIA. oh my gosh i LOVED her character so much. I loved how she touched on the AI backup thing aperture had going on, and her personality was generally just a blast to have around. Out of the two new characters in this mod, she takes the cake for favorite by far.

Last but not least on my list of positives, the callbacks. All the little references and easter eggs to Half Life and the official Portal games had me in a vice grip dude. Like that one overgrown version of a momentum chamber from Portal 1 that you got to go through top-down, I loved seeing that ;;; And Emilia's talk about how Caroline never consented to being put into GLaDOS, or how it's mentioned that GLaDOS' pieces got scattered all across the parking lot XD I always love when fan games call back like this!! Really shows the love for the source material!!!!

Now, for the things I didn't like. And tbh, a lot of these have to do with Chapter 8.... actually, all of them have to do with chapter 8 i think

What was that ending? You go through all of this trouble, all of this buildup.... just to end up in stasis again on the moon forever? That feels so fucking pointless? Like what was the point of doing all of this and going through all of this trouble other than shutting the spire down? Our original goal was to rebuild the facility, and then it gets changed halfway through...... idk, doesnt sit right with me. Im all for a story that ends the way it begins, but.... eeeeeeeh.

Also, what was the point of making Sterling a twist villain? It felt so unnecessary? 'Lol you're not doing what I want anymore, soooo I'm gonna kill you now.' Like there was no impact. There was no grand scene for it like there was with Wheatley. There was no feeling of 'oh shit, oh fuck, this is bad, what the hell is happening' that you SHOULD feel when a twist villain is announced. It just kind of.... happened.

Sterling's character just felt like a joke to me by the end. Finding out he used to be Emilia's vaccum cleaner robot? Like that's silly and all, but it felt so sudden. It felt like the devs wanted there to be some connection between these two characters, some witty banter at the end of it all, but it felt so.... forced.

Also, this might just be me having trouble, but that last momentum fling you have to do to reach the last button is so infuriating to accomplish. I could not for the life of me figure it out. I kept knocking my head on SOMETHING on the ceiling whenever I did place the portal on the wall correctly. Idk. That specific fling just upset me so much and left me with such a sour taste.

The ending of a game should stick with you, but this one just.... didn't. I feel like I could replay this entire mod but skip chapter 8, and still feel fulfilled. The ending felt rushed, it felt pointless. It felt like they were trying to build to something and then just. Fell short.

Overall, this mod still has a lot going for it. In terms of Portal mods I've played, I don't think I rank it above Mel, but it's still definitely something I'll be replaying in the future. Even with my thoughts about the end, I give it a solid 8/10 because everything else was super well done! I can tell that there was a lot of time and love put into this mod, and I seriously commend the devs for creating such a love letter to the Portal series. I truly hope that this mod lands a spot in the hall of fame alongside Mel someday, it does deserve it <3

If you're a Portal fan looking for a fresh challenge, I do highly recommend it!! It's a great experience and easily completable in a single day, the five to seven hour estimate on the steam page ended up proving pretty accurate.

Had a lot of fun with this mod and I could probably say more, but my fingers hurt so Im gonna end the post here lol. Thank you for coming to my ted talk, its 2am and im going to sleep

[lea-sbian]

Practice for differing facial types using some head-canon facial designs for the portal girlies, and a complete redesign for the portal reloaded and aperture tag girls cause I think it would be more interesting than them just being recolored chell.

[tackledkey]

her........💙

[bumpscosity]

[bembwashere]

Emilia and Stirling [SHORT COMIC]

(WARNING! PORTAL: REVOLUTION SPOILER FOR THE UNKNOWING!)

Set before the mass killing of scientists in the Aperture facility and after the first few failed attempts at the G.L.a.D.O.S activation...

"I didn't see you again after you upgraded my chassis..."

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I've always thought about the idea that Stirling remembers a different Emilia than the one that we personally meet in-game, how he mentions that they did everything together.

Either this is Stirling exaggerating or in-game Emilia's backup was made before they really got to know eachother. It's heartbreaking to see and hear the person you used to be friends (or family) with suddenly forget who you are.

Anyways I hope you guys enjoy this little comic I slapped together to express an idea I had since I first played through the finale <3

[freicchi]

day 11: any portal mod

[prettycoolducks]

just finished playing portal revolution. I like evil science lady and her rabid vacuum cleaner

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[nota-archive]

finished portal revolution! yay!

first of all emilia is blorbo material. i also had a very clear vision of how she’d look like as a human for some reason

didnt get a good grip on her design yet but ill prolly figure it out

also loved stirlings whole “please dont bleed out and die because i will have to dispose of your body and mop the blood-splattered floors” thinking little guy is so done with his job,, like,,,, when we enter the surface-exposed part of aperture and hear him say stuff like “how am i going to repair all of this???” and “this will need so much fixing”??? absolutely broke me

[i-like-blue-eyed-robots]

Okay I know something terrible is probably going to happen bc like it’s in the Portal universe but I’m playing Portal Revolution for the first time and oh my god Stirling I would die for you

[ivoportal]

I offer you sunflowers and one of my favorite scenarios in PORTAL: REVOLUTION. What a beautiful MOD.

[ossyflawol]

abt my previous posts regarding that person misinforming people about portal: revolution: yea, i got heated typing that and you can tell, i get heated really really easily especially when someone is going to be so confidentally wrong in what they're saying and it's about topics that i am incredibly autistically obsessed about (portal and modding for it)

trust me i am just tired of years and years of constantly seeing mods heralded as "omg Valve let these people make Portal 3" or whatever nonsense, I've been around long enough to see it happen with Portal Stories Mel, and now recently with Reloaded and Revolution, it is a demoralising cycle to watch every single time, and it pains my brain to see because it's always exactly the same thing with a different mod involved,

[moopbox]

Portal revolution brainrot

he's just so silly <3 <3

I love him so so much (platonic)

silly sphere ><

[the-autistic-spider]

please recommend some portal fangames

cause i played portal revolution recently and want to play more fangames but cant really find any

[ekholocationn]

along with the big long rant post i just made, i wanted to make another quick post with this one view from revolution that really stuck with me. Like just look at this

this is fucking beautiful

[bembwashere]

Ghost in the Machine

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Got a little experimental with this one and tried out a bunch of random brushes I had lying around in my photoshop.

Anyways a song of the same name in the Portal: Revolution soundtrack inspired me… and I also wanted to draw android/human Emilia <3