misterhaan
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Portal Stories: Mel
13 hours playtime
28 of 28 achievements
i’m pretty sure i saw a recommendation for this free mod on steamgifts. i wanted to check it out because i got pretty into both the puzzle-solving and storytelling in portal 1 and 2. for a community-made mod, it gets impressively close to the experience i got out of the official portal games. it doesn’t have an awesome glados song, the voice acting consistently mispronounced “aegis,” and the style of one of the voices was more overtly ominous than i could see valve using in a portal game. none of those really affected my enjoyment though, and overall it gave me everything i expected and more. if you’re a fellow portal fan and haven’t checked this out yet, you definitely should!
Thanks for the tip! How annoying are the achievements? One way to measure this is, of your 13 hours of playtime, how much was playing the game and how much was watching guides to get the missable achievements you’d missed?
i think i spent 3 or 4 hours going back for missed achievements – didn’t find them annoying at all. for most of them i’d just start a new game and choose the chapter where the achievement is. i also logged 2 or 3 hours of the game sitting on the pause menu when i was away from my computer longer than i expected to be. i also looked up hints for two puzzles (one i though of a working solution, but had aimed poorly and though i couldn’t actually shoot a portal there)