Anyone play this game? It's a short puzzle game that comes with Orange Box for XBox360. It's a lot of fun and very funny.
"Short" would be an understatement. I could use another 50 hours of this stuff, it's so great. Did any of you complete the advanced levels, yet? Man, those were fun. There was only one part of the game I couldn't complete without my friend letting me in on the trick. It was when you had to get that missile-launching bot to blow up the cube transport vessel. I would've never figured that out.
I'm not sure what you mean by the missile-launching bot blowing up the cube transport level. You mean that little guy that would come out of the ground and shoot lasers? I used him to blow up windows once and then kill the boss at the end but that's it. There were definitely some tough puzzles but nothing I couldn't figure out after a lot of trial and error. It took me an embarassingly long amount of time to figure out that I should drop stuff on the little "red light" robots. My two favorite things in this game (besides the villain and her great comments) were (1) putting a portal in the cieling and the floor and just falling into infinity for like 5 minutes and (2) putting two portals in the floor and watching one of the "red light" robots just bob and back and forth between the two. High entertainment.
The first time you encounter that little guy that shoots missiles, you have to get him to blow up the windows. That part I got. What I had a hard time figuring out was that you also needed to get him to blow up that transport tube where the cubes fly around in. You needed a cube to be able to get up into the vent. I tried using one of those chairs or whatever items I could find in the office at first, but that didn't work. =( Anyway, it took me a bit under 4 hours to beat the game...I did it all in one sitting. I forget how long it took me to complete the advanced levels, since I did them at different times. My only complaint, aside that it was too short, was that the final battle, although epic, was way too easy compared to all the stuff leading up to it. I was expecting the final battle to be the most difficult challenge of all, but it ended up being a cake-walk (pun not intended). My favorite thing to do in the game: The super-charged portal jumps, using insane amount of momentum. I especially love it when you get all disoriented in mid-air. I don't remember ever having such a rollercoaster-induced queasiness feeling from a videogame before.
Now I know what you're talking about. I was able to do it with a chair (after about 100 tries) so I never blew up the tube. I didn't think the boss was so easy. I only died once trying to beat her but I still found it was a little tough to do everything within the time. I also enjoyed the super-charged portal jumps. Especially that one level where you have to keep bouncing from platform to platform and you are just going up and down, up and down, over and over again. Doesn't sound like fun but it was actually my favorite level.
You actually managed to get up there with the chair!? Man, that drives me nuts...I sat there trying that over and over again to no avail. I even tried piling stuff on top of each other, but that wasn't working either. To be honest, I didn't even notice that cube-transport tube until my friend told me about it. I felt like a total idiot for missing such a critical object. I dunno, I guess I got lucky with the boss battle...it just seemed clear what to do right away. The missile guy was obvious enough, and throwing the orbs into the fire pit wasn't exactly tough to figure out either. What else would you do with it? And it's not like the orbs were hard to get either. I even finished with like 2 minutes still on the clock, during my first play through. Also, did you get around to the advanced levels yet? I loved the 18th Chamber.
Once you beat the game, bonus maps become available for your choosing on the opening screen. There's a total of six advanced levels, which are essentially the same maps from the story mode but with modifications that make them much harder, and thus much more fun. In fact, I wish all the levels during the regular playthrough were as challenging.
