Portal 1 & 2 On Switch Compared To Other Platforms
Valve's series Portal is widely considered one of the best puzzle games in recent memory, and both the original and its sequel Portal 2 still hold up over a decade after their original release. Given their continued popularity, it's little surprise that new content and spin-offs are still being released for the Portal franchise to this day. Aperture Desk Job was released as a tech demo for the Steam Deck console as recently as March 2022. Just a month earlier in February, Nintendo revealed that a Switch port of both Portal andPortal 2 would come out at some point later on in 2022. Then, in June, the Nintendo Switch version of the Portal: Companion Collection dropped without warning during a Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase.
First released in 2007, in Portal gamers play as Chell, a test subject at Aperture Science. By using the Portal Gun, which can place two doorways on surfaces and allow for transport between them, they must solve their way through various test chambers and eventually escape from the AI overseer of the facility, GLaDOS. The sequel was released just a few years later, adding in new mechanics and characters. Portal 2 also featured a multiplayer game mode, the Cooperative Testing Initiative, which enabled players to solve puzzles with friends through either couch co-op or online gameplay. Since then, Portal's longevity has persisted thanks to community-made maps and mods.
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Despite its influence on some of the greatest puzzle games in the last few years, however, Portal and Portal 2 surprisingly haven't been released on very many current-gen platforms. The games are only available for PC/Mac/Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, the
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