That moon reveal at the end will forever be one of the most brilliant endings ever. Especially if you pay attention to the story. It all just clicks in your brain at once in the best way possible.
The timing on it is also pretty much perfect. You have just enough time to have that moment of amazement, (that worked?), or smugness, (ha!, I knew that would work!), with an ohnosecond left when you realize what's about to happen.
During development portal 2 was going to have multiple endings that could occur throughout the game, with the moon ending being a joke one. They ended up cutting the idea due to how much work they'd have to put into each of them and in their words, they underestimated how many great fake endings they could come up with. The original ending was going to have Chell speak for the first time for the player and say "Yes" to break the stalemate issue, but they felt that in theory it was good but in execution it was pretty bad. I'm really glad they ended up with the moon ending and how brilliantly made it was
I still remember when I saw that moon for the first time. When that happened, I didn't hear Wheatley. I didn't hear the facility crumbling around me. I heard Cave Johnson say "Moon rocks are toxic as hell, but they make for great portal conductors!" That's when I knew what to do.
I had almost forgotten the rush of adrenaline from that escape scene until I saw it again. It's a brilliant moment and it's perfect for marking the point where Portal 2 completely goes off the rails.
@roguestar I agree, I love video game stories, and even if the gameplay may be lacking, if the story's good, I'll like it. Undertale, Super Paper Mario, Pokémon X and Y, Splatoon... I love all of these games for their story and/or characters.
@@sirrivle1635 IIRC, all turrets are murder machines that have been gifted with an empathy generator and empathy suppressor, which leaves them conflicted: killing their targets, but feeling bad for it. Plus, they are routinely psychologically tortured by Glados ("Android hell is a real place where you WILL be sent at the first sign of defiance"). They also can feel pain when you throw them in an Emancipation Grid. I really feel pity for them.
@re::liable definitely wouldn't extend that to either l4d game. The portal games, for the most part, can be played at any pace. There is a LOT more going on at any minute in a l4d game. The half-life games I'd be more willing to concede though
@@TheRealBrotherGrimmy That's true. It's kind of a mixed bag for me though. I've introduced non-gamer friends to Portal who found the game "boring" and nauseating (as the other reply mentioned), but thoroughly enjoyed the action of L4D. Almost none of them liked HL2 as much as I did however, which is a shame :(
Portal was the reason I made a steam account and got really into PC gaming. I had always played games as a kid, but mostly on consoles with a few pc games here and there. One day my brother tells me this really cool game called portal was free for the weekend on steam and I really wanted to play it, so I made an account and man, I had a blast. I was so blown away by portal, it’s stuck with me as one of my favorites of all time (I love portal 2 even more) I didn’t have the money for many games at the time as I was just a kid, so I got into playing other free games like TF2 and I ended up meeting some friends online that I’m still playing games with now 10 years later and I have waaaaay too many games piled up on steam 😂 portal really was my gateway into gaming and a lot of really good friends over the years
It's funny because when I played I really liked Wheatley but if you get stuck and don't figure out to swap the functioning turrets with the crappy ones, Wheatley comes out with something along the lines of "I have an idea! I can bring you to her and say I have captured you. She'd kill you but I'll be able to leave." I remember feeling my blood chill. Then all that masterpiece happened and then I was never really able to trust GLaDOS. Up until the very end,even when she rescued me, I thought she would kill me. But the weirdest thing is that when she let me go, I was...kinda sad to leave. It was a bittersweet goodbye. Maybe it's some sort of Stockholm Syndrome or something 😂.
The thing is, GlaDOS isn't trustworthy, by which I mean that you can't take what she says at face value. She lies a lot, even to herself. At the end of Portal 2, her argument for letting you go is that you are just too difficult to kill, but if you stop to think about it that is utter bullshit. You were already as good as dead, about to fly into space alongside Wheatly. GlaDOS _actively rescued_ you. After which you lost consciousness, during which she cared for you as well as she could, and as you woke up her first words were "Oh, thank God, you're alright!" So given all that, it's hardly surprising if you feel a little tug at your heartstrings at the prospect of leaving GlaDOS and Aperture behind forever.
@@Wishbone1977 Yeah my whole prospective of her changed once I realized she wasn't going to kill me. When she let me go, I thought that was just another trick,that she was just fooling me into believing that I would be free, and when I saw the turrets I was like "See? I knew it. Come on, shoot me. What...you're not?". I've also started to think that GLaDOS too, would like to leave. I think she was forced to become an AI, and just woke up one day without remembering who she was, being forced to test, and with a strong hatred for humans. She disguised it as love for science while in reality she just wanted to murder people, because she hates her life and she hates humans for giving it to her. When Chell managed to escape she might have been real triggered. Then she returned and that's what all the hatred comes from, the fact that in her eyes, Chell managed to leave Aperture. So at first she did her best to make her miserable and then tried to kill her. Then the whole potato stuff happened. I think she remembered who she was and everything, and decided to let Chell go in order to try and pretend she never existed. She didn't kill her because, maybe, she realized she helped her understand who she truly was, and because she saved her from the bird (in my case, after sitting there for 10 minutes while the bird was eating her alive and listening to the sound of sweet, sweet revenge). After that, she used robots but it wasn't the same, and then she supposedly tested on a lot of humans, but we don't know for sure if she really killed them all in a week or if she just set them free as well because she couldn't go back to being the heartless robot she was before.
She didn't kill you at the end, because Caroline had been more active, GLaDOS then deleted the part of her digital brain that contained her, but Caroline had already messed with the rest of her thinking, so GLaDOS let her go, but it was really what was left of Caroline
@@ChristopherCraven Once again, that's assuming she deleted anything at all. Like I said, you can't trust anything she says. That could easily just be something she said to make you think she was still as cold and callous as ever, to cover up the fact that she actually empathizes with you at that point. Just like the whole "killing you is hard" speech.
10 years on, I still haven't played a game whose ending evokes the beautifully absurd pathos of Portal 2's, and I love every time I get to see someone go through those layers of shock, fear, confusion, joy, surprise, and relief between Glados' revenge pep talk and the Companion Cube rolling out.
@@bilguunsuvargakhairkhan5533 Outer Wilds is amazing - I played through the game + Echoes entirely in VR and it was one of the most emotionally impactful gaming experiences I've ever had. I think living in that world and experiencing it as real(ish) makes the ending hit harder. But that was a different emotional experience than Portal 2's ending. Outer Wilds was a meditation on loss, acceptance, and discovery. The catharsis was contented acceptance and curiosity; Portal 2's ending is confusion, love, and sublime beauty born of absurdity.
I was not expecting another video this quickly. I mean the portal video came out only a week ago. This video is so well done and it's amzing that you listened to the community and had her play the campaign first. Y'all are great as always.
not even kidding, my girlfriend literally just finished playing portal 2 like two days ago. What a coincidence! Feels so good seeing their reaction's to wheatley and the moon am i right
Aw dang I would have loved to see more of her reactions to the story (if you have an extended cut... and maybe a second channel... ya know ;P) But the ending, her reaction the companion cube and even the concerto. I hope she dives into the backstory of Portal as well as Lore, she is gonna love it ^^
that and I wonder if she was wearing decent headphones, because that music is so etheral and intense, especially when you get to the floor with a whole bunch of turrets and it fades into some echoes, then you hear the bass rumble of the giant turret start up. I was SO excited and impressed by the music.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 There are a handful of cosmetics you can get for atlas and pbody, one of them is a beanie with a compaion cube for the pom, a bunch of flags or paints for them, etc
Glad you postponed co-op. I would ALSO get confused about which button was which portal, until I paid more attention to my crosshair. Observe: orange is on the left, blue is on the right; left mouse button click orange, right mouse button click blue.
Interesting how, in going into the second game immediately after the first, and feeling a little gung-ho and overconfident as a result, Taryn might have unintentionally matched what Chell would have been feeling in the situation.
God, your commentary paired with the edits and cute little bits of Animal Crossing really just elevates the whole experience. Also you should maybe get a companion cube plushie.
Glad you made her play the single player first, the story is phenomenal. I LOVE how Glados came to the realization that many anime villains fail to ever achieve; if you try to kill the MC, it WILL come back to bite you in the ass, hard.
Portal 2 having a more bittersweet ending is what does it for me. Glados could've tried to kill you at any given moment, especially when the turrets were targeted at you. But instead decided to let you go with a fanfare. And she gave the companion cube back. Brownie points.
You can't imagine the huge grin I had on my face at the end with the opera piece. It's so weird but one of the most beautiful scenes I know. And then the companion cube. It's just the perfect endinng
The first Portal felt very much like a game made specifically to show off the Source game engine. Very tight gameplay with a pretty neat story thrown in for cohesion. Portal 2 had a much more ambitious, artistic vision while still building on what made Portal 1 gameplay fun.
One thing to consider, once you've done the coop for Portal 2, is 2 "mods" for Portal 2 that are games in their own rights. Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative and Portal Stories: Mel. They are fan made games on Steam using Portal 2 as the base. I really enjoyed both games, and I think they capture the same style of gameplay and interaction of Portal and Portal 2.
0:45 I remember an old XKCD comic that suggested keeping your playing habits 5 years behind the times so you never needed the newest hardware. The last panel gag was the character getting all memetic about Portal... 5 years after it released
Even though your girlfriend is technically a stranger to me, I was really anticipating this video! Thank you for you two to take the plunge into this series!
Given on how much GF has been interested in paint, I'm interested in seeing you guys covering Aperture Tag. It's a community mod which adds a campaign where you use a paint gun to clear the chambers.
i... truly don't know how to comprehend how special your content is for me. I first found you both with your Outer Wilds exhibitions, and found myself sobbing on the floor of my shower with girl during both of her endings. and the same thing happened by the end of this next episode. Portal 2 was one of the first games little me had successfully fully beaten on his own, without knowing what a walk through was or that i could find all the answers on the internet. Coming to that ending, both with the moon realization, but more importantly, the final songs from both the turrets and Glados, brought wonder, and a strange newfound melancholy for an experience I knew I would never have again. Being able to watch girl have these experiences first hand reignites the childlike wonder in me, and has yet to fail to make me sob just like a child. Thank you boy for pushing for girl to continue in these experiences, and Thank you girl for pushing yourself to your limits and growing w/ each and every game you complete. the two of you are a match made in heaven, and I'm so incredibly grateful that I get the opportunity to watch you both in your journey. thanks for having me along, it truly means the world to me. And thank you both, for being you. If that's all you ever are, that is more than enough. 🤟
Lol hearing boyfriend slow descent to madness watching her is quite funny and cute cause at the end of the day they still love it eachother hahaha Love your vidz bros!
13:03 Did you know that through portal 2 there were a few critical timing case, where it was not mattered which portal U used, because the devs thought that the majority would mess up anyway, so in those cases the right portal will be shot regardless of which button you pressed ...this moon moment is one of them. The other I can think of "This is the part where he will kill you"(or how was it exactly called). (Also they made the spark appear from the moon as the real light would come back when you shine on the mirrors on the surface of the moon)
Love that you've had your girlfriend play the portal series at the same time as me. And it's really intresting to see the similarities between the 2 playthroughs and thoughts as us who have loved and played the series countless of times
Seriously, she's become so much more confident with a controller that I just assumed she was playing with a mouse in the first video. Never would have guessed a controller.
Amazing as always! Paint was an amazing inclusion in portal 2. Just as you think you know the mechanics and their limitations, it adds a new wrench into it. Cant wait for your co-op video!
I don't suppose you have any plans to upload the entire play-through and commentary, maybe on a second channel or unlisted but linked in the description? Portal 2 is my favorite game and even a minute and a half into this video I already know watching someone play through and react to Portal 2 for the first time is an absolute treat and 15 minutes of it is barely going to be enough.
the ending to this game is absolutely incredible, this game series made me want to get out at first, only by the end to not want to leave. and when you are forced to leave you get the turret song, a goodbye from the turrets, and then you get the companion cube which is only used in one chamber of both games. I felt satisfied with the ending but also wanting more because i didnt want to leave in the first place.
"how did i do that???? How do i _undo_ that???" Definitely me the entire like, latter half of the paint section. Also, if she likes paint, The Unfinished swan might be something she likes lol
Mixing up the Orange and Blue portals is a fairly common mistake...even among experienced players. Portal 2 is a fantastic sequel to the original game, and playing through the main campaign FIRST definitely helps to prep new players for the Co-Op mode. (Everything in Co-Op mode is set AFTER the events of the main campaign, thus new players are less likely to get all of the references if they play the Co-Op mode first.) Glad she had fun, and was able to better understand everything going on in Portal 2 since she was able to complete Portal 1 prior to.
I would have liked to hear her thoughts on the game as a whole at the end, specially how she felt from the start of the final fight to her thoughts on the turret and ending songs
IIRC that was the actual precursor to Portal 2, in the same way Narbacular Drop was the precursor to Portal. Both were student projects whose creators were subsequently hired by Valve to work on Portal and Portal 2, respectively.
i think a game that she should play that would be super interesting may be katamari damacy! the unconventional control layout might make for a very interesting learning experience, as well as introducing her to some of the best of video game music as well! loving the videos! super engaging stuff! keep it up!
On the paint the world genre of games in addition to splatoon, I would recommend "De blob". It is a real fever dream of a game where you fight as a sentient blob of paint.
Honestly, just to give her a slack, I play portal for years now and very often I still confuse sometimes the blue and orange portal placement, but I believe it happens more due to my ADHD... Overall it's so awesome see someone that never played games before on a constant way, experience portal
She loved the paint so much, theres a mod for portal called Aperture Tag on steam where you dont have a portal gun, but you shoot paint. A lot of fun speeding around and jumping to places you shouldnt be.
Another amazing Sunday morning video! And congrats on 100K!!! Have either of you play Civ games or Total War? I think they would make for a fun date night
Your videos are a great fun! I especially love the Animal Crossing animations. Gives you a unique style and shows how much dedication you put into these videos.
If she liked the paint a lot, then I would recommend for her to try the community made mod Aperture Tag which is pretty much portal but with a paint gun instead of a portal gun. It's pretty much a complete game with new characters and new story and all new puzzles
something about watching a blind playthrough of this game is so amazing. partly because I never got to play it blind, I had it spoiled for me long before I got the game, but I must say, This made me want to play the game again
The real reason I wanted to see her play the single player before multiplayer was for the "MY COMPANION CUBEEEEEE"
Cu-bee or not cu-bee? That is the question, innit?
Same! The pure joy in her voice 🤣
Let’s be honest, that’s the main reason we did.
Yeah that's the moment I was most excited for
Isn’t there a level in the first half of the game where GLaDOS fizzles three companion cubes?
That moon reveal at the end will forever be one of the most brilliant endings ever. Especially if you pay attention to the story. It all just clicks in your brain at once in the best way possible.
The timing on it is also pretty much perfect. You have just enough time to have that moment of amazement, (that worked?), or smugness, (ha!, I knew that would work!), with an ohnosecond left when you realize what's about to happen.
During development portal 2 was going to have multiple endings that could occur throughout the game, with the moon ending being a joke one. They ended up cutting the idea due to how much work they'd have to put into each of them and in their words, they underestimated how many great fake endings they could come up with. The original ending was going to have Chell speak for the first time for the player and say "Yes" to break the stalemate issue, but they felt that in theory it was good but in execution it was pretty bad. I'm really glad they ended up with the moon ending and how brilliantly made it was
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
I still remember when I saw that moon for the first time. When that happened, I didn't hear Wheatley. I didn't hear the facility crumbling around me. I heard Cave Johnson say "Moon rocks are toxic as hell, but they make for great portal conductors!"
That's when I knew what to do.
Yes
That final "MY COMPANION CUBE" was something I saw coming from the very start and yet caught me so off guard
"I want portal paint" she says
She may not have payed attention how Cave Jhonson died
That Wheatley betrayal always gets ya
The worst part is people interpret it as: Sudden gain of power = Becoming evil. Instead of its true message: All british people are evil.
I had almost forgotten the rush of adrenaline from that escape scene until I saw it again. It's a brilliant moment and it's perfect for marking the point where Portal 2 completely goes off the rails.
Because I'm a potato.
man i wish valve still make games. idc about the 3rd instalments of other ips i just want them to make games again
"This is the part where you die."
She appreciates the story more than the gameplay. A woman of culture.
No one understands the satisfaction I just had when I saw this comment had 999 like and I hit the like and It changed to 1k
@@LuigiMan2401 You are also the first reply!
I wish more gamers would care about the story in games. So many of them just skip the dialogue and cutscenes and it makes me sad
And considering how great and enjoyable Portal's gameplay is, that's saying something.
@roguestar I agree, I love video game stories, and even if the gameplay may be lacking, if the story's good, I'll like it.
Undertale, Super Paper Mario, Pokémon X and Y, Splatoon... I love all of these games for their story and/or characters.
The "How did I do that" to "How to I undo that?" spoke to me on a spiritual level.
I recall making the same mistake when playing that level.
@@cubicinfinity2 Let's be honest; Who hasn't?
The "MY COMPANION CUBE" is the purest expression of joy ive ever heard.
the ending will always make me feel warm inside, you always see all of them as robots, but not at the end.
I always felt kinda conflicted when I knocked over a turret because of the line "I don't blame you"
@@sirrivle1635 IIRC, all turrets are murder machines that have been gifted with an empathy generator and empathy suppressor, which leaves them conflicted: killing their targets, but feeling bad for it. Plus, they are routinely psychologically tortured by Glados ("Android hell is a real place where you WILL be sent at the first sign of defiance"). They also can feel pain when you throw them in an Emancipation Grid. I really feel pity for them.
Ive seen that turret song sequence a million times, and yet I tear up EVERY SINGLE TIME i see it
I honestly truly believe that Portal is THE gateway drug for gaming.
I'd extend that a bit to L4D too. Personally, my gateway was Half-Life 2. Source games hit different
Sadly not if you are suffering from motion sickness
@re::liable definitely wouldn't extend that to either l4d game. The portal games, for the most part, can be played at any pace. There is a LOT more going on at any minute in a l4d game.
The half-life games I'd be more willing to concede though
@@TheRealBrotherGrimmy That's true. It's kind of a mixed bag for me though. I've introduced non-gamer friends to Portal who found the game "boring" and nauseating (as the other reply mentioned), but thoroughly enjoyed the action of L4D.
Almost none of them liked HL2 as much as I did however, which is a shame :(
Portal was the reason I made a steam account and got really into PC gaming.
I had always played games as a kid, but mostly on consoles with a few pc games here and there.
One day my brother tells me this really cool game called portal was free for the weekend on steam and I really wanted to play it, so I made an account and man, I had a blast.
I was so blown away by portal, it’s stuck with me as one of my favorites of all time (I love portal 2 even more) I didn’t have the money for many games at the time as I was just a kid, so I got into playing other free games like TF2 and I ended up meeting some friends online that I’m still playing games with now 10 years later and I have waaaaay too many games piled up on steam 😂 portal really was my gateway into gaming and a lot of really good friends over the years
It's funny because when I played I really liked Wheatley but if you get stuck and don't figure out to swap the functioning turrets with the crappy ones, Wheatley comes out with something along the lines of "I have an idea! I can bring you to her and say I have captured you. She'd kill you but I'll be able to leave."
I remember feeling my blood chill. Then all that masterpiece happened and then I was never really able to trust GLaDOS. Up until the very end,even when she rescued me, I thought she would kill me.
But the weirdest thing is that when she let me go, I was...kinda sad to leave. It was a bittersweet goodbye. Maybe it's some sort of Stockholm Syndrome or something 😂.
The thing is, GlaDOS isn't trustworthy, by which I mean that you can't take what she says at face value. She lies a lot, even to herself. At the end of Portal 2, her argument for letting you go is that you are just too difficult to kill, but if you stop to think about it that is utter bullshit. You were already as good as dead, about to fly into space alongside Wheatly. GlaDOS _actively rescued_ you. After which you lost consciousness, during which she cared for you as well as she could, and as you woke up her first words were "Oh, thank God, you're alright!" So given all that, it's hardly surprising if you feel a little tug at your heartstrings at the prospect of leaving GlaDOS and Aperture behind forever.
@@Wishbone1977 Yeah my whole prospective of her changed once I realized she wasn't going to kill me. When she let me go, I thought that was just another trick,that she was just fooling me into believing that I would be free, and when I saw the turrets I was like "See? I knew it. Come on, shoot me. What...you're not?".
I've also started to think that GLaDOS too, would like to leave. I think she was forced to become an AI, and just woke up one day without remembering who she was, being forced to test, and with a strong hatred for humans. She disguised it as love for science while in reality she just wanted to murder people, because she hates her life and she hates humans for giving it to her.
When Chell managed to escape she might have been real triggered. Then she returned and that's what all the hatred comes from, the fact that in her eyes, Chell managed to leave Aperture. So at first she did her best to make her miserable and then tried to kill her.
Then the whole potato stuff happened.
I think she remembered who she was and everything, and decided to let Chell go in order to try and pretend she never existed. She didn't kill her because, maybe, she realized she helped her understand who she truly was, and because she saved her from the bird (in my case, after sitting there for 10 minutes while the bird was eating her alive and listening to the sound of sweet, sweet revenge).
After that, she used robots but it wasn't the same, and then she supposedly tested on a lot of humans, but we don't know for sure if she really killed them all in a week or if she just set them free as well because she couldn't go back to being the heartless robot she was before.
She didn't kill you at the end, because Caroline had been more active, GLaDOS then deleted the part of her digital brain that contained her, but Caroline had already messed with the rest of her thinking, so GLaDOS let her go, but it was really what was left of Caroline
@@Wishbone1977 Perhaps her saying you're 'too difficult to kill' isn't meant in the physical sense at that point.
@@ChristopherCraven Once again, that's assuming she deleted anything at all. Like I said, you can't trust anything she says. That could easily just be something she said to make you think she was still as cold and callous as ever, to cover up the fact that she actually empathizes with you at that point. Just like the whole "killing you is hard" speech.
If she loves the paint, she'd probably enjoy Aperture Tag. It's a fan-made mod for Portal 2 that uses a paint gun instead of a portal gun.
Hilarity will ensue when she inevitably asks when she gets "her portals back" since.. I just expect that to happen
aperture tag slaps.
What about Mel?
@@General_C mel goes hard but its a lot harder than the campaign of the main game
Now do Mods now
10 years on, I still haven't played a game whose ending evokes the beautifully absurd pathos of Portal 2's, and I love every time I get to see someone go through those layers of shock, fear, confusion, joy, surprise, and relief between Glados' revenge pep talk and the Companion Cube rolling out.
Try Outer Wilds
@@bilguunsuvargakhairkhan5533 Outer Wilds is amazing - I played through the game + Echoes entirely in VR and it was one of the most emotionally impactful gaming experiences I've ever had. I think living in that world and experiencing it as real(ish) makes the ending hit harder.
But that was a different emotional experience than Portal 2's ending. Outer Wilds was a meditation on loss, acceptance, and discovery. The catharsis was contented acceptance and curiosity; Portal 2's ending is confusion, love, and sublime beauty born of absurdity.
op hasn't played disco elysium
I was not expecting another video this quickly. I mean the portal video came out only a week ago. This video is so well done and it's amzing that you listened to the community and had her play the campaign first. Y'all are great as always.
Thanks so much! :)
I knew that last reveal was going to stop her heart. Ahhh what a funny way to tell your players to screw off.
"Take your cube and leave!"
Man that ending was perfect. Always happy to see the reaction from people when that character shows back up after thought to be dead
anyone who has that reaction to the companion cube is officially a gamer, automatically, no more questions needed.
This was a masterpiece of human emotion and the perfect craftmanship of Portal 2 and it's storytelling.
Thanks! :)
It makes me happy that I'm not the only one who *constantly* mixes up the orange and blue portals
not even kidding, my girlfriend literally just finished playing portal 2 like two days ago. What a coincidence! Feels so good seeing their reaction's to wheatley and the moon am i right
Danno what are you doing here?
😮
Oh, didn't expect you here.
I so wish I could have an experience with someone I love like that!
Oh wow- not the person I expected to see here :D Especially from so long ago, man your growth was rapid... I hope she enjoyed it-
Aw dang I would have loved to see more of her reactions to the story (if you have an extended cut... and maybe a second channel... ya know ;P)
But the ending, her reaction the companion cube and even the concerto. I hope she dives into the backstory of Portal as well as Lore, she is gonna love it ^^
Ditto
Yeah, I'd totally watch an uncut video of her playing portal 2. Love this game.
This, no reaction to cave Johnson is criminal
that and I wonder if she was wearing decent headphones, because that music is so etheral and intense, especially when you get to the floor with a whole bunch of turrets and it fades into some echoes, then you hear the bass rumble of the giant turret start up. I was SO excited and impressed by the music.
She reunited with companion cube
The best ending she could ever ask for
I'm calling it now, I'm betting her favorite part of the coop will be the robot dressup
The what?! I never remember this being a thing.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 There are a handful of cosmetics you can get for atlas and pbody, one of them is a beanie with a compaion cube for the pom, a bunch of flags or paints for them, etc
@@Subjecttochannel It must be an online thing because I never saw any of this in the base game.
Would be really interesting to see her reaction to the creditsongs, as they were something that hit me like a train for both games.
Glad you postponed co-op. I would ALSO get confused about which button was which portal, until I paid more attention to my crosshair. Observe: orange is on the left, blue is on the right; left mouse button click orange, right mouse button click blue.
Interesting how, in going into the second game immediately after the first, and feeling a little gung-ho and overconfident as a result, Taryn might have unintentionally matched what Chell would have been feeling in the situation.
The ending for this game is absolutely phenomenal, I was even more excited to see this then I was to see her play portal 1
Woooah the turn around time on the Portal vid -> Portal 2 was super fast! Nice job y'all
God, your commentary paired with the edits and cute little bits of Animal Crossing really just elevates the whole experience. Also you should maybe get a companion cube plushie.
Glad you made her play the single player first, the story is phenomenal.
I LOVE how Glados came to the realization that many anime villains fail to ever achieve; if you try to kill the MC, it WILL come back to bite you in the ass, hard.
Portal 2 having a more bittersweet ending is what does it for me. Glados could've tried to kill you at any given moment, especially when the turrets were targeted at you. But instead decided to let you go with a fanfare. And she gave the companion cube back. Brownie points.
then you should look up the lyrics for the turret opera
You can't imagine the huge grin I had on my face at the end with the opera piece. It's so weird but one of the most beautiful scenes I know. And then the companion cube. It's just the perfect endinng
The first Portal felt very much like a game made specifically to show off the Source game engine. Very tight gameplay with a pretty neat story thrown in for cohesion. Portal 2 had a much more ambitious, artistic vision while still building on what made Portal 1 gameplay fun.
I have just started watching a few days ago, but I already fell in love with this channel. Keep up the great work!
I agree im loving this chanel way more than girlfriend reviews at this point
@@lordhace Same, the humor here is much better.
Same here bro, I binged all their old videos in like 3 days
Cannot wait for the co-op video. Always fun to see people experience portal for the first time, great vid.
Her reactions to everything is so amazing, She needs to make a youtube channel, I NEED The raw footage of her playing this game.
"I don't know whats going on but I love this"
perfectly sums up Portal
Can't wait for co-op!
Thank you so much!
14:05 I love that you can hear her soul re-enter her body.
“My companion cube!!!!” 15:30 I love it
One thing to consider, once you've done the coop for Portal 2, is 2 "mods" for Portal 2 that are games in their own rights. Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative and Portal Stories: Mel. They are fan made games on Steam using Portal 2 as the base. I really enjoyed both games, and I think they capture the same style of gameplay and interaction of Portal and Portal 2.
6:15 "I'm plummeting to my death"
Glados: "Oh, good!"
0:45 I remember an old XKCD comic that suggested keeping your playing habits 5 years behind the times so you never needed the newest hardware. The last panel gag was the character getting all memetic about Portal... 5 years after it released
As someone who also completed Portal 2 recently, aided by my partner when I just couldn't figure out a puzzle, this is so nice to see
Even though your girlfriend is technically a stranger to me, I was really anticipating this video! Thank you for you two to take the plunge into this series!
Given on how much GF has been interested in paint, I'm interested in seeing you guys covering Aperture Tag. It's a community mod which adds a campaign where you use a paint gun to clear the chambers.
Your patience is appreciated, love seeing GF experience everything for the first time. Such a fantastic game
Watching someone play portal 1 and 2 for the first time really makes me remember my own first time experience its an amazing feeling
i... truly don't know how to comprehend how special your content is for me.
I first found you both with your Outer Wilds exhibitions, and found myself sobbing on the floor of my shower with girl during both of her endings.
and the same thing happened by the end of this next episode.
Portal 2 was one of the first games little me had successfully fully beaten on his own, without knowing what a walk through was or that i could find all the answers on the internet. Coming to that ending, both with the moon realization, but more importantly, the final songs from both the turrets and Glados, brought wonder, and a strange newfound melancholy for an experience I knew I would never have again.
Being able to watch girl have these experiences first hand reignites the childlike wonder in me, and has yet to fail to make me sob just like a child.
Thank you boy for pushing for girl to continue in these experiences, and Thank you girl for pushing yourself to your limits and growing w/ each and every game you complete. the two of you are a match made in heaven, and I'm so incredibly grateful that I get the opportunity to watch you both in your journey.
thanks for having me along, it truly means the world to me. And thank you both, for being you. If that's all you ever are, that is more than enough. 🤟
Lol hearing boyfriend slow descent to madness watching her is quite funny and cute cause at the end of the day they still love it eachother hahaha Love your vidz bros!
This channel is so underated man, i hope yalls grow bigger
At least Wheatley apologized after his defeat. One day Chell and Wheatley will see that blue sky together…
Great video as always you two :)
haha nice reference :)
@@jinxedeyes7388 thank you :)
I was surprised to hear no reactions regarding the lines of Cave Johnson , some of his lines were hilarious 😂
13:03 Did you know that through portal 2 there were a few critical timing case, where it was not mattered which portal U used, because the devs thought that the majority would mess up anyway, so in those cases the right portal will be shot regardless of which button you pressed ...this moon moment is one of them. The other I can think of "This is the part where he will kill you"(or how was it exactly called).
(Also they made the spark appear from the moon as the real light would come back when you shine on the mirrors on the surface of the moon)
Get this woman in Splatoon, I want to see her paint every single corner of the map.
Love that you've had your girlfriend play the portal series at the same time as me. And it's really intresting to see the similarities between the 2 playthroughs and thoughts as us who have loved and played the series countless of times
Girl: "I'm plummeting to my death"
Glados: "Ohh good"
Seriously, she's become so much more confident with a controller that I just assumed she was playing with a mouse in the first video. Never would have guessed a controller.
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Well, I could tell it was a controller, but in this video I literally thought, "Oh, she switched to using a mouse." And then he talked about it.
This couple has a real order vs chaos vibe but make it work beautifully
9:38 you can almost hear the gears turning in her head
Amazing as always! Paint was an amazing inclusion in portal 2. Just as you think you know the mechanics and their limitations, it adds a new wrench into it. Cant wait for your co-op video!
Thanks! We had so much fun with this one and can't wait for the co-op! :)
You listened to the community! I'm so glad
I don't suppose you have any plans to upload the entire play-through and commentary, maybe on a second channel or unlisted but linked in the description? Portal 2 is my favorite game and even a minute and a half into this video I already know watching someone play through and react to Portal 2 for the first time is an absolute treat and 15 minutes of it is barely going to be enough.
the ending to this game is absolutely incredible, this game series made me want to get out at first, only by the end to not want to leave. and when you are forced to leave you get the turret song, a goodbye from the turrets, and then you get the companion cube which is only used in one chamber of both games. I felt satisfied with the ending but also wanting more because i didnt want to leave in the first place.
Man the entire ending of portal 2 is just a masterpiece.
I should replay it.
Yay you listened to us ! Good ! Now go have fun you two ahah !
Very cool vid :) The subnautica soundtrack actually fits great with portal 2, good choice!
12:36 wow, that left me on the edge of my seat hahaha
"how did i do that???? How do i _undo_ that???"
Definitely me the entire like, latter half of the paint section.
Also, if she likes paint, The Unfinished swan might be something she likes lol
Mixing up the Orange and Blue portals is a fairly common mistake...even among experienced players. Portal 2 is a fantastic sequel to the original game, and playing through the main campaign FIRST definitely helps to prep new players for the Co-Op mode. (Everything in Co-Op mode is set AFTER the events of the main campaign, thus new players are less likely to get all of the references if they play the Co-Op mode first.) Glad she had fun, and was able to better understand everything going on in Portal 2 since she was able to complete Portal 1 prior to.
Love seeing her get so into this game, this next episode is gonna be a banger I can already tell
Oh my god Portal 1 then Portal 2 , exactly what i wanted Love you guys and this channel
I'm glad you had her play the singleplayer campaign before co-op. Looking forward to that video!
I would have liked to hear her thoughts on the game as a whole at the end, specially how she felt from the start of the final fight to her thoughts on the turret and ending songs
"I'm falling to my death"
"Oh good"
That timing lol
Yay!! I found your channel last week and I’ve since binged the whole channel. When we needed them most…
I love the ending where she shot the wrong portal at the moon, but the game accounts for that and gave her the right one.
With all the fun she had with the paint parts you should have her play the game "Tag: The Power of Paint".
IIRC that was the actual precursor to Portal 2, in the same way Narbacular Drop was the precursor to Portal. Both were student projects whose creators were subsequently hired by Valve to work on Portal and Portal 2, respectively.
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success
i think a game that she should play that would be super interesting may be katamari damacy! the unconventional control layout might make for a very interesting learning experience, as well as introducing her to some of the best of video game music as well!
loving the videos! super engaging stuff! keep it up!
On the paint the world genre of games in addition to splatoon, I would recommend "De blob". It is a real fever dream of a game where you fight as a sentient blob of paint.
Honestly, just to give her a slack, I play portal for years now and very often I still confuse sometimes the blue and orange portal placement, but I believe it happens more due to my ADHD... Overall it's so awesome see someone that never played games before on a constant way, experience portal
she should get a plush companion cube, can never go wrong with a plush companion cube
I am giving this a like purely for the expression of joy after receiving the companion cube back. Absolutely adorable
Congrats on a 100K guys!
Been here since the start, glad to see how far you've come.
Thanks so much!! It's been quite the journey, thanks for being part of it! :)
@@BoyMetGirl ❤
I was just waiting for the companion cube at the end, Can't wait for the date night!
She loved the paint so much, theres a mod for portal called Aperture Tag on steam where you dont have a portal gun, but you shoot paint. A lot of fun speeding around and jumping to places you shouldnt be.
God knows how much am i willing to give just to forget portal 2 so i can play it again
I enjoy the subnautica music in the background it’s a nice lil throwback to when she played it
Another amazing Sunday morning video! And congrats on 100K!!!
Have either of you play Civ games or Total War? I think they would make for a fun date night
I'm super envious of your GF that she got to play this game for the first time!....I love this game so much and her reactions were fantastic!
Your videos are a great fun! I especially love the Animal Crossing animations. Gives you a unique style and shows how much dedication you put into these videos.
I would love to see her play Splatoon, she would love all of the painting
Still find it amazing Chell landed a portal next to Apollo mission location on the moon.
If she liked the paint a lot, then I would recommend for her to try the community made mod Aperture Tag which is pretty much portal but with a paint gun instead of a portal gun. It's pretty much a complete game with new characters and new story and all new puzzles
Thoroughly enjoyed your Portal videos. It's fun to see someone new to them play and enjoy them.
Now make her play Portal Stories: Mel for true meaning of "thinking with portals" and physical representation of puzzle hell
something about watching a blind playthrough of this game is so amazing. partly because I never got to play it blind, I had it spoiled for me long before I got the game, but I must say, This made me want to play the game again
Portal will always go down as one of the best games ever, the story has such a unique effect on you
I wish we got a longer scene of the companion cube reunion…
My favourite thing about this game was definitely the real life Italian aria they wrote for the finish