So I like portal....... Only because on of my favorite artist made that Amiga animation refereced it. That is how I found out about Portal.
Have you ever wondered why portal is popular?
Apparently they took the best parts of Metroid's backgrounds (going threw doors, riding the transporter, and navigating threw rooms
that are huge ) and morphed into a testing facility.
I had an idea like that too. Make a videogame where Samus runs threw a testing ground. However in portal they just took Digi-pen's
work ( they got GCN devkits as a gift, Digipen ), and stuffed
it into the half-life world. I am guessing they makers of this game are probably in my age group 20-40 years old, because at some point you can hear tetris being played in the background along with metroid/Phantasy Star exploration music being played.
Then of course their is the A.I. thingy which is no doubt is sappose to be the big bad Mother Brain. However she does not wear makeup and fights Captain N.
But when we get to her, she is not a tape box.
She is Flight of the Navigator without Pee-wee
Hermans voice. She is the complete opposite.
Then the second game comes along
They have that forsaken exit sign which was designed by a Japanese person, in alternative to the exit sign. Let me give you a hint. The Asians are taking over. Wherever you see that sign, that means Asians no doubt are present. We are talking about Chinese in America.
Then they have the eyeball guy, who is exaclty like flight of the navigator. They even make the walls laugh. Do not even look up the voice actor. Terrible sight.
It is just like my idea, of where Samus is in a big testing facility. Maybe they got the idea from playing Fusion which was a science lab. That is why I like this game.
So it just occured to me. This game is basically another Metroid. No
Prime crap, no super suit, no alien monsters. Just what made Metroid good. Tubes, doors, big-rooms, and mother brain. Then they replaced the brain with Flight of the Navigator at the very end, instead of a real computer room. Instead of using friggin missiles or defeating gigantic guardians like 8-man you have to slove puzzles. Metroid has some puzzle elements but they do not make it obvious.