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Who Is Portal: Fact Or Fiction?

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With its unique, interactive, and even shocking storyline, minimalist gameplay, and plot twist, Portal creates a game experience like no other video game. While the gameplay is rather simple, the game itself is rather brilliant, especially with its storyline. Portal also introduces aspects of gender issues and feminism, with the only playable character being a female.
At its core, Portal is a game made up entirely of puzzles, increasing in complexity as the player passes each level. Each level or puzzle is surprising, focused, and concise. The basic mechanic of Portal is simple but brilliant. It is a first person shooter game and you are playing as the main character and are equipped with a Portal gun. The Portal gun makes essentially makes …show more content…

There are definitely other games with good writing and a captivating storyline, but Portal was one of the first to actually take advantage of the fact that it was a video game for its story. Portal is a video game story, as opposed to just a story within a game. Portal only ever could be a video game, rather than be able to be turned into or created from a book or movie. The dialogue itself also sets Portal apart from many other games. Glados’ dry and sarcastic lines are actually rather funny, and after playing the game for a second time, her lines and her character progression make a lot more …show more content…

Portal effectively adapts and even reinvents the first person shooter aspects of its genre in a manner that empowers females and a feminine character rather than subjugating the female to objectification by the male gaze. Typically the playable first person shooter characters in games are men, and even if there is a female option, she seems to serve towards the interest of men and is most likely scantily clad and very sexualized. Chell is wearing an orange jumpsuit and is by no means sexualized. As the player, you aren’t even aware that you are playing as a female character until well into the game when you see a glimpse of yourself through a portal. Portal creates a game experience like no other video game, and in turn sets itself apart from so many other video games and especially first person, and first person shooter games, with its interactive gameplay and puzzle solving, unique storyline, shocking plot twist, and use of a non sexualized female main

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