And, for those of you yet to beat the game in its entirety or keen to relive the moment from another's perspective, we've also captured the solution to each. In recognition of this we've picked out the ten chambers we found most challenging, memorable and just plain great during our single-player playthrough. It doesn't half make you feel stupid until you work it out, but Valve's environmental cues are often subtle enough to encourage the belief that your escape ranks alongside the discovery of fire in the pantheon of human achievement. Like that other notorious cortex-molester Braid, the solution in Portal 2 is always staring you in the face.
Which one was it for you? Most of those who've made it through to the end of Valve's brilliant sequel will have encountered at least one test chamber whose solution remained so unfathomably elusive as to induce genuine despair.įew puzzle games more skilfully manage and manipulate the player's emotional experience, capable of transforming us from humbled dolt to crowing genius in the space of a couple of trigger pulls.
