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Publisher(s): Valve Corporation, Microsoft Game Studios, (XBLA)
Composer(s): Kelly Bailey, Mike Moraski, Jonathan Coulton
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Genre: Puzzle-Platformer
Mode: Single Player
Portal
was released in 2007 for several platforms (usually sold with The Orange Box). It was a huge success at the time, and it's still widely respected to this day. You play as a human named Chell, who must complete several tests for the company Aperture Science. She soon becomes equipped with some sort of gun (Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device) that can shoot two different colored portals: Blue and Orange. When she shoots a certain color portal somewhere that she can reach and the other color somewhere else, she can jump into the first one and come out of the other. It sounds pretty basic, right? Well, this simple concept can be used to carry out very complicated tasks. Here's an example of what would be considered a 'simple' task:
This game consists of 19 different levels, which become harder as the player progresses throughout the game. The game is fairly short, and I beat it in several hours. Although it is short, the game is very well made and it's very addicting. I enjoyed it very much, and I recommend that anyone who hasn't played it yet to go play it now. Overall, I'd give it a 10 out of 10 for the gameplay. However, because the game is so short, I'd have to give it a 9 out of 10. This is still quite a good score, though. I hope you all enjoyed this brief review! ^^
Oh, and one more thing… Portal 2
comes out February 9th and I highly recommend looking into buying it. As of what I've seen of it so far, it looks absolutely fantastic!More info here. Read more!
franchise is a long-time running series consisting of 52 light novels, 5 anime seasons, 5 movies, 2 OVA's, and various video games, manga series, and radio dramas. The light novel series first began in 1989, with the first season of the anime series released in 1995. In 1996 and 1997 two subsequent seasons followed season one: Slayers Next and Slayers Try (left) respectively. In 2008, the Slayers franchise added a new installment to its then dormant anime series, Slayers Revolution, which took advantage of new animation techniques, including cell-shading, that were not around during the creation of the series' first three seasons. A 5th season, Slayers Evolution-R, was produced in 2009. Currently in the U.S, Slayers Revolution and Slayers Evolution-R are being aired on the Funimation Channel-- Funimation having dubbed all 5 of the series' seasons in English.
was a great anime. Of course, it's not for everyone. This anime is probably the weirdest one that I have ever watched. Now, I know that there are probably a lot of even weirder animes out there, but for me, it was strange. It's basically about this guy named Kou Ichinomiya, who can never owe anyone anything. He's actually the CEO of a major company, and he was very valuable. He was raised with that strict rule where he couldn't owe anybody, however, and he was frowned upon by his father if he ever broke it. So, he had lived his life without owing anyone anything, until he was 21. He was chased down by a bunch of teenagers and his pants were ripped off of him. The teenagers flew his pants like a flag up high on a bridge. He needed to climb up the beam and get his pants down, without anyone's help. He was just about to grab his pants, when all of the sudden his boxers started falling off. A girl named Nino saw him and told him that if his boxers fell off anymore, it would be a public offense. She offered to help him get his pants, but then he would owe her. So, he continued on, hoping that his boxers wouldn't fall. Instead, just as he grabbed his pants, the whole beam from the bridge fell. He fell with it off the bridge and into the river. He was being dragged down by the weight, and he thought that he was going to die. Until, Nino jumped in after him and rescued him. He was happy, but also very frantic. He owed her more than anything, his life. So, he offered her everything he could, except one thing. She didn't want anything, except for him to become her lover. Going by his rule, he had to accept. Even worse, he had to live under a bridge with her and all of the other bridge dwellers. This was looking like an adventure he didn't want to go on. (9/10)
