Arbitrary Criteria Game Review: Portal is as delicious as cake
What a great time to be a gamer. It seems like there is no end in sight to that steady stream of excellent games. We already got Bioshock , Halo 3 , the Orange Box , Guitar Hero III , and we're waiting for Rock Band , Mass Effect , all before Christmas. What we lack is time to play them all. This is one that won't take too long. So I'm seeing this through our arbitrary prism of Seven Deadly Sins of Game Design ... Checkpoints : the game automatically saves whenever you do something significant. Essentially, you never need to worry about saving. But you can if you want. Anytime. Perfect. Boss fights : there is one, and it's fun and balanced enough that you can reasonably beat it on your first try (I did). Perfect. Mini-games : there are none
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