![]() ![]() While the game does keep track of the hilariously ludicrous costs of your constructions, that doesn’t play into your ranking on a level. ![]() No matter what your situation, these three object types and a solid understanding of your environment will allow you to succeed. What the system lacks in options, it makes up for in versatility. The rods can also be converted into roadways, which allows the carts to contact them (regular support structures will ignore all collisions). You only have two materials to build with: Aperture Science Convertible Scaffold Planks and Aperture Science Multipurpose Super Cables that is to say, hydraulic rods that can extend up to a fixed length, and cabling that can be as long as you need. Perhaps best of all, Ellen McLain reprises her role as GLaDOS in fine form, not only helping you through the tutorial but also showing up periodically to, well, be GLaDOS. Short cutscenes every ten levels catalog your Bendy’s rise to the “top” of Aperture’s testing team, with an array of humorous mishaps occurring all the way. Carts transport Bendies (the little avatars from Aperture Science promotional videos), who cheerfully wave as they set off, then flail madly when they inevitably fall into acid or get blown up. What makes Bridge Constructor Portal feel unique and fresh is its setting, and the fact that it takes full advantage of it really adds to the entertainment value of the title. ![]() Aerial faith plates, propulsion and repulsion gels, and GLaDOS’ sardonic sense of humor? Check, check, and triple check. I was also a bit disappointed that the portals are always static, and there aren’t any puzzles that involve placing them like you can in the first-person Portal games.As one might expect, Bridge Constructor Portal takes that formula and dips it in a thick coat of Aperture Science-brand paint (which will probably melt your eyeballs or something, but that’s not important). But if you are, you’re going to have an even worse time because there isn’t any kind of colorblind mode. There were a couple instances where I had to really zoom in and squint to tell the difference between yellow, light orange, and a slightly lighter shade of orange - and I’m not colorblind. ![]() The portals could get a bit frustrating on levels that involved more than a few color-coded pairs, though. You can progress to the end just fine in single-vehicle mode (which is still appropriately challenging), or choose to try to clear convoy mode for the ultimate bragging rights. The added weight of multiple cars means you have to build your structures more solidly, and there’s often a risk of collisions on levels where reaching the goal involves crossing through the same lane more than once in different directions. I always felt like I was making progress towards a solution, even when everything was going up in flames, and reaching the end of a level left me with a strong sense of satisfaction that was the culmination of many tweaks and “A-ha!” moments.Ĭonvoy mode earns you the ultimate bragging rights.There’s also a clever mechanic for scaling difficulty, in that each level can be completed either with one vehicle or a longer convoy of them. This creates a satisfying progression, as you can focus on just getting the first part of the track sorted and then troubleshoot in steps. While some of the harder puzzles are nothing short of mind-boggling on first glance, Bridge Constructor Portal allows you an unlimited number of dry runs to try and get it right. Especially in the later levels, they create some really crazy paths to victory that involve precisely tilted ramps and overlapping lanes of travel where you have to time everything just right if you don’t want your test subjects colliding with each other in a giant fireball. Portals create some really crazy paths to victory.The major twist separating it from previous Bridge Constructor games is, unsurprisingly, that many levels include paired sets of portals through which you can hurdle cars and other puzzle-related objects (such as the trusty companion cube), preserving their momentum. ![]()
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