Portal

***Portal***, is a 2007 puzzle-platformer game, and is the twenty fifth game to be played on Butt Spectrum Club. The playthrough started on October 3rd, 2022 and ended October 21st, that same year. Portal is the first entry in the ***Portal Series*** and was followed up by ***Portal 2***.

## Game Information

Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platformer game developed and published by Valve for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, and Nintendo Switch.

The game puts the player deep in the Aperture Science Research Facility and is given a tool called the portal gun, which allows the player to shoot portals to complete puzzles.

Portal received a direct sequel in the form of Portal 2, and has also received multiply spin-off titles such as Bridge Constructor Portal and Aperture Desk Job.

## Playthrough

The playthrough had ***Algernon*** playing while ***Poznan*** was watching. Algernon played the main game, but didn't play the bonus maps.

The playthrough also featured Algernon showing off some speedrunning techniques, that he learned while practicing his speedrunning for Portal.

## Plot

The game begins with Chell waking up from a stasis bed and hearing instructions from GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence, about upcoming tests. Chell enters into sequential distinct chambers that introduce her to varying challenges to solve using her portal gun, with GLaDOS as her only interaction. GLaDOS promises cake as a reward for Chell if she completes all the test chambers. As Chell nears completion, GLaDOS's motives and behavior turn more sinister, suggesting insincerity and callous disregard for the safety and well-being of test subjects. The test chambers become increasingly dangerous as Chell proceeds, including a live-fire course designed for military androids, as well as chambers flooded with a hazardous liquid. In one chamber, GLaDOS forces Chell to "euthanize" a Weighted Companion Cube in an incinerator, after Chell uses it for assistance.

After Chell completes the final test chamber, GLaDOS manoeuvres Chell into an incinerator in an attempt to kill her. Chell escapes with the portal gun and makes her way through the maintenance areas within the Enrichment Center. GLaDOS panics and insists that she was pretending to kill Chell as part of testing, while it becomes clear that GLaDOS had previously killed all the inhabitants of the center. Chell travels further through the maintenance areas, discovering dilapidated backstage areas covered in graffiti that includes statements such as "the cake is a lie", and pastiches of quotes from famous poets such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Emily Brontë.

Despite GLaDOS's attempts to dissuade her with lies and threats, Chell proceeds and eventually confronts GLaDOS in a large chamber where her hardware hangs overhead. A sphere soon falls from GLaDOS and Chell drops it in an incinerator. GLaDOS reveals that the sphere was the morality core of her conscience, one of multiple personality cores that Aperture Science employees installed after she flooded the center with neurotoxin gas; with the core removed, she can access its emitters again. A six-minute countdown starts as Chell dislodges and incinerates more of GLaDOS' personality cores, while GLaDOS mocks and attacks her. After Chell destroys the last personality core, a malfunction tears the room apart and transports everything to the surface. Chell lies outside the facility's gates amid the remains of GLaDOS, but is promptly dragged away by an unseen robotic entity.

The final scene, viewed within the bowels of the facility, shows a candlelit Black Forest cake, and a Weighted Companion Cube, surrounded by shelves containing dozens of inactive personality cores. The cores begin to light up, before a robotic arm descends and extinguishes the candle on the cake, casting the room into darkness. Over the credits, GLaDOS delivers a concluding report through the song "Still Alive", declaring the experiment to be a success.

## Episodes

1. NPC Type Beat
2. Technically, Everbody's Thick
3. Still Alive

## Links

* Playlist
* Series Playlist
* Complete Series

## Trivia

* Portal is the twenty fifth game to be played on the channel
* Portal is the fourteenth game to be completed on the channel
* The hosts are Algernon and Poznan
	+ Algernon is the one playing while Poznan is watching
* The boys are playing the PC version
* Algernon has stated he's a Portal Speedrunner. Algernon did post a Portal speedrun on September 29th, 2020 titled "An Idiot Tries to do a Portal Speedrun" in which he beat the game in 43 minutes and 30 seconds. If Algernon were to upload that onto the speedrunning leaderboards, he would be placed as the 1,805 fastest run in the glitchless category.