

Portals can only be placed on certain surfaces, and portal shooting can be blocked via electric barriers. Featuring the same mechanics as the original game, the player solves puzzles with a prototype "portal gun", which allows them to create a connected opening on two different flat planes. Like Portal 2, Portal Stories: Mel is a puzzle-platform game played from the first-person perspective as the player character Mel. Reviewers largely praised the mod's visual design and ambition, though they criticized its difficulty later updates added a "story mode" that made the puzzles easier. Set in the Portal universe, players control the test subject Mel, who has to escape an underground facility after she spends decades in artificial hibernation. Like the official Portal games, it is a puzzle-platform game that involves placing interconnected "portals" to solve puzzles. The mod was released on June 25, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems, available freely to users who own Portal 2 on Steam. My body is already assuming the party escort submission position.Portal Stories: Mel is a single-player mod for Portal 2 developed by Prism Studios. It's not Portal 3, but at least it'll hold us over for a little while longer. “Who is this imposter Cave Johnson?” “What happened to the facility and its staff?” When she finally wakes, there is a fake Cave Johnson telling her she needs to escape the facility and a new device called the Aperture Handheld Portal Device, her mind races with questions.


Not everything worked as it should have though, but that wasn't going to get in the way of the progress of Science! Mel unfortunately took part in a faulty test called the Aperture: Science Innovators Short-Term Relaxation Vault, falling asleep for years. It tells the story of Mel, who meets a new personality core and faces an undiscovered threat to the Aperture facility.ġ952, in the early years of Aperture: Science Innovators, Cave Johnson’s scientists experimented with whatever they wanted. Portal Stories: Mel is a community made, free modification for Portal 2 based in the Portal universe.
