![]() I had unlimited funds to place as many struts and roadway segments as I wanted, almost ensuring that any level could be brute forced by over-building. Budget is tracked, but is ultimately a meaningless number. Unlike previous Bridge Constructor games, Bridge Constructor Portal doesn’t require resource management in constructing solutions to each puzzle. Over time, additional elements are added that complicate the path to the goal, including the famed portals, companion cubes, and Portal’s deadly turrets. Puzzles start out easy enough, teaching the basics of bridge building and reinforcement. ![]() The basic idea is to construct physics-accurate bridges using cabling, struts, road segments, and predetermined anchor points in order to get testing vehicles from the beginning of the level to the end. Path to the CakeĪ side-scrolling, bridge-building puzzle game might be a departure from the first-person testing facilities that Portal fans are used to, but so are portals and bounce gel unfamiliar elements in the Bridge Constructor franchise. It never quite hits the same high notes that the writing in Portal and Portal 2 did, but hearing GLaDOS passively-aggressively insult my performance still brought a smile to my face. Bridge Constructor Portal’s humor centers on the dry sense that Aperture’s bottom line is more valued than human life. The Aperture testing chambers look like the sterile white environments that haunted Chell during her trials in the original games. GLaDOS is voiced by Ellen McLain, the same actress who portrayed her in the Portal series. Had I not known that Bridge Constructor was already a series, it would be easy to think that this was just a Portal spin-off. Marrying equal parts of each franchise, Bridge Constructor Portal sets the bar high as a crossover that feels less like fan service and more like an effective combination of each source property. ![]() The passive-aggressive intelligence made an appearance in LEGO Dimensions a few years ago, and now Bridge Constructor features an opportunity for fans to get a little bit more time in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center under her tutelage. Despite fans clamoring for more Portal, Valve seems particularly hesitant to milk the franchise.
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