it just doesn't look very good. This thing is filled with annoying visual design choices that the original didn't have. The Goo is a mirror, High Energy Pellets are brighter than the sun, every Vital Apparatus Vent or tube is made from a perfectly clear glass that's impossible to make out when you're made to walk on it, and there's a noticeable delay before the portals "connect" to each other that isn't in the classic game at all. On top of all this, a game that normally runs at nearly 300 FPS on a 3090 barely runs at 40 FPS here with DLSS in ultra performance mode.

All of this might be forgivable if the game was actually nice looking, but you'd be hard-pressed to notice significant differences between this and the original version without running the two back-to-back. Even worse, I can't say the visual changes made here are actually improvements to Portal's classic visual design. Nor are these changes visually appealing next to all of the in-game assets and textures that they just didn't bother to update at all. It's a mess all around.

Just play the original Portal instead. A triumph this is not.

it just doesn't look very good. This thing is filled with annoying visual design choices that the original didn't have. The Goo is a mirror, High Energy Pellets are brighter than the sun, every Vital Apparatus Vent or tube is made from a perfectly clear glass that's impossible to make out when you're made to walk on it, and there's a noticeable delay before the portals "connect" to each other that isn't in the classic game at all. On top of all this, a game that normally runs at nearly 300 FPS on a 3090 barely runs at 40 FPS here with DLSS in ultra performance mode. All of this might be forgivable if the game was actually nice looking, but you'd be hard-pressed to notice significant differences between this and the original version without running the two back-to-back. Even worse, I can't say the visual changes made here are actually improvements to Portal's classic visual design. Nor are these changes visually appealing next to all of the in-game assets and textures that they just didn't bother to update at all. It's a mess all around. Just play the original Portal instead. A triumph this is not.