Portal 2

Portal 2

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Cave here. So apparently all our test chamber designers went insane because they couldn’t get their puzzles to work properly. So, while they take a week of unpaid leave to cry to their parents about their “compile errors” and “unintended solutions” and other such nonsense, we need more tests. Now, we can’t get the hobos to do it because frankly they have about as many brain cells as my leftover lasagne from two weeks ago. That is to say forty billion, because the lasagne is alive, and it’s coming to eat me. Don’t ask.

Anyway, the problem with our old designers was human fallibility. How do we solve that problem? Robots, of course! Robots solve every problem. I’ve got one working on the lasagne right now. And by working on it I mean distracting it while I record this important message and then run for my life. So, I have given the two co-operative testing robots the chance to design their own test chamber. Whichever bot designs the best test wins, and their chamber will be integrated into Test Shaft Chimera. Whoever loses will be next in line to be fed to the lasagne. What’s that Greg? The robots are working together? You mean to tell me that these co-operative robots have a bond so strong that they are actually co-operating? Darn… Well, I guess it’s the end. The lasagne is coming for me. Pasta la vista, baby. Cave out.

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Welcome to Synthesis, a Medium difficulty map made collaboratively by K7 Avenger and Demon Arisen, which focuses on lasers and light bridges. Making a test chamber together was a monumental challenge, involving a ton of hard work, lots of communication and teamwork, and multiple variants and iterations before we settled on this map. It was a challenge, but we think the final result is superlative, and we hope you enjoy it too.

Be sure to check out K7 Avenger's workshop. He's as responsible for creating this great map as I am, if not more so. He makes wonderful puzzles and is one of my favourite authors, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not giving his tests a try.

Music: Portal Stories: Mel - Soundtrack | 22 - Live Fire Exercise by Harry101UK

Dedicated to Nock's Portal Hangout, 2017 - 2018, a wonderful Portal 2 community which unfortunately had to close down. We wish its members all the best for the future. Keep in touch, and happy gaming.
89 Comments
Hovering Harry 11 Jun @ 9:24pm 
Coming back to this I solved it way quicker and didn't find it too difficult. I really like how you move the portal so you can reopen the fizzler in the first test and use the light bridge to set up a return path in the second test .
Dark Rozen 20 May @ 4:59pm 
Just played through it again, it has some pretty cool ideas.
Hikari 12 Oct, 2024 @ 9:17pm 
The fact that I solved all three chambers without much difficulty despite not playing this for years is really creepy
Riishuu 21 Sep, 2024 @ 3:29pm 
I'm generally not a fan of multi test chambers and would probably prefer them as separate items. Regardless, I like the difficulty progression of the tests. I feel like the first one was quick and nothing too special but served nicely to boost confidence. The second chamber was really cool and I appreciated the sneaky geometry allowing you to go over a glass wall that for the longest time I thought went to the ceiling . The last chamber initially was a bit overwhelming because of its size but offered some pretty cool sequences and ended up being satisfying and not as scary as it seemed.
Mattchew 7 Sep, 2024 @ 4:03pm 
Room 3 blew me away a little! Took me a bit to sort it. Love the counter-intuitive sequence once you get the cube on the fizzler/stair button. Insane that in a clearly momentum heavy map, some of the flings were still quite subtle. Faved!
Sloi 4 Sep, 2024 @ 7:58pm 
Nice map!
SpielSatzFail 25 May, 2024 @ 7:54pm 
What a beast that wouldn't want to end. Great logic chamber. I already had some trouble in the first room ;D the second one was easier for me to decipher, the last one was about the same complexity, maybe a bit more, but I made it after some deep thinking.
I think this will be a favourite :steamthumbsup::neonsmile:
Hovering Harry 29 Apr, 2024 @ 4:00pm 
This chamber was amazing! Perfect difficulty for me! It was a good challenge but never a struggle. I solved it while I was taking a brief break from my computer.
Demon Arisen  [author] 29 Apr, 2024 @ 10:52am 
Well done ELYTRON! This is definitely one of my toughest chambers. I'd love to do another collab with K7 someday!
E L Y T R O N 19 Apr, 2024 @ 11:44pm 
"I'll just do one more Demon Arisen chamber"...an entire evening later: "how many rooms are there!?"

super hard, but very satisfying. Somehow I didn't crack and solved them all on my own. :steamthumbsup: