Many, Many Tears | PORTAL 2 Finale | First Playthrough

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @MegMage
    @MegMage  8 месяцев назад +1029

    Anybody else have one of the biggest cries of their life watching turrents sing? Asking for a friend

    • @arnabbiswasalsodeep
      @arnabbiswasalsodeep 8 месяцев назад +103

      I cried the first time as well & still kinda do. Look at the lyrics translated and you'll cry more.
      Also, please do react to the extras in the portal 2 menu or do it from a youtube playlist cuz they're gold.

    • @Vejitatheouji
      @Vejitatheouji 8 месяцев назад +5

      Not really?

    • @max.lindgren
      @max.lindgren 8 месяцев назад +21

      I still do, every time...

    • @nicolasgrard241
      @nicolasgrard241 8 месяцев назад +21

      Oh dude that turret opera followed by the original companion cube was gold and so beautiful to see and experience !

    • @gluecksdachs
      @gluecksdachs 8 месяцев назад +14

      There is an easter egg during a level, where you can hear some turrents practicing another song. That was my favorite part of the game as the song is also very emotional.

  • @byllekylle3831
    @byllekylle3831 8 месяцев назад +1388

    Fun fact. When you add the first core to Wheatley, the core corruption goes to 50% because Wheatley is already a corrupted core.

    • @sylph4252
      @sylph4252 7 месяцев назад +183

      Personally I interpreted it as Space Core being just that crazy

    • @guitarmaniac004
      @guitarmaniac004 7 месяцев назад +39

      I've played the game several times and I never picked up on that. Good catch!

    • @ja-nozeveryman5865
      @ja-nozeveryman5865 6 месяцев назад +33

      Or space core is just extra corrupted. Or both

    • @ChilletCraze
      @ChilletCraze 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@sylph4252 lmao true both are hilarious

    • @timorr-vz7je
      @timorr-vz7je 5 месяцев назад +7

      That’s not why. Percentages are added differently then normal numbers. If you take a percentage value and add 50% you get 50%. But adding 50% again does not equal 100% because you are only adding half of the remaining value (50) making it 75%. Adding 50% a 3rd time won’t reach 100% or 125% but the value between 75% and 100% (87.5%) because it’s the halfway point between 75 and 100.

  • @The_Story_Of_Us
    @The_Story_Of_Us 8 месяцев назад +959

    I love how the lyrics "when I delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad" are REDACTED. GLaDOS really sent you away so coldly because she actually does care about you and is coping with the sadness by doing what she always does, being passive aggressive and mean.

    • @caldercockatoo2234
      @caldercockatoo2234 8 месяцев назад +103

      I think I remember seeing some people theorize that the field that Chell got sent to was really just another fake room in Aperture, but that idea always bugged me cause it defeats the point of this great game's beautiful ending.

    • @The_Story_Of_Us
      @The_Story_Of_Us 8 месяцев назад +95

      @@caldercockatoo2234 it’s also contradicted by coop campaign in which GLaDOS is exclusively working with the robots. It also just doesn’t make a lick of sense.

    • @yavoth5850
      @yavoth5850 8 месяцев назад +23

      "people" will always theorise the stupidest stuff lol

    • @UberNoodle
      @UberNoodle 8 месяцев назад +18

      ​@@yavoth5850 like how Totoro is actually a death god and the whole story is about two little girls who in real life were kidnapped and murdered. Yeah, people like to theorise all kinds of crazy stuff to destroy beautiful things. Hah.

    • @DomR1997
      @DomR1997 8 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@UberNoodle that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard

  • @SirForwyn
    @SirForwyn 8 месяцев назад +776

    The fact that the game closes itself after Wheatley says "The End" is such a Valve thing to do.

    • @SirPootington
      @SirPootington 8 месяцев назад +194

      it normally isnt supposed to. its been doing that the last few years. its normally supposed to go right to the main menu but my god, this fits a lot more lmao

    • @Claramoo
      @Claramoo 8 месяцев назад +66

      well it's a bug lol, but yeah I guess it's kinda fitting.

    • @SirForwyn
      @SirForwyn 8 месяцев назад +52

      @@SirPootington That's the best bug I've ever seen, should honestly be implemented as an actual mechanic

    • @ErdTirdMans
      @ErdTirdMans 8 месяцев назад +53

      @@SirForwyn Nah. It fails to change the Title Screen to Wheatley and Space Core on their fantastic voyage. THAT was the best ending

    • @arnabbiswasalsodeep
      @arnabbiswasalsodeep 8 месяцев назад +21

      Thats a bug due to shaders being set to high.

  • @saltifate
    @saltifate 8 месяцев назад +1491

    Wheatley is so dense, he's got it's own orbit

    • @incinerativemario
      @incinerativemario 8 месяцев назад +35

      HAH that was good.

    • @yavoth5850
      @yavoth5850 8 месяцев назад +11

      No he does not. The two cores are in a "twin stars" configuration. By selecting one as a point of reference it seems that the other is orbiting it, but it is in fact fully symmetrical.

    • @cocoelacanth
      @cocoelacanth 8 месяцев назад

      ⁠​⁠@@yavoth5850🤓

    • @duckducklarry
      @duckducklarry 8 месяцев назад +22

      @@yavoth5850 it's actually a three-body problem with the spectator he's talking directly to

    • @incinerativemario
      @incinerativemario 8 месяцев назад +15

      @@yavoth5850 ...Since we're overanalyzing it, thats only because of the point of reference we choose, when in fact the point of reference can be anywhere due to speed being relative TO the point of reference we choose. So, just like our Earth and Moon, by Earth's perspective, it's being orbited by the Moon, by the moon's its the other way around, and by everyone else's they are both dancing with eachother.

  • @lentrax2991
    @lentrax2991 8 месяцев назад +305

    GLaDOS: "Well, this is the part where he kills us."
    Wheatly: "Hello! This is the part where I kill you!"
    Chapter title: The Part Where He Kills You.
    Song Title: The Part Where He Kills You.
    Valve may have been trying to say something. But I don't know what...

    • @freezy3739
      @freezy3739 8 месяцев назад +90

      Don’t forget the achievement

    • @stormdoesgaming8919
      @stormdoesgaming8919 6 месяцев назад +12

      What, that this is the part he kills us or something? Riiiight, you're crazy mate. It's gotta be something else.

    • @teaoftraffic
      @teaoftraffic 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@freezy3739This is that part.

  • @adamvialpando106
    @adamvialpando106 8 месяцев назад +896

    54:25 Fun Fact: In the commentary they mentioned that many players were panicking during this spot and forgetting which portal to shoot and dying. So the devs made it so that no matter which portal you shoot the game automatically changes the other portal to the opposite color. Which is why you didn't fall even though you shot a blue portal.

    • @arnabbiswasalsodeep
      @arnabbiswasalsodeep 8 месяцев назад +63

      To be more accurate, therea already 2 portals placed below wheatley even fore you shoot yours

    • @EastCoastVandal
      @EastCoastVandal 8 месяцев назад +14

      Woah, I never realized that

    • @radioactiveassassin5218
      @radioactiveassassin5218 8 месяцев назад +8

      That|s dumb, remembering where did you put which portal should be big part of the game, and punishment for forgetting that should be fail.

    • @pauloricardo-wn6ps
      @pauloricardo-wn6ps 8 месяцев назад +112

      @@radioactiveassassin5218 if you're considering Portal 2 as a simple puzzle game, sure that would be dumb, but a lot more is taken into consideration when making a big budget story-driven game, if a lot of players are failling a specific thing, and one that they should absolutly know by now, chances are that the fault is way more on the level design than the players themselves, so they could either help the players or cut that sequence interely to avoid issues with pacing

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 7 месяцев назад +8

      Because this annoyed me all through the games, I made a habit of left-trigger first/in/source portal, right-trigger second/out/target portal.
      So, moon, right trigger!

  • @tiredidealist
    @tiredidealist 8 месяцев назад +861

    That [REDACTED] hits hard, ngl. I like to think it wasn't that she wanted Chell gone and more about wanting Chell to be free.

    • @MegMage
      @MegMage  8 месяцев назад +241

      Crying again.

    • @ErdTirdMans
      @ErdTirdMans 8 месяцев назад +93

      @@MegMage Her song in Lego Dimensions (which may or may not be canon) suggests she still battles with loneliness in Chell's absence. I like to think that she respects Chell after everything, that Atlas and P-body aren't as much of a computational challenge for her, and that although she deleted Caroline, those aspects of Caroline that rubbed off on her are too enmeshed to be truly deleted. Hence, she feels gratitude and the tiniest inkling of love leading to the big operatic send-off and the [REDACTED]
      So, she'll live forever. Testing. And just a bit lonely. Wishing she had someone around who could challenge her and bring risk and an interesting set of data back into her life. And just a bit ashamed, wishing she could unburden her iota of guilt by doing something beyond releasing you and the companion cube

    • @marauderdz
      @marauderdz 8 месяцев назад +54

      @@ErdTirdMans When GLaDOS sings that Caroline is "in here too", I like to think that she never deleted Caroline at all, and was just pretending to mess with Chell.

    • @CorrectsYou
      @CorrectsYou 8 месяцев назад +33

      @@marauderdz I feel like it was more a defense mechanism than anything. GLaDOS' ego is too big for her to just let someone she's invested so much energy into hating think she's vulnerable.

    • @DezAmmySel
      @DezAmmySel 7 месяцев назад +23

      @@marauderdz THIS, and also the fact that Caroline being put into GLaDOS was insinuated to not be consensual, I don't think she has the _ability_ to delete Caroline even if she did want to. I don't think Cave would have left her an out.

  • @tigershark94
    @tigershark94 6 месяцев назад +174

    FUN FACT: Earlier when you’re escaping with Wheatley, he tells a ‘ghost’ story about a room full of robots that only scream.
    Then, here at the end where GLaDOS is thinking up punishments for Wheatley, one that she brings up is “Ten years in the room I built where all the robots scream at you.”

  • @SgtSpeedy
    @SgtSpeedy 8 месяцев назад +312

    1:26:47
    Fun fact, GLaDOS's voice actress is an opera singer, and she's actually also the one who sings the opera part with the turrets on the elevator.

    • @ErdTirdMans
      @ErdTirdMans 8 месяцев назад +21

      She literally says it in her wrap-up, lol

  •  8 месяцев назад +635

    So the turret song is called "Cara mia addio" and part of the lyrics are "mia bambina, Chell, che la stimo, cara mia addio" ("my child, Chell, who I respect, goodbye my love").

    • @SgtSpeedy
      @SgtSpeedy 8 месяцев назад +79

      This created many theories that GLaDOS/Caroline is Chell's mom.

    • @thepaladxn
      @thepaladxn 8 месяцев назад +9

      @MegMage for my empathy pains as an audience member I feel the need to know you saw this lol, your meditations moved me as a fellow mommy issues haver

    • @Ebiscuses
      @Ebiscuses 8 месяцев назад +41

      It’s also sang by Ellen Mclain (Glados’ voice actress who also happens to be an opera singer)

    • @StefanConstantinDumitrache
      @StefanConstantinDumitrache 8 месяцев назад +8

      @@SgtSpeedy perhaps adopted, but it seems GLaDOS does not remember it so after she was put into a potato. If it was the case, I think the communication would have been different. GLaDOS was definitely pretty much Caroline for the 2nd part of the game.

    • @lucanebula
      @lucanebula 8 месяцев назад +20

      Don’t forget it’s actually meant to be interpreted as a love song! The entire concept of Portal revolves around GLaDOS being the victim of a “toxic” relationship with Chell and despite not wanting to, she has to get rid of her! Cara mi addio means “goodbye my darling” and bambina can also be used as a term of endearment for a significant other.

  • @Epsilvonic
    @Epsilvonic 8 месяцев назад +316

    When Portal 2 came out Wheatley won the Best Character award at the VGAs, and Valve made a whole acceptance speech animation with the voice actor back n everything, I definitely recommend checking that out

    • @yavoth5850
      @yavoth5850 8 месяцев назад +74

      They didn't win, Joker won for Arkham City. They made the speech in case they won, as did the other nominees.

    • @Epsilvonic
      @Epsilvonic 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@yavoth5850 Ah, forgot that. Thanks!

    • @teresar6348
      @teresar6348 8 месяцев назад +29

      @@yavoth5850 it's also very wheatly to play it reguardless.

    • @jasonmack760
      @jasonmack760 7 месяцев назад +11

      @@yavoth5850 I don't think putting Joker in there was fair, he's such a well-known character from such a wide variety of mediums and interpretations, nobody else stood a chance.

  • @EvilOdysseus
    @EvilOdysseus 8 месяцев назад +124

    The end song "Want You Gone" was written by a man called Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Still Alive" for Portal 1. He's a really great musician with a great catalogue of songs.

    • @Certifiable
      @Certifiable 8 месяцев назад +11

      Re: Your Brains, First Of May, so many fun songs!

    • @vampjager8586
      @vampjager8586 8 месяцев назад +13

      Jonathan Coulton did a third song for GLaDOS called "You Wouldn't Know" which was for Lego Dimensions which had GLaDOS in it.

  • @misti-step
    @misti-step 8 месяцев назад +442

    "i used to want you dead, but now i only want you gone" you know what that is? growth 😂

  • @sirblockepicmcswaggins5248
    @sirblockepicmcswaggins5248 8 месяцев назад +300

    The joke behind the pink core is that it just spreads misinformation, with the occasional true fact. Some of the "facts" it puts forward are hilarious, you can find the full list online.

    • @AleXxTM123
      @AleXxTM123 8 месяцев назад +19

      Even better is that, all of them orbit wheatly because he is soooo fking dense!

    • @aslanbeats2004
      @aslanbeats2004 8 месяцев назад +32

      So its just a Reddit core!

    • @UberNoodle
      @UberNoodle 8 месяцев назад +21

      Like that the square root of rope is string. That cracked me up.

    • @UberNoodle
      @UberNoodle 8 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@aslanbeats2004 Reddit, X, large tracts of RUclips ...

    • @colbyboucher6391
      @colbyboucher6391 8 месяцев назад +6

      Reddit is one of the few places where people actually fact check on a regular basis...

  • @DarrinMichelson
    @DarrinMichelson 8 месяцев назад +79

    The moon shot remains one of my favorite jaw drops in games. I watch whole playthroughs just to see the reaction to that one moment.

    • @Pixelplanet5
      @Pixelplanet5 Месяц назад +3

      yea its also so well executed, they are talking about the white gel being made from crushed moon rocks during the game but most people forget about this till the end of the game.
      Also shooting a portal to the moon seems like the thing you absolutely want to do but gamers know that a game wont let you do that right?
      until it does and its amazingly executed.

  • @stevealms4971
    @stevealms4971 8 месяцев назад +203

    Interestingly enough Portal 2 had a lot of Greek Mythology Easter Eggs. GLaDOS was based off of Prometheus who was cast down into Tartarus (Testing facilities) for brining the gift of knowledge (Science) to humans where he eaten by birds for eternity. Chell is Pandora who released Chaos into the world (i.e. turned GLaDOS back on), and the final scene with the elevator taking her up to the surface while the turrets sing to her is based off of the belief that angles would sing you to Elysium, which in many depictions looks like a field of reeds, just like what Chell sees when she gets to the surface.

    • @ShebbyYT
      @ShebbyYT 8 месяцев назад +17

      first time i've ever seen this theory. Very interesting.

    • @puppetofmasters
      @puppetofmasters 8 месяцев назад +10

      needs more upvotes

    • @DarkPrime25
      @DarkPrime25 7 месяцев назад +4

      Huh. You know that explains why the "I'm different" Turret you save tells you about Prometheus. Makes sense!

    • @ZeallustImmortal
      @ZeallustImmortal 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@ShebbyYT"theory" isnt the word for it, it was quite literally intentional.

  • @NICKatronMC
    @NICKatronMC 8 месяцев назад +60

    In all the sadness regarding the ending, the silver lining is Space Core is living the time of his life

    • @ItsAsparageese
      @ItsAsparageese 6 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah I love that core as an overall writing choice. Technically "unnecessary" but provided perfect foreshadowing when needed and perfect comic relief when needed, and granted a fresh dose of cuteness like we hadn't felt for a while

    • @noxepoch3325
      @noxepoch3325 3 месяца назад

      Yeah, ..until it crashes in Skyrim

  • @kacektv9405
    @kacektv9405 8 месяцев назад +105

    At a Q&A panel Ellen McLain said at least as far as she feels, GlaDOS didnt actually delete Caroline. Something I like to believe too since the lyrics of the Turret Song seem too humanly inspired to have been purely by GlaDOS

    • @harlankovacs6276
      @harlankovacs6276 8 месяцев назад +8

      Probably right ,since GLaDOS (caroline) would want Shell (her daughter) to be free without the urge to come back to save/help her mother. By telling her Caroline is no more Shell is trully set free.
      She even thought to give back the companion cube to be sure Shell would not come back for it/him/her.

    • @andy-gamer
      @andy-gamer 7 месяцев назад

      @@harlankovacs6276shell

    • @Look_Over_There
      @Look_Over_There 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah I think deleting Caroline would mean deleting herself

    • @wynnefox
      @wynnefox Месяц назад

      For sure, GLaDOS lies.

    • @coocato
      @coocato Месяц назад +1

      I think it’s her trying to make sure chell doesn’t want to come back at all, in case she might have developed sympathy for glados through caroline

  • @JojoTheRed
    @JojoTheRed 8 месяцев назад +161

    You're the only other person I've seen hyped to see Dee Bradley Baker's name in the credits. I love that guy.

    • @mb2001
      @mb2001 8 месяцев назад +5

      Oh, I didn't know he was in Portal 2

    • @RyVADapper
      @RyVADapper 8 месяцев назад +19

      @@mb2001 Yep, Dee Bradley Baker voiced Atlas and P-Body because he's also pretty well known for doing the noises for speechless characters. As an example, I believe him to be the guy who does Perry the Platypus' famous clicking noises.

    • @Swenglish
      @Swenglish 8 месяцев назад +11

      @@RyVADapper He also did Appa and Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He's got that Frank Welker talent for creature sounds.

    • @JojoTheRed
      @JojoTheRed 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@Swenglish And Numbuh 4 in KND and the Australian blue fish from Spongebob that calls out Mr. Krabs.

    • @shugaroony
      @shugaroony 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RyVADapper I should've recognised him and figured he'd be the one to call for any noises!!

  • @jeoveracker
    @jeoveracker 8 месяцев назад +138

    So, when Valve released Portal 2, they released a series of advertisements known as "Aperture Investment Opportunities." They're pretty short, usually less than a minute, but would make a pretty fun encore.

    • @elytron6758
      @elytron6758 8 месяцев назад +14

      Yes! “60% more bullet per bullet!”

    • @FargonNemeloc
      @FargonNemeloc 8 месяцев назад +5

      Cave Johnson, We Done Here!
      -C.J.

  • @dlweiss
    @dlweiss 8 месяцев назад +77

    Your reaction makes total sense! After all the weird insanity, all the absurd humor, all the strange and shocking surprises, the ending manages to achieve some level of batshit transcendence. It feels perfect in its own small, unique way. Thanks for sharing your playthrough! :)
    Also, if you wanna have some extra feels, look up a translation of the italian lyrics GlaDos was singing as you ascended to the surface.

  • @pyrofan80
    @pyrofan80 8 месяцев назад +152

    Been looking forward to your reaction to possibly the best video game finale of all time

  • @PeterPing
    @PeterPing 8 месяцев назад +132

    "A perfect breaking up song doesn't exists"
    GLaDOS: 1:24:33

  • @CoyoteMMH
    @CoyoteMMH 8 месяцев назад +114

    Chell is the Combine's problem now. GLaDOS is counting on that. Counting on her making a new disaster.

    • @SgtSpeedy
      @SgtSpeedy 8 месяцев назад +7

      Do we know if she kept the portal gun. Cuz I honestly don't see her accomplishing much without it.
      Not even sure if she can get out of that wheat field alive.

    • @AR-yd2nd
      @AR-yd2nd 8 месяцев назад +51

      ​@@SgtSpeedy she has that indomitable human spirit, nothing can kill her

    • @Xavier-sl7hn
      @Xavier-sl7hn 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@SgtSpeedyif anything for a fact she took the no fall damage boots but idk about the gun

    • @feiradragon7915
      @feiradragon7915 8 месяцев назад +21

      Imagine how chaotic it would be if Chell met Gordon Freeman.

    • @commanderwyro4204
      @commanderwyro4204 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@SgtSpeedy insanely good problem solving and improvising. those are very valuable

  • @YishaiBarr
    @YishaiBarr 8 месяцев назад +39

    Shooting a Portal on the moon is a reference to the white gel being made of moon rocks.
    Also, I don't know why it crashes to the desktop for so many people, but the ending background has Wheatley and Space core.

    • @williamstrachan
      @williamstrachan 6 месяцев назад +9

      It's almost the other way around, they came up with the moon shot idea and then had to write dialogue about moon rocks to make it make sense!

  • @MarioofSevenStars
    @MarioofSevenStars 8 месяцев назад +98

    Glados Cutting the toxic people out of her life,
    also,
    Glados shoves you and the companion cube out, "Take your garbage and leave",
    Chell, "Fine ill go"
    Glados, "I wasn't talking to you."

    • @toddkes5890
      @toddkes5890 6 месяцев назад +2

      Also making sure that Chell doesn't want to come back for the Cube?

  • @xxProjectJxx
    @xxProjectJxx 8 месяцев назад +31

    No shame in crying at the end. Portal 2 is surprisingly sweet for how comedic it is.

  • @TheJokerAkaCirque
    @TheJokerAkaCirque 8 месяцев назад +26

    in earlier drafts the Space Core became horrified once he started to actually comprehend being in spcae, iirc. Final result is a huge upgrade. Dude is just having the time of his life.
    Also the whole existence of the Space Core is hilarious when you consider why the cores exist (the emotion core in 1 was to try and make her more human, the morality core which didn't work was self-explanatory, Wheatley was the intelligence dampening core, etc) because it suggests at some point the engineers' best idea for how to calm down GLaDOS was to just make her have a hyperfixation.

  • @TheHeroBleeder
    @TheHeroBleeder 8 месяцев назад +34

    What i honestly love about her playing this game is that she took ber time observing her surroundings trying so mamy different Permutations of possible solutions and got to the right solution for the propultion gel Test at the start of this video. Also Wheatley's trap is so good because when i first played Portal 2 i was really wanting to go through every one of Wheatley's tests only to get kidnapped to "the part where he Kills You" also i really love how GLaDoS says "this is the part where he kills us" and thrn Wheatley says so politely "hello this is the part where i Kill you" as the Chapter title comes into View as " the part where he kills you as ironic.

    • @5223142
      @5223142 8 месяцев назад +7

      Don’t forget that the music that plays is called “The part where he kills you”

    • @Sidewinder_EXE
      @Sidewinder_EXE 8 месяцев назад

      @@5223142 plus the achievement "This is the Part Where he Kills You" when you get there

    • @Anya-B.
      @Anya-B. 8 месяцев назад

      @@5223142 And the steam achievement you unlock that's called "The part where he kills you"

    • @DarkPrime25
      @DarkPrime25 7 месяцев назад

      @@5223142 And of course the achievement "The Part Where he kills you" popping up on Steam

  • @ashleycat4
    @ashleycat4 8 месяцев назад +22

    I have watched maybe 20 something Portal playthroughs over the years, and this is by far the best one I've seen. Your appreciation of the characters and themes was refreshing and amazing to see. Thank you for this wonderful Portal playthrough, and I can't wait to see you play the co-op.

  • @AR-yd2nd
    @AR-yd2nd 8 месяцев назад +51

    The Turret Opera:
    Cara bella, cara mia bella! (Beautiful dear, my darling beauty!)
    Mia bambina, oh ciel! (My little girl, oh heaven!)[heaven and Chel are pronounced the same in italian]
    Che la stima! Che la stima! (How I respect you! How I respect you!)
    O cara mia, addio! (Oh my dear, farewell!)
    La mia bambina cara, (My dear little girl,)
    Perché non passi lontana? (Why not go far away?)
    Sì, lontana da Scienza! (Yes, far away from Science!)
    Cara, cara mia bambina, (Dear, my beloved little girl,)
    Ah, mia bella! (Ah, my beautiful one!)

  • @Cairoxl5
    @Cairoxl5 8 месяцев назад +21

    This game was an important chapter in my life. It feels dumb at first to say a video game had a profound personal meaning to me, but the older I get, the more I see the love and care going into these amazing games and feel happy at the passion it must have taken to make this gem. Thanks for playing and reminding me of my first time with Portal!

  • @duckducklarry
    @duckducklarry 8 месяцев назад +10

    You: I really don't wanna cry
    Me out loud: Oh, you're *definitely* gonna then
    Portal/Portal 2 together is one of the most perfect and beautiful video game experiences there has ever been and I'm so glad you got to go through it. ❤

  • @Mono_619
    @Mono_619 8 месяцев назад +12

    there is some funny dialogue if you come back to Weathley after he asks you to go back to his trap at 46:08 hehe, also, you could react to some of the extras in the main menu of the game, there are some great trailers with Cave Johnson and they are really hilarious to watch! great gameplay Meg, this is truly one of the best videogames I've ever experienced😋

  • @JOELIOUS
    @JOELIOUS 7 месяцев назад +8

    I love your reaction BECAUSE YOU REACT exactly the same as me, I can't hold back my tears at the song of the turrets.

  • @pyrofan80
    @pyrofan80 8 месяцев назад +10

    Funny side-note: in ‘The Part Where he Kills You’ once you escape from the trap and Wheatley repeatedly asks you to come back - if you do, he professes his surprise that you actually did and then tries to persuade you to jump into the pit

  • @sapphictealeaves
    @sapphictealeaves 8 месяцев назад +5

    Portal 2 really is such a special game. It manages to be funny, poignant, and straight up weird and horrifying at times. It was so interesting to hear your insights and thoughts on the game, as so many of them were things I'd never have thought of! I'm so glad you enjoyed the game, and it was a lot of fun experiencing it again with you. Thank you Meg!

  • @robinnautica9773
    @robinnautica9773 8 месяцев назад +17

    Everytime I see the last 15 min of this game it brings a smile on my face and some small tears.
    This game is absolutely perfect and probably the best game ever made.

  • @keeneym
    @keeneym 8 месяцев назад +79

    That 2nd chamber, with the 3 turrets and the blue gel is the one that I was stuck on the longest. You picked up the fact that you had to ride back with the gel so quick. I just couldn't figure out the whole "trapping the gel" part!

  • @drunkoctopuswantstoplay7029
    @drunkoctopuswantstoplay7029 7 месяцев назад +5

    Little funny fact
    If you conected all cores bevor the timer is almost up weathley Talks with them at the end.
    The Space core at the end before the second cor comes says.
    "I want to be in Space"
    And Weathley anwers "Shut your mouth nö one is going to space"
    And the adventure core says that villains and heros always need a cool sentece before they die he will preffer to say "You two have been a thorn in my side for a long time"
    And at the end when you connect the third core Weathley say exactly this line and th adventure anwers "this Thorn will now kill you, oh man this sounded cooler in my head the it realy was"

  • @serp3n1
    @serp3n1 8 месяцев назад +12

    There's a third Jonathan Coulton GLaDos credits song, it was from her appearance in the Lego crossover game.
    It's called "you wouldn't know," you can find it on youtube along with some fun cutscenes of her arguing with Batman of all people.

  • @TheHeroBleeder
    @TheHeroBleeder 8 месяцев назад +13

    Also i love Wheatley's banter when you're escaping. like "clever very clever..... And Foolish. Spinny blade wall!"and "Holmes vs Moriarty, Aristotle vs Mashy spike plate.

    • @GoldenWreck
      @GoldenWreck 15 дней назад

      Hehe, I always think of Flowey when I see that line. Hoping I get to catch someone referencing it in a playthrough.

  • @Brandinisnores
    @Brandinisnores 8 месяцев назад +14

    Among all the clones, Dee Bradley Baker also voices:
    Perry the Platypus
    The Gravemind from Halo
    Appa and Momo from ATLA
    The Necromorphs from Dead Space
    Hammond the Hamster (Overwatch)
    Lion (Steven Universe)
    Cinnamon Bun (Adventure Time)
    Ra's Al Ghul (Batman Arkham City)
    Every infected in Left 4 Dead
    etc.

  • @elytron6758
    @elytron6758 8 месяцев назад +5

    What a great blind run! After you play co-op, there are several free fan-made mods on Steam that are basically games on their own. There’s “Portal Stories: Mel”, “Portal Revolution”, & “Portal Reloaded”.
    There’s also “Aperture Tag”, but it costs a few bucks

  • @jasonmack760
    @jasonmack760 7 месяцев назад +6

    “I have no idea to this day what those turrets were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Aperture felt free.”

    • @tigershark94
      @tigershark94 6 месяцев назад

      Didn’t know I needed a Shawshank reference here. But I did, apparently.

  • @SwagSwagSenate
    @SwagSwagSenate 8 месяцев назад +14

    Yo I was just binge watching your whole series on this game and this came out right on time!!

  • @ironicallyedgy7234
    @ironicallyedgy7234 8 месяцев назад +5

    Tbh Wheatley was never really that dumb to begin with. He willing worked at the cryogenics station to keep the humans alive (cut dialogue revels he wasn’t hired, just showed up), helped Chell find the portal gun, broke her from the testing track, and came up with the plan to beat GLaDOS on his own.
    He’s just impulsive, doesn’t always see things through, and bottles up his emotions. Negative traits which were only amplified by the chassis. Some of his dialogue while evil is basically just him gaslighting himself into thinking Chell betrayed him.
    Plus, he mentioned seeing old recordings of GLaDOS’ boss fight. Imagine accidentally pushing your best friend down a put, then discovering that they mercilessly killed people just like you and utterly destroyed someone who was once in your position. I don’t think he ever really wanted to hurt her deep down. He just couldn’t stop himself.
    But, good news. Remember how he was crushed at the beginning of the game? Well, while not revealed in game, he managed to survive by automatically having his mind transfer into an empty backup core. So if he runs out of power in space, he’ll probably just respawn back in Aperture and lay low. This is further suggest because, spoilers for the DLC btw-
    Space Core makes a cameo in the credits irrc.

  • @darksideofthemood
    @darksideofthemood Месяц назад +2

    Wheatley is so dense that the space core is orbiting around him. That's got to be a top tier joke it took me years to get

  • @LittleGalaxyBoy
    @LittleGalaxyBoy 8 месяцев назад +49

    Portal 3, Half Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, Team Fortress 3 I don't think we'll ever get a sequel :(

    • @robinnautica9773
      @robinnautica9773 8 месяцев назад +6

      Yes Gabe can't count to 3

    • @ANIMshit
      @ANIMshit 8 месяцев назад

      imagine if portal 3 and half life 3 becomes one game, with from lore, might actualy happen, half life 3 prety much was announced in half life alyx

  • @ShenLong991
    @ShenLong991 8 месяцев назад +9

    Welcome back to "Meg tries every possible hard way to solve the chambers"

  • @MicleFirst
    @MicleFirst 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks to you, I watched the ending of the Portal again and cried again like the first time. God I love this game. The best ending in the history of games

  • @Mattedatten
    @Mattedatten 7 месяцев назад

    RUclips recommends me Portal playthroughs every now and then. Now I've spent a few days watching yours.
    And I can only say, welcome to the club of recognizing the Portal series as some of the best games out there. Even after all these years.
    It's the world, the snarky narration, the gradual introduction of new mechanics, and the reward for figuring the puzzle out, together with so many other things that builds this piece of an experience.
    You said it early; by posting these videos, you do kind of put yourself out in the open for experienced people to vent their frustrations. Coming here late, I can just say, it was very interesting following you pick up all the mechanics and puzzle pieces. And the though process how you reached there.
    This was a great ride, thanks for posting all of it.

  • @phillipwatts1679
    @phillipwatts1679 8 месяцев назад +2

    I've wanted to watch someone play through Portal 2 AND ENJOY IT the way it's meant to be enjoyed for a long time. I've watched several people play through it and they would talk right through the monologues and dialogues. The writing in this game is a masterpiece. Anything Jay Pinkerton is involved with turns to gold, I swear to god. Thank you for letting us enjoy this game once again with you. Watching someone experience for the first time is the closest we can get to enjoying it for the first time again. I will definitely check out your other videos.

  • @rhystilshadowhelm
    @rhystilshadowhelm 8 месяцев назад +7

    I first played this game in it's entirety when I first reported to Pearl Harbor during my time serving Active Duty Navy. It was my second duty station in my career, and I had just finished a brutal 3.5 years on a ship as my first duty station. It was my first taste of true freedom, and I played this game with one of my best friends. Hearing the ending theme song just floods my brain with memories of that time. I can still see the palm trees, blue sky, endless ocean... Smell the sea air, feel the tropical warmth on my skin during every hour of day or night... Then having my friend walk into the lodge room I was staying in while awaiting housing assignment and we'd just go out to the beach and hang out, talking about the game. Simpler times, happier times... Sigh...

  • @bluesheepredanimationskind7690
    @bluesheepredanimationskind7690 7 месяцев назад +1

    It's so nice to see somebody enjoy a piece of fiction as much as I did like oh my God it's one of my favourite games ever and I love how it ends so much for voice acting all the way through is just absolutely phenomenal and I love the tiny little details that valve put in like nobody else ever notice that when she deletes caroline the lighting on the floor turns from a warm soft sunlight to a monotone grey without caroline and aughg the music just perfecty does everything so well i love this game so much

  • @TheJokerAkaCirque
    @TheJokerAkaCirque 8 месяцев назад +5

    if you're paying attention to all his rambling, you can piece together that the incident of failing to catch him at the guard rail (which was of course his own fault but that's besides the point) really was the beginning of Wheatley's spiral, even if it wasn't obvious back then.

  • @NICKatronMC
    @NICKatronMC 8 месяцев назад +3

    1:22:51 You were so bent between wanting to laugh, cry, or was simply speechless...
    ...and that is the appropriate reaction to this masterpiece

  • @Steven-093
    @Steven-093 8 месяцев назад +5

    Wheatley is like the guy trying to hit on Meg and Glados. And I love that Glados has that best-friend energy. Just clearly sick of Wheatley, and trying to get Meg to safety.

  • @TheBlargist
    @TheBlargist 8 месяцев назад +9

    Fun fact, Meg: Dee Bradley Baker, who you pointed out at 1:26:37, also voices the Gravemind in Halo!

  • @CodeMonkeyCharlie
    @CodeMonkeyCharlie 8 месяцев назад +3

    Never came across your videos before Portal 2. Had a great time watching you enjoy one of my favorite games. It still holds up after all these years. Looking forward to the day I can watch my son play through it.

  • @tlowblue9110
    @tlowblue9110 7 месяцев назад +3

    the crazy thing is that both this games world and the half life world share the same universe. GLaDos makes a remark regarding the combine, the black mesa (which is where the first half life game takes place) joke in the song still alive. and there is quite a lot of references to aperture science in half life 2 and the same for black mesa referencing aperture its crazy to think about. also the space core is orbiting wheatley lol

  • @Za11oy
    @Za11oy 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love watching people go through that journey for their first time, thank you for sharing it all. The puzzles are fun for sure, but it's even better when people really engage with the characters, the insane situations. The themes throughout it are both fascinating and pretty scary too!
    What I remember the most of my first time, was the immense feeling of satisfaction and the emotions along that elevator ride up at the end. That Cave and Caroline are Chell's parents is a theory that's been speculated about for a long time in the community, there's no canonical confirmation. But I do think it makes it somewhat more impactful if you take things under that angle. And that the opera song at the end, are a mother's goodbye as she sets her free despite her forced program wanting her to test forever more.

  • @Propfellax
    @Propfellax 6 месяцев назад +1

    ur videos really remind me of 2011-2017 esq letsplay videos, i love it! very nostalgic for me hahah

  • @TheDiamondSlayer1
    @TheDiamondSlayer1 8 месяцев назад +5

    Wheatleys dialogue in the final battle is some of the best dialogue in the game imo. It's quite emotional tbh, wish players got to hear it more 😊

  • @onsnoreleave8674
    @onsnoreleave8674 8 месяцев назад +3

    For me it was tears as soon as I saw the arm pulling Chell back through the portal and then just every single thing after that

  • @Adam-ry6ze
    @Adam-ry6ze 8 месяцев назад

    I love watching your reactions to games because they’re really raw and it makes it so much more enjoyable to watch. It feels like you’re so engrossed in every game you play and I think that helps people feel like you also really respect the games that they love so much, so thank you

  • @SirFooplesTheThird
    @SirFooplesTheThird Месяц назад

    Always love to see people experience this game for the first time. The Portal games were the first games i played seriously and finished all by myself, they hold a special place in my heart so i understand your emotions very well

  • @rolmops883
    @rolmops883 6 месяцев назад +2

    Portal... You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh about crying, you'll cry when you realise you laughed at things like the [REDACTED] bit...
    It's an absolute masterpiece. I play through the series at least once per year. For the last 3 years, I've been trying to get my girlfriend to play through it. I hope this video (at least the ending) will convince her to finally start the journey

  • @Xerobound
    @Xerobound 8 месяцев назад

    This was a wonderful playthrough, thank you for sharing everything, including your emotions and afterthoughts each episode! Also excited for you to experience the co-op!

  • @emreovus33
    @emreovus33 8 месяцев назад

    Your playthroughs were the highlights of my week, and I enjoyed following them. They filled me with excitement whenever I see one getting uploaded. Your playing style and attention to detail was amazing. Thank you. :D

    • @elytron6758
      @elytron6758 8 месяцев назад

      Yes, sad it’s over, but maybe we have co-op, and mods, and Aperture advertisements to look forward too

  • @brain_melt
    @brain_melt 7 месяцев назад

    Binge watched your Portal 1 + 2 series over the last couple days and I wanted to say I really appreciate how invested you were in the story and characters, and how pure you made the experience for yourself by going in completely blind. Having beaten the game multiple times, it doesn’t give me the same feeling it did on my first run, but watching you experience it for the first time helped me see it through those eyes again. I love the ending of this game because it’s overall good, but still leaves some uncertainty about what is happening on the outside. And it really makes you empathize with an evil robot woman 😂

  • @astropgn
    @astropgn 4 месяца назад +2

    Good series. Watching her play was very much like teaching my grandfather how to send emails on his new phone though.

  • @davidblauyoutube
    @davidblauyoutube 8 месяцев назад +1

    What a beautiful reaction. I cried at the end, which I don't normally do. This is also one of my favorite games, I'm sure you'll enjoy the co-op. Now you can watch the extras without being spoiled, which I highly recommend as soon as possible.

  • @cicikus437
    @cicikus437 4 месяца назад +2

    Those turrets are singing a real song! Lyrics are calling Chell "My dear" and "beautiful" and telling her to stay away from science. It's in Italian, though I don't think an Italian would understand the words behind all the effects.

  • @thefrickenchicken1417
    @thefrickenchicken1417 8 месяцев назад

    One of my favorite playthroughs so far. Although I'll admit it did hurt when you weren't completing some puzzles. Still, watching you slowly start to put them together was oddly satisfying. The ending also got me emotional but only until my second playthrough because that time, I played the game for the story and dialogue and got really immersed. So I don't blame you for getting teary since you seemed well invested ever since the beginning lol. I said it in your first video but I love your reaction to GLaDOS. Well deserved!
    Great reaction and playthrough. Thoroughly enjoyed binging your vids. Gonna stick around and see whatelse I been missing from this channel. Best wishes!
    P.S - I recommend giving the "A Plague Tale" games a shot if you haven't played them already. They're amazing short story games that are great for a RUclips series. Great storytelling, breathtaking environment and pretty intense.

  • @ArmchairRizzard
    @ArmchairRizzard 8 месяцев назад

    This was so fun to watch. As usual my favorite thing about your reactions is your empathy.

  • @Sef_Era
    @Sef_Era Месяц назад +2

    Now you need to play Portal Stories: Mel- it’s just a mod, but it’s the closest we’ll ever come to Portal 3.
    Or contrarily, Outer Wilds dethroned Portal 2 as my favorite game of all time, after fifteen years. Maybe it’ll do the same for you?

  • @eel12333
    @eel12333 5 месяцев назад

    I really enjoyed your playthrough of this series 😊 this is one of my favorite games of all time, and this ending is really quite memorable, as are the characters.
    GLaDOS in particular is one of my favorite villains of all time.
    Fun fact: GLaDOS made a huge impact on "AI" voices in fiction, and her voice actor has even been brought on to several different projects to voice their AI, as an homage to her character.
    One example off the top of my head is Pacific Rim, but I know there are other instances too!
    Of course, the voice without the personality isn't the same, but it's neat regardless I think 😁

  • @addie1545
    @addie1545 8 месяцев назад

    Watching you play this last made me smile so much. I needed it after a pretty bad day. Especially when you started rocking out to "the part where he kills you".
    Thank you for sharing your experience with one of the best games ever.

  • @LordGalenYT
    @LordGalenYT 8 месяцев назад

    I love Portal and watch a lot of these playthroughs from different creators. Your playthrough, and especially the reaction to the ending, might be THE BEST one I've ever seen. Dropped a follow in Twitch as well! Looking forward to seeing more from you!

  • @skarlet1505
    @skarlet1505 8 месяцев назад +3

    One of the few things I regret in life is that Portal 2 isn't a new game, because if it was EVERYONE WOULD HAVE CRIED LIKE I CRIED YEARS AGO! And I'm really grateful for you to do this, it's just a too much of a beautiful game to be left to rot in the past

  • @somethingclever5
    @somethingclever5 8 месяцев назад +4

    If you (or anyone reading this) hold any interest in fan fiction I’ve gotta recommend Blue Sky, written by waffles. It’s one of the crowning jewels of the Portal fan community, amazingly well-written, novel length, and without spoiling much it’s a pretty Wheatley and Chell centered story. He said sorry, sure, but proving it is a whole ‘nother beast.

  • @HistoricMold440
    @HistoricMold440 2 месяца назад +1

    Bruh the ending of this game always kills my soul cause
    Chell is the daughter of Cave and Caroline (hinted by the bring your daughter to work day where Chell's potato was tampered with to make it enormous.)
    Cave turned Caroline into Glados
    After she finally remembers who she is, at the very end, she deletes all of that from her memory cause she can't cope with what she's done to you.
    The turrets give you the final sendoff message, a song where she tells you she loves you
    She says in the final song at the redacted part that she's gonna delete you from her memory too, because she loves you and you being gone hurts her
    I'm bawling bruh

  • @DivusMagus
    @DivusMagus 8 месяцев назад +4

    When you first started Portal would you imagined you'd be crying because Gun Turrets were sing for you.
    Portal 2 is one of the best games ever the humor, the story, the music is great and it's ultimately a simple puzzle game but was done beautifully.
    This series takes place in the same world as the Half-Life series which is another Valve series the first one being in 1999.
    It's a shooter with a much more serious tone but Half-Life 2 is often regarded as one of the best Shooters ever and honestly still hold up very well. But the story has yet to be concluded with a third installment that had been green lit and canceled many times.

  • @RealRayJelly
    @RealRayJelly 8 месяцев назад +6

    GLaDos deleting Caroline always confused me a bit, but I think this has finally given me an interpretation of it.
    Hey and Caroline are two halves of the one being, the robot side and the human side. GLaDos deleted Caroline as a way of letting her go, much the same as she then does
    for Chell. Caroline is finally at peace now that she's gone, and there is no more internal conflict. GLaDos just wants to test, Caroline just wants to be at peace, and Chell just wants to leave. Everyone is happy...
    Except for Wheatley, who has now become a space probe.

  • @Fontana22
    @Fontana22 8 месяцев назад

    I believe i know the feeling you had when you finished the game, REALLY bittersweet isnt it? a mixture of happiness and sadness, the ending you were looking forward is here! but you dont want it to end. This feeling of accomplishment but also emptyness like "I DID IT!! what now?", i've had the exact same feeling when i finished Radiata Stories on the ps2, it lasts for a little while haha. Good job finishing this awesome piece of gaming history! :)

  • @NICKatronMC
    @NICKatronMC 8 месяцев назад

    I love how enthralled you were into the story, and how you reacted to even the most minuscule details and instances

  • @labus044
    @labus044 8 месяцев назад +24

    I want to see u play the Half Life series, especially Black Mesa

  • @STARpowwa
    @STARpowwa Месяц назад

    Thank you for keeping your reaction to the end of the game :D
    Made me appreciate the game I already love, even more.

  • @MrShtrudL
    @MrShtrudL 8 месяцев назад

    Finally someone who had a similar reaction to mine, I played the first one as soon as it came out, and you can imagine my reaction when the portal 2 trailer dropped. When I finished it I was a 17 years old boy just sobbing when I finished it some random day after school. Love your content keep it up :)

  • @basily_productions
    @basily_productions 3 месяца назад

    One of the most beautiful reactions I've seen for the ending of Portal 2...! I don't usually write comments but Meg, you are a beautiful person and when I see that you're crying for this beautiful gem of a game, it makes me happy to know that there are people in this world that can appreciate the smallest things. Thanks for this playthrough and most importantly, never change Meg ✨💖

  • @Wickerrman
    @Wickerrman 8 месяцев назад

    So happy seeing you react to the end of the game :) really glad you enjoyed it so much. This game is a masterpiece :)

  • @elessardan
    @elessardan 6 месяцев назад +2

    The Space Core is my favorite thing ever.

  • @GumpPower
    @GumpPower Месяц назад +1

    This is what Valve does to people with their games.. I promise you, you weren't crying alone.

  • @yourbestpallshawn4139
    @yourbestpallshawn4139 7 месяцев назад +3

    Now chell has to deal with the combine 💀

  • @flightdub6056
    @flightdub6056 4 месяца назад

    What you said at the is a beautiful way of summing up the story. A daughter saving her mother from herself and redeeming her, and in one last act of humanity against all odds, the mother sets her daughter free. It’s really beautiful.

  • @DaisyAzuras
    @DaisyAzuras 8 месяцев назад +1

    The story to these games are actually very emotionally driven and I honestly teared up at the end.

  • @AridLemming
    @AridLemming 8 месяцев назад

    This series was so fun to watch! You should definitely do the co-op mode, it's full of glados just being glados and it's amazing.

  • @houdin654jeff
    @houdin654jeff 8 месяцев назад

    I'm kind of amazed to see you have such an emotional reaction to this, it wasn't my experience at all. This game, and the previous one, are two of my favorites ever made mainly because of the mechanics and puzzle solving, but also the incredibly funny writing. I felt a bit bummed when it ended, but have replayed it many times since and still get the enjoyment of reminding myself of the solutions and hearing the characters delightful voice acting from the entire cast. Stephen Merchant is perfect as Wheatley, and one of the tallest comedians you'll ever see, look him up.
    They set up the Moon shot earlier when Cave Johnson tells you what the portalable surfaces are made up, crushed up Moon rocks, and seeing it through the roof made me cackle, even more so when it lets you shoot it. Fun fact, the portal takes about a second and a half to open because the Moon is about that many light seconds away from Earth at any given time.
    As for the relationships between characters, I see them as pretty simple. GLaDOS' anger at you is understandable when you go back and listen to what she went through after you deactivate her at the end of the first game, reliving her last few minutes endlessly. She also deletes Caroline completely, so she's back to her usual psychopathic self at the end. Letting you go is probably not as friendly a move as it seems, since the Earth seems to have gone through a semi major apocalypse, possibly the Seven Hour War from Half-Life 2, but who knows how long Chell's been asleep. That's not to say my interpretation is correct, just how I saw it. The ending turret song is lovely and kind of hilarious all at the same time (you can see the leopard printed turret king singing the deep base notes in the background), as is GLaDOS' second credits song and Wheatley being forever trapped with the Space Sphere orbiting him. I wish there was a proper third one, but Valve seems to be incapable of counting to three, so probably not.