portal

by bryon

I am a huge fan of the mind bending game Portal. Although the game is only about 4 hours long, I have played it for at least 20. What I really want to talk about here is the soundtrack. Consisting of only one song, Portal’s end credits (and the tin-can version that plays over the radio), Still Alive is a crash course in the distorted and demented A.I. antagonist , GlaDOS. A great lyrical analysis can be read here as well as a through analysis of GlaDOS’ real plan here. Overall the game is amazing and sparking countless fan creations of all kinds. I particularly enjoy the Victims of Science mix that includes almost all of the GlaDOS dialog from the game. If you haven’t played the game I would highly recommend it. If you have, I would go read some of game-ism’s articles.
Portal Official PageJonathan Coulton