Not everyone coming into this is necessarily going to be Portal fans, but for fans of Bridge Constructor games, it has a lot of new challenges to offer. I had a good time for at least three-quarters of the game, and that took a fair time to run through. With so many levels, some taking up to an hour to solve, there is a lot of gameplay here. It’s a satisfying sight to see 5 forklifts narrowly missing each other in a delicate ballet taking place in a test facility where the wrong move can have you barrelling into a laser beam. If not, everything will fall apart and forklifts go everywhere. The real test of your building skills is to allow a convoy of forklifts to navigate your hellish construction. Sometimes, it’s a relief to just be able to get one forklift with enough speed to jump a ramp, bounce on the gel to the right platform, knock over the sentry drone and land in front of the level exit. It becomes worse when you’ve been spending so long and there so much going, it’s hard to pinpoint the one tiny adjustment that turns it all around. Sometimes I found the game’s physics tended to change between runs, and on more than one occasion my forklift would fail one time, whereas another it would make it. The more girders and cables there are, the more frustrating it is having to tweak the smallest thing – you know what you need to do, but it all falls apart as soon as designs are off by the tiniest fraction. The more complex levels can easily exceed that half hour point. In some cases, the game just throws more of everything at you and while it’s a great feeling working out what you need to do, it’s another matter actually putting it together. By the last third of the game, all the different mechanics have been introduced and you’ll find yourself building more complex structures as the game throws more busywork at you. You have to make sure you’re keeping momentum, not clipping obstacles, and that your forklifts are hitting each other as they’re shot around the level. The puzzles begin demanding a higher level of precision. I found puzzles taking up to half an hour when the solutions weren’t as obvious. Mid game is where it becomes a lot more challenging. Early on, it’s simple bridges and guiding your forklifts through portals. The game is good with getting you used to the basics of bridge building quickly before it starts throwing more and more elements from Portal. At the beginning of levels that introduce new concepts, GLaDOS, the primary antagonist from Portal, appears giving you advice (and a little snark). If you’re worried about not knowing enough about Portal, the game does fill you in on what everything does.
Across 60 levels you’ll encounter all sorts of elements from the Portal games – the titular portals, sentry drones, companion cubes, propulsion gel, faith plates and more. You are a random Aperture Science employee, and your job it is to get forklifts with passengers from point A to point B. Armed with as many girders and cables as anyone could ever need, you’re only limited by space and the anchor points you can build from. The Bridge Constructor part of the game has you building bridges (just like the title of the game suggests!).
So when you mash the genres together, does it hold up or fall apart, like so many poorly build bridges I made over the course of the game. Bridge Constructor- style games have more often been about making bridges across large gaps, making the most of anchor points and limited resources to make a bridge capable of holding vehicles of varying size.
#PORTAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR LEVEL 17 SERIES#
Portal is a series that hasn’t existed on a Nintendo platform (outside of a table on Pinball FX3), and it has traditionally been a first-person puzzle game, using portals to overcome obstacles.
Take Bridge Constructor, put it within the Portal franchise and you get the obviously-named Bridge Constructor Portal.
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