The Shrine

What do you think? Is a worthy sequel? Better than the original? What did you like/dislike about it? Is Now That You're Gone as good a song as Still Alive?

BTW, the game's already dropped in price to $45 on PS3 and 360 and $30 on PC at EB/Gamestop.

I'm mad I didn't wait to buy. ;P

I got it for $35 from Amazon. Waiting for it to arrive.

It was certainly a fun and satisfying experience for me. I'd say it was better than the first but I never completed the first although I came pretty close. I'll finish it up some time soon. Portal 2 is certainly short and unless you particularly want to see a specific moment again it has next to no single player replay value. It's definitely a much tighter game with much more of Valve in it than the original, as well.

I'd say the best part is that almost all the puzzles are simple but still manage to make you feel like the smartest guy in the room (...) by completing them.

Merchant definitely clinches a lot of the game as voice talent. I can't see his character or the game working anywhere near as well without someone as good as him. Props to GlaDOS, too, of course.

What I really liked about it is.....
Was it worth $60? Hmm, maybe not. Is it worth $40 (what I paid)? Yeah, I'd say that's a good value, considering you get the 7 or so hour main game and the 4 or so hour co-op game. And it is a very good game on top of that and a great extension of what they started in the original. And I'm happy they didn't force multi into it, it would probably be borderline unplayable. But it certainly was missing the challenge rooms. That should be put back in with, say, weekly rooms added to bring you up to 50 or so with some leaderboards (Valve wants to give it to you for free, hopefully Sony and Microshaft would allow them to do that). That would not only add even more value as a full-priced game and extend the amount you play it.

And what the hell was it with them removing the ability to start part-way through the chapter or at a specific room? That was just weird

The dozens of rooms and transition areas would have made that pretty clumsy to sort through. The chapters are so short that I didn't mind playing half an hour to get to the bit that I wanted to do over again. Certainly some mid-chapter markers would be nice though.

This game was delightful. Got off Steam for $7.50 (I think) in one of the many times it was on sale in the last month or so.

Space. Space. Gotta go to space.

Coop is fun. Knocked it out with Tess one weekend and had a blast.

Co-op is definitely worth doing. That was one of my favorite parts of the game. My friend and I are still working through the extra co-op DLC that came out.

Blotus, co-op is phenomenal. I will gladly play through it with you (PS3 can play with PC) again now that I've forgotten the rooms