the first portal was a better puzzle game. what i didn't like about the second portal game was they heavily restricted which surfaces you could put a portal on. taking away those degrees of freedom guided the player to the answer which is probably a good thing for all those main-stream non-puzzle gamers. ...but for me it made the solution far too obvious to the point it was all about execution and not about thinking things though. in the first game you had to think and one of the fun things was seeing the "expected" solution and then finding another even crazier solution that also worked. the sequel had very few puzzles that could be solved in any way other than the intended solution.That's a good point. Also it seemed to snap your portals into certain positions and at the right orientation on some panels.
...but the writing in the second game. dear god was the writing amazing.
so yeah, overall the sequel was better.
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