I used to like this level when I was a kid, but now that I replayed it... Yeah this level sucks.

One of the first online levels I played (4.5)

i know it's an early 2.0 level but the memory is unfun, the use of 2.0 features is horrible, the level looks butt ugly, the text can kill you for some reason, AND the gp feels like a bunch of quick-time events.

When the 9* remake is easier than the original 4* level, you know there be must be something terribly wrong with the original level. "P0RTAL" — an attempted remake of the game of the same name — is one out of many levels and reasons as to why map packs have ascended to such infamy within the community. To start, it's frankly a very boring and tedious level to play and sit through. There's a few annoying places to die and nothing sucks more than having to get through some of the most mind-numbing gameplay to get back to where you were. Some of the moving objects can be pretty unpredictable at times and the level's whole gimmick can't help but feel like a nuisance. The level's design is pretty bare-bones, plain and empty except for some nice (copy-and-pasted) pixel art here and there. Sure, the emptiness might help capture the atmosphere of a sterile laboratory, but it just feels lazy and rushed.

At the end of the day, "P0RTAL" is just another reason why people hate map packs so fervently.