The problem is, Alicia doesn't know how to use a modern controller for a game. She can look (sort of) or walk (sort of) but to ask her to use both joysticks at the same time in unison to look and run, strafe, or do anything like that, is near impossible. This leads to some very . . . interesting, events.
Just like any good game, Portal 2 is on a curve. It starts out trying to teach you the basic elements to the game and then it stretches you one bit at a time, constantly getting harder, constantly making you think and constantly growing to include new things. The problem with this is that because of that constant growth in difficulty, Alicia is constantly trying to menuver herself in a new way that she has never had to, but the bad news about this was that for the first few levels, which should have been the easiest, because she was so new to controllers and understanding how they work, it took a REALLY long time.
Let me clarify. Alicia was doing one of the first puzzles. It was so early on in the game that she didn't even have a portal gun to work with, all she had access to were buttons that would activate the portals. There were four areas - 1 was the large open area where you could press three other buttons, 2 was a sealed off area with a block 3 was an area with a place to put said block to unlock the door in the sealed off area of section 4.
Even written down it seems pretty straight forward. Press the button to get the portal to the block, grab the block, make a portal to section 3, put the block on the spot, make a portal to the door, walk out. Because she was still trying to get used to looking and walking at the same time, she spent the majority of the puzzle fighting herself and the confusion of not staring at the ground all the time, instead of actually fixing the puzzle that she had to deal with.
From the looks of Portal 2, I just might like the game, but as for now, the only person that is gaming in my home isn't me.
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