{"id":155,"date":"2022-03-01T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/01\/random-portal-2s-intro-was-apparently-inspired-by-super-metroids-opening\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:15:47","slug":"random-portal-2s-intro-was-apparently-inspired-by-super-metroids-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/01\/random-portal-2s-intro-was-apparently-inspired-by-super-metroids-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Portal 2&#8217;s Intro Was Apparently Inspired By Super Metroid&#8217;s Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Game&#8217;s project lead reveals all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1994 action-adventure <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a><\/strong> is arguably the <em>best<\/em> entry in the mainline Metroid series and as a result, it&#8217;s inspired many other games over the years.<\/p>\n<p>One game that you may not have realised took a little bit of inspiration is Valve&#8217;s 2011 puzzle-platform game is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/portal_companion_collection\">Portal 2<\/a><\/strong>. Speaking to Kiwi Talkz, the game&#8217;s project lead, Joshua Weier, mentioned how the game&#8217;s opening was directly inspired by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a><\/strong> and was used to overcome a small problem.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/random-portal-2s-intro-was-apparently-inspired-by-super-metroids-opening\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: Portal 2&#8217;s Intro Was Apparently Inspired By Super Metroid&#8217;s Opening<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Game&#8217;s project lead reveals all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1994 action-adventure <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a><\/strong> is arguably the <em>best<\/em> entry in the mainline Metroid series and as a result, it&#8217;s inspired many other games over the years.<\/p>\n<p>One game that you may not have realised took a little bit of inspiration is Valve&#8217;s 2011 puzzle-platform game is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/portal_companion_collection\">Portal 2<\/a><\/strong>. Speaking to Kiwi Talkz, the game&#8217;s project lead, Joshua Weier, mentioned how the game&#8217;s opening was directly inspired by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a><\/strong> and was used to overcome a small problem.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/random-portal-2s-intro-was-apparently-inspired-by-super-metroids-opening\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}