This Mod is Surprisingly Hard

[nothing_cool]

Got out of old Aperture and I've completely lost how to do this. Not a clue. Can't say as I'm a fan of having to look up solutions to puzzles, but I just can't figure these out. Had to look for the solution for the first chamber and there's things I never would have thought about. Now I'm stuck in the second part of the second chamber with the same issue. Is the rest of the Modern Aperture part of the game like this or is it just the first few chambers?

[SlamSte@m]

Hi.
The first time I played, I was stuck at the second part of the chamber 02, having played three hours. I didn't want to watch a walkthrough, so I gave up.
Long time after, I decided to retry and it was more easy for me. It seems that I needed to step back.
Portal Stories : Mel is harder than Portal 2, it's a fact, but not too hard, even if sometimes it reminds me The Talos Principle.
For me, some puzzles are difficult because they are composed of several rooms and they need to carefully observe them, their layout, their switches. It's necessary to try some manipulations, even if they fail. And it's also necessary to try to visualize how to solve them.
Some puzzles took me more time to solve than with Portal 2, my progression was not as fluent.
I still don't have finished the mod but I'm close to the end and I must admit sometimes I want to give up, some rooms discourage me and I wonder how many of them remain.
Even if some of us don't find this mod harder than the original game, it demands more mental efforts for me.
Don't hesitate to make a pause and then come back later, several days later if necessary. That's what I do and what I did with The Talos Principle, to avoid being too discouraged.

[SlamSte@m]

If I'm correct, developers said Portal 2 itself can be considered as a tutorial for their mod. :)

[nothing_cool]

I am fine since I got past those two particular chambers. I solved the third one by accident and I'm not sure what I did, but the pieces came together in such a way that I almost litterally fell through the door.
It's been fine for me past that, though.

[Renfrew]

The issue with this game is that the puzzles require you to be ultra-specific with your movements and choices, and then once you solved it, you feel unsatisfied because it feels like that wasn't the "real" solution.

[SlamSte@m]

nothing_cool : The game is easier once the first tests chambers solved, to become harder again later.
Renfrew : I agree, that's why it's sometimes necessary to try manipulations if the logic of a puzzle is not clear.
Once the mod finished, I'm not sure to play it again later, some puzzles were difficult to solve for me and I already forgot how to solve them after few days.
This is the same problem with the Talos Principles, I finished the game once and today I'm not enough motivated to play the add-on or play the game one more time.