… wow. There’s really not much more I can say. Game of the Year, for me. Beats out Bioshock, which I was pretty sure was a lock. The game’s mechanic is so astonishing, and the game has so much *character*… and it simply does everything perfectly.

The characters are incredibly memorable, the puzzles are awesome, and man… perfect.

Minor spoiler, if you haven’t finished the game. Not really a *spoiler*, per se, but involves events near the end of the game.

Today, at work, we bought a small cake. We put the cake in the second floor kitchen, and took a picture. Framed the picture in a portal. Went up to the third floor, took a picture of a dude eating lunch. Framed that in a different portal. Took the picture of the dude, put it in the second floor, near the cake. Took the first picture, put it in the third floor kitchen, where we took the other picture. Wrote “The cake is a lie” over and over on a piece of paper. E-mailed the team, from “Aperture Science Research Facility” that there was cake in the third floor kitchen.

Big fun.