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Hyperbole is, like, the best thing since Moses invented the English language.

Segue! This morning I email Erik "Also A Comic Book Author Now" Henriksen with a heads up about a thing. He already knows about it, but asks how I'm enjoying Portal 2 so far.

I offer a typically stoic response:

Portal 2 is amazing. Unless Jesus returns in the form of an Xbox Live downloadable beat 'em up, it's easily the game of the year (and is a very solid contender for all those "Best Game Ever" lists). Short of actually searing the words "Buy Portal 2" into people's foreheads, I'm at a loss to describe how critical it is that everyone play this thing.

He then suggests I should document the above response in blog form. That spawns the post you're reading and any further backstory just becomes confusingly circular.

Conclusion: There's a real review appearing in next week's ink-and-paper version of the Mercury, but there really is no reason to wait. Buy the damn thing.