The fact that the character is female, the turrets have female voices an the robot has a female voice (except for the red ball at the end when ur killing it (sorry spoiler if u haven't played) which just well doesn't say anything coherent (if thats how u spell it) >.<
yeh i'm male, only 19, but i love the game, playing it through for a 3rd time, also trying to get the camera shy acheivement an doin the advanced puzzles... (end song is funny)
but really, it wouldnt bother me what the sex of the character or anything was, it could of been made to be able to choose the sex or change voices, then i would of spent ages making it sound funny :P
and the weighted companion cube doesn't have a gender, its the same as the other cubes, cept it has a heart an u use it for longer, an also have to destroy it instead of leaving it on a button. :( poor cube :P
To Gizensha: there are more ways to defeat the turrets, the game is aimed at using the portals to defeat them, either make one near it, go through an knock it over, or make one above an drop something through a portal onto it, it is also an acheivement (friendly fire) to use a turret through a portal to disable another turret, also if u want to take the damage you can try hiding behind an active turret an get shot at, and the "shield" turret takes some hits an shouts out stuff like "hey! its me!" but not sure if u can destroy turrets like that
back to my main point... SO WHAT if everything is female, really?? i'd say its for anyone thats into puzzle games, the developers just wanted to make it a little different i guess.
but all in all... fun game, funny aswel, an a very good puzzle :D
Portal (Xbox 360): Portal is the most subversive game ever