'Still Alive' is featured in The Orange Box Original Soundtrack, containing both the original version and remix sung by Coulton himself. 'Still Alive' score after being played in Rock Band. In 2011, 'Still Alive' was succeeded by ' Want You Gone' in Portal 2.series, demonstrated the game to the audience prior to the performance. Given the minimal exposure of Portal in Japan, Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Nintendo's Kirby and Super Smash Bros. 'Still Alive' is the first Western song to be performed at the show, which included a Japanese translation by Kazushige Nojima, a writer of several Final Fantasy games, and arrangement for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

The song was also performed at the 2009 Press Start -Symphony of Games-, a yearly Japanese concert event to showcase the musical works of video games.In 2008, Coulton performed the song alongside Felicia Day at the Penny Arcade Expo, because he 'knew it was one of those things that would just make people's heads explode'.

IGN editor Ryan Geddes called it the best game-ending song of all time.

McLain felt that Jonathan Coulton did a good job capturing GLaDOS with the song.

The Rice Thresher editor Joe Dwyer called the song 'hilarious'.

The song received significant praise for its humor and the quality of its performance: Kim Swift explained that they chose to play 'Still Alive' during the ending so that players would leave the game happy. As a result, GLaDOS singing after the player has grown accustomed to her, and appears very natural. When asked why more video games do not end in song, he stated that while movies are easier to convey with a story, it is more difficult to do in video games. He stated that GLaDOS' passive-aggressive nature, which he shared, made it difficult to get her voice out of his head. After discussing what they should do, he and the developers settled on working on Portal. They asked him if he would like to write music for the company, and due to his fandom for the Half-Life series, he immediately accepted. Jonathan Coulton got involved with Valve after two developers approached him following a concert in Seattle. This is confirmed in Portal 2, where GLaDOS is indeed still 'alive' and forces Chell to resume her tests.Дuring the song, GLaDOS's voice is higher-pitched than it normally is, sounding at around the same pitch as a Sentry Turret. The postscripts do not belong to a form.ДЄlthough her physical form was comprehensively destroyed by Chell at the end of Portal, 'Still Alive' suggests that GLaDOS is still functional, is 'not even angry' at Chell for what she has done, and considers the monitoring of her performance through the Test Chambers a 'huge success' for those who are 'still alive'. The lyrics consists of 'Forms' similar to the ones used for the Enrichment Center Test Subject Application Process on : the first verse is titled 'FORM-29827281-12: Test Assessment Report', the second verse is titled 'FORM-55551-5: Personnel File Addendum', and the bridge / third verse is titled 'FORM-55551-6: Personnel File Addendum Addendum'. On the right of the screen, the game credits roll, and under it logos of words said in the song displayed in ASCII art follow each other, such as the Aperture Science logo, the Black Mesa logo, a fire or a piece of cake. While the song is played, the lyrics are displayed on the left of the screen as a letter written by GLaDOS to Chell, with other words not featured in the song, the words being written at the same time they are sung.

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