Another Tim Schaffer game on the danh sách and only so long after I just talked about Brutal Legend. I am aware that Schaffer games have a really weird style of creativity and humor to them and are always meant for a thêm niche demographic. And I am in that demographic. That said, this is Psychonauts, a game to kinda break the mold of the niche… maybe. Probably. Not really.
Psychonauts follows the character Rasputin, hoặc Raz for short, who is a Psychonaut in training, special agents who use the power of their mind to do incredible powers. With these powers, Raz has to stop a conspiracy in the camp of other Psychonauts in training while entering the minds of all sorts of characters. And let me just say that this game is so creative that it is hard not to tình yêu it. The hubworld, the camp, is interesting enough with levitating bears and all sorts of items for bạn to collect, but the levels where bạn explore the minds of people is where the game is really at. Some of my yêu thích levels in the game are, well hell, it’s hard to say. A majority of them are a lot of fun. My các sở thích are the minds of the asylum residents, like Boyd, Edgar, Gloria, and Fred. My yêu thích levels would be Lungfishopolis, where bạn are a giant walking around and destroying the city, Waterloo World where bạn play a boardgame in order to beat Fred’s rival, Gloria’s Theater which is just one big puzzle for bạn to solve while ignoring the words of a rude critic. Black Velvetopia, which has so much visual style that I tình yêu it. I just like that Mexican art style a lot. And my yêu thích level, The Milkman Conspiracy. bạn wanna get a damn good laugh from this game, play the Milkman Conspiracy level. Brutal Legend was a pretty funny game, but all I ever got out of it was like a chuckle. In Psychonauts, I was laughing real damn hard the whole time. The characters are also a ton of fun. bạn will not be able to predict what these characters’ personalities are. It’s so insane. It’s like this game was written bởi a madman who binged a whole lot of hoạt hình in the early 2000s. I will say some of the character người mẫu look disgusting, but I like how over-exaggerated they are. And the amount of stuff for bạn to collect. Mental Cobwebs, Emotional Baggage, backstories for characters, a metric fuck ton of Mental Projections, and a bunch of other techniques for bạn to learn like Pyrokinesis, Third Eye, and more.
Psychonauts is just an all around charming game and one that I tình yêu to play over and over again just for the amount of insanity and humor. I didn’t know what to say when I heard that Psychonauts 2 was finally getting made, but after being able to enjoy the first game, yeah, I think it’s an toàn, két an toàn to say I’m thêm than excited.