9/16/2023 0 Comments Psychonauts 2 levels![]() You play as Razputin “Raz” Aquato, as you journey into people’s minds to solve this mystery and stop Maligula’s return, mending strained connections and pained psyches along the way. This mole is also trying to resurrect “Maligula, the Deluge of Grulovia,” the Psychonauts’ most fearsome foe ever and the driving antagonistic force of this game. This leads to the realization that the Psychonauts have a mole in their ranks. Loboto has quite a few screws loose (and teeth, there’s a dental phobia warning for a reason, folks), so there’s no way he could’ve orchestrated this kidnapping alone. Loboto, the secondary antagonist of the first game. The titular team had just located Truman Zanotto, grand head of the Psychonauts, who had been kidnapped by deranged dentist Dr. I’ll touch on level design and gameplay in more depth momentarily, but now, for some context: Psychonauts 2 picks up where Rhombus of Ruin (the VR-only midquel released in 2017) left off. Every level is now jam-packed with platforming feats, and the creativity on display here is impressive, making for a markedly unique set of level themes you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. This is good, because now ALL the levels are Meat Circus, sans the escorting and BS checkpoints. ![]() The controls have been considerably tightened up and streamlined, making for a more enjoyable 3D platforming experience. It is a 3D platformer first and foremost, with adventure game elements. This alleged failing can be seen through the eyes of critical fans, bemoaning the final level of the original, Meat Circus, notorious for its sins of combining an escort mission with finicky, unforgiving platforming and checkpoint starvation. However, the original Psychonauts faltered the hardest when it leaned into the genre’s strengths, as its controls were clearly not designed for intensive, high-wire platforming action. This gave the action more immediacy and freedom than something akin to, say, Grim Fandango. ![]() ![]() The original was an oddity in its genre, functioning moreso as an adventure game (developer Double Fine’s bread and butter), with point and click interaction swapped out for running and jumping. Psychonauts 2 is finally here, the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 cult classic. (This review contains spoilers for the original Psychonauts, as well as Rhombus of Ruin, but contains no spoilers for Psychonauts 2. Available on: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S (reviewed on X… the console, I mean), PS4, PS5 (via backwards compatibility) ![]()
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