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lostplay · 5 months
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Game 7: Psychonauts 2 (Jan 2023)
Like Alice traveling through Wonderland, so to does Rasputin travel through a mystical adventure in Psychonauts 2. It really is astounding just how much imagination, creativity, and humor went into this project to make it the way that it is. It honestly does feel like a parallel to Alice in Wonderland on so many levels that it will leave you with that same sense of whimsy and awe. Perhaps what is most striking about it all is that it just doesn't really fumble on any of it's elements.
Graphically Psychonauts 2 looks amazing, it's basically just using an upgraded version of the previous models and characters they had on top of giving us these wonderful landscapes and worlds to go across. Both the worlds you explore both in and outside the brain-scape are interesting and filled with purpose and history. Sound design is wonderful too feeling satisfying on any given beat. As well the soundtrack for this game really helping elevate the wackiness and absurdity of any given situation you find yourself in.
Platforming is still the basic bones of what helps make Psychonauts entertaining, and the sequel doesn't stop on the hits there. You're given plenty of interesting and neat worlds to explore on top of a bunch of new mechanics to either travel or interact with it. Each world both has this nice sense of familiarity while having it's on motifs and platforming obstacles. In a lot of ways just traveling through the worlds gives you plenty of story and character without any real dialogue needed. So each platforming challenge you come across both ends up a bit like a story while at the same time providing entirely different experiences and challenges. Add on the additional fighting elements they gave to not only make combat interesting, but challenging as well really helps boost Psychonauts 2 into just a bigger, better version of it's previous self.
Then the story? Oh my goodness, the story is just amazing, and the way they are able to set this all up with little need to explore either of the other games really just helps set the mood for it's own adventure. Each beat to the story not only helps introduce new characters, but also gives plenty of context for the older ones introduced in the first two games. You are just given so much interaction, and insight to it's massive cast of characters that honestly it feels like a circus act with the way Psychonauts 2 juggles them around. Then you have the ongoing mystery plaguing the main story that slowly gets wrapped up into a world climax that just feels like a wonderful form of vindication for the series. There is definitely more for this series to explore, but for this outing it really helped set Psychonauts 2 as a proper world that feels lived in and realized.
Really Psychonauts 2 is just an outstanding display of vision coming out in full force, and keeps me in awe with how much it impressed me. It absolutely uses everything it can to it's advantage to give any player out there some wonderful worlds that are challenging , funny, and super interesting. And honestly I can't see Psychonauts 2 being in any other median because of how well it uses everything. If you ever need a game to show how it's art, Psychonauts 2 makes a great candidate.
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maturelovemature · 3 months
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fithragaer · 10 months
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I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary
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wolfythewitch · 21 days
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I volunteer at the kid's Sunday school which is fun the kids are great but I can't speak to them properly man 😭 a kid was sulking under the table and I asked why, she said that there was a monster, to which I replied on autopilot "I'll kill them"
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duodamsel · 6 months
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bexism · 9 months
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aziraphale | everybody loves me
i completely forgot to upload this here, have an aziraphale edit
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uncanny-tranny · 9 months
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Tall trans girl reading this: you aren't too tall for heels. If you want to wear them, wear them proud. There is nothing more spectacular than a tall woman in heels, and nobody can ever take that away from you, not even yourself 🩷🪻
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