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4.25 from 737 ratings · #214 top rated on Grouvee
2268 members have it in their collection · 95 playing now · 962 backlogged · 713 wish listed
How long? Main story 16h · with extras 18h · 100% 28h (from 57 logged playthroughs)
Status DucksOnQuack Sep 11, 2024
From getting every achievement on Astro Bot to getting every achievement on Psychonauts 2 3 days later. Fantastic game like the first game. Kinda have a Portal situation where I like both as much and either does things much better than the other.
Status DucksOnQuack Sep 3, 2024
Everyone and their mother says this and I must agree. Psychonauts 2 goes hard. Must. Complete. Game. Before. Astro. Bot.
Status shinespark Jun 5, 2023
Finished this up, it's solid! But even as a huge platformer fan, I think I'd enjoy the game way more if it spent less of its budget on platforming it clearly doesn't care about.
Their apathy for the genre notwithstanding, it made sense for Double Fine to play pretend and wrap Psychonauts 1 up in the trappings of a platformer, …
Finished this up, it's solid! But even as a huge platformer fan, I think I'd enjoy the game way more if it spent less of its budget on platforming it clearly doesn't care about.
Their apathy for the genre notwithstanding, it made sense for Double Fine to play pretend and wrap Psychonauts 1 up in the trappings of a platformer, as the point and click adventures their team was known for were widely thought to be dead at the time. But the Walking Dead model has been pretty successful for over a decade by now, and the pretense no longer seems necessary. If Psychonauts 2 wasn't constantly bogged down by halfhearted platforming (and rarer but even less convincing combat), it feels like it could've had more time to spend on the colorful characters, goofy dialogue, and inventive mindscapes that made folks fall in love with the original. As is, it simply feels spread too thin.
Most of the original cast returns, alongside ~19 likeable new characters (I especially dug the punk intern and the elderly gay couple!). But almost everyone disappears off the face of the planet immediately after their introduction, only to be seen again briefly at the very end of the game.
There's still some funny dialogue here and there, especially from Raz, but there's far less of it overall, and the rest of the cast almost never has anything new to say. Probably my favorite thing to do in Psychonauts 1 was to check in on the weird new stuff the campers were talking about after clearing each brain; that joy is entirely missing from the sequel.
The minds are visually impressive, but they're all padded out with dull platforming and aside from a few standouts (
For its part, the overarching narrative is a bit stronger than the original's, but it's got the same pacing issue where most of the plot occurs at the very beginning and very end of the game, with the entire midsection mostly focused on unlocking a bunch of doors.
None of the game's issues are damning, and I really enjoyed returning to the cozily off-kilter world of Psychonauts after 18 years away. Just wish it didn't feel so bound up by genre expectations.
Status shinespark May 29, 2023
One of my weirder OCD symptoms is that I sometimes have enormous trouble starting games I'm really excited about, but over a year after buying it I've finally managed to start Psychonauts 2! It seems neat so far, with a host of great new characters and some charming dialogue.
Pretty frustrating that Lili is almost immediately sidelined just like in …
One of my weirder OCD symptoms is that I sometimes have enormous trouble starting games I'm really excited about, but over a year after buying it I've finally managed to start Psychonauts 2! It seems neat so far, with a host of great new characters and some charming dialogue.
Pretty frustrating that Lili is almost immediately sidelined just like in the first game though.
Status Sir_Laguna May 16, 2023
Status tylerisrandom Feb 11, 2023
Double Fine have released their documentary about the making of Psychonauts 2 for free. I’m four episodes in (out of 32!!) and it’s glorious.
It is so amazing to want a piece of media so bad, to have it exceed your expectations, and then to get such a thorough and well-crafted account of its creation.
Status MistRain Jan 3, 2023
PERSONAL GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022
(Including all games played this year regardless of release date)
Categories:
Best Game of the Year
Psychonauts 2
Best Sound
Psychonauts 2
Best Art Direction
Psychonauts 2
Worst Game Of The Year
Genshin Impact
Most Innovative Game
Last of Us Part II
Blast From The Past Award
Final Fantasy X
Fuck the Oscars, …
PERSONAL GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022
(Including all games played this year regardless of release date)
Categories:
Best Game of the Year
Psychonauts 2
Best Sound
Psychonauts 2
Best Art Direction
Psychonauts 2
Worst Game Of The Year
Genshin Impact
Most Innovative Game
Last of Us Part II
Blast From The Past Award
Final Fantasy X
Fuck the Oscars, man.
Status tylerisrandom Jul 8, 2022
Good news, @BMO: Physical copies! PS4 and Xbox preorders showed up at Target this morning, and iam8bit has an expensive collector’s edition up for preorder (also PS4 or Xbox).
