Point being that I see a Pyschonauts crossover, it's immediately watched. I could go on, but this isn't a review of the game. The gameplay's fantastic with a decent learning curve that neither trivializes or exacerbates anything (well, until the Meat Circus anyways then it's just ' Forgiveness? F O O L I S H M O R T A L !!! Perish.'), you feel accomplished unlocking all the various abilities, the level design is fucking phenomenal to the point where other people should have been taking notes (The Milkman Conspiracy? Lungfishopolis?), the characters unforgettable, the dialogue being downright perfect. while managing to capture some of the horrors of the world just as easily. A cartoonish, fun art-style that manages to stick with you as friendly and welcoming. Perfect, atmospheric soundtrack (Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp itself invokes nostalgia on at least two different levels while managing to perfectly encapsulate those fun, easy, slow summer days but underline it all with just enough foreign, unknowable menace to remind you this is the camp of the Angry Psychic Bear who'll bitch-slap you if you get too brave). Oh there's challengers of course (I mean how can you look at games like either Red Dead Redemption, the first The Last of Us, The Talos Principle, etc.), but the original Psychonauts (I own the second, I've just yet unfortunately had the time to play it hopefully the chance will present itself before the end of the year, lol)? It had everything.

In our Psychonauts 2 hands-on preview, you'll find six reasons Psychonauts 2 is 2021's secret GOTY contender.So I'm definitely looking forward to this! Psychonauts is, without a doubt, my favorite game across any system and has remained that way since its release. Psychonauts 2 has emerged as one of our most anticipated games of the year. 'Help us, they're being super mean to us,' he says, erupting into laughter, 'but it's been great.' 'I was going to make a joke, like.' Schafer trails off as he leans into the camera and drops his voice to a whisper. If I took any impression away from the studio leads, it's that Microsoft isn't going to force Double Fine to build something that Double Fine doesn't want to make. And it doesn't necessarily mean one type of game or another – and it doesn't mean every game has to be huge – it just means that we can follow our inspiration without the fear that we had before.'

''If you remove that fear, what would you do?' Suddenly it's like, wow, I have this game idea that I've always loved… it opens you up to things like that, which is a great place to be. 'In other settings, people will often ask the question: 'What would you do if you weren't afraid?' I think that's a great question for Double Fine, because we can remove the fear of 'what if I pitch this to a publisher and they don't sign it?' You know, what if I can't pay the team in three months,' Schafer says, alluding back to the countless times in Double Fine's history where the studio's future was on the razor's edge. So maybe the next Psychonauts game will be made by our kids. 'It took us 15 years to come back to the first game.

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