Review/First Impressions: Psychonauts
There are only two PS2 I've ever gone out of my way to find, and I've found them after the print run, and after I've given up on hoping to see them around.
One is Okami and the other is Psychonauts.
Now, I'm listing this as a "first impressions" of the game because I've been playing for three hours and only finished one mission. It wasn't particularly hard, but it opens up the rest of the "area" and... Well, I got distracted exploring.
The premise of the game is simple: there is a summer camp for psychic kids and your character, "Raz," sneaks in. In the few days your character has before his parents come to pick him up, you get to take part in the classes, side games, and do whatever the plot tells you to do... When you're not trying to set fire to squirrels with your mind.
The major "classes" of missions in the plot involve jumping into people's minds and figuring out what secret the camp has. Along the way, you clear out their psychic cobwebs, fix the emotional baggage, and collect figments of their imagination. The more you do and work to collect things, the more psychic powers you get.
Really, the only issue I actually have so far with the whole game is the dodgy camera making platforming sections harder than they need to be.
Like I said, I've been playing for three hours, and at least half of that was just running around talking to people and eavesdropping, or reading the weird notes people leave on the bulletin boards. Since your character reads everything out loud, you're pretty much just listening to him muse and read stuff, then comment on it. It even works when running around: something near you glows, hit the "talk/action" button and you get some weird dialogue.
And trust me when I say the dialogue is weird. It's like an Invader Zim episode.
A proper review will come later when I'm actually finished the game. But so far, I highly recommend hunting it down. It's creative, quirky, has an original premise and characters, and is incredibly fun to run around in.
And remember, don't listen to the squirrels. They're liars.
One is Okami and the other is Psychonauts.
Now, I'm listing this as a "first impressions" of the game because I've been playing for three hours and only finished one mission. It wasn't particularly hard, but it opens up the rest of the "area" and... Well, I got distracted exploring.
The premise of the game is simple: there is a summer camp for psychic kids and your character, "Raz," sneaks in. In the few days your character has before his parents come to pick him up, you get to take part in the classes, side games, and do whatever the plot tells you to do... When you're not trying to set fire to squirrels with your mind.
The major "classes" of missions in the plot involve jumping into people's minds and figuring out what secret the camp has. Along the way, you clear out their psychic cobwebs, fix the emotional baggage, and collect figments of their imagination. The more you do and work to collect things, the more psychic powers you get.
Really, the only issue I actually have so far with the whole game is the dodgy camera making platforming sections harder than they need to be.
Like I said, I've been playing for three hours, and at least half of that was just running around talking to people and eavesdropping, or reading the weird notes people leave on the bulletin boards. Since your character reads everything out loud, you're pretty much just listening to him muse and read stuff, then comment on it. It even works when running around: something near you glows, hit the "talk/action" button and you get some weird dialogue.
And trust me when I say the dialogue is weird. It's like an Invader Zim episode.
A proper review will come later when I'm actually finished the game. But so far, I highly recommend hunting it down. It's creative, quirky, has an original premise and characters, and is incredibly fun to run around in.
And remember, don't listen to the squirrels. They're liars.