Psychonauts

 PlayStation 4
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7.2

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  2. Mixed: 10 out of 51
  3. Negative: 10 out of 51
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  1. DarkOwl
    Apr 16, 2017
    4
    8 hours in, and the game hasn't lived up to its praise. The controls aren't tight enough to make the gameplay fun, and it's other merits fall flat. The art direction is something you can judge for yourself, but I felt the bright color palette made the... quirky designs seem out of place. The music gets repetitive, the level design is uninspired (although the atmosphere and environments are8 hours in, and the game hasn't lived up to its praise. The controls aren't tight enough to make the gameplay fun, and it's other merits fall flat. The art direction is something you can judge for yourself, but I felt the bright color palette made the... quirky designs seem out of place. The music gets repetitive, the level design is uninspired (although the atmosphere and environments are interesting enough), and while the humor is occasionally chuckle-worthy, most jokes are juvenile and overdone (i.e., and some spoilers: Bad Guy: "I've got the brain of a little girl back in my lab ready to power (spoilery stuff)." Raz: "Haha, you said you've got the brains of a little girl!"). The most praised thing in the other reviews seems to be the characters, but 8 hours in, everyone seems generic and bland. The mechanic of jumping into other people's brains to see their problems seems interesting, but thus far I've only found 1 instance (the orphanage in Milla's party) where it was used correctly. I'm probably just an old geezer who can't understand childish humor and expected a more creative execution of the interesting premise, but in my opinion, this game isn't worth your time.… Expand
  2. Trovertherover
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    This game sucks ass. It actually made me want to shoot myself. it's tanking controls suck and the story is sleep boring.
  3. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 4, 2021
    0
    Psychonauts
    getting stuck in your mind
    Psychonauts is an 8 and a half hour long 3D platformer where you play as raz.. youre a psychis and youre at this camp to hone your psychic abilitites and become a psychonaut… and I absolutely loved this game from start to finish.. it feels like youre in an interactive cartoon from the late 90s or early 2000s, the humour, the voice actin, the    Psychonauts
    getting stuck in your mind
    Psychonauts is an 8 and a half hour long 3D platformer where you play as raz.. youre a psychis and youre at this camp to hone your psychic abilitites and become a psychonaut… and I absolutely loved this game from start to finish.. it feels like youre in an interactive cartoon from the late 90s or early 2000s, the humour, the voice actin, the perasonality of every character in the worlds.. I absolutely loved it… eventually brains strat getting snatched up so youll be going on a journey to get them back.. and along the way youll need certain items to progress and to get those items you have to teleport into the minds of different charatcers and deal with their demons, their insecurities, really anything that’s holding them back emotionally.. and every mind feels unique.. this is ultimately a 3d platformer with light combat aspects.. youll unlock new psychic abilities as the game goes on,giving you new ways to interact with the world… but no 2 levels feel the same, and I love that especially for a 3d platformer… every level here is memorable, youll be faced with different obstacles and problems to solve, and I love it.. one moment youll be floating through the air and rolling on a ball, and the next youre inside of a board game…
    the only issues psychonauts has is that it is in ways. But only in a couple of ways stuck in time.. I did have to check a walkthrough a couple of ytimes to figure out where to go or what im supposed to be doing to do damage to a boss.. as in a good and bad way.. bosses are all different and cant be damaged in the same way.. this is great when it comes to boss variety, but I feel I would’ve appreciated some cinsistancy in this aspect of the game.. especially since dying will cause you to restart the battle completely, and there are multiple stages and the way to damage the boss isn’t even consistent within its own battle…
    overall though psychonauts is pure nostalgic magic, this over 15 year old game is worth going back for before the sequel comes out.
    I give Psychonauts
    an 8.5/10    … Expand
  4. frederik1478
    Aug 30, 2021
    4
    Amazing game, bad port . it's just the PS2 version with no improvements and the FPS is s*** it goes between 25 and 30 All The time so it never feels good. dis port just me sad because it's one of the best platformers ever made , the PS4 has the worst version of it

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  1. Cubed3
    Jun 29, 2018
    90
    There are not really enough good things to say about Psychonauts and most of them have already been said at this point. It's still an amazing platformer that married gameplay and storytelling better than any other title like it. It's a fantastic adventure that everyone should at some point play. With Psychonauts 2 on the distant horizon, though, there's never been a better time to get reacquainted with Tim Schafer's old masterpiece.
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