FRIST_008 Psychonauts Review

I played Psychonauts by that Schafer guy. With a ReShade patch. Overall, it's very cool. Clearly 10/10, since I completed all the achievements. That's how much I liked it. Yes, it might be a 9 in 2022, but in 2005 and in 2015 it's a 10 out of 10. By my rating system, this is a game I confidently recommend playing through. The voice-over is installed separately, and it's done masterfully. The number of cutscenes and the original story are just unimaginable for that year. Even now they don't make this many cutscenes and dialogues. It's a simple platformer in the spirit of Spyro, where you travel between levels in a pseudo-open world. But the very essence of the game is traveling through other people's minds, and everything there is very original, since these people's minds are sick, and the world itself is not quite... human, so to speak, even with people in it, which gives the authors maximum freedom =)) Despite the seemingly childish style, the game has exploding brains and setting squirrels and other cute animals on fire for mocking, entertaining and totally optional purposes =) so the game very openly plays with being both a kids' game and not one at all. At the very least, this is the game I would recommend you at least try. Maybe it's your thing =) Because platformers have basically always been about gameplay, and here, thanks to the number of cutscenes, you also get a very funny cartoon.