PSYCHONAUTS 2
PSYCHONAUTS 2 GAME TRAILER
PSYCHONAUTS 2 PLAYTHROUGH
PSYCHONAUTS 2 PHOTOSET
PSYCHONAUTS 2 REVIEW
I was first introduced to the Psychonauts 2 in the 2018 presentation of The Game Awards. The Psychonauts 2 story follows a young psychic intern by the name of Razputin "Raz" Aquato navigating his new found psychic powers. While completing missions delegated to him by his mentors, Raz and the others notice that there was something amidst within their psychic camp. A mole was dabbling in necromancy to bring back the villainous Maligula! Maligula - a water bending psychic herself - made senior ranking psychics shutter by the sheer mention of her name.
While interning at the motherlobe, Raz meets other teenagers who are also learning about their own powers but they have no time to chat as the threat of Maligula making a grand return grew increasingly by the minute.
While playing as Raz, we not only explore the other characters innermost thoughts, fears, and secrets, we also explore some interesting areas of the motherlobe to unlock the secrets of the psychics that were locked away for decades. While in these various brains and on the grounds of the motherlobe, Raz unlocks amazing psychic abilities: levitation, pyromancy, telekinesis, and even clairvoyance. The lush and colorful maps didn't disappoint either.
Maps & Their Lessons
In order of appearance
Hollis Forsythe's Hot Streak - a heavily guarded casino with quite a few mini games revealed how we make connection to our emotions and thoughts. If not careful we may end up associating simple things like money to death or even misfortune.
Ford Crueller's Fragmented Mind & Compton’s Cookoff
Psi King’s Sensorium - An overwhelming positive experience to my visual and audible senses. Out of all the levels these should've had a trigger warning for immense pleasure (also one for a lot of flashing lights).
Cassie's Collection - the depths and complexities of this level reminded me of our own depth and complexities. On the level we explore how our archetypes work together to work on the behalf of our own good. We are multi-faceted complex beings and each facet of our make up who we are and our beauty within that.
Bob's Bottles
Bob buried all his painful experiences from the loss of his parent to relationships. Burying our feelings expecting it to bloom something beautiful is not only foolish but instead soil to produce a disaster.
Deluge of Grulovia - no matter your perception of things someone will always have a different outlook on the same event. Never assume others view things the same way you do.
Maligula's Mind - We all have a Maligula inside of us. The difference with us and her is that the trauma she experienced disintegrated the boundary that most of us hold in place for our shadow selves.
After reviewing my own gameplay I can't decide which map was my favorite. Each of them had immense detail and beautiful set design and contained such valuable lessons that I hope to keep with me through my own life journey. If you couldn’t tell I LOVED THIS GAME. I am so grateful for this game and I hope that Double Fine has the energy to produce another in the future.
