Description
Adventure game legend
Tim Schafer deviates from his traditional design formula with Psychonauts, a traditional console-style platformer with a very unorthodox style. At a summer camp for up-and-coming psychics, a young boy with a very unusual level of psychic ability inexplicably shows up. The boy, named Raz, is allowed to stay at the camp until his father comes to pick him up, but his arrival coincides with very strange circumstances.
Soon, evidence that someone is psychically tampering with the campers' minds reveals itself, and Raz is the only one who can stop it. As Raz, you must psychically project yourself into the psyches of several different people in order to figure out what is going on and who is behind it.
Each mind features a highly unique and stylized environment and varying gameplay, ranging from standard platform jumping to playing a Risk-like board game against Napoleon.
Alternate Titles
- "ζθ―δΈη" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| UnderGroundOnline (UGO) |
Apr 27, 2005 |
A |
100 |
| FileFactory Games / Gameworld Network |
Jun 06, 2005 |
95 out of 100 |
95 |
| Daily Game |
May 10, 2005 |
9.4 out of 10 |
94 |
| GameSpy |
Apr 22, 2005 |
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90 |
| Game Informer Magazine |
May, 2005 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| Game Informer Magazine |
May, 2005 |
8.75 out of 10 |
88 |
| GameSpot |
Apr 19, 2005 |
8.8 out of 10 |
88 |
| IGN |
Apr 22, 2005 |
8.7 out of 10 |
87 |
| Gamezine |
Jan 08, 2006 |
17 out of 20 |
85 |
| PlayDevil |
Apr 06, 2006 |
 |
80 |
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Trivia
Several past references to Tim Schafer games:
- In the campfire area there is a tree with a crashed van and three tombstones under it. Some say this is a Day of the Tentacle reference, as the truck looks similar to the one used by three characters in the game. It is also a double entendre stating Schafer's opinion of LucasArts' commitment to adventure games - dead.
- After getting the canoe from Cruller, you can ask him "Admiral Cruller? That canoe...are you...in love with it?" This is a reference to Sal in Grim Fandango asking if Manny was in love with Meche.
- When you need a Marksmanship learner's permit and don't have it yet, you can tell Sasha "I left it in my other pants." Guybrush says something similar in Monkey Island 2.
- The obligatory Star Wars reference: When Clem and Crystal are standing on the roof of the lodge, you can overhear their conversation which includes, "We're going to be so powerful, aren't we?" and a reply of "More powerful than you can possibly imagine."
