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
- "意识世界" -- Chinese title (simplified)
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| UnderGroundOnline (UGO) |
Apr 27, 2005 |
A |
100 |
| 1UP |
Apr 19, 2005 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| GameSpy |
Apr 22, 2005 |
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90 |
| GameSpot |
Apr 19, 2005 |
8.8 out of 10 |
88 |
| Game Informer Magazine |
May, 2005 |
8.75 out of 10 |
88 |
| IGN |
Apr 22, 2005 |
8.7 out of 10 |
87 |
| Jeuxvideo.com |
Jan 31, 2006 |
17 out of 20 |
85 |
| Gamezine |
Jan 08, 2006 |
17 out of 20 |
85 |
| PlayDevil |
Apr 06, 2006 |
 |
80 |
| Games TM |
Jun, 2005 |
7 out of 10 |
70 |
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Trivia
The character of Edgar Teglee is based on the real artist Edgar Leeteg who popularised the Black Velvet style of painting of that level's art style. Leeteg initially worked as a billboard painter and sign writer in California before losing his job due to the depression. Later he went on to achieve infamy for his cheesy art style.
The four painting dogs in the same level are the dogs from the famous Dog's Playing Poker painting, actually called "A Bold Bluff" by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
