Mmm….Blockbuster.
Title: Psychonauts
Genre (Video Game): Action/Platformer
Systems: Xbox, PC, PS2
Description: A wonderful melting pot of all your favorite games with a lot of humor to top it off.
Quickrating: 8/10
Let’s start off this review with the best thing about this game: the humor. You know how I was congratulating The Bard’s Tale several months back on its wonderful sense of humor? Well, now comes Psychonauts, a game after TBT’s own heart. Psychonauts is easily the funniest game since TBT, and maybe even funnier than that. It has wildly varying humor, from using a piece of bacon as a calling device to funny little pokes at society. It’s humor that everyone can get, as opposed to the humor rooted in American culture, which can get a tad bit tedious.
In Psychonauts, you are an aspiring young psychic Razputin who runs away from the circus to go to a summer psychic camp. While there, you get pulled into a devious plan and must use your powers to save the world. This is done by using psycho-portals to insert yourself in someone’s mind, fighting off their fears, childhood problems, and obsessions in strange landscapes that reflect the balance of that person’s psyche. Great stuff to be able to enter a paranoid, conspiracy-obsessed security guard’s mind to find yourself in a twisted suburbia with spies in trenchcoats, sweet little girl scouts, and cameras popping out of trashcans, lawn ornaments, and all other objects around you.