Psychonauts - 10th Anniversary Today!

[McJob]

A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen! A 2005 Platforming game involving the ability to enter people's minds, alongside a hilarious story, great music and brillaint graphics!

Psychonauts is based on the character Raz, a young boy gifted with psychic abilities who runs away from the circus to try to sneak into a summer camp for those with similar powers in order to become a "Psychonaut", a spy with psychic abilities. He finds that there is a sinister plot occurring at the camp that only he can stop. The game is centered on the strange and imaginative minds of various characters that Raz enters as a Psychonaut-in-training/"Psycadet" in order to help them overcome their fears or memories of their past, so as to gain their help and progress in the game. Raz gains use of several psychic abilities during the game that are used for both attacking foes and solving puzzles.

Useful Links!

• The Official Website
  
• Wikipedia Page
  
• Steam Store Page
  
• Mac Store Page
  
• PC Metacritic Page
  
• The Official Wikia
  
• Official Double Fine Developer Commentary/Speedrun/Let's Play [YouTube]
  
• Xbox 360 Controller Prompts on PC Guide [Steam Community]
  
• Achievement Guide (Recommended to see all the unique dialogue scenes) [Steam Community]
  

Screenshots!

Forum Psychomasters!
All of the people who've scored Rank 101. Send me a screenshot or just link your steam account with the achievement unlocked :)

• McJobless
  
• snot2
  
• ThatDarkNinja778
  

Misc. Notes!

• Created by Double Fine (with the PS2 port being outsourced to another company), and Directed/Written by Tim Schafer and Erik Wolpaw (the latter name appears in the Achievements for listening to a certain character's story).
• Game was released April 19th, 2005 and despite huge praise from critics, did not sell well due to multiple publishers screwing over Double Fine during production, as well as a botched advertising run.
• 2015 marks the game's 10th anniversary! Let's all hope for some sweet loving from Double Fine.
• The Steam version was modified; the final level, Meat Circus, has been made a bit easier by removing the ability to lose lives, as well as the addition of achievements and a few bug fixes.
• Highly recommended that you play with a controller, especially if you're attempting to fully complete the Punching minigame during Basic Braining.
• The game automatically creates you a special autosave (it has its own unique slot) once you hit the Point of No Return, so don't be worried if you accidentally trigger it!
• Aside from Easter Eggs in other Double Fine games, the skeletal remains of Raz appear as an Easter Egg in American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns.
  
• Figment Help: Waterloo World - If you're missing a single figment, head back to the house of the peasant who requires the coin. If you travel a bit North-East, you'll be walking amongst a lot of trees (aka a forest). The lone figment will be floating around there, and looks like a fairy.
• Figment Help: Milla's Dance Party - Trying to get figments in the big race? Remember, there's a teleport at the top, so winning the race is not mandatory after you complete it once. You'll need to have multiple attempts. The first attempt should be getting all the figments on the air-tunnels, as well as the secret passage towards the end of the track that has all of the censors inside (you can run over them with the levitation ball for an instant kill). On your second run, make sure you go nice and slow. Each of the boots and speed gates will have a few figments lined up in front of them. Remember to stick around for a few seconds; while none of the figments float around, they do fade in and out and their colours may be hard to spot.

I recently just 100% the game, and so I felt like we needed a place on the forum to discuss how damn awesome it is. I'm sure there's a couple other fans lying around here. If you've got an suggestions to improve the OP, please let me know. I'm not very good at making these megatopic OPs.

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[ThatDarkNinja778]

I have the game in my steam library, but like most of my steam games, I've been yet play the game because of time and such. Looks like I'm going to have fun with it when I do eventually get to it.

[McJob]

I have the game in my steam library, but like most of my steam games, I've been yet play the game because of time and such. Looks like I'm going to have fun with it when I do eventually get to it.

Highly recommend you do it ASAP. It's not often that I'm trying to beg people to play games instead of just complaining about them. This is one of my all-time favourites, up there with the likes of the Arkham Games, Ratchet & Clank, Sam & Max etc.

The fact I made a topic for this game and not the others...especially since Arkham Knight is on its way out soon.

[Regulith]

I originally tried the demo on Xbox at my local Blockbuster when it was new but didn't play the real deal until I got it on Steam a couple years ago

forget meat world

[Moriarty]

this is basically one of my favorite games of all time, it was great and it made me sad that i'd never heard of it until i saw a ridiculous cutscene from it
GOGGALOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

Highly recommend you do it ASAP. It's not often that I'm trying to beg people to play games instead of just complaining about them. This is one of my all-time favourites, up there with the likes of the Arkham Games, Ratchet & Clank, Sam & Max etc.

The fact I made a topic for this game and not the others...especially since Arkham Knight is on its way out soon.

if mcjob likes it u know its good

[McJob]

forget meat world

I'd rather not.

Seriously though. By using a physics glitch, the first part (the escort mission) is skippable. The grindrails segment is easy, and the boss fights just require liberal use of the shield and telekinesis. It's certainly a massive difficulty spike, but it's nowhere near the hardest game level ever, and playing as that character we both know about in the final boss fight seems to make up for it.

[snot2]

I recently just 100% the game,

i got 101%

[McJob]

i got 101%

I'll add you now (going to sleep in a moment), but out of curiosity what version did you do it on?

[IkeTheGeneric]

I remember playing the stuff out of this when it first came out

goode times

[snot2]

o its rank 101 i got

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=78765637

[McJob]

o its rank 101 i got

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=78765637

Cool work :) How long did it take you? I did 101 in about 12 hours.

[BlockoCrafter]

I still haven't beaten the game (I'm at the part after lungfishopolis), but when I do play it, I have a blast.
Even though I've been on and off playing it, the gameplay and story is very interesting.  I should go back to it and finish it.

[ThatDarkNinja778]

Man I'm playing the game right now and it's pretty good. I'll probably have this 100%ed by the end of this week.

[auzman466]

i'll have to see if i can run it
i played it once when i still had a graphics card but i stopped because it got all spooky

[Camel]

probably my favorite game of all time

hilarious, imaginative, fun, interesting, great art design, an actually unique game. reminds me a lot of grim fandango, in terms of a game that actually is different.