Sadly the cast of campers that we grew to love do not return and are instead replaced with the Interns. The new powers are equally inventive and one late game power even facilitates a low-key Invader Zim reunion (Raz is voiced by Richard Horowitz, who also voiced the eponymous Invader). However a majority of the powers he’s earned do make a return and are doled out rather quickly (Invisibility, Shield, Confusion are afterthought and frankly not missed). In a Metroid-ish return to zero move, Raz’s tenure as a Psychonaut is cut short as the temporary head of the Psychonauts demotes him to an intern. Psychonauts 2 takes the impeccably well written platformer from 2005 and manages to make a prettier and while retaining the charm and solid gameplay mechanics. After several delays, and even a company buy out by Microsoft, Psychonauts 2 has finally arrived and after nearly a decade and a half, was the 2nd full adventure of Razputin Aquato worth the wait? A VR title named Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin would be released to satiate fan interest, although given VR’s limited user base, this side adventure was probably enjoyed through let’s plays and youtube videos. 2015 apparently was the right time as the game was finally announced and funding was being raised on Fig, a crowdfunding platform co-founded by the company. Despite much urging from fans, the student never felt it was the right time to revisit the Psychonauts IP. Double Fine Productions went on to make many well received titles such as Brutal Legends, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, and Broken Age. The game had a cult following and the fanbase grew as the years passed. Honing his psychic abilities remarkably fast (The game takes place over the span of several days), Raz managed to foil the world threatening plot and was invited on an important mission with the Psychonauts. Despite the fact that he was not supposed to be there, the staff at the camp was willing to let Raz partake in the training as the rest of the campers, all the while a dastardly plot was being hatched right underneath their nose. Raz, whose family hated psychics due to a family vendetta, found solace with the kids he met at the camp as he ironically was a psychic. In 2005 a modest number of gamers got to spend time at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a training facility for potential recruits of a governmental agency known as the Psychonauts with a circus runaway named Razputin “Raz” Aquato. I’m probably in the credits, but the backer credits were so long…I actually skipped it when it rolled. My name also appears in the Hall of Brains in Otto Mentalis’ Lab. Disclaimer: I am 1 of the 24,109 people who crowdfunded this title on Fig.
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