If you're looking for more Psychonauts, good news, because this game is Psychonauts too!
It still maintains a lot of the imagination fo the original game, leading to lots of visual spectacles and some solid comedy bits. My favorite dungeons had to be the Casino and the Feast of the Senses, while I wasn't as big a fan of the Gardening Island's boat mechanics.
The music and voicework are also top notch. Richard Horvitz is always great to hear, even if I only heard Daggett in most of what he was saying he's still got it. I do wish that some of the minds weren't as interconnected to the deeper plot, like how Psychonauts 1 had, to explore some stories of people who's minds got warped by their own stories rather than all of them having a fallout after the same single incident. After all, that was where some of 1's most memorable moments came from, as it helped them stand out. Not to say 2's story is bad in any way, the unraveling of the grand mystery and the humor along the way was a great time. Likewise the dungeon structure of "Do 3 X to get to the end" repeated a few too many times, but the dungeons themselves are still as mentioned before excellently crafted and fun to explore. Any critique I have in relation to the first game is immediately refuted in my mind with "but what's on display here is still great though", it's a give and take that just goes to show how equal these games are.
Like the first game, if you like 3D platformers, you'll love it no doubt!
It still maintains a lot of the imagination fo the original game, leading to lots of visual spectacles and some solid comedy bits. My favorite dungeons had to be the Casino and the Feast of the Senses, while I wasn't as big a fan of the Gardening Island's boat mechanics.
The music and voicework are also top notch. Richard Horvitz is always great to hear, even if I only heard Daggett in most of what he was saying he's still got it. I do wish that some of the minds weren't as interconnected to the deeper plot, like how Psychonauts 1 had, to explore some stories of people who's minds got warped by their own stories rather than all of them having a fallout after the same single incident. After all, that was where some of 1's most memorable moments came from, as it helped them stand out. Not to say 2's story is bad in any way, the unraveling of the grand mystery and the humor along the way was a great time. Likewise the dungeon structure of "Do 3 X to get to the end" repeated a few too many times, but the dungeons themselves are still as mentioned before excellently crafted and fun to explore. Any critique I have in relation to the first game is immediately refuted in my mind with "but what's on display here is still great though", it's a give and take that just goes to show how equal these games are.
Like the first game, if you like 3D platformers, you'll love it no doubt!