Psychonauts 2 takes place right after the ending of the first one. Everyone goes to the headquarters, having to deal with a returning evil. Maligula, who was vanquished a long time ago, will be coming back. Some want her back. How will she return? Who wants her back? This game answers all those burning questions!
The first Psychonauts game is one of those games that I really enjoyed, and was looking forward to playing the second one. To prepare myself for playing the new one, I went back to replay the first. Naturally, when I started playing Psychonauts 2, everything looked new. This, of course, is something to expect. A few new things have been implemented in this one as well, such as censors having a health bar, new psychic abilities, and the psychic beam having four shots before being depleted and it filling out by itself in a short period of time. And the ability to jump onto and off of walls as well.
Something I noticed was that when you pick up the Emotional Baggages, the cutscene is a lot shorter. I found this better, since it did feel a little long in the first one.
In this game, you get to meet Raz’s family. I really liked this aspect of the game. Naturally, there are a few things that happen in the game that I don’t want to spoil here, so I will leave it at that.
As the first one, this game also has the neon pickups throughout each level. It’s useful if you ever get lost.
The final boss is a little different from the others. I also find that the ending was well done.
If you played the first game, you know that there was a teleporter that made fart sounds. It is still there but without the farting. I was a little sad that it doesn’t do that anymore.
This is a game that is definitely worth playing, especially if you played the first one and enjoyed it. Both the humour and how fun the game is is still there in the second game.
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