MAJESCO Psychonauts ( Windows )
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Product Summary
Brand: MajescoFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-04-27
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Majesco
Product features:
- Enter people's minds and use your powers of levitation and Psi-Blasts to face people's worst fears
- Rise up in rank as you collect figments of other people's imaginations, sort their emotional baggage, clear out their mental cobwebs, and crack open their Memory vaults
- Complete special training missions to earn new powers like telekinesis, pyrokinesis and more
- Fully interactive environments - use tightropes, trapezes, ladders, poles, ledges, trampolines, climbing walls and rail slides to your advantage
- Multiple paths and sub-challenges - the nonlinear gameplay offers greater depth and better gameplay
Video Game Reviews of MAJESCO Psychonauts ( Windows )
Customer Review: Preeettttty Colorsssss...
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed my time spent with this visually innovative title, but honestly most of the fun was had as a spectator of environment and character interactions. That's both a compliment to the creative brilliance of Psychonauts's art style, and a jab at its most basic platforming mechanics and story path.
The good and the bad of Psychonauts's quirky genius are presented immediately. The stylized Psychonaut campground is brilliantly colored with an almost 3-D appearance to every surface. For a game designed on last generation consoles, it's stunning visually. (Widescreen HD is one reason for the PC version's superiority). Character design is equally arresting, although the exaggerated Burton-esque shapes make everyone seem more like potatoes than people. Initially, the controls are breezy fun with simple, responsive jump, attack, and interact maneuvers. And the game set up my Logitech gamepad with perfect calibration and button mapping right off the bat. Voicework is first rate, and the Double Fine crew wrote tight, geniunely witty dialogue for the characters. That's a rarity in games, as perfect timing is tough to achieve in interactive entertainment. In short, the game is a blast to goof around with.
Environmental design is creative and whimsical...sometimes to a fault. It's a joy to experience a fresh twist on all the old platforming conventions. And yet, when trying to break away from standards, sometimes we're reminded why things are the way they are. By taking all the straight lines and making them curved, incongrous, and sometimes just spatially incorrect, the developers made many basic functions of the game more difficult than necessary. Jumps are needlessly tough to navigate at times, as are the jumbled up inventory menus. The monetary exchange and item collecting is so convoluted that I needed constant reminders how it all worked. More conventional design, in many areas, would have benefitted the basic gameplay.
And yet when you witness the breathtaking artistry of certain levels, like the neon backlit Velvet World, or fight entertaining bosses like The Critic, it's hard to argue with Double Fine's choices. Psychonauts keeps you on your toes, unable to predict the next story episode. The game is certainly never boring, nor is it always comprehensible. The jumbled mixture of various motifs and themes within each stage ensures that the gameplay will never lose your attention, even if it occasionally feels directionless and nonsensical. The game's hero, Raz, interacts with this world both through physical and telekinetic means, with abilities added slowly with the player's progression. Most of these powers are genuinely fun and useful, although sometimes imprecise and clumsy, and make exploration of secret areas and scaling of hard-to-reach heights a lot of fun.
In summation, Psychonauts is a really amazing experience that turns the platforming game upside down. Very often it does this literally, and not always to its benefit. Whimsy isn't necessarily the best foundation for a game, but it sure makes for a pretty picture.
Description of MAJESCO Psychonauts ( Windows )
Psychonauts are special psychic operatives with powers they use in service to the world's governments. When students begin disappearing from Psychonaut boot camp, a young recruit begins tracking down the mad scientist responsible. Face inner demons and wrestle with other people's nightmares, while accomplishing your mission -- all without going insane. Immersive story injected with lots of humor and lots of imaginative environments Challenging puzzles with alternate solutions that self-tailor to your strategies & abilitiesAdventure Games
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