![]() #PSYCHONAUTS CONCEPT ART FULL#"But I'm not a fan of platform games," comes the inevitable reply.Ī game chock full of such obvious quality that's been so widely acclaimed shouldn't be a hard sell, yet somehow all the brilliance is ignored the second people realise you can double-jump. "Seriously", we wail, "you'd be mad not to buy it." We wave our gaudy home-made Psychonauts placards at you outside our local Game, damn you and demand you go and sodding well buy it. We throw logic out of the window and go and vote it our Game of the entire bloody Year. Fathers for justice Psychonauts in Hex-based wargaming shock.Īnd then people like us demand fist-shaking justice. In the quotability stakes, it's the videogaming equivalent of Spinal Tap, or Withnail and I. The warm afterglow of Psychonauts completion is best enjoyed accompanied by a fat cigar, silk sheets and attentive, impossibly attractive slaves. Eventually, you'll even begin to reel off obscure anecdotes about those infinitely hilarious bits that you'll probably miss the first time around, exchange utterly hilarious quotes and wallow in the stand out genius of The Milkman Conspiracy. You'll insist (without hesitation) that it's damn near the funniest game ever, that it's got more invention on a single level than most games have in their entirety, and with justification compare it to the best animation movies you've seen. Especially once you realise that 'Sir' Tim Schafer's one of the men behind it.īut then you tell people it's a platform game, await the inevitable emission of a hundred thousand audible 'harrumphs' and prepare to string together your most convincing argument ever. When you spend most of the year with a knitted brow saving the world from insane megalomaniacs, the chance to, um, save the world from an insanely funny megalomaniac has a disproportionate allure. It's as if critics the world over exploded in a righteous froth at the undiluted joy of being released from the harrowing shackles of reviewing intolerably beardy World War II/Sci-fi/stealth/D&D epics and actually allowed to play something that made them laugh. It's hard to think of too many other games that have ever inspired such heart-warming bursts of pure fun merely from the quality of the writing alone. Holding the bunny with Telekinesis should do the trick, but since failing to protect Oly only results in resetting to the beginning of the current challenge, the priority must be on maintaining Oly's health.Our giddy love of Psychonauts probably says as much about the dreadfully po-faced nature of most videogames as it does about the relative merits of Double Fine's cult classic. Bun is presumably the very same rabbit that Oleander's father butchered during Oleander's youth.Īs Razputin travels higher up into the circus tent, catching Mr. Raz must protect himself and Lil' Oly from monsters and other enemies, as Lil' Oly seems unconcerned about anything except catching his beloved pet rabbit. Bun in the Meat Circus level in Psychonauts. Bun" is the mental recreation of Lil' Oly's dead pet rabbit. Mr.Bun and Little Oly have a habit of wandering into some dangerous places. “ What’s a sweet little bunny like this doing in a rotten place like the Meat Circus? Raz is given the task of returning this little fella to a boy named “Oly”. ![]()
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