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Psychonauts free!

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For one more day.

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As one of the last hoorah’s of Humble’s End of Summer Sale, the store is currently offering Tim Schafer’s classic mind-entering platform game Psychonauts absolutely free.
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Already own it. Never played it though. Not sure why back in the day. I think I was turned off by the view. Preferred my RPGs to be overhead back then. But the story looks like a cool sci-fi one.
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Daehawk wrote:Already own it. Never played it though. Not sure why back in the day. I think I was turned off by the view. Preferred my RPGs to be overhead back then. But the story looks like a cool sci-fi one.
Just to clarify, it's not an RPG. It's a platform game that incorporates quintessential Tim Schafer adventure elements and humour.

If you ever enjoyed the humour of Full Throttle, chances are you'd likely also enjoy Psychonauts.
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Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Already own it. Never played it though. Not sure why back in the day. I think I was turned off by the view. Preferred my RPGs to be overhead back then. But the story looks like a cool sci-fi one.
Just to clarify, it's not an RPG. It's a platform game that incorporates quintessential Tim Schafer adventure elements and humour.

If you ever enjoyed the humour of Full Throttle, chances are you'd likely also enjoy Psychonauts.
Yeah, while you do accumulate new abilities/powers as the game goes on, that's it. they just accumulate.

It's a ton of fun (though the meat circus level at the end has a very, very steep difficulty jump). Can't recommend highly enough if you like platformers and are ok with the somewhat dated graphics (it is an original xbox game, after all). the artwork is still cool, as are the characters, sets, situations and gameplay. I loved just wandering around Whispering Rock searching for arrowheads. THere is a level up bit with the arrowheads and psi, but it's fun, and you don't really notice it (or at least I didn't notice it - never felt like I was grinding).
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