#PSYCHONAUTS PS4 SERIES#

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin follows immediately from the end of Psychonauts, where Raz joins Sasha, Milla, Coach and Lili to rescue Truman from being captured by Dr. Raz's father, Augustus, comes to accept Raz's goal of being a Psychonaut, revealing his own weak psychic abilities. Loboto and misguided Coach Oleander to steal the brains of his fellow campers and the Psychonaut agents Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello, while befriending Psychonauts founder Ford Cruller and Lili Zanotto, the daughter of the Grand Head of the Psychonauts, Truman Zanotto. While there, he helps to foil a plan by the demented Dr. He runs away and infiltrates Whispering Rock summer camp, a training facility for young Psychonaut recruits. In Psychonauts, the player-character Razputin 'Raz' Aquato is a young acrobat fascinated by the Psychonauts, but shunned by his family who fear his psychic abilities. The Psychonauts are an international espionage agency focused on psychic peacekeeping, scientific research of the human mind, and the development of psychic-based technologies. Psychonauts 2 is set in a fictional, alternate world in which psychic powers exist thanks to the fictional element Psitanium - a substance brought to the planet by several meteors. See also: Psychonauts В§В Plot, and Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin В§В Plot Setting

Praise was directed at its platforming, level design, visuals, writing, and tone, while criticism fell on aspects of the gameplay and the boss battles. Upon release, Psychonauts 2 received generally positive reviews from critics, with many feeling it lived up to the quality of its predecessor. This acquisition allowed Double Fine to complete the game as envisioned rather than dropping the planned content. By 2019, Microsoft acquired Double Fine as part of Xbox Games Studios as well as securing the publishing rights from Starbreeze. While Psychonauts 2 was initially to be published by Starbreeze Studios under a publishing-only deal, Starbreeze fell into bankruptcy in 2018. The campaign raised nearly $4В million by the beginning of 2016. Double Fine sought to acquire part of its financial capital to fund the developments of Psychonauts 2 through a US$3.3В million crowd-funding and investment drive through Fig, launched simultaneously with the game's announcement. Double Fine regained the intellectual property to Psychonauts from Majesco Entertainment in 2011, allowing them to rerelease the game on modern platforms, which saw strong sales and increased demand from players for a sequel. Double Fine and game director Tim Schafer had expressed the desire to create a sequel to Psychonauts, but the financial demand of developing the game stalled any serious attempt for several years. The original Psychonauts, released in 2005, was met with critical praise, but failed to sell well and was considered a commercial failure for several years after its first release.

Within these mindscapes, Raz can perform a variety of new and returning psychic abilities that allow him to maneuver through the often-twisted minds and battle the mental creatures they produce. To uncover the mystery, Raz enters the mindscapes of various characters to discover clues. Within Psychonauts 2, which follows directly from events of the interstitial virtual reality game, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, the Psychonauts try to learn who was really behind the capture of their leader, unveiling a deep mystery surrounding the organization's founding and Raz's family history. Like the game's predecessor, the player controls Raz, a young acrobat that is training to become a Psychonaut, a member of an international task force that uses their psychic abilities to stop those that perform nefarious deeds with their own psychic forces.

#PSYCHONAUTS PS4 SERIES#

The game was announced at The Game Awards 2015 ceremony, and released on Augfor Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and on for Linux and macOS. Psychonauts 2 is a platform game developed by Double Fine and published by Xbox Game Studios.

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