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this is probably the first video I've ever made that qualifies as an actual review and I didn't even mean for that to happen
big thanks to Doggybag and Foxcade for the help with writing :)
also thank you to SirMeowMusic (David) for the sound editing (:
credit to insaneintherainmusic for his covers of hydrocity zone and studiopolis. absolute bangers
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:02 - Psychonauts 1
3:15 - A Brief History of DoubleFine and Psychonauts
6:14 - Ad Break
7:28 - Gushing About the Various Ways This Game is Amazing
12:35 - Gameplay Specifically
14:43 - Complaining about PSI-Powers
18:10 - Story/Characters (Spoiler free)
19:17 - Mental Health, Responsibility and Accessibility
23:33 - Conclusion
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Seriously, this game blew me the fuck away. I was in no way mega hyped for it, but as soon as I got my hands on it for more than an hour it was like genuine crack.
The video was posed like 10 seconds ago how
So you admit to having crack before?
Ok
Was basically in the same boat. Didn’t expect anything from this sequel but after my first day playing addiction set in
cocaine
Noodle's cardboard cutouts being swapped has the same energy as clones being created and destroyed after being used for just their facial expressions. I find this more amusing than necessary.
it's absolutely necessary
I can't unsee this now. What have you done
This is the Umbara Arc of Clone Wars
Thank you for sharing your wisdom
"This is going to be an angry video. Prep an extra helping of rage clones. I feel we're going to go through a few of them..."
Loved this game, loved the original too. Amazing video man.
omfg it's joel
Wow didn't expect to see you here lol. Good to see you have great taste in video games Roomie
oh my god guys its barack obama
Well, hello there.
I like socks
I always interpreted Boyd's breakdown as a learning experience for Raz and it's what facilitates his growth later on in the game and in the sequel where he's more attentive, accommodating, and more empathetic with the people whose minds he jumps into. He's ultimately a well-intentioned kid who genuinely wants to help people but he got in over his head with Boyd due to not treating him with the empathy and respect he so desperately needed.
I really liked how Raz has a "innocence to experience" character arc. His arc one of the best character arcs in video games that involve the main character of a series (or even a single game) changing their values like how their video games are changing values, and become better people in the process.
I love how Psychonauts does it: in the first game, Raz is surrounded in an environment with a bunch of kids who aren't as smart or confident as him; he's a prodigy compared to them, and not expected to understand the rules. But in the second, he's in an environment surrounded by equals who are just as (and even more) gifted and trickier than him, and it gives him a genuine challenge, with different rules that he must adapt to, though he eventually does prove himself and did what other Psychonauts couldn't do in the past.
For those unaware, the "Projection" ability has its own voice actor.
As Raz is voiced by the guy who played Invader Zim, his projection is voiced by the guy who voiced Gir.
A match long-since made in heaven.
This knowledge lives rent free in my brain and makes me giggle whenever I think of it.
RIKKI AT IT AGAIN!
Yes. Just yes.
YES
That's why it sounds so familiar
"I don't think I'm smart enough, or gay enough to say that with any confidence." is a wonderfully hillarious quote, taken out of context...
20:52 for those wondering
@@sp00n94 thanks :)
Hes just need to take he socks off. Socks are an automatic no homo
@@yuvalgabay1023 lmao
ah yes, my namesake
Thank you so much for reminding me about Elijah Wood's psychic gaming abilities from ROTK
Didn’t set up your account yet?
@@FatalFrostbyte29 no he erased everything except for the videos
Oh hey look bird man
Hey wee dont thank this fucker lol
“I was 16, and quite stupid. But now Im 23, and quite stupid.”
*most relatable shit I’ve heard*
I'm a big fan that this game is just Pyschonauts 2. No bells and whistles. Great writing like the 1st, youre just a bit of a better pyschic, no dumb explanation for unlocking all of your abilities again, its great. Can't wait to finish this masterpiece
I couldn’t get past how weird the game felt for me. So I stuck with Playing other titles during that era of gaming in my life :-)
I mean you get all the original abilities that are in 2 by the end of the first level (except clairvoyance I think but you get that pretty soon after)
I was so afraid that they were going to somehow shoehorn in an explanation why you have to learn some of your old abilities again and I'm so glad that they were able to give an introduction to those abilities without entirely removing them from the player
I would like a subtitle tho
@@Tippex_Official No. You don't confusion bombs, invisibility, or the shield.
I'm guessing the reason why the bad mood can only be defeated with clairvoyance is due to input from the psychologists who were brought in for the game. The way to combat bad moods in real life is to use empathy and help the person talk through their feelings, NOT lashing out at them- so its good for realism and symbolism, not so good for gameplay
There's not that many Bad Moods in the game though, so overall they weren't a drag on combat.
Yeah, making it that way is smart because of how it works in real life, so it's kind of goofy to argue that it's stupid when it was made that way to facilitate better consideration for mental health and such after saying that you like how it was made to be more considerate of those things.
Also, it's a good way to make clairvoyance actually useful, rather than just being used for visual silliness.
The enemy design is one of my personal favorite things. Every wonky creature you’re fighting isn’t just designed to be the average goblin, it’s an ACTUAL CONCEPT of the HUMAN BRAIN. You’ve got the standard-issue censors that just want you out cause you’re not supposed to be there, you’ve got the ooey gooey doubts that hold you back and slow you down, you’ve got the absolutely overwhelming and terrifying *HOLY FUCK* panic attacks, stuff is just great. Like, animation, design, everything.
plus the fact that you fight panic attacks by very literally slowing them down is PERFECT because that's one of the BIGGEST (and arguably most effective for many people) ways of combating panic attacks in real life.
my favorite part about this game is helping the psi king slowly regain his memory through this saturated, comic book style world where he relearns smell and taste. I don’t know why but my jaw was wide open because of how incredible this part was.
And the saddest one for me too, the part where (SPOILER) he asks for why their friends letted him there frozen in the ice just to Ford and Otto to come and clarify what happened, oof, the voice actors nailed it in that part
omg yes, i lost like 4 lives from falling off of things because I wasn't watching where I was going and instead googling at the pretty colors and jaw-dropping environments
Jokes on you, I'm already struggling with a 100% run! Sensorium is pain!
I'm so sorry
I'm missing 2 figments. Help
@@noodlefunny I second that
@@inkdoc what figments are they
@@noodlefunny I'm not
Dont stress yourself with the videos. They are great. Go for quality rather than quantity. I love rewatching them. Thanks
problem with that is that he needs money from sponsorships, so everyone who *Can Afford it* go sub to his patreon so he can not worry bout money an work on quality vids for all of us
Yeah lol at least he uploads more often than Micheal Reeves
I have rewatched the movie ones at least 5 times now
Unfortunately the RUclips Algorithm doesn't care about quality over quantity. if creators don't upload at a consistent rate then they're often screwed.
22:00
I'm actually studying to be a mental health professional and this is an extremely important point. You cannot tell someone how to solve their problem. You can only help them come to their own solution.
Everyone is their own person and sees the world through their own lense. You can't make them see through yours, so your job is to help their lense become clear.
I remember a friend linking me a thread on /v/ about it, the fact that nearly100% of the people there were basically saying "Damn, this was actually a really good followup to the first one" when the entire board usually consists of people systematically explaining why the game you like is hot garbage and you shouldn't be let out of the house without supervision because of your taste, has to be a testament to the fact that doublefine did a pretty great job on this one.
Glad more people are talking about this game, if there’s any series that deserves more praise it’d undoubtably be psychonauts.
Spore, Spare Parts, and Modnation Racers
The LEGO games
@@JM-Games bruh watch the video
I’d argue Rayman but I agree with u
Also more money
I was thinking about this but Psychonauts asking if it's okay to enter someone's mind or asking if someone's ready to enter their mind is consistent with the first game. Sasha, Milla, and even Oleander ask Raz if he wants to enter their minds.
by far my favorite random background duologue in the game was the dragon and the knight. they played off each other in such a hilarious way
I like how dynamic these little cardboard animations have become. Before it was just a little cardboard man talking to us in his cardboard living room. Now he's a cardboard man showing us his cardboard world and his cardboard hands
UPDATE: They added EVEN MORE quality of life updates!! ruclips.net/video/keSneYfvOw8/видео.html
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this is probably the first video I've ever made that qualifies as an actual review and I didn't even mean for that to happen
This is the earliest I've been
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@@QibIi same
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Honestly one of the coolest things to me was the whole five senses area being this huge Pink Floyd refferece with the style of the music being just like some of their early work like "Let There Be More Light" and the whole thing with the lamps and the triangles with the rainbow things made my crazy diamond so happy
Also the Picasso-Esque character designs of Ford and some of the other NPC's, the uneven eyes and the differently coloured noses, it's so unique and I just want more of this
I think the five senses area is even a Beatles reference too
Was fun to play it
P2 was truly a fucking insane and wonderful experience
I’m glad that you mentioned that Psychonaunts 2 feels like a godly animated film, because I’ve been begging to god for Laika studios to somehow pick up the rights to making a Psychonauts stop motion movie, because the style of PSY and the charm of Laika models are just so wonderful to look at.
SAME! Like look at paranorman and tell me you can't see Raz and his mind-worlds work perfect in their animating hands?
I played this game. It was fun playing as raz going through people's minds and saving the world.
I agree with the things you say and I like the way you say them and I hope you continue to say things.
hello numberer, i am big fan
you
You say very agreeable things.
Yeah, Hurray for free speech!
Yes it is the best representation, I get so sick of seeing games always pandering to me. Like they treat gay characters as something special and it's to the point that they come off as being completely inhuman. The game downplaying it and treating a gay character as a person with flaws and characteristics like everyone else was in fact a good thing.
Yeah, that's how the representation should work, they are just normal people, nothing special or different
Plus, it's Jack Black.
I'm glad to see that even people who weren't fans of the original can enjoy this one. I played the original not long after it came out, I was probably around 10. I absolutely loved it, and nobody had any idea what I was talking about. Now almost 20 years later they finally make a sequel and it's absolutely amazing. So glad to see it getting the praise.
Honestly, hearing that I don't *necessarily* need to play 1 to enjoy 2, along with hearing just how good folks have found it… has me more seriously considering giving it a try.
I hadn’t played the 1st one either but I absolutely love the 2nd game I highly recommend it
Dewit. Also didn't play the first one, only watched some playthroughs years ago. Still a fantastic experience.
WAIT YOU’RE THE GUY WHO MADE DISCORD
You can play the second one, but you really should play the first. It’s like reading the Two Towers and never reading the Fellowship.
as someone who played the first one when it came out, loved it, played the second when it came out, loved it, got maximum enjoyment from seeing little things referencing the first one, I say....
Please do whatever it takes to play the second one, even if it means skipping out on the first one! absolutely no gatekeeping here, Psychonauts 2 deserves to be loved and appreciated by as many people as possible!
at one point when you were at like 10k subs I had you on a list of people I wanted to shout out because they deserved more subs.
now you have more than twice my subs and all I can think of is... how fucking well deserved it is :)
Haha true. So much effort goes into his videos!
Hey it’s gromek!!!
Glad to see you here Gromek, thanks for wanting to support small channels (or at least ones that used to be small)
Noodle's constant berating us of getting a vr set has finally gotten to me, and not only that, but my pervious choice to listen to his get Honey advice actually helped me as i got a lucky discount on my said quest...
So moral of the story,
Peer pressure works
also love your content noodle, keep on breathing
Noodle is one of the few RUclipsrs whose sponsorships I always watch through every time. You deserve it dude.
Psychonauts 2 seems to be attempting what balan wonderworld failed on, an accurate interactable depiction of someone’s traumas and fears. The only difference, psychonauts 2 is good… and had time…
Even the first game already beat Balan almost two decades ago.
@@emperorfaiz yeah I think it’s the fact that physchonauts is better at starring it’s objective ,balan kinda just starts and goes.
I think Balan had potential, considering that trauma and fear are abstract ideas with many ways to interpret them, but it’s execution was horrible. Cutscene cg was good tho.
if only it was recognized/known as much as balan wonderworld.
Considering we got games like Psychonauts 2, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, Metroid Dread,and No more heroes 3, sequels to games people have been waiting quite awhile for, I’d think it’s fair to say 2021 was somewhat the year of the comebacks.
Were all of those games you mentioned actually good though? Honest question because I’ve been thinking about trying those franchises
@@animationdude9 Metroid is AMAZING. I just wish it was longer. Also y’all sleeping on halo infinite, I’ve been waiting 5 years since halo 5 lol it’s been a while plus the flight test was *chefs kiss* 👨🏾🍳
Half Life 3: *hey*
And we also have LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (basically the sequel to the 2007 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga) coming out HOPEFULLY next year, and it’s so awesome because it’s like the zoomer equivalent of Banjo Kazooie.
*cries in silksong*
I want to highlight the importance of Double Fine taking the time to acknowledge in that disclaimer about how the game is not making fun of mental illness, but in a way celebrating the abilities to empathize and to heal. Not to get into the weeds but I am diagnosed with moderate PTSD (downgraded last year from "acute or severe" PTSD, woo! /s), and at times I find certain games to be difficult to play because of it. But the fact that Double Fine intentionally makes the game about finding yourself amidst chaos and reconciling in a healthy way is really important. I can even say that Psychonauts in some way helped with my own case! Still waiting to hear if my therapist agrees. But yeah, thanks Double Fine.
Easily my GOTY for 2021. I already loved the first game and this one somehow surpassed in every way. All while also still feeling like a natural progression from the first as if 15+ years hadn't actually passed since then.
Given how turbulent the development was it's insane we ever got it at all, let alone in this state.
Raz's lines in the game were so good aa
And the aquatos theme is a BANGER
The aquato theme is just the meat circus theme, just does not have the insanity-aura to it
@@cooler_carpington there's two different themes I think, flea circus which was the meat circus recreation and the Aquato family caravan
They're both great
@@TensityTrillium yeah, i enjoyed them a ton
That violin goin fuckin MOBIS mode
@@noodlefunny YEAAAAAH
The little projection Raz and the intentional Zim and Gir VA reunion is easily the best part of the game.
he's so precious and anyone who thinks otherwise is objectively wrong
Richard Horvits is a VA god. One of my all time VO idols.
sorry ACarr but I think we should see other people.
this is the video that convinced me to take actual interest in psychonauts, and now i couldn't be more obsessed. you summed up the inherent kindness of the sequel so well; as a mentally ill person myself, it meant the world to me to see them drop that weird veneer of edginess almost entirely in favor of the genuine heart and sympathy that psychonauts 2 possesses. we're all lucky that this game didn't just come back: it grew up along the way.
As a person who has mental health issues I love how they handled it in the newer game and it is genuinely awesome how they used colors
I feel that the Bad Mood necessitating Clairvoyance to beat them makes for some good combat encounters when they are accompanied by other enemies, meaning that you probably won't try to take them until the rest are gone, and the Bad Mood has some mean attacks that are harder to dodge when they're not alone. Their basic projectile bounce around the place and sometimes feels like it's homing in on you and their super-attack has a higher chance of hitting you when you're distracted.
As for Clairvoyance outside of combat, I feel that they should still indicate that we should use it when it's something that isn't gameplay related, like seeing the evolution of the bacon guy's vision after his hunger for the stuff has been satiated or what the Ball of Light sees right after it gets into a body again.
Fun fact, when I installed the game I thought I was going to play 2 or 3 hours and continue another day.
16 hours later, at 3am, I finished the game.
I rather liked it.
What I find endearing is how inherently good natured and empathetic the series is as a whole.
The first game, despite lacking in proper representation of mental health, and containing lots of "edgy" jokes, still has a very heartwarming story underneath it all.
Hearing the little jingle that plays when you get a new seed in PvZ at the start of the video just gave me huge nostalgia. I'm gonna go redownload PvZ rn for the first time in years.
In accordance to Noodle's button mapping for powers critique, look no further than the Batman Arkham games. You have the ability to use all of Batman's gadgets in combat without having to go through a menu. It's mostly button combinations to access each gadget in combat and is a good example of what could've been done for this game.
Arkham City is such a beautiful example of button mapping, probably the best ever. You have 5 combat gadgets on easy access, then you press a button modifier to use puzzle/predator gadgets that are all related to those exact combat ones.
I was scared when you tied Tim and gamergate, but then I looked it up and I am very happy that he made a perfectly innocuous joke that poked fun at GamerGate and was (predictably) blown up by those very same fragile, fragile gamerz.
what a chad
I remember when that happened and the hate towards what Tim said was stupid to me even when I was more right leaning. Glad I grew out of that lol
@@KalinTheZola to growing older and getting a tiny bit less stupid a day at a time lol
When you've been lied to for years and you don't want to know how or why.
Tim Schaefer is a chode who can't handle finances and hates you unconditionally. Gamergate is simply not what he and every journalist under the sun has portrayed it as for the last 7 years. But of course, being it was a consumer revolt directed against those with direct editorial control over the narrative, a narrative was spun in their favor.
However they haven't ever forgot the painful scar of a large amount of people saying 'Enough is enough with corrupt nepotistic so-called enthusiast press flagrantly push IDPOL in every review they make, take money from corporations or literally have sex with indie devs for favorable reviews or to shoot down competing titles for the same reason. Enough with people that openly hate video games and the people that play them because they think they're better than both because they have a journalism degree.'
@@tellyg7985 Honestly I don't know much about Tim, I do remember when the whole GG shit started and what it was all about initially but yeah as with anything people argued, shit got blown out of proportion on both sides and it turned into a cluster fuck of people chatting extremes with reason thrown out the window.
People don't really care about the facts though, just whatever fits nicely into their narrative and after enough time has passed seeing anybody still be passionate about it paints them immediately in a bad light because the sentiment is that everyone else has already moved on.
So long story short, nothing good was learnt, everybody misunderstood each other and we will continue to make the same mistakes, as ever, because people just don't care.
Happy New Year folks!
I can't help but stare at that picture frame, and continuously debate that it's either a man with a mohawk eating a piece of toast, or a duck with a mohawk.
This game has always been on my list of, "maybe I'll try it at one point...". Really needed that little push to check it out, and even attempt the first. And this video definitely was that push! A really convincing showing of this game, and just really felt like you truly really like this game!
0:18 this has not aged well
Gay person here: the gay representation is top notch, absolutely loved it, almost made me cry. 10/10
Straight person here, I can agree the gay representation is indeed top notch
Yo, noodle said hi.
Straight person here: it absolutely did make me cry
I think part of the reason the gay representation was so successful is because of how subtle it was. I didn't even know Bob was gay until the wedding scene, whereas in most other pieces of media they would beat you over the head with it.
They don't shove it in your face until you're literally inside their heads; mere figments in Psi King's brain and Bob has a hilarious deification of his partner.
8:07 How much editing magic did you do for this scene? I think it’s easy to forget that these shorts are made with physical cardboard and it’s super cool
If you go frame by frame through 8:12 you can actually see the drawing of the tooth guy stay in place for like a frame while the background popsicle stick moves riiight before the scene change. So I'm guessing what he did was film the two popsicle sticks on the one shot, with the one on the right just being a blank piece of paper, then drew the tooth guy digitally with a realistic marker-like brush and tracked it onto the plane of the paper with a convincing blending mode.
Although there's a weird line in the top right corner that moves with the drawing, so it looks like there's something being masked that extends past the paper's edges which kind of confuses me because I'm not sure why you'd need to mask anything on there at all.
@@balls261 freaking genius
@@balls261 Is it possible this is still motion video?
It looks to me like green post-it notes that Noodle drew on for the effect. Maybe he either filmed the two popsicles separately (note that both are in focus) or he held the popsicles still whilst putting on a post-it.
Or you know, editing magic; I no cardboard good
20:58 off to the mirror I guess
This game was one of the best I've played in a very long time. I consider it an honour and a privilege to have my name in the credits. ❤️
Your name on the game's credits or this video credits?
@@sakuradabp6400 The game. I was one of the backers. 😄
I feel like 3 million is in no way a "massive" budget for a modern game of this scope.
Tldr: First game good, Second game better.
I remember playing through the first game for the first time a month before the sequel came out. While I loved its quirkyness and overall story. The gameplay definitely wasn't the biggest highlight for me. Then I played the sequel. Holy fucking shit it was like night and day. It felt like I was grinding the gameplay to get to the story in the first. That shit flowed so much better in the sequel and I never had moment where I was like ugh. I would also just stand in awe at each new environment. They ranged from good to great before in the first but they were obviously limited by the technology of it's time. The combat was also a lot more fun as well. Overall an absolutely amazing game from start to finish for me. It lived in my head rent free for a long time after I finished it.
And I would love to buy a physical version. I hope they make one
All the sneaky references make much more sense after playing the game all the way through. Very well done!
i honestly love the videos you do with cardboard. it’s so charming and all of the extra movement and imperfections make it so enjoyable to watch.
I really love your art style changing to be popsicle stick puppeteering with a completely cardboard setting, it's so innovative considering the white background stationary characters of other animation creators
Whyd he switch to cardboard?
@@weirdenoughIguess animation takes a stupid amount of time
This game is so god damn fantastic. While i know it reviewed well, it hasn’t been talked about enough. A great bonus: speed running this game is a tone of fun
If you like Psychonauts 2, you’ll love It Takes Two!
oh shit hey! Love your music. Been meaning to play that game for a while
@@noodlefunny It was my favourite game of 2022, big vouch :) also hey and thanks for the reply! I love your videos! I think I found you through your video on frame rate in animation and just watched all your stuff after that haha.
It takes two won an award or something so it should be good probably idk I never played it
A other point for it takes 2. It's masterpiece of couch coop
I only recently discovered this channel and I am thoroughly enjoying every video. Your sense of humour, animation style (and yes, I agree with you that 60 FPS is unnecessary and often detrimental), personality, and way of explaining all put a smile on my face. I was on the fence about this game but will *definitely* get it now! ...and a couple of the ol' NFS games too come to think of it. Hoping you'll make a sequel to that so I can enjoy your creative criticism on it. With how thoroughly you seem to have played to games, I wonder if there's any recent installments that are worth our attention.
speaking as a gay person: yeah this game genuinely has the best gay representation in a game i think ive ever seen. everything about it felt natural and tugged on my heartstrings in just the right way, and the characters themselves blew me out of the water. (all the characters did, but these two especially.) i can also confidently say that both of their minds were my favorite levels as well, just overall an incredible addition to an already stellar game.
@that one dog play the game
@that one dog You clearly haven't played the game lol
It's not even a case where you could make the argument that the two lovers are "best friends" they make it pretty fucking obvious with a whole wedding memory and everything.
I also love that this game quite literally unburied its gays
You guys are so narcissistic that want to see your sexual preferences in every media, for fucks sake play baba is you or something more abstract
@@incorrectstuffthingy5647 you sound like the narcissistic person, sorry. Being happy to see good representation isn't narcissistic. It wasn't 60 years ago that gay people had to fight just to prevent the police from breaking up safe havens for gay people and murdering them under the guise of protecting and serving.
It wasn't but 7 years ago that gay people got the right to marry country-wide in America.
Maybe you don't have to ever think about seeing someone like you portrayed well in media, but not everyone is so fortunate to live in that kind of world, but the narcissistic person is one who callously says the shit you say just because people are happy to see characters they can personally relate to based on shared life experiences.
*Raz in Psychonauts 2:* Very concerned about the ethics of entering other people's mind, even if it's to help them with their trauma
*Raz in Psychonauts 1:* "Gonna trigger this paranoid arsonist's psychosis just to open a gate, then steal a delusional actress' Emmy award to trick a blind guy into letting me ride the elevator"
That's what I call character development
12:09 I can't believe I totally missed that level being a pun on the term "hairbrained idea."
I would love to watch him play these games. The small clips we see of him playing look so fun and enjoyable to watch that I really wish he recorded himself.
A lot of the discourse I've seen about PN2 has either praised or criticized it for stepping away from the tone of the first game through trying to have its characters learn about mental health in the process, and I felt like this was the first review that acknowledges the benefits of stepping away whilst still recognizing it was for the sake of a joke. So, thanks!
"Noodle?? I thought you were dead, HOLD YOUR FIRE!"
Every time I see the popsicle stick rub against the cardboard I can the sound it makes replying in my mind over and my over. I love this video lol.
man what an experience this game was, easily game of the year and one of the best games i've had the pleasure to play, and seeing Noodle describing exactly how I feel toward this game makes me so happy.
so... no ones gonna talk about how beautiful this visuals are? this must've took a lot of time to make.
..literally talks about it in the video
u mean like 10 years?
So much of the video was talking about the visuals. Do you mean the comment section??
@@maxwell9561 I think he was talking about the cardboard shit
@@lum1notryc828 @Maxwell Anonymous I think he was talking about the cardboard shit
18:24 seeing the shadow again after completing the game and finding out who it is, I can actually recognize them now. Well I recognize the big ass hat and can kind of make out their facial shapes.
Another problem was that the default setup for the abilities they had was so comfortable that I would only swap the q slot unless I absolutely had to do something else as well. I honestly cannot think of any other spots for psi powers that wouldn't feel awkward, so I will withhold my anger for now.
Yo, we discussing hot wheels lore or what?
When the world needed him the most, he returned!!
oh my god shut up ive seen this so many times this isnt reddit
@@zaanonymouskittyaguy6746 agreed but stop being mean… thats mean… quit it plz
@ymif i guess people that use that platform say that.
@ymif i know i am just saying what he thought basically
@ymif reddit users have like 5 sentences they use under every single post that gets popular its so fucking annoying
Love how this game serves as a testament to almost two decades of growth in game developers who had their first major game flop. The music holy shit.
I thought of a really simple way to handle the power button mapping: Turn the radial selection button into a toggle that flips between two sets of four powers. Want to be able to change which powers are in which set and the buttons they're mapped to? Just put that function in the journal.
Fun fact about projection that I am surprised isn't mentioned here. Rosearik Rikki Simons plays the projection, he also voiced Gir in Invader Zim. Which fits amazingly with Richard Steven Horvitz playing Raz, because also played Zim.
You can really tell how much effort went into the art design and writing. It is in my top 2 games of the year so far, and it is probably the winner as I am still riding a high off of literally just finishing Guardians of the Galaxy which also has a super colorful art design and good writing, not as clever as Psychonauts though.
Have you played It Takes Two? It's my favorite
@@andrempmorais yes it is also good, but anything coop has a leg up if you are playing with someone you have fun being around, however, it is still definitely near the top of this year's releases.
20:05 this bit here gave me the best laugh I've had watching youtube in a while. Keep up the good content brother, you're doing great.
I actually read all that :|
@@StefanConstantinDumitrache me too lol
@@OmegaKirby6452 no clue unfortunately
I had just watched the first 3 episodes of Red vs. Blue Zero and after suffering through that, your video is like a godsent!
Well, I didn’t expect to come back here to say that you made such a good case for Phyconauts 1&2 that I went out and got it on my Xbox and I’m having a really fun time with it. Thanks Noodle for unironically getting me hooked on a funky little game.
I love how his wall just perpetually has a hole in it now
I really like the way Psychonauts 2 handles homosexuality because the people who are gay aren't JUST gay. They are also people. They have a personality outside of "I like boys." It's great.
And they made the whole psychics-as-a-metaphor-for-gay-people thing way, WAY more explicit, so you get the feel that nearly all of the characters have at least some of the experience of being cast out for something they are.
I love how no extra attention was brought to it. They're just actual people.
Just "Yup they're in a relationship" and it's normalized to the point where no one freaks out or is shocked by it.
@@Frommerman I absolutely missed that though. I thought it was more of a play that Raz is a circus kid and that he runs away to be normal to an extent. The polar opposite of Kids running away to go join the circus to be special. His mom even makes a point about it.
Imo it was generally aimed at misfit kids; rockers, nerds, hipsters, freaks, animal lovers, etc. Whoever wasn't a regular non psychic. But I see the point you we're trying to make.
Netflix take notes
Dude your channel is so quality. I got drawn in by the Marty interview then checked out your Halo videos and went on to binge everything else. You make solid arguments and have super charming animation.
i really like that you use songs from the phyconauts ost for background music
Psychonauts goes above of what I expected after recently playing the first one!
The humor is good, Platforming great!, and I love the characters.
I played Psychonauts 1 a few months before 2 came out just to catch up on the story. I didn't even really want to, since it's so old and probably will only look good with nostalgia glasses. Wrong. I was *very* surprised how much I loved it and now it's one of my favourites together with Psychonauts 2.
The writing for this game reminds me so much of Sam & Max Save the World. The style of talking to the same NPC enough until you find a new hilarious dialogue is so great.
I love you videos dude. You make me laugh every time I watch them, and I even watch your ads! Like all the way through man. I don't do that for anyone. Not even arlo
Before you even said it I knew it was Peter McConnell as the composer, as a musician with *heaps* of nostalgia for the Sly Cooper games (also McConnell) his style was immediately recogniseable and just as spicy, rich and well orchestrated as ever, I will definitely be picking this game up after this
Ya know Noodle, it’d be cool that when Silksong comes out and you’ve gotten time to play and enjoy the game, you could do a video talking about recent metroidvania games, & talk about Silksong & Metroid: Dread. I know you’d probably not want to do a full review of Dread, and I get the feeling that in a video, you’d wanna keep thoughts on Dread short and quick, so that feels like a good opportunity to talk about your thoughts on both good games.
Edit: Actually, something even better you could do (and before Silksong comes out) is talking about recent games from franchises thought dead, like Psychonauts (that would be brief), Metroid: Dread, and others. Hell if you take long enough maybe you could add F-Zero to that list. Maybe you could even mention Kickstarter games like Omori, where people weren’t even sure the game was going to exist.
they released the making-of which is good :O
I watched this video when you first released it, but it's interesting watching it after watching over 24 hours of slickly edited, super compelling, and moving making-of footage
Thank you for making this video. First of all, all of your videos are amazing. Second your video is so good that it did actually inspire me to play the game and hell am I so glad I did. It is in amazing game that has changed my life in so many ways. Thank you noodle!!!
In treating topics like mental health, romance, and political oppression with the care they deserve, this game adds a _shocking_ amount of depth. It really does pay to consult the experts in a case like this. Also, side note, that lil’ doodle of me in the credits is something I will treasure forever. It’s magnificent.
Noodle: I would generally say that this game has some of the best gay representation in a video game
Me: … Have you ever heard of *BUG-SNAX!?*
Elaborate?
@@zekekehrman7217 Two muppet people are in that type of relationship where they have been living together and dating for years, but one side is so dense that they don't think they are in a relationship. Also, said dynamic is gay.
Also, there is a nonbinary character.
Neither of these situations get any special attention, but thats what makes it great.
@@thatguyorange902 Bugsnax is another great one for lgbt+ positivity! There are two gay couples AND a nonbinary character. I like they didn't even say "oh this grumpus is nonbinary" it's just all the characters make sure to use they/them for Floofty.
@@thatguyorange902 wow that this actually awesome
@@KalinTheZola What's that? Treating them like a normal person/character instead of a box to tick?! Who would have ever thought of it...
(For Legal Reasons this is a Joke)
24:00 i personally prefer this mechanic!! having the wheel encourages you to change your toolset for combinations without having too many buttons to have to reach for during combat: swapping on the fly with new combinations, without necessarily getting too reliant on any one power!
I love rewatching videos on this channel. I've clocked over a few dozen on this video specifically
17:50 i think the reason is so that while you're in the wheel going "where's x so i can deal with this enemy" it gives you time to go "wait i wonder if y would work too" or just as a way to give you time to think of what to use in general
6:17 i can't believe how fitting the music from Compton's cookout fits with the promo section
i respect how you dont spoil stuff. you do a really good job of reviwing the game without divulging key story points
I love how he does the cardboard thing instead of animating for reasons we could only guess, but it still works so fine.