Psychonauts 2 2021

Is it still worth playing?

Raz, a psychic ten year old who ran away from his family of circus acrobats, has just joined the Psychonauts, an agency of psychic spies, in this 2021 platformer. He runs, jumps, climbs walls and slides along rails, but cannot swim because of a family curse. He starts with the powers he already had, such as fire, levitation and telekinesis, adds new ones such as Mental Connection, which swings him between floating points, and can assign four at a time. Most levels take place inside someone's mind and are built from that person's life and troubles: a gambling addiction becomes a casino crossed with a hospital. The enemies are mental phenomena, Censors that hit you with stamps and Regrets that drop weights. The minds are why it is still worth playing: each level is a new place drawn from someone's head, and most end with Raz helping that person.