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“She’s dealing with the financial problems they have. “Hollis Forsythe has been running the Psychonauts since Truman Zanotto got kidnapped,” Schafer says. Most of the other interns are all too eager to pick on the new kid to make matters worse. Raz has gone from saving the world to being on the lowest rung of the organization. Hollis Forsythe, the second-in-command of the Psychonauts, is uncomfortable with letting Raz immediately jump into dangerous Psychonauts missions, and relegates him to the intern program.

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Unfortunately, a few important Psychonauts don’t recognize Raz’s full capability. We used those deconstructed elements to help build pathing into areas so you’re jumping on scaffolding and there’s rebar sticking out that you can swing off.”Īfter the events of the first Psychonauts and Rhombus of Ruin, Raz feels like he’s proven himself, and he’s eager to hunt down the Psychonauts’ mole. “We wanted to make it feel like a really open, explorative space rather than a narrow, dungeon corridor … You see that the Psychonauts spent all their money on the headquarters, but they couldn’t take care of the grounds, so you see unfinished areas and scaffolding up in parts. “It was really important for us to feel like the world of the Psychonauts opened up to Raz,” says art director Lisette Titre-Montgommery. Raz will regularly return to this sprawling complex between missions, allowing him to hunt for hidden collectibles and purchase consumables, such as health pickups, from the Psychonauts’ shop. Meanwhile, Raz looks over a giant wall sculpture depicting important Psychonauts from yesteryear.

One agent meditates in a corner while others grab a bite in the official commissary, cleverly titled the Noodle Bowl. Dozens of professional-looking businesspeople mill about the lobby while a few psychics dash off to the Think Tank – a building wing that contains several Psychonaut offices.

The Motherlobe is the nerve center for the Psychonauts. The Motherlobe is the headquarters for the Psychonauts the space has seen better days Who is the mole? How are we going to find the mole?” “He’s got a helper inside the Psychonauts, a mole inside the Psychonauts, and that’s where the plot of this game starts. “You ride back to base, and you realize that Doctor Loboto, amateur dentist and hobbyist brain surgeon, probably couldn’t have hatched his scheme by himself,” says Double Fine studio head Tim Schafer.

Psychonauts 2 picks up the story the very next morning as Raz arrives at the Psychonauts’ headquarters, The Motherlobe, for a debrief. The 2017 PlayStation VR game Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin centered on Raz’s mission to rescue the head of the Psychonauts, Truman Zanotto, from a secret undersea lab, but that title only covered the events of a single day. Hitting the Motherlobe Hitting The Motherlobeįans may have been waiting a long time to continue Raz’s journey, but within the Psychonauts’ fiction, only a handful of days have passed since Raz left summer camp. If this precocious child has any hope of restoring the beloved organization to its former glory, he must hunt down a spy and reckon with his family’s ancient curse … oh, and he might just save the world again while he’s at it. Unfortunately, Raz is about to discover that the Psychonauts aren’t what they once were. Later this year, fans can finally return to this mind-bending world for another adventure full of child-like whimsy, refined platforming, and a host of new perspective-warping mindscapes. Psychonauts enchanted fans with its absurd humor and reality-warping antics, but it also left many eager for revelations that have been a long time coming.

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Without a second to spare, Raz flew off with a handful of other powerful psychic agents to perform a daring rescue.ĭouble Fine released the original Psychonauts in 2005, introducing us to Raz’s wacky world through a series of fun platforming challenges. Raz naturally foiled that plan and saved the day, but his adventure ended on a cliffhanger when the young psychic powerhouse learned that the head of the Psychonauts had been kidnapped. It all began when Raz ran away from the circus to join Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp and discovered an unhinged plot to harvest children’s brains to power a battalion of psychic death tanks. Now he is on a globetrotting quest as a member of one of the planet’s most powerful anti-terrorist organizations: the Psychonauts. Razputin “Raz” Aquato was once just your average, ordinary kid with psychic powers.

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