Fun fact: that fiery cage with the Nightmares in Milla's dance party? That's how a healthy minds supposed to look. Not completely repressed, but unable to wreak havoc on the rest of the mind.
Also it gives depth to Millas and Sashas relationship, thanks to him she could learn to overcome this never ending nightmare and live with a happy rewarding live as a Psychonaut, even tho Sasha seems to be the direct opposite to Millas cheerful personality This subtle kind of story telling is really unique
The fact that the team originally planned for you to constantly be fighting nightmares that broke out of her mind as minibosses (as evidenced by the one weird flow-breaking remnant of that idea in The Milkman Conspiracy) suggests Milla might be clamping down a little too hard on that boxful of trauma - not unlike Sasha, really, even if she expresses it in a very different way
@@Champiness in the VR game, her exposure to Psyllerium (I dunno how it’s spelled xwx) may’ve briefly set her nightmares free as she wants to rescue the “children” and hallucinated the fish as screaming kids
I love how in oleanders fake memory vault he's got much longer legs than they are in reality, showing how insecure he really is about not being let into the army due to his height
I wouldn't say that Psychonauts over simplifies psychological and mental issues. I'd say that it's a good starting point to talking about those issues.
It is a bit oversimplified by modern standards, but keep in mind that Psychonauts was one of the first games to even try tackling the subject of mental health in the first place. We wouldn't be where we are now without it. Because of that (and because it's a very fun game) I'm willing to overlook the places where the game could've done a little better and instead appreciate it for what the game offers.
@@ninjapotatolorf6237 A more modern Psychonauts would probably be a bigger camp, more kids and personnel and the personnel are the mentally sick ones. But you can't tell at first glance. And need to either trick them or make them reveal their true selves in order to get into their minds. Like the part time shop assistant having to be caught by using pyrokinesis on a box of marshmallows in the storage room when you ask for something not on the shop shelf so he has to go in there.
@@magnusm4 ooh, that is a really interesting idea that could represent how people with mental illnesses have often learned to hide those illnesses from others, either for fear of social stigma or because they don't want to be a burden to those around them. Needless to say, I am really looking forward to Psychonauts 2 and all the potential ways it could modernize its narrative around mental health.
Milla's Memory Vault about tragedy at the orphanage implies that not only she was a caretaker who had to witness orphanage burning to ashes... But also on top of that from initial shock Milla's clairvoyance powers AWAKENED at that moment and she had a first row seat into the minds of kids burning alive.
Interesting thought but I think you missed the marker. For one, I highly doubt any person, yet multiple children will think such similiar nasty thoughts as they die. Secondly, in the game, every character in each person's mind is just their own thoughts or insecurities that have taken form. What you're referring to could be the memories and thoughts of the actual children, but it is more likely that the dark scenery and dark things the children say in her mind are just creations her own mental image. Just as Raz's evil dad in the meat circus was saying nasty things to Raz only to find out Raz's dad is nothing like Raz's mental perception of him. In short, It's just her blaming herself for something that was out of her control.
@@Youtoober-ru4lf ermm I didn't say "What Nightmares say inside Milla's mind = What kids thought when they were burned alive". From what statement you even arrived at this conclusion? When I mentioned possibility of Milla unconcisionly using Clairvoyance to see into minds of kids which were burned alive at the moment - I was referring to the last slide in her Memory Reel with the image of Milla (still in her caretaker uniform meaning it is image of her suffering during the tragic event itself - rather than some time after) assaulted by visions of kids being burned alive.
@@Ghostel3591 nah fam. Now u just back tracking lol. Saying she awakened clairvoyance is purely just speculation. No where in any cannon plot line is that a backed fact.
according to the Li-Po backstory document on the first psychonauts, the original reference concept for Milla's backstory explicitly mentions that she heard the voices of the children and had her first psychic experience there. The script itself hasn't been stated canon, but this does heavily imply that the memory vault slide was of Milla literally hearing the voices of the children.
If you go back to sasha's mind while he's on a "top secret mission" you actually hear that the whole cranking the difficulty up situation was planned by sasha but the mega censor wasn't
Another thing that's kind of cool about Lungfishopolis: if you look closely you'll see that your attack animation is slightly different than in any other level. In most levels you attack with a telekinetic hand, where here that hand has slight but noticeable claws. And every single NPC sees Raz differently through Clairvoyance. Milla sees him as a baby, Sasha as a younger him, Lili as a dashing prince, etc. The sheer amount of detail in this game is amazing.
Another interesting thing about Mila's demons is that they are controlled (behind bars, unable to hurt you). But on other untrained minds, they can actually run rampant, especially in The Milkman's Conspiracy. Also in a lot of other Psychonauts minds, during training (except, obviously, in Sasha's where he loses control), you don't get attacked by censors unless they want to teach you something.
Did you notice the lamp on the side of sasha's mother's death bed in the memory vault slide? It's the same lamp that he can't look at and calls tacky to raz. They play it off as a simple joke, but I always thought it was representative of him burying the memory and emotions of his mother's death.
I did! Thought about including it, but was trying to keep the pace of the video moving. I was tempted to include how the interiors in the Milkman Conspiracy have the POV of a security camera too.
was psychonauts really criticized for simplifying the process of healing someone of their traumas and mental illnesses? as if being able to jump inside someone's mind and directly stopping what is causing the problem wouldnt immediately cure the person I wish I had that power, theres so many people I know that would find it helpful, myself included
I’ve heard it a bit, if only because some of the characters were instantly ‘cured’ by Raz meddling with their minds. But it’s one take, and it doesn’t prevent me from enjoying the game.
@@KevinHelpUs The thing is that some people expect unrealistic things from games, it's beyond stupid to criticize the game for "oversimplifying mental trauma", both the themes and the gameplay has to coexist and complement each other, and that is what Psychonauts does and that's the way it works in the universe it sets. What do people want? For Raz to have several sessions with his "patients" and charge them by the hour too? Also, great video, i feel people are sleeping on Psychonauts 2, I cannot wait to play it on Tuesday.
Do not forget that the psycho portal is able to organize the mind into an actual world as well so simplifying the process of healing is very much more “realistic”. NORMALLY curing mental illness is not as easy as that. Key word is “normally”. I mean if someone had a device or a Psycho Portal like that then curing mental illness will definitely be as easy.
I just recently 100% completed this game and gathered every collectible in preparation for the sequel. There is actually a secret scene that is unlocked getting 100% of this game.
@@usernameinvalid8 All that does is give you more psitanium arrowheads. It’s a pain in the rear but you have to find every psi card and challenge marker and complete the scavenger hunt in Whispering Rock, find every figment in every level, get all the mental cobwebs, all the emotional baggage, and every mental vault. Once you reach rank 100 the game gives you an extra scene.
4:05 - just to be clear, the 'wrong memory' is a memory of his mom and dad... together. Sexually. Which one can imagine isn't something you want to experience. I actually wonder if this early event in Sasha's life encourage the control and repression he practices to prevent himself from using his psychic gifts for such potentially unpleasant events in future.
Gloria’s theatre is my favorite level in the series. I am OBJECTIVELY wrong. But I’m a theatre nerd, and I think that it is the funniest level, while also holding a lot of emotional weight
That's my favorite level too for the same exact reason, except I think the Milkman Conspiracy is the funniest. Also hello my fellow Man On the Internet enjoyer.
Another great thing about Linda’s mind is the fact that the navy has every thing except for boats it goes to show how much the coach knows about how the armed forces work which makes sense because we know he was never in them just a little thing that shows more about the character
I already loved this game for its dark wit and charm. You taking the time to break down all the back story, meaning, and vaults made me love it even more. So HYPED for Psychonauts 2 now!!
Thanks so much for watching! I love the way the levels in this game are designed, and I felt like it was worth making a video about, but I had no idea so many people felt the same. :) I'm feeling the hype too!
The Milkman Conspiracy is my favourite level, it's so crazy, fun and deep. But the Waterloo level has some incredible, amazing design. The fact that you can get deeper into the gameboard is just so crazy, it blew my mind when playing it in 2022, can't imagine what it would have been like in 2005
Very important fact about the Milkman; if you find the second vault off the telephone wire, you can see that he's an alter ego that Oleander conditioned into Boyd's mind to burn down thorny tower if necessary. He's locked away so that Boyd's censors can't find and eliminate him until Oleander needs to awaken the alter ego he created. Raz sets him off early, and THAT's why the censors don't show up until the end. Because THAT's the part of Boyd's mind that doesn't belong
Heres the thing though she made that room to hold her nightmares she hasn’t forgotten or even suppressed them, but they are not taking over or controlling her because she made a spot for the,
@@KevinHelpUs i wish i could say i did but there was a video on it and thought i could share th info And also sasha 9 literally says suppressing everything makes it worse
For all the levels , i think by far my favorite is basic braining Yeah its an tutorial level , but theres a lot of foreshadowing and good stuff there! And i absolutly love coach oleander insults and lines in the level xd
Even now as the sequel has been upon us, this game remains criminally underrated. Respect just for giving it a look, but especially for how thoughtful and thorough you were
Played this game with the utmost attention, more than one time, saw many descriptions of its details and yet, either in videos or comments people still point out things I wasn't aware of or didn't notice. What an underrated gem of a game.
I think that the fan making it hard for you to reach the secret room is a metaphor for trying to keep yourself from remembering painful memories. Milla wants people to think of her as this happy, carefree, optomistic Psychonaut, but has this trauma that even she doesn't want to remember.
This game has singlehandedly justified my Xbox Game Pass subscription. Legitimately one of my top 5 favorite games, period. And from what I’ve seen, I bet the sequel will be in that top 5 as well once it releases.
It’s interesting hearing you go through these levels, point out the areas where what’s actually “up with a character” is more hidden (e.x. It’s easy to feel like you know the game pretty well without even knowing the entirety of Milla or Sasha’s backstories), and point out as well that the game’s been criticized for showcasing inherently complex concepts like mental illness and trauma in simple/exaggerated way while still praising it as a primer of sorts after showing that there’s still plenty to discuss and unpack about these levels after watching your PN2 video - it kinda feels like logically progressing with Raz. He started off getting an exciting *feel* for what it meant to be a Psychonaut, and seeing what a person’s… personality looks like from the inside, dysfunction and all… while in PN2, he has to develop a more mature version of that understanding. He’s gone from Sasha kind of already knowing as an experimental teacher that he’d tool around in his brain and overload the censor outlets to *actually* acting against Hollis’s wishes and needing to learn a serious lesson about messing with someone’s head, and from being able to feel like he’s sort of on safari in the asylum quartet’s brains and in some part treat them as a means to an end to needing to take the Psychic Seven seriously considering that they have a complex story shared with his own family. Both games are *great* - and the first *is*, well, a “first” in a story where there are plenty of secrets to be found, and for darkness and complexity to be a surprising thing to discover; the second is one where you already know that that’s there, and explore what to do with it.
In the Waterloo level, the patient you mentioned was actually the orderly right by Fred. I want to know how that nut house got so dilapidated while there are still people there.
Ever since playing the sequel and being reminded why I've wanted a sequel for so many years, I've been obsessed with finding videos analyzing the levels. Undoubtingly my favorite platformer game and one of my favorite games of all time. My fingers are crossed we get a 3rd game just as amazing as it's predecessors
1:29 When he says its a lot to unpack so you unpack it and get depressed. I wasn't hugged much as a kid so that really hit me hard. I'm exactly the same way and its left me closed off with a lot of people and social interactions. God damn
I don't think I'd be looking at a video game where you can literally transport your mind into another's for info about mental health, but 2 does give resources for helping with mental issues from jump so if you were there's that
Thank you for your work on this. Reawakened my nostalgia for this game that really shaped my taste in games I think. Looking forward to more psychological links in the sequel!
Anyone else like that the assassin in the milkman conspiracy was in a book depository, does this sound familiar to another assassination (I'm not linking the two it just was a neat Easter egg)
Excluding the fact that the final bosses are 2 characters who are only given screen time in the final level (And yes I know there existence was forshadowed trough out the entire game but still), I'm not fan of the fact that the main antagonist get's of the hook so easaly.
@@KevinHelpUs You're the third guy i see doing this, guess not everyone has the habit of scanning the whole place meticulously before ever progressing.
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That Doom track over the Milkman got me wheezing.
That was my favorite bit to make in this whole video. :)
@@KevinHelpUs The only thing they fear is... Your milk?
@@dr.buckaroobanzai6114 But my milk is delicious?
@@KevinHelpUs i heard he has a special delivery today
@@KevinHelpUs absolutely
Fun fact: that fiery cage with the Nightmares in Milla's dance party? That's how a healthy minds supposed to look. Not completely repressed, but unable to wreak havoc on the rest of the mind.
Also it gives depth to Millas and Sashas relationship, thanks to him she could learn to overcome this never ending nightmare and live with a happy rewarding live as a Psychonaut, even tho Sasha seems to be the direct opposite to Millas cheerful personality
This subtle kind of story telling is really unique
I feel like the nightmares should be taken apart and integrated into the rest of her mind.
The fact that the team originally planned for you to constantly be fighting nightmares that broke out of her mind as minibosses (as evidenced by the one weird flow-breaking remnant of that idea in The Milkman Conspiracy) suggests Milla might be clamping down a little too hard on that boxful of trauma - not unlike Sasha, really, even if she expresses it in a very different way
@@Champiness in the VR game, her exposure to Psyllerium (I dunno how it’s spelled xwx) may’ve briefly set her nightmares free as she wants to rescue the “children” and hallucinated the fish as screaming kids
Yeah, just with some extra fuego
I love how in oleanders fake memory vault he's got much longer legs than they are in reality, showing how insecure he really is about not being let into the army due to his height
I wouldn't say that Psychonauts over simplifies psychological and mental issues. I'd say that it's a good starting point to talking about those issues.
It is a bit oversimplified by modern standards, but keep in mind that Psychonauts was one of the first games to even try tackling the subject of mental health in the first place. We wouldn't be where we are now without it. Because of that (and because it's a very fun game) I'm willing to overlook the places where the game could've done a little better and instead appreciate it for what the game offers.
@@ninjapotatolorf6237 A more modern Psychonauts would probably be a bigger camp, more kids and personnel and the personnel are the mentally sick ones. But you can't tell at first glance. And need to either trick them or make them reveal their true selves in order to get into their minds.
Like the part time shop assistant having to be caught by using pyrokinesis on a box of marshmallows in the storage room when you ask for something not on the shop shelf so he has to go in there.
@@magnusm4 ooh, that is a really interesting idea that could represent how people with mental illnesses have often learned to hide those illnesses from others, either for fear of social stigma or because they don't want to be a burden to those around them.
Needless to say, I am really looking forward to Psychonauts 2 and all the potential ways it could modernize its narrative around mental health.
@@ninjapotatolorf6237 uhhhh psychonauts 2 has been out for months now
@@kakyoin9688 yeah well I just finished playing it a few days ago
Milla's Memory Vault about tragedy at the orphanage implies that not only she was a caretaker who had to witness orphanage burning to ashes...
But also on top of that from initial shock Milla's clairvoyance powers AWAKENED at that moment and she had a first row seat into the minds of kids burning alive.
Interesting thought but I think you missed the marker. For one, I highly doubt any person, yet multiple children will think such similiar nasty thoughts as they die.
Secondly, in the game, every character in each person's mind is just their own thoughts or insecurities that have taken form.
What you're referring to could be the memories and thoughts of the actual children, but it is more likely that the dark scenery and dark things the children say in her mind are just creations her own mental image. Just as Raz's evil dad in the meat circus was saying nasty things to Raz only to find out Raz's dad is nothing like Raz's mental perception of him.
In short, It's just her blaming herself for something that was out of her control.
@@Youtoober-ru4lf ermm I didn't say "What Nightmares say inside Milla's mind = What kids thought when they were burned alive". From what statement you even arrived at this conclusion?
When I mentioned possibility of Milla unconcisionly using Clairvoyance to see into minds of kids which were burned alive at the moment - I was referring to the last slide in her Memory Reel with the image of Milla (still in her caretaker uniform meaning it is image of her suffering during the tragic event itself - rather than some time after) assaulted by visions of kids being burned alive.
@@Ghostel3591 nah fam. Now u just back tracking lol.
Saying she awakened clairvoyance is purely just speculation. No where in any cannon plot line is that a backed fact.
@@Youtoober-ru4lf thus I wrote "implies" not "states". As coach Oleander would say "Pay attention, soldier!".
according to the Li-Po backstory document on the first psychonauts, the original reference concept for Milla's backstory explicitly mentions that she heard the voices of the children and had her first psychic experience there. The script itself hasn't been stated canon, but this does heavily imply that the memory vault slide was of Milla literally hearing the voices of the children.
"I am the milk man. My milk is delicious" Gets me EVERY time
If you go back to sasha's mind while he's on a "top secret mission" you actually hear that the whole cranking the difficulty up situation was planned by sasha but the mega censor wasn't
I’ve done that! Also, Coach and Milla are MIA after the mission starts, I believe. It was a nice touch.
Another thing that's kind of cool about Lungfishopolis: if you look closely you'll see that your attack animation is slightly different than in any other level. In most levels you attack with a telekinetic hand, where here that hand has slight but noticeable claws.
And every single NPC sees Raz differently through Clairvoyance. Milla sees him as a baby, Sasha as a younger him, Lili as a dashing prince, etc.
The sheer amount of detail in this game is amazing.
Another interesting thing about Mila's demons is that they are controlled (behind bars, unable to hurt you). But on other untrained minds, they can actually run rampant, especially in The Milkman's Conspiracy.
Also in a lot of other Psychonauts minds, during training (except, obviously, in Sasha's where he loses control), you don't get attacked by censors unless they want to teach you something.
Sasha didn't lose control he just pretended to. You find this out if you use the brain tumbler to re enter the shooting gallery.
@@davidgribble6313 oh, that's true, I forgot :D
Did you notice the lamp on the side of sasha's mother's death bed in the memory vault slide? It's the same lamp that he can't look at and calls tacky to raz. They play it off as a simple joke, but I always thought it was representative of him burying the memory and emotions of his mother's death.
I did! Thought about including it, but was trying to keep the pace of the video moving. I was tempted to include how the interiors in the Milkman Conspiracy have the POV of a security camera too.
was psychonauts really criticized for simplifying the process of healing someone of their traumas and mental illnesses? as if being able to jump inside someone's mind and directly stopping what is causing the problem wouldnt immediately cure the person
I wish I had that power, theres so many people I know that would find it helpful, myself included
I’ve heard it a bit, if only because some of the characters were instantly ‘cured’ by Raz meddling with their minds. But it’s one take, and it doesn’t prevent me from enjoying the game.
@@KevinHelpUs The thing is that some people expect unrealistic things from games, it's beyond stupid to criticize the game for "oversimplifying mental trauma", both the themes and the gameplay has to coexist and complement each other, and that is what Psychonauts does and that's the way it works in the universe it sets. What do people want? For Raz to have several sessions with his "patients" and charge them by the hour too?
Also, great video, i feel people are sleeping on Psychonauts 2, I cannot wait to play it on Tuesday.
imagine if you could do that AND you could carry a gun to other people's minds
BANG BANG BANG
depresso is on recesso
Do not forget that the psycho portal is able to organize the mind into an actual world as well so simplifying the process of healing is very much more “realistic”. NORMALLY curing mental illness is not as easy as that. Key word is “normally”. I mean if someone had a device or a Psycho Portal like that then curing mental illness will definitely be as easy.
I just recently 100% completed this game and gathered every collectible in preparation for the sequel. There is actually a secret scene that is unlocked getting 100% of this game.
Whoa, you’re more prepared than I am!
I can't 100% it because of that stupid pop up hitting game in the basic braining level
@@usernameinvalid8 All that does is give you more psitanium arrowheads.
It’s a pain in the rear but you have to find every psi card and challenge marker and complete the scavenger hunt in Whispering Rock, find every figment in every level, get all the mental cobwebs, all the emotional baggage, and every mental vault.
Once you reach rank 100 the game gives you an extra scene.
@@Dragon_Lair if you finish all the levels of that it gives you a psi card so you reach rank 101 and I believe there's a trophy for it.
@@usernameinvalid8 Huh. Okay then.
Still not necessary to get that extra scene though, but good to know.
4:05 - just to be clear, the 'wrong memory' is a memory of his mom and dad... together. Sexually. Which one can imagine isn't something you want to experience. I actually wonder if this early event in Sasha's life encourage the control and repression he practices to prevent himself from using his psychic gifts for such potentially unpleasant events in future.
Gloria’s theatre is my favorite level in the series. I am OBJECTIVELY wrong. But I’m a theatre nerd, and I think that it is the funniest level, while also holding a lot of emotional weight
But remember, This is your Life, Turned Upside down, the circus in town.
There's too many good levels to pick. The new one has so many great levels too
That's my favorite level too for the same exact reason, except I think the Milkman Conspiracy is the funniest. Also hello my fellow Man On the Internet enjoyer.
Another great thing about Linda’s mind is the fact that the navy has every thing except for boats it goes to show how much the coach knows about how the armed forces work which makes sense because we know he was never in them just a little thing that shows more about the character
Huh, I hadn’t thought about that! Good catch.
@@KevinHelpUs thanks
@@KevinHelpUs also great video
@@keithscott4013 Thanks!!
@@KevinHelpUs looking forward to what you do next
I already loved this game for its dark wit and charm. You taking the time to break down all the back story, meaning, and vaults made me love it even more. So HYPED for Psychonauts 2 now!!
Thanks so much for watching! I love the way the levels in this game are designed, and I felt like it was worth making a video about, but I had no idea so many people felt the same. :) I'm feeling the hype too!
@Ahmed Malaki Yep! Editing my video on the sequel right now. :)
@Ahmed Malaki Posted the video this morning!
Milla IS adorable, she’s just been through some stuff
I agree! She's a sweetheart.
The Milkman Conspiracy is my favourite level, it's so crazy, fun and deep. But the Waterloo level has some incredible, amazing design. The fact that you can get deeper into the gameboard is just so crazy, it blew my mind when playing it in 2022, can't imagine what it would have been like in 2005
when i learned that this whole game happens in about one day my mind exploded
Very important fact about the Milkman; if you find the second vault off the telephone wire, you can see that he's an alter ego that Oleander conditioned into Boyd's mind to burn down thorny tower if necessary. He's locked away so that Boyd's censors can't find and eliminate him until Oleander needs to awaken the alter ego he created. Raz sets him off early, and THAT's why the censors don't show up until the end. Because THAT's the part of Boyd's mind that doesn't belong
10:40-10:45 has always haunted my thoughts now I know where this scene is from.
He has lived rent free in my mind ever since.
God im so excited for what Psychonauts 2 has in store for us
It is nieche fandom but man i love it i hope we grow in numbers with the sequel
10:39 that DOOM build up for the Milkman is perfect. This isn't DOOM is MILKMAN
white and milky until it's creamed!
poor sasha, first he loses his mother, then his father shows him no love, then he sees his father's memory of him breaking a bed with sasha's mother.
I’d say it has great respect for its subject matter while presenting, even teaching, it in an entertaining and hilarious way.
It thanks you!
I think you just made me a Psychonauts fan with this video, this looks awesome!
Welcome to the club!
(One of us, one of us…)
10:43 freaking doom music plays
1:49 This joke always makes me laugh, no matter how many times I play
I love that one too. :)
The Bonapartes are playing Catan.
Bonus fact:
Look at 13:27, Jasper Rolls (The Critic) and the Teacher are in the Audience.
I dunno if it's a coincidence or if it has any meaning.
Heres the thing though she made that room to hold her nightmares she hasn’t forgotten or even suppressed them, but they are not taking over or controlling her because she made a spot for the,
Huh, I hadn’t thought of it that way!
@@KevinHelpUs i wish i could say i did but there was a video on it and thought i could share th info
And also sasha 9 literally says suppressing everything makes it worse
Milkman was my favorite character who's mind you go into. But my favorite world was Black Velvetopia. Beautiful landscape!
For all the levels , i think by far my favorite is basic braining
Yeah its an tutorial level , but theres a lot of foreshadowing and good stuff there! And i absolutly love coach oleander insults and lines in the level xd
I never could finish the painter level, but it's a beautiful game with a lot of fascinating detail and depth especially with the traumas.
Moo-lotov cocktails
Bovine BOOM
I love this game, it was a total joy to play and 100% - I am so excited for the 2nd one, the music in Whispering Rock is delicious to my ears.
Really good video. Hope it blows up by the time Psychonauts 2 is out.
So do I! :) And thanks for watching, so glad you enjoyed it.
Even now as the sequel has been upon us, this game remains criminally underrated. Respect just for giving it a look, but especially for how thoughtful and thorough you were
i didnt even think about the personal demons sounding like crying babies! good catch!
It hit me like a ton of bricks when I was replaying the game recently. I’d missed it up until then too.
Played this game with the utmost attention, more than one time, saw many descriptions of its details and yet, either in videos or comments people still point out things I wasn't aware of or didn't notice. What an underrated gem of a game.
I think that the fan making it hard for you to reach the secret room is a metaphor for trying to keep yourself from remembering painful memories. Milla wants people to think of her as this happy, carefree, optomistic Psychonaut, but has this trauma that even she doesn't want to remember.
This game has singlehandedly justified my Xbox Game Pass subscription. Legitimately one of my top 5 favorite games, period. And from what I’ve seen, I bet the sequel will be in that top 5 as well once it releases.
It’s interesting hearing you go through these levels, point out the areas where what’s actually “up with a character” is more hidden (e.x. It’s easy to feel like you know the game pretty well without even knowing the entirety of Milla or Sasha’s backstories), and point out as well that the game’s been criticized for showcasing inherently complex concepts like mental illness and trauma in simple/exaggerated way while still praising it as a primer of sorts after showing that there’s still plenty to discuss and unpack about these levels after watching your PN2 video - it kinda feels like logically progressing with Raz. He started off getting an exciting *feel* for what it meant to be a Psychonaut, and seeing what a person’s… personality looks like from the inside, dysfunction and all… while in PN2, he has to develop a more mature version of that understanding. He’s gone from Sasha kind of already knowing as an experimental teacher that he’d tool around in his brain and overload the censor outlets to *actually* acting against Hollis’s wishes and needing to learn a serious lesson about messing with someone’s head, and from being able to feel like he’s sort of on safari in the asylum quartet’s brains and in some part treat them as a means to an end to needing to take the Psychic Seven seriously considering that they have a complex story shared with his own family. Both games are *great* - and the first *is*, well, a “first” in a story where there are plenty of secrets to be found, and for darkness and complexity to be a surprising thing to discover; the second is one where you already know that that’s there, and explore what to do with it.
THIS IS MY FAIVOURITE GAME OF ALL TIME I CANT WAIT FOR THE SEQUEL!!!!!!!
I CAN’T WAIT EITHER!!!
In the Waterloo level, the patient you mentioned was actually the orderly right by Fred. I want to know how that nut house got so dilapidated while there are still people there.
Excellent question!
I had more fun in Boyd's mind then anyone elses
Boyd’s mind is so great. That one’s tough to beat.
Great video! I can tell you put a good amount of effort into it, and I’m looking forward to what you do in the future.
Thank you, I really do appreciate how much work they put into the level design in this game. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Ever since playing the sequel and being reminded why I've wanted a sequel for so many years, I've been obsessed with finding videos analyzing the levels. Undoubtingly my favorite platformer game and one of my favorite games of all time. My fingers are crossed we get a 3rd game just as amazing as it's predecessors
I am genuinely so into this...
Sweet! Glad you’re enjoying it!
Its a good day, I have PB and J.
another video has come out praising psyconaus, hooray!
Fun fact: the G Men, Tiger, and Lungfish Rebel are voiced by Steve Blum
The secret levels represents the deep trauma that why their so hard to get to
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When he says its a lot to unpack so you unpack it and get depressed. I wasn't hugged much as a kid so that really hit me hard. I'm exactly the same way and its left me closed off with a lot of people and social interactions. God damn
I love how it just cuts off at "...Until he found the wrong memory."
I love that cannonically all 3 games take place over like 5 days
Me too! I hope Raz stays a kid forever.
I don't think I'd be looking at a video game where you can literally transport your mind into another's for info about mental health, but 2 does give resources for helping with mental issues from jump so if you were there's that
Another awesome gameplay. Keep'em coming buddy. Always here to support. Loving it. 💯
Thank you so much for all the support! This was a lot of fun to make, I’ll definitely be making more.
Always nice to see people taliking about psychinauts
“My name...”
“Starts with a D!”
“...is Razputin.”
I just finished the second game and it really complements the first game. It was a worthy sequel.
Nice! I think I’m halfway through. Definitely jumping in again this afternoon.
I really missed the opportunity to play this game when I was younger. It looks so good.
Thank you for your work on this. Reawakened my nostalgia for this game that really shaped my taste in games I think. Looking forward to more psychological links in the sequel!
So glad you enjoyed it! Definitely doing the sequel for the next video.
Nice vid! It was one of the best games! Ready for the next one!
amazing video! hope this channel blows up.
I hope so too!
14:49 I'm from Pamplona lol, crazy to see you naming it. As I said in the Psychonauts 2 video, great vid my friend
No way! Greetings, I had the pleasure of visiting for San Fermin a few years back.
Aesthetically speaking Black Velvetopia is my favorite.
Replaying this masterpiece before the sequel comes out later this month! I forgot how much I loved this game! Lol
How do you only have 1.41 k subscribers
Because I needed your hype to keep me going!
Good video found this from a clip on tiktok and i like it so far 👍
Thanks so much, so glad you’re enjoying it!
I’ve come from tiktok- I love your videos man, they are so entertaining
Thanks so much for watching! I really appreciate you saying so. :)
Holy shit this video made me want to play this game so bad!!!
It’s great, you should!
Anyone else like that the assassin in the milkman conspiracy was in a book depository, does this sound familiar to another assassination (I'm not linking the two it just was a neat Easter egg)
Milkman: Rip and Milk.
großartig! :D danke für diese wundervolle doku
Bitte!
“Similar too Risk” that hurt to hear
There is a especial delivery today. XD
Can't wait for the second game
Milkatove cocktails
Video is criminally underrated
I agree!
Really good video and very clear explications, as a non english native speaker it was very interesting thanks !
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
well and very detailed analysis
Thanks so much!
Excluding the fact that the final bosses are 2 characters who are only given screen time in the final level (And yes I know there existence was forshadowed trough out the entire game but still), I'm not fan of the fact that the main antagonist get's of the hook so easaly.
Oh man, I also thought abt how Mia is sooo adorable until you find out abt the orphans
This video inspired me to buy the game. Nice video!
Thanks so much, post back here and let me know what you think of it!
Nice video
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
Now you gotta do one on the sequel
I’m literally working on the script today!
Hell yeah! Dang. Now I gotta finish the game before that video comes out
Hello fellow road crew worker, welcome to the road crew
I love the cheese guy scheme
Me too!
Raz and chaos from skylanders have the same voice actor.
Cool to see this video after already buy it on Steam
Hope you enjoy the game!
I LOVE PSYCHONAUTS SO MUCH Im glad tiktok brought me to this vid
I’m glad it did too!
The icon of milk has awoken
Keep up the great work
I really need to play this game
You should! Sequel’s coming out in a few weeks.
Kev this video is so dope and well put together how are you not monetized yet
I’m a lot closer now!
@@KevinHelpUs I know and I'm happy for you deserve it
Jesus this game is dark sometimes
Amazing vid
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it.
Wrestling is art
Why everyone misses the orphans? It is right there, impossible to miss.
Clearly not impossible - because I missed it!
@@KevinHelpUs You're the third guy i see doing this, guess not everyone has the habit of scanning the whole place meticulously before ever progressing.
I loved this game
They don't have it for switch, so it's PC I guess
Thanks this was fun