Psychonauts Free Download for PC is a platform video game and is the debut title of Tim Schafer's studio Double Fine Productions which he founded in 2001 following his departure fromLucasArts. The game was initially published by Majesco Entertainment in 2005 and 2006 forMicrosoft Windows, Xbox andPlayStation 2; Budcat Creationshelped in the PlayStation 2 port. In 2011, Double Fine acquired the rights for the title, allowing the company to republish the title with updates for modern gaming systems and creating OS X andLinux ports.
Psychonauts follows the player-character Raz (voiced by Richard Horvitz) a young boy gifted with psychic abilities who runs away from the circus to try to sneak into a summer camp for those with similar powers to become a «Psychonaut», a spy with psychic abilities. He finds that there is a sinister plot occurring at the camp that only he can stop. « View full review »
The game is centered on exploring the strange and imaginative minds of various characters that Raz enters as a Psychonaut-in-training/"Psycadet" to help them overcome their fears or memories of their past, so as to gain their help and progress in the game. Raz gains use of several psychic abilities during the game that are used for both attacking foes and solving puzzles. Psychonauts Download free Full Version.
Psychonauts was based on an abandoned concept that Schafer had during the development of Full Throttle, which he expanded out into a full game through Double Fine. The game was initially backed by Microsoft's Ed Fries as a premiere title for the original Xbox console, but several internal and external issues led to difficulties for Double Fine in meeting various milestones and responding to testing feedback; following Fries' departure in 2004, Microsoft dropped the publishing rights. Double Fine was able to secure Majesco as a publisher a few months later allowing them to complete the game after four and a half years of development.
Despite strong critical praise, Psychonauts did not sell well with only about 100,000 retail units sold at the time of release, leading to severe financial loss for Majesco and their departure from the video game market; the title was considered a commercial failure. Psychonauts since has earned a number of industry awards and gained a cult following. Following the acquisition of the game, Double Fine's republishing capabilities and support for modern platforms has allowed them to offer the game through digital distribution, and the company has reported that their own sales of the game have far exceeded what was initially sold on its original release. Schafer has stated that he is interested in making a sequel but would require significant funding support to make.
Gameplay
Psychonauts is a platformer video game that incorporates various adventureelements. The player controls the main character Raz in a third-person, three-dimensional view, helping Raz to undercover a mystery at the Psychonauts training camp. Raz begins with basic movement abilities such as running and jumping, but as the game progresses, Raz gains additional psychic powers such as telekinesis, levitation, invisibility, and pyrokinesis. These abilities allow the player to explore more of the camp as well as fight off enemies. These powers can either be awarded by completing certain story missions, gaining psi ranks during the game, or by purchasing them with hidden arrowheads scattered around the camp. Powers can be improved — such as more damaging pyrokinesis or longer periods of invisibility — through gaining additional psi ranks. The player can assign three of these powers to their controller or keyboard for quick use, but all earned powers are available at any time through a selection screen. Psychonauts Game free Download Full Version.
The game includes both the «real world» of the camp and its surroundings, including a nearby insane asylum, as well as a number of «dream worlds» that exist in the consciousness of the various characters in the game. The dream worlds have wildly different art and level design aesthetics, and generally have a specific goal that Raz must complete as to resolve an emotional issue that character may have as to gain information to advance the game's story. Within the dream worlds are censors that react negatively to Raz's presence and will attack him. There are also various collectibles within the dream worlds, including Figments of the character's imagination which will help increase Raz' psi ranking, and luggage tags for five pieces of Emotional baggage which, once all matched up, will unlock a short series of slides that will help explain that character's backstory. Most of these dream worlds culminate in a boss battle that fully resolves the character's emotional distress and advance the story.The player is able to revisit any of these dream worlds after completing this battle to locate additional collectibles they may have missed. Raz is given items early in the game, one that allows to leave any dream world at any time if the player get stuck in a world, and another that can provide hints for certain puzzles.
Raz can take damage from the psychic-infused creatures around the camp, or by censors in the dream worlds; due to a curse placed on his family, Raz is also vulnerable to water. If Raz's health is drained, he is respawned at the most-recent checkpoint. However, this can only be done so many times while Raz is within a dream world, indicated by the number of astral projections remaining; if these are expended through respawning, the character's conscious ejects Raz from the dream world, losing any progress made and requiring the player to restart that dream world anew. Health and additional projections can be collected through the dream levels. Single-use items that can be purchased at the camp store can be used to restore health and projections while in the dream worlds. Psychonauts game free Download for PC Full Version.
Plot
Setting
The story is set in fictional Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a remote US government training facility under the guise of a children's summer camp. The area was hit centuries ago by a meteor made of psitanium (a fictional element that can grant psychic powers or strengthen existing powers), creating a huge crater. The psitanium affected the local wildlife, giving them limited psychic powers, such as bears with the ability to attack with telekinetic claws andcougars with pyrokinesis. The Native Americans of the area called psitanium «whispering rock», which they used to build arrowheads. When settlers began inhabiting the region, the psychoactive properties of the meteor slowly drove them insane. An asylum was built to house the afflicted, but within fifteen years, the asylum had more residents than the town did. The government relocated the remaining inhabitants and flooded the crater to prevent further settlement, creating what is now Lake Oblongata. The asylum still stands, but has fallen into disrepair.
The government took advantage of the psitanium deposit to set up a training camp for Psychonauts, a group of agents gifted with psychic abilities used to help defeat evil-doers. The training ground is disguised as a summer camp for young children, but in reality helps the children to hone their abilities and to train them to be Psychonauts themselves. Due to this, only those recruited by the Psychonauts are allowed into the camp.
Characters
The protagonist and playable character of the game is Razputin «Raz» Aquato, the son of a family of circus performers, who runs away from the circus to become a Psychonaut, despite his father's wishes. His family is cursed to die in water, and a large hand attempts to submerge Raz whenever he approaches any significantly deep water. When at camp, Raz meets four of the Psychonauts that run the camp: the cool and calculating Sasha Nein (voice actor Stephen Stanton), the fun-loving Milla Vodello, the regimental Agent/Coach Morceau Oleander, and the aged, Mark Twainesque Ford Cruller, said by Raz to have been the greatest leader the Psychonauts ever had, until a past psychic duel shattered Ford's psyche and left him with numerous quirky personalities and no memory of his real self (which explains why he is seen throughout the camp as a cook, ranger, admiral, etc.). Only when he is near the large concentration of Psitanium does his psyche come together enough to form his real personality. During his time at camp, Raz meets several of the other gifted children including Lili Zanotto, the daughter of the Grand Head of the Psychonauts, with whom he falls in love; and Dogen Boole, a boy who goes around with a tin foil hat to prevent his abilities from causing anyone's head to explode. Raz also meets ex-residents of the insane asylum including ex-dentist Dr. Loboto, as well as Boyd Cooper, a former milkman that holds a number of government conspiracy theories, Fred Bonaparte, an asylum inmate with dissociative identity disorder, also known as a split personality, andLinda, the gigantic lung fish that protects the asylum from campgoers. Psychonauts Free Download Torrent.
