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Psychonauts 。⁠.゚⁠+⁠ ⁠⟵⁠(⁠。⁠・⁠ω⁠・⁠)

Pls does anyone know this game?! Its hard to find people to talk about it. It's an indie 3D platformer (rated T for Teens in the US) by DoubleFine released in 2005, with a sequel released in 2021, produced under Microsoft's Xbox game studios. The voice of the main character, Razputin, also voiced a character in Invader Zim, a much more popular IP. 

The OG game is funny and dark with a unique art style. You're a runaway circus kid who goes to a secret government psychic training summer camp for kids, and you can go into peoples' minds and interact with their interests and traumas, and it's super wacky and cool. There was some controversy over the ethics of a 10 year old meddling with people's mental health, but it's very well handled imo and even improved on in the sequel imo

The series is hilarious, but also has strong themes of empathy, healing, and compassion. It's incredibly artistic and detail oriented, and the humor written by Tim Shafer is immaculate.


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