I backed the game on Fig and have been waiting for its release since 2016, and I'm not disappointed. The platforming is a delight, the art direction is as quirky and charming as ever, and the music makes me wish I'd backed at a tier that got me the soundtrack. The previous game's less-useful powers have been replaced with new ones that are almost universally well-integrated into combat and platforming, and remain useful throughout. The writing is still on-point, and the game handles some heavy themes with a light hand. Level-wise, each new mind is about three times larger than the minds in the previous game, there are a lot more of them, and they're all fun to play throughout (no 'meat circus' slogs here). If you liked the first game, you should definitely put this one at the top of your wishlist.

I'll be direct. While the writing is good, the set pieces fun, and the overall quality high, Tim Shaefer has, yet again, padded out the end with unfair level design and tepid platforming. What starts as an enthralling and interesting narrative is weighed down by an anemic amount of content and the strange preoccupation double fine has with drawing out the lifespan of this series by making the final level needlessly and unfairly difficult. Buy on sale.

worth every penny, I regret nothing

This game visuals, sound design, story, characters and gameplay are so lovely and I've been waiting for so long for this sequel that I just can't forgive that it has so many technical issues. Clipping through the scenario, suddenly and randomly being thrown to another side while jumping, dialogues no syncing with the characters animation and I really was all in to forgive this just because of how much I loved psychonauts 1 but ot was too much and that (no spoilers) I suppose last boss fight (haven't beat it yet, too frustrating) just made me give up and made not even want to end the game, I'm tired and the experience is now ruined, wish I could store this on a memory vault of my own.

The game narrative is very all over the place and it was hard to care for the plot. The levels are super diverse but also there is lack of structure about the way they make up the whole.