• Solid platformer; decent physics that manage to be floaty but tight
  
• Extensive options for a game of its time
  
• Interesting and deep characters
  
• Excellent story and premise
  
• Strong themes of mental health as well as growing up; the Asylum area is really good at dealing with intense trauma and mental illness
  
• Diverse cast of different nationalities, backgrounds, and stories
  
• Characters live outside of just your narrow view; they develop relationships and change with time
  
• Sidequests (however few they may be) are usually fun
  
• Semi-open world is really nice to explore and manages to have enough variety to feel fresh despite being all in the same location
  
• Dowsing rod minigame is sorta fun and encourages you to pay attention
  
• Varied bosses testing your abilities in interesting ways
  
• Plenty of variety in setting via different missions
  
• Great sense of humor (the city section is a good one)
  
• All abilities are really cool; the ball one is the best

• Bit too easy to use the dowsing rod and get a ton of money early game; plus the minigame is just mashing which sucks
  
• Getting all collectibles (especially figments) is absurdly obtuse and difficult
  
• Fish boss forced perspective is a bit annoying

Psychonauts is totally amazing. I used to play it back on the Original XBOX and I'm glad to say it still holds up today extremely well. If you love 3D platformers, you do NOT wanna miss out on this one!

[h1]Psychonauts is an immensely creative and fun 3D platformer with tons of charm and wit.[/h1] [h2]Pros[/h2] [list] [*] Solid platformer; decent physics that manage to be floaty but tight [*] Extensive options for a game of its time [*] Interesting and deep characters [*] Excellent story and premise [*] Strong themes of mental health as well as growing up; the Asylum area is really good at dealing with intense trauma and mental illness [*] Diverse cast of different nationalities, backgrounds, and stories [*] Characters live outside of just your narrow view; they develop relationships and change with time [*] Sidequests (however few they may be) are usually fun [*] Semi-open world is really nice to explore and manages to have enough variety to feel fresh despite being all in the same location [*] Dowsing rod minigame is sorta fun and encourages you to pay attention [*] Varied bosses testing your abilities in interesting ways [*] Plenty of variety in setting via different missions [*] Great sense of humor (the city section is a good one) [*] All abilities are really cool; the ball one is the best [/list] [h2]Cons[/h2] [list] [*] Bit too easy to use the dowsing rod and get a ton of money early game; plus the minigame is just mashing which sucks [*] Getting all collectibles (especially figments) is absurdly obtuse and difficult [*] Fish boss forced perspective is a bit annoying [/list] [h2]Conclusion[/h2] Psychonauts is totally amazing. I used to play it back on the Original XBOX and I'm glad to say it still holds up today extremely well. If you love 3D platformers, you do NOT wanna miss out on this one!