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game: psychonauts. platform: pc.

this game had an excellent presentation. i loved the range of voice-acting, the great artwork (nothing looks the same twice really), and the music was great overall as well. the gameplay of it is decent-- standard platformer fare really, but it had its good moments. the design in a few of the levels left me standing in awe of the brilliance of the ideas they had, but some other levels are just standard platforming. the real incentive of this game is to find out what the next level will look like. sure, there's a story, but the only real reason you want to find out what is next is that it's a really funny game as well. the voice acting really helps this-- the actors all sound great; nothing is out of place.

some gripes: while the artwork is great, the graphics in the game leave a little to be desired. all of the locations look nice artistically, but they are all lacking pretty severely in polygon counts. i'm pretty sure the dreamcast could have rendered these levels fairly easily. also, the camera poses some minor problems in this game at times, but since you can control it a bit with the mouse, it's not as bad as it could be.

i'd rate this an 8.5/10 or so. not perfect, but certainly not bad for some random developer for a pc platformer that i'd never heard of before last october.

Jam it back in, in the dark.