In retrospect, you can see it clearly as a stepping stone from his previous traditional graphical adventure games and what he's achieved with Psychonauts. The same sort of bait-and-switch is going on here, and it's really only to be expected given the direction Schafer took with his last game, Grim Fandango.

Granted, it might look like a 3D platformer, but then, Deus Ex looked like a first-person shooter when it was really an RPG, and Phantom Dust looks like a melee action game when it's really about cards. Psychonauts is my favorite of its genre in years and years: the genre, of course, being story-driven, puzzle-focused graphical adventures for which its creator, Tim Schafer, is famous. Among the special powers Raz can call upon are invisibility, confusion, mind control, psychic blasts, and telekinesis. The human brain guards itself against foreigners poking around the subconscious and will manufacture enemies and barriers to stop Raz before he can resolve whatever psychological ailment is plaguing the host. Raz literally walks through an individual's fears, delusions, and rage to solve various object-oriented puzzles and to eliminate potential threats. Accomplishing these feats involves using the character's unusual talents to manipulate the strange worlds created by the subject's mind. As part of his academic 'studies,' Raz must enter classmates' minds to solve their problems, ranging from childhood trauma to borderline personality disorders. Psychonauts is a 3D platform game starring a gifted young psychic named Raz as he attends school to become a member of a top-secret intelligence organization.

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