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i'm running psychonauts 2, really loving the level design and story and characters. it has really really good gay representation too!
I liked it, it's certainly an improvement on the first game, but I do kind of miss the snark the first game had that set it apart from other adventure platformers. The characters, especially Raz, seem a lot less, I don't know, jaded, cynical? I get that they probably had to tone it down a little bit because there was certainly some crap they got past the radar in the first game that probably wouldn't fly today and they wanted to appeal to a wider (and younger) audience, but it almost makes the returning characters feel less well-rounded than they were. It's a weird juxtaposition, but I guess some tonal shift is to be expected over 14 years.