It's also the ONLY PlayStation Studios game that exists on Xbox and it will always be the only PlayStation Studios game that will exist on Xbox because Sony doesn't have any say in the matter.
PSYCHONAUTS REMASTERED SERIES
I guess the only defense of Sony is that there is a Series X|S version AND a PS5 version of The Show. The Show going on Game Pass was like icing in the cake (that was a pretty tough blow, though, not going to lie - and the game is STILL there).
Packed with clever, funny ideas and dialogue.Stunning synergy of level design and themes.Psychonauts 2 is consistently creative, enormously fun to play, visually inventive and spectacular and spins a cracking yarn to boot. It's so good, in fact, that we now want the original Psychonauts to be remade in this engine, with this fidelity, in order to finally do it justice. Brilliant aesthetics go hand in hand with tremendous gameplay here and it's a genuine delight to say that it's all been worth the wait. There are very few games that offer an experience as good as this, with ingenious level design and heavier themes that never feel sludgy or, more importantly, preachy. The 20 or so hours we spent completing Psychonauts 2 saw us indulging in plentiful side quests and content, simply to spend more and more time in a world we still don't feel entirely done with. Then again, it's unusual enough to boot this game up and see the Xbox Games Studio logo on the splash screens when running it on Sony hardware. Neither version, sadly, is as impressive as the Xbox Series X release, which runs at 4K, 60fps or 2K 120fps. The game finally has the polish and fidelity it deserves, with tremendous visuals running at a smooth 60fps when played on a PlayStation 5 - owners of last-gen consoles are limited to 30fps, unfortunately, but if this is your only option we'd still urge you not to pass it up. That's good, though, because Psychonauts is excellent, one of the most creative and enjoyable platform games ever made even with its few faults what we've got here is essentially Psychonauts perfected. But it has the soul of its ancestor, so to speak, and there's very little in the way of gameplay changes from Psychonauts. Where it counts, of course, things are updated: it looks remarkable and the controls are responsive as you could ever want, a far cry from the occasional jank of the first game. It's remarkable, in fact, how little things have changed. It's extremely adherent to the tropes of the mid-2000s platformer, which makes sense as it's an incredibly faithful sequel. There's also Half-a-Minds (extra health), PSI Challenge Cards and Markers (for levelling up), Nuggets of Wisdom - honestly, the list goes on. And Emotional Baggage, which must be paired with its appropriate Tag in order to gain additional XP. And Memory Vaults, which contain repressed memories you can view by smashing them open. There are Figments, colourful floating images that you'll find 100 of in each level. And there are lots of them, just like in the first game.
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