Psychonauts
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(Playstation 2 - PAL, Action & Adventure)
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BudCat
Published by:
Majesco
Released On:
21 Jun 2005
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Psychonauts is a 3D platformer where a young boy named Raz, an unusually gifted psychic, must investigate strange mind tampering at a summer camp. When Raz arrives, he discovers that someone is psychically manipulating the campers' minds, and he's the only one who can stop it. To uncover the truth, Raz projects himself into the minds of several people, navigating surreal levels based on their personalities.
The gameplay in Psychonauts features a unique blend of exploration, combat, and puzzle-solving. Raz must fight regular enemies, defeat level bosses, collect currency, and upgrade his psychic powers, including Psy Shield, Telekinesis, and Clairvoyance. The game's levels are set in the inner worlds of the campers, each reflecting their personality and influencing gameplay style.
The game's hub is the summer camp itself, where Raz can explore, interact with characters, search for secret areas and items, and access new psychic powers. With its innovative blend of exploration, combat, and puzzle-solving, Psychonauts offers a fresh take on the 3D platformer genre.
Psychonauts was released on the PlayStation 2 on November 24, 2000, and has since become a cult classic among gamers.
UPC-A:
4005209071420 (Germany)
EAN-13:
4005209072496 (United Kingdom)
Part #:
SLES-53830 (Germany)
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Media Type:
DVD-ROM
Sound Capabilities:
Dolby Digital
Number of Offline Players:
1 Player
Save Game Methods:
External Storage
Input Device Features Supported:
Vibration
Controller Types Supported:
Analog Controller
Video Modes Supported:
Progressive Scan (480p)
Miscellaneous Attributes:
Pressure/Touch Sensitive
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This action-adventure platformer follows Raz, an aspiring Psychonaut, as he explores both a physical camp and the mental worlds of its inhabitants. Players guide Raz through these environments, developing his psychic abilities and maintaining his mental health to progress and rank up.
Story
Real and Mental Worlds
There are both real and mental worlds in Psychonauts. The real world is where Raz pursues his dream of becoming a Psychonaut, exploring the camp and his surroundings. These environments help him develop his physical and psychic talents.
The mental world is the world as imagined inside the psyches of the various characters Raz encounters in the real world.
Mental Health
Maintaining adequate mental health is vital for any aspiring Psychonaut and necessary for Raz to perform his psychic skills. Initially, Raz will have three brains' worth of health. When he takes damage, the brains start to lose their cranial fluid, 1/4 brain at a time.
If Raz ever loses mental health completely, one layer of his astral projection into this mind will peel off. He will be sent back to the last checkpoint he crossed in the area, as long as he has enough astral layers left. If Raz is out of mental health and astral layers, he will be kicked out of the mind he is in and sent back to the real world.
If Raz loses all his health in the real world, he will return to a respawn point in the real world.
Recharging and Increasing Mental Health
Raz can replenish lost mental health by:
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Collecting Positive Mental Health that's found bouncing around people's minds, usually left behind by enemies or objects as they dematerialize.
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Absorbing a Dream Fluff, a condensed form of Positive Mental Health that exists in the real world.
Raz can also increase his capacity for mental health. For every mental world Raz completes, he will earn an additional brain's worth of health. He will also earn an additional 1/4-brain capacity for each stolen campmates' brain he finds and reunites with its owner. The maximum number of brains he can achieve is 18.
PSI Cadet Rank
On the road to becoming a Psychonaut, Raz will need to consistently "rank up" in order to earn new psychic abilities and purchase most items at the Main Lodge. The highest rank Raz can achieve is 100.
There are a number of ways Raz can increase his rank:
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Collect nine PSI Cards and purchase a PSI Core at the Main Lodge then redeem them all at Ford Cruller's Sanctuary.
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Find a PSI Challenge Marker.
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Collect 100 figment points.
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Find eight scavenger hunt items to get promoted four PSI Cadet Ranks. Find the remaining eight goodies to get promoted an additional four ranks.
How to Play
GETTING STARTED
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MEMORY CARD slot 2
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MEMORY CARD slot 1
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disc tray
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RESET button
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OPEN button
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USB connector
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controller port 1
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controller port 2
Note
Illustration may not match all PlayStation 2 console types. For owners of SCPH-70000 series PlayStation 2 systems, refer to the setup instructions supplied with your system.
Set up your PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system according to the instructions in its Instruction Manual. Make sure the MAIN POWER switch (located on the back of the console) is turned ON.
Press the RESET button. When the power indicator lights up, press the OPEN button and the disc tray will open. Place the Psychonauts disc on the disc tray with the label side facing up. Press the OPEN button again and the disc tray will close.
Attach game controllers and other peripherals, as appropriate. Follow on-screen instructions and refer to this manual for information on using the software.
Memory Card (8MB) (for PlayStation®2)
To save game settings and progress, insert a memory card (8MB) (for PlayStation®2) into MEMORY CARD slot 1 of your PlayStation®2 system.
You can load saved game data from the same memory card or any memory card (8MB) (for PlayStation®2) containing previously saved games.
STARTING UP
DUALSHOCK 2 ANALOG CONTROLLER CONFIGURATIONS
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L2 button
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L1 button
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directional buttons
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R2 button
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R1 button
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Δ button
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left analog stick (L3 button when pushed down)
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O button
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SELECT button
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X button
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ANALOG mode button
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□ button
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START button
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right analog stick (R3 button when pushed down)
MAIN MENU
Choose from the following at the Main Menu:
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New: Start a new adventure. Raz picks a bunk then designates his camp nickname. You will also choose default camera controls during set up. Once you make these choices, your profile is complete.
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Continue: Loads the profile/game/bunk name most recently played.
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Load: Load a saved game from your bunk in the bunkhouse.
HEADS UP DISPLAY
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Mental Health
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PSI Cadet Rank
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Astral Layers
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Figments
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Arrowheads
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PSI Cards
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Player Assigned Hot Buttons
Mental Health
Indicates Raz's available mental health. See Recharging and Increasing Mental Health on page 9.
Astral Layers
Shows available astral layers. When these run out, Raz is booted from the mental world back into the real world. See Mental World Items on page 18.
Figments of Imagination
Indicates total number of figments collected within the current area. Collect 100 figment points to upgrade Raz's PSI Cadet Rank. See Mental World Items on page 18.
PSI Cadet Rank
Shows your current PSI Cadet Rank. The highest rank Raz can achieve is 100. See PSI Cadet Rank on page 9.
Arrowheads
Tallies number of collected arrowheads. See Collectibles on page 17.
PSI Cards
Tallies number of collected PSI cards. See Real World Items on page 18.
Player Assigned Hot Buttons
You can customize the R1, R2 and L2 buttons by assigning to them the PSI Powers you use most frequently.
Press on the directional button to bring up the PSI Power menu, highlight a Power using the left analog stick, then press the button you want that power mapped to.
The Heads Up Display will automatically appear once any of the items on it are affected by gameplay. However, you can also bring it up at any point by pressing down on the left analog stick.
RAZ'S BACKPACK
Raz has room for sixteen different items in his backpack. To access his backpack, press [button icon].
To toggle between his Backpack Inventory and Power Menu, press [button icon] or [button icon] on the directional button. To toggle within each menu, rotate either the right or the left analog stick in the desired direction, then press the [button icon] button to select the backpack item for Raz to use.
Note
Some of the items in Raz's backpack can be used in both worlds; some may only work in one. Some real world items may not be available to Raz when he's in the mental world.
JOURNAL
The Journal Raz carries with him throughout the game is a valuable tool. There are six different tabs in the Journal including the main tab.
Choose from Options, Load, Save, Credits and Exit.
OPTIONS MENU
CAMERA
Allows you to invert the game camera's horizontal view, vertical view and first-person vertical view. The default selections are based on the initial profile choices you designated at the start of the game.
SOUND
Adjust volumes via a slider bar for Master, FX, Music and Voice. The default level for each is 100%. You can also designate whether subtitles appear during play (they will not appear by default).
CONTROLLER
Select "N" to turn vibration off. The default is on.
LOAD
Select to load a previously saved game from the bunk originally selected.
SAVE
Select to save the current game file. Psychonauts will also auto-save at key checkpoints in the game and at every loading screen.
CREDITS
Select to view the credits for Psychonauts
Controls
left directional button
PSI Power Menu
right directional button
Inventory Menu
left/right directional button
Change Pages or Inventories in Journal and Backpack
A button
Target Lock/Camera Adjust/PSI Float
X button
Primary PSI Power (player assigned)
Y button
Player Assigned PSI Power
B button
Player Assigned PSI Power
Back button
Open Thought Bubble
Start button
Open Journal
Black button
Interact
White button
Return Item to Backpack/Cancel/Exit
Left Analog Stick
Move Raz
Right Analog Stick
Control Camera
Press the X button then the A button
Palm Bomb
Enemies & Characters
Razputin™ (Raz)
Born with psychic powers but forbidden to use them by his strict father, Raz ran away from home to train to be an international psychic secret agent, a Psychonaut.
Coach Morceau "Morry" Oleander
The camp's Head Coach, he believes the mind is a muscle meant to be exercised and aims to toughen up young minds into fighting machines.
Lili Zanotto
Having passed every psychic test and won every Merit Badge, she was over camp until Raz arrived, now caught up in his excitement and a mystery.
Ford Cruller
Janitor, Admiral, Ranger, Chef, and more, Ford is the man behind the scenes at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, keeping it running smoothly and seemingly being everywhere at once.
Sasha Nein
A world-famous super agent, the cold and logical Sasha strives to uncover the mysteries of the human psyche through science, unaware of his celebrity status among kids like Raz.
Censors
An important part of any sane person's mind, these roam psyches, stamping out thoughts that don't belong, and will not rest until Raz, as a foreign body, is stamped out.
Milla Vodello
The Mental Minx, an international secret agent and Brazilian levitation instructor, she loves working with children and teaches them how to use their thoughts to fly, float, and keep bouncing.
Shouting Censors
These censors are bigger and smarter than normal ones, able to fire a deadly blast of "NO!" from far away, requiring Raz to master Mental Focus Lock to defeat them.
Strongarm Censors
Much tougher than average censors, if you see one, you should just run or hide, as they are extremely dangerous.
Personal Demons
Though small, these must be dealt with by PSI Blasting them into oblivion before they get too close and explode, taking out everyone around them, mostly you.
Hand of Galochio
This evil claw of water is a phenomenon only Raz and his family can see, a curse from a rival circus family that causes Raz to be gripped with fear and sometimes paralyzed when near deep water.
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