Video Game "Book" Club: Psychonauts 2

nnodley · Jan 13, 2025, 10:06 PM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jan 13, 2025, 09:38 PMwith repsect to the psi power up setup i was also baffled by it. each of the power ups has moments where you cannot proceed without it. yet i never know which ones i'm going to need next so i'm not certain what to use. and having power-ups move around all the time was confusing for me.

i ended up assigning R1/2/L2 to my three "favorite" spells and decided the only thing i'll remap is L1. Probably means i'm in the menus more often than i need to be but my small brain could deal with constant spell rotation.

yeah there was a moment in chapter 4 where you have to use pyro on a painting but I totally forgot about pyro because i didn't have it mapped. I spent like 10 minutes just spinning in circles. Then just looked it up

kitler53 · Jan 13, 2025, 11:44 PM

Quote from: nnodley on Jan 13, 2025, 10:06 PMyeah there was a moment in chapter 4 where you have to use pyro on a painting but I totally forgot about pyro because i didn't have it mapped. I spent like 10 minutes just spinning in circles. Then just looked it up

I didn't have to look it up but I had that same moment.

I think they did that poster obscuring the path thing at least 3 times now. I'm glad the have the poster cocked so that a small corner of the path is visible but it is bad design.

nnodley · Jan 14, 2025, 12:39 AM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jan 13, 2025, 11:44 PMI didn't have to look it up but I had that same moment.

I think they did that poster obscuring the path thing at least 3 times now. I'm glad the have the poster cocked so that a small corner of the path is visible but it is bad design.

If I didn't have like a 4 month gap from the last time I played the game I probably would have been fine

kitler53 · Jan 14, 2025, 04:02 AM

so I'm playing right now and it looks like the game branches into 4 directions that can be completed in any order which extends 3 weeks based on my assignments.

just an FYI.

kitler53 · Jan 14, 2025, 08:06 PM

so to add to my comment from yesterday I bolded the 4 chapters are can be done in any order based on what i looked up yesterday.

Assignment 2: Due Monday January 20

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Assignment 3: Due Monday January 27

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Assignment 4: Due Monday February 3

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maybe it's just because i organized this book club but i stuck to doing the area assigned to the current week.

not sure there is a whole lot for me to comment on this week. Turns out this section is an entirely optional area so there is pretty much no story. you can talk to some people for back story but mostly you're just looking around for collectables. it's at least a nice change from our discussion from last week about the game being very heavy handed with the tutorial and story.

kitler53 · Jan 15, 2025, 04:40 PM

okay, so one last post about this as I was pretty confused as to what was part of the game is part of what chapters. so i went ahead and just read the walk though to figure it out. here is my mostly spoiler free summary for you guys:

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