I love the lore of psychonauts. It has some real interesting stuff and cool concepts, but it also doesn't take itself seriously at the same time. Like the town of Shaky Claim (one, a great pun) It specialised in nail production, merely so Linda's battle had a reason for the abundance of them.
@@aaqka The pun is based on the phrase 'Shaky Claim' which means for something to be disputable, and to not be legally binding/ fact checkable. For a town to be on a shaky claim, it would be that their residency is disputable, like they stole the land from the native people or something similar. Hope this helps, and you have a nice day.
One thing to note is that you do actually get psychic powers from the inmates. Boyd has clairvoyance, and Edgar has the confusion bomb. In other words, the psitanium might have actually given them psychic abilities.
I know you get shielding from linda, too, and the badge was supposedly stolen from kochamara. This actually kinda makes sense since Oleander's specialty is mental shielding.
Could be fanfic fuel for the latest batch of psychonauts trainees, the thorny towers residents and how they cope with being offered a place in the psychonauts after discovering on accident when they return to the civilians lives they had before being institutionalized that they have psychic abilities Afterall it wouldn't be the first time when a civilian psychic is recruited by psychonauts as hollis can attest to
@@noisyphilosopherkrk522 I had actually thought that the last residents of Thorny Towers would've actually been brought in to the Motherlobe some time after the events of the first game, and possibly given jobs as a result while they themselves learn how to safely use their psychic abilities. Boyd Cooper would become the Motherlobe's Chief of Security. He's already well-suited for the role, and on the side, has taken his conspiracy theories and general ramblings and turned each of them into best-selling books, with his most successful being "The Milkman Conspiracy" Series. Gloria von Gouton, now retired from professional acting, has taken up a new, more "quiet" job at the Motherlobe, teaching the new recruits how to create effective disguises when performing undercover investigations. When she isn't teaching her students acting and proper disguises, she can be found enjoying Helmut Fullbear's Psychodyssey with other Psychonauts Edgar Teglee serves as a fitness coach and art teacher at Whispering Rock, but during the off-season will assist Boyd with night patrols. He's considered a gentle giant by the campers and younger Psychonauts, but isn't afraid to jump in to protect the kids as the Bull. Like Edgar, Fred Bonaparte joins Milla and Sasha as a counselor at Whispering Rock, while at the Motherlobe he can be found at the bowling alley or helping others, usually Ford Cruller
The only problem I have with the timeline of Psychonauts is that, for the most part, none of the Inmates, well maybe with the exception of Gloria, seem to be old enough to have been at at the asylum when it closed down, which according to the timeline was in 1925, about 55 years ago. They’d all have to be over 70 years old, but Boyd’s and Edgar’s mindscapes hardly match that of someone from that era… At all. Particularly Boyd’s. Not even Loboto or Shegor seem THAT old.
I 100% agree. That is the biggest issue I have seen with the timeline. the major theory I have heard is that Oleander and Lobato moved into the ruins of the original Thorney Towers and either operated it off the books or restarted it under new management. Either way this part of the history was never explained and is frustrating lol.
Some say that psitanium considerably slows down aging, but this still doesn't make sense seeing that Boyd seemed to be a former mall cop and Edgar was a high school wrestler, both of which implied they were outside the Asylum in the 80's-90's. Edgar's graying in places, sure, but it just as well might be stress and psychological trauma. Gloria and Fred seem to have been in there much longer, however.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Who to say they incarcerated in thorny towers They could've been from other other asylums and 'requisitioned' by oleander on 'official psychonauts business' I could imagine the psychonauts being intertwined with the mental healthcare system where they help with patients in their recovery via careful mental modification and use this to train agents in how to do things The asylums probably assumed oleander was going to use them to train the whispering rock campers only to discover oleander had a very different purpose in mind later One can only the legislative s***storm that ensued for both parties in order to make sure something like that didn't happen again, would explain some of miss Hollis stress in psychonauts 2, it ain't just budget cuts but the issues caused by oleanders scheme
@SuperStoryMode The problem with this is that if you attempt to set fire to anything in the near proximity of Fred, he’ll comment that everything is fireproof, as many of the inmates that used to be there were fire starters. From this comment alone, we can assume that Fred and Crispin have always been at Thorny Towers. Doesn’t confirm anything for the other inmates though.
My take on this is that the timeline as shown in the game is wrong in-universe--either by mistake, or the dates were deliberately changed to hide shady stuff, like the fact that the residents of Thorney Towers were never rescued--the town was just flooded and the remaining citizens were left stranded there. The timeline that was written was deliberately warped to make people think the asylum had been abandoned ages ago, so no one could possibly still be there.
I have found something in control that I think is worth taking a look at. Just before the mail room that has the boss fight with the floating telekinetic hiss boss, if instead of going through the doors, you go up to the next floor there is a dry erase board with a whole story written on it. At the end, it seems that Dr. Darling does not know who wrote this, but has would like for them to meet in his office. The story talks about golden helmets that take you to other worlds and things getting weird but then they get used to it, and even turn on those with the helmets. You have to aim your gun to even read it, with so much writing is so crammed into the space. It's near an audio player of a radio station.
Sometimes it feels like a test for evolution. Almost radioactive stone that either kills or improves what it is around. Like volcanic soil, mildly radioactive after an eruption, is one of the most fertile soil in the world.
Homie, I just gotta say, I loved Psychonauts. But after going through your essays and learning the deeper meanings behind so much of it, I LOVE Psychonauts.
You got it! I have heard it theorized that this is why Whispering Rock Camp was set here because it would enhance the Campers abilities, making it easier to teach them how to use it.
What actually causes psychic powers in the game? Ford Cruller mentions that Psitanium focuses and amplifies 'psychic waves,' but no further explanation is given for why some individuals (and animals) have these 'waves' while others do not. Also, no explanation is given for how these powers are expressed. My personal hypothesis: I think that psychic powers are caused by electrical impulses in the mind that are somehow released as energy (by some overdeveloped organ or mutated gene, I bet). I also think that Psitanium 'amplifies' these waves by introducing radiation or some other form of stimuli that continues to overdevelop or energize this energy-releasing ability. Loved the video! Your content really takes a deep look into some of the biggest mysteries that Psychonauts holds. Keep up the good work!
As far as I know that topic hasn't been explored in the game. Maybe in Psychonauts 2 since some of it takes place in the psychonauts headquarters. But I agree, the general idea is some people's brains have a more highly developed potential for ESP and other psychic tendencies.
From what I understood, psitanium didn't make unstable people more unstable, but that normal people would start to develop mental health problems, thus the tower to deal with the increased number of patients. It also didn't help the asylum's case it started receiving people from outside the town to treat people. In the end, the town got destroyed and the asylum abandoned. What's weird is that the asylum got closed 30+ (40 or 50... I can't remember) years before the events of psychonauts. I might have that information wrong cause that would mean the residents of the tower been there... for a long while. But yeah, if you are a person with psychic abilities, then the stone increases your aptitude.
Ford Crueller did mentioned that Psitanium makes psychics more psychic, but also made unstable people more unstable. The tree trunk in the parking lot has the timeline of events for the area. It closed in 1925 and the story takes place in 1980. Honestly this timeline of how the patients got there still confuses me.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Could the psitanium have other side effects like prolonging life? We know Boyd stayed when the other patients were taken away, Edgar was literally chained to his room and Gloria was practically buried in the ground like a plant.
It never dawned on me that Oleander's reason for being a villain in the game was because of the rock buried in the camp grounds. I mean I got the history and all that but still, way for the game's history to woosh above my head lol.
I think my favorite aspects regarding the counselors is the fact that they _do_ all have their own fair share of struggles and complexes-as nearly all adults do, no life is without trauma in some form or another. You could very easily see a plot focusing on Milla as a villain, with the psitanium amplifying her protective tendencies to a dangerous level. Or with Sasha, turning his desire to have things under control into an Orwellian scheme. However… those two have matured healthily. They turned their past struggles into a productive direction, “moved on” while not suppressing and bottling up. Oleander never found resolution with his traumatic childhood. Instead, he buried it under his machismo and warlike persona (itself a lie after his failure with the military). They all had their share of trauma, but he was the only one who had never resolved it-making him the prime victim for psitanium poisoning.
That's a good way to put it. Every single person has something they either are dealing with or have dealt with in the past. Just comes dow to how well we work through it.
It's "Whispering Rock" not "Whispering Rocks". It's named after the Psitanium meteor, the Whispering Rock, which there is only one of. You even showed a sign that show the correct name. I think you got confused by the fact it's followed by an "S" sound in the "Psychic Summer Camp" part of the name.
This series is so interesting!! It’s amazing how much lore this game has that is so easy to miss!! Btw, I think I saw you (the creator) comment somewhere that you would try to finish the series before the second game. I’d like to let you know that it’s okay if you don’t finish it before august 25! I’d rather wait a little longer and get more amazing videos, just as I’d wait for an amazing sequal to this amazing game!
I agree this game, while it is presented as a 3d collectithon platformer, is so packed full of story and ideas. I love it! And yeah after seeing the august 25th release date I doubt I'll be able to finish by then. 6 more worlds to tackle by then if we include Rhombus of Ruin.
If I correctly remember, Australium increases the intelligence of people who come into contact with it. It might have a dangerous reaction, like mixing cough medicine with alcohol.
Love your analysis on the game: gives the whole work even more depth than it did already, and I can't wait for your work on the Thorny Tower's residents. Just for curiosity: will you also take a look at Rhombus of Ruin? While short and kinda different compared to the original game and the sequel, it still offers more world building on the Psychonauts world, including talking about the concept of Psilirium (kind of a counterpoint to the Psitanium) and even explores Loboto's psyche and backstory. Just wondering. ^^
Oh I absolutely will be exploring Rhombus of Ruin. For Milla's episode I already did I referenced some of it. There are some things from this game, such as the bathtub in the brain tumbler that I didnt comment on because of how it relates to Loboto's memory vault.
Bro I've beaten the game dozens of times, completed to 100%, played since child around 2007 on xbox and years later on steam... And still in just a few minutes you just gave me huge amounts of lore that I've never stopped to think about
I could imagine that one of the founders jokingly referred to the Indians stories on the whispering rocks and psychic wildlife as shaky claims or that the place where they planed on building was likely on a cliffside area overlooking the lake and referred to the land itself as a 'shaky claim' due to how geologically unsound it was and then at the meeting on deciding the towns name one jokingly suggested 'shaky claim' and it stuck And judging from the fact the buildings are underwater either a flood occured and sunk the town or an earthquake happened and the name 'shaky claim' became as tv tropes put it 'a funny aneurysm moment' that foreshadowed the eventual fate of the town
I feel like this video could've lead into a discussion about Mass Psychosis, such as events like the Dancing Plague of 1518 or conditions like the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, as the presence of the Psytanium appears to have induced a similar event in the region prior to the game. It would've made this video just a bit more related to the subject matter of the series.
No joke I read about the dancing plague, the incident at the Lille Boarding school, and some other cases of mass hysteria when working in the channel. Not for this episode but for the Game Hammer episode of the Archivist series. It is all about mass hysteria.
And all of this lore was in the first game! It’s a darn shame Ps’nauts wasn’t a success when it first came out, but oh well. Blame the Xbox 360 releasing around Ps’nauts’ release.
If some sort of Authority (Government and Psychonauts) is very familiar with the crater area and it's history, moved people out in the past, etc., and even builds a training camp there....then how has the asylum been able to exist for all this time, and still have patients inside it? How long have they been in there?
I've always gotten the impression that it was functioning until recently. Fred was an orderly there when it was running normally. Loboto likely began running it on some capacity. But that brings in the question of how food and water is being delivered and other factors. I wish we got s timeline of when it stopped operating. Because I know it was closed but obviously it was running in some form.
@@GamingUniversityUoG but why even be there at all? Why built there in the first place, I can't imagine it helps calms the psychotic, non-psychic disturbed. The summer camp makes sense because there is a potential positive effect from the area to help with training. What possible positive and desired effect could there be for it to be there...I would think it just makes the patients more disturbed and upset.
I'm pretty sure Admiral Ford and Milla knew about it. There are multiple phrases that you can get about "something across the lake" if you stand behind them for a while. Like SpiritusC said, it was probably something to do with graduating to full Psychonaut.
I love the lore of psychonauts. It has some real interesting stuff and cool concepts, but it also doesn't take itself seriously at the same time. Like the town of Shaky Claim (one, a great pun) It specialised in nail production, merely so Linda's battle had a reason for the abundance of them.
Right?! The balance of intelligence and absurdity is unreal.
uh. whats the pun for shaky claim skdkdk
@@aaqka The pun is based on the phrase 'Shaky Claim' which means for something to be disputable, and to not be legally binding/ fact checkable.
For a town to be on a shaky claim, it would be that their residency is disputable, like they stole the land from the native people or something similar.
Hope this helps, and you have a nice day.
@@cannonballking7 OH OK TY SIDNKDDN
One thing to note is that you do actually get psychic powers from the inmates. Boyd has clairvoyance, and Edgar has the confusion bomb. In other words, the psitanium might have actually given them psychic abilities.
I know you get shielding from linda, too, and the badge was supposedly stolen from kochamara. This actually kinda makes sense since Oleander's specialty is mental shielding.
Could be fanfic fuel for the latest batch of psychonauts trainees, the thorny towers residents and how they cope with being offered a place in the psychonauts after discovering on accident when they return to the civilians lives they had before being institutionalized that they have psychic abilities
Afterall it wouldn't be the first time when a civilian psychic is recruited by psychonauts as hollis can attest to
@@noisyphilosopherkrk522 That’s actually an amazing thought. That’s going to keep my imagination going for awhile
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Your welcome friend
@@noisyphilosopherkrk522 I had actually thought that the last residents of Thorny Towers would've actually been brought in to the Motherlobe some time after the events of the first game, and possibly given jobs as a result while they themselves learn how to safely use their psychic abilities.
Boyd Cooper would become the Motherlobe's Chief of Security. He's already well-suited for the role, and on the side, has taken his conspiracy theories and general ramblings and turned each of them into best-selling books, with his most successful being "The Milkman Conspiracy" Series.
Gloria von Gouton, now retired from professional acting, has taken up a new, more "quiet" job at the Motherlobe, teaching the new recruits how to create effective disguises when performing undercover investigations. When she isn't teaching her students acting and proper disguises, she can be found enjoying Helmut Fullbear's Psychodyssey with other Psychonauts
Edgar Teglee serves as a fitness coach and art teacher at Whispering Rock, but during the off-season will assist Boyd with night patrols. He's considered a gentle giant by the campers and younger Psychonauts, but isn't afraid to jump in to protect the kids as the Bull.
Like Edgar, Fred Bonaparte joins Milla and Sasha as a counselor at Whispering Rock, while at the Motherlobe he can be found at the bowling alley or helping others, usually Ford Cruller
The only problem I have with the timeline of Psychonauts is that, for the most part, none of the Inmates, well maybe with the exception of Gloria, seem to be old enough to have been at at the asylum when it closed down, which according to the timeline was in 1925, about 55 years ago. They’d all have to be over 70 years old, but Boyd’s and Edgar’s mindscapes hardly match that of someone from that era… At all. Particularly Boyd’s. Not even Loboto or Shegor seem THAT old.
I 100% agree. That is the biggest issue I have seen with the timeline. the major theory I have heard is that Oleander and Lobato moved into the ruins of the original Thorney Towers and either operated it off the books or restarted it under new management. Either way this part of the history was never explained and is frustrating lol.
Some say that psitanium considerably slows down aging, but this still doesn't make sense seeing that Boyd seemed to be a former mall cop and Edgar was a high school wrestler, both of which implied they were outside the Asylum in the 80's-90's. Edgar's graying in places, sure, but it just as well might be stress and psychological trauma. Gloria and Fred seem to have been in there much longer, however.
@@GamingUniversityUoG
Who to say they incarcerated in thorny towers
They could've been from other other asylums and 'requisitioned' by oleander on 'official psychonauts business'
I could imagine the psychonauts being intertwined with the mental healthcare system where they help with patients in their recovery via careful mental modification and use this to train agents in how to do things
The asylums probably assumed oleander was going to use them to train the whispering rock campers only to discover oleander had a very different purpose in mind later
One can only the legislative s***storm that ensued for both parties in order to make sure something like that didn't happen again, would explain some of miss Hollis stress in psychonauts 2, it ain't just budget cuts but the issues caused by oleanders scheme
@SuperStoryMode The problem with this is that if you attempt to set fire to anything in the near proximity of Fred, he’ll comment that everything is fireproof, as many of the inmates that used to be there were fire starters.
From this comment alone, we can assume that Fred and Crispin have always been at Thorny Towers.
Doesn’t confirm anything for the other inmates though.
My take on this is that the timeline as shown in the game is wrong in-universe--either by mistake, or the dates were deliberately changed to hide shady stuff, like the fact that the residents of Thorney Towers were never rescued--the town was just flooded and the remaining citizens were left stranded there. The timeline that was written was deliberately warped to make people think the asylum had been abandoned ages ago, so no one could possibly still be there.
I have found something in control that I think is worth taking a look at. Just before the mail room that has the boss fight with the floating telekinetic hiss boss, if instead of going through the doors, you go up to the next floor there is a dry erase board with a whole story written on it. At the end, it seems that Dr. Darling does not know who wrote this, but has would like for them to meet in his office. The story talks about golden helmets that take you to other worlds and things getting weird but then they get used to it, and even turn on those with the helmets. You have to aim your gun to even read it, with so much writing is so crammed into the space. It's near an audio player of a radio station.
I love the idea of an alien object landing and changing even the animals. Very cool
Sometimes it feels like a test for evolution. Almost radioactive stone that either kills or improves what it is around. Like volcanic soil, mildly radioactive after an eruption, is one of the most fertile soil in the world.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Wait, I didn't know that about the radioactivity of volcanic soil, holy shit O_O
Homie, I just gotta say, I loved Psychonauts. But after going through your essays and learning the deeper meanings behind so much of it, I LOVE Psychonauts.
Haha glad I could help you enjoy it more! Take it easy dude
Thank you for explaining this. The extreme effects of the Psitanium went completely over my head when I first watched this game. 🧠
You got it! I have heard it theorized that this is why Whispering Rock Camp was set here because it would enhance the Campers abilities, making it easier to teach them how to use it.
What actually causes psychic powers in the game? Ford Cruller mentions that Psitanium focuses and amplifies 'psychic waves,' but no further explanation is given for why some individuals (and animals) have these 'waves' while others do not. Also, no explanation is given for how these powers are expressed.
My personal hypothesis: I think that psychic powers are caused by electrical impulses in the mind that are somehow released as energy (by some overdeveloped organ or mutated gene, I bet). I also think that Psitanium 'amplifies' these waves by introducing radiation or some other form of stimuli that continues to overdevelop or energize this energy-releasing ability.
Loved the video! Your content really takes a deep look into some of the biggest mysteries that Psychonauts holds. Keep up the good work!
As far as I know that topic hasn't been explored in the game. Maybe in Psychonauts 2 since some of it takes place in the psychonauts headquarters.
But I agree, the general idea is some people's brains have a more highly developed potential for ESP and other psychic tendencies.
The next one is going to be the level talked and memed to death.
That it will be. I'll need to take my time with it and make it unique.
@@GamingUniversityUoG so when are we going to expect you to post that video
From what I understood, psitanium didn't make unstable people more unstable, but that normal people would start to develop mental health problems, thus the tower to deal with the increased number of patients.
It also didn't help the asylum's case it started receiving people from outside the town to treat people.
In the end, the town got destroyed and the asylum abandoned.
What's weird is that the asylum got closed 30+ (40 or 50... I can't remember) years before the events of psychonauts.
I might have that information wrong cause that would mean the residents of the tower been there... for a long while.
But yeah, if you are a person with psychic abilities, then the stone increases your aptitude.
Ford Crueller did mentioned that Psitanium makes psychics more psychic, but also made unstable people more unstable. The tree trunk in the parking lot has the timeline of events for the area. It closed in 1925 and the story takes place in 1980. Honestly this timeline of how the patients got there still confuses me.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Could the psitanium have other side effects like prolonging life?
We know Boyd stayed when the other patients were taken away, Edgar was literally chained to his room and Gloria was practically buried in the ground like a plant.
It never dawned on me that Oleander's reason for being a villain in the game was because of the rock buried in the camp grounds. I mean I got the history and all that but still, way for the game's history to woosh above my head lol.
I think my favorite aspects regarding the counselors is the fact that they _do_ all have their own fair share of struggles and complexes-as nearly all adults do, no life is without trauma in some form or another. You could very easily see a plot focusing on Milla as a villain, with the psitanium amplifying her protective tendencies to a dangerous level. Or with Sasha, turning his desire to have things under control into an Orwellian scheme.
However… those two have matured healthily. They turned their past struggles into a productive direction, “moved on” while not suppressing and bottling up.
Oleander never found resolution with his traumatic childhood. Instead, he buried it under his machismo and warlike persona (itself a lie after his failure with the military). They all had their share of trauma, but he was the only one who had never resolved it-making him the prime victim for psitanium poisoning.
That's a good way to put it. Every single person has something they either are dealing with or have dealt with in the past. Just comes dow to how well we work through it.
It's "Whispering Rock" not "Whispering Rocks". It's named after the Psitanium meteor, the Whispering Rock, which there is only one of. You even showed a sign that show the correct name. I think you got confused by the fact it's followed by an "S" sound in the "Psychic Summer Camp" part of the name.
This series is so interesting!! It’s amazing how much lore this game has that is so easy to miss!! Btw, I think I saw you (the creator) comment somewhere that you would try to finish the series before the second game. I’d like to let you know that it’s okay if you don’t finish it before august 25! I’d rather wait a little longer and get more amazing videos, just as I’d wait for an amazing sequal to this amazing game!
I agree this game, while it is presented as a 3d collectithon platformer, is so packed full of story and ideas. I love it! And yeah after seeing the august 25th release date I doubt I'll be able to finish by then. 6 more worlds to tackle by then if we include Rhombus of Ruin.
I wonder what would happen if a Psitanium-Australium alloy was made
Psychic Battle Armor!
Given that every single TF2 character displays some mental abnormality or another, the result could be dire.
@@llewelynshingler2173 oh no-
If I correctly remember, Australium increases the intelligence of people who come into contact with it. It might have a dangerous reaction, like mixing cough medicine with alcohol.
Do you want a galaxy-spanning Australian Empire? Because that's how you get a galaxy-spanning Australian Empire.
I love these Psychonauts breakdown videos SO much!!!! I can't wait for the next batch!!!!
I'm really glad to hear you enjoy them! I'm actually working on the next one this week. Hope to have something out soon.
Oh boy! The milkman! I hear his milk is delicious!
That' is just what they want you to think.... but I know..... the milk ........ is a lie...
Yeah but they know that you know so you won’t want the milk
What you know about the Milkman?
Love your analysis on the game: gives the whole work even more depth than it did already, and I can't wait for your work on the Thorny Tower's residents.
Just for curiosity: will you also take a look at Rhombus of Ruin? While short and kinda different compared to the original game and the sequel, it still offers more world building on the Psychonauts world, including talking about the concept of Psilirium (kind of a counterpoint to the Psitanium) and even explores Loboto's psyche and backstory. Just wondering. ^^
Oh I absolutely will be exploring Rhombus of Ruin. For Milla's episode I already did I referenced some of it. There are some things from this game, such as the bathtub in the brain tumbler that I didnt comment on because of how it relates to Loboto's memory vault.
Bro I've beaten the game dozens of times, completed to 100%, played since child around 2007 on xbox and years later on steam... And still in just a few minutes you just gave me huge amounts of lore that I've never stopped to think about
I could imagine that one of the founders jokingly referred to the Indians stories on the whispering rocks and psychic wildlife as shaky claims or that the place where they planed on building was likely on a cliffside area overlooking the lake and referred to the land itself as a 'shaky claim' due to how geologically unsound it was and then at the meeting on deciding the towns name one jokingly suggested 'shaky claim' and it stuck
And judging from the fact the buildings are underwater either a flood occured and sunk the town or an earthquake happened and the name 'shaky claim' became as tv tropes put it 'a funny aneurysm moment' that foreshadowed the eventual fate of the town
Me: *sits back with a tall glass of milk and waits patiently* B)
But do you have any cookies to go with that milk?
@@GamingUniversityUoG Heck yeah. I'll eat my cookies, I'll drink my milk, *and then the lies... will end*
Is that milk the normal kind or the exploding dream kind?
@@danielmclatchie2053 It's fortified with what the world wants. What the world *deserves* 8D
I am the milkman, my milk is delicious
Love the videos man keep it up! 🤟
I feel like this video could've lead into a discussion about Mass Psychosis, such as events like the Dancing Plague of 1518 or conditions like the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, as the presence of the Psytanium appears to have induced a similar event in the region prior to the game. It would've made this video just a bit more related to the subject matter of the series.
No joke I read about the dancing plague, the incident at the Lille Boarding school, and some other cases of mass hysteria when working in the channel. Not for this episode but for the Game Hammer episode of the Archivist series. It is all about mass hysteria.
YUSSSS ! I'm ready for the MIIIIIILK !
Make sure your Milk and cookies are ready to go!
Do you plan to make videos on the minds in Psychonauts 2?
This series will absolutely continue into the sequel.
@@GamingUniversityUoG happy to hear that
And all of this lore was in the first game! It’s a darn shame Ps’nauts wasn’t a success when it first came out, but oh well. Blame the Xbox 360 releasing around Ps’nauts’ release.
It is really a shame because this is an absolute gem. I know that the release of the sequel definitely helped with its popularity
Psitanium kind of has that medical commercial warning "Individual results may vary"
Yep. I agree a warning label should be included. We should get with HR
Awesome video! :D
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
If some sort of Authority (Government and Psychonauts) is very familiar with the crater area and it's history, moved people out in the past, etc., and even builds a training camp there....then how has the asylum been able to exist for all this time, and still have patients inside it? How long have they been in there?
I've always gotten the impression that it was functioning until recently. Fred was an orderly there when it was running normally. Loboto likely began running it on some capacity. But that brings in the question of how food and water is being delivered and other factors. I wish we got s timeline of when it stopped operating. Because I know it was closed but obviously it was running in some form.
@@GamingUniversityUoG but why even be there at all? Why built there in the first place, I can't imagine it helps calms the psychotic, non-psychic disturbed. The summer camp makes sense because there is a potential positive effect from the area to help with training. What possible positive and desired effect could there be for it to be there...I would think it just makes the patients more disturbed and upset.
I'm pretty sure Admiral Ford and Milla knew about it. There are multiple phrases that you can get about "something across the lake" if you stand behind them for a while. Like SpiritusC said, it was probably something to do with graduating to full Psychonaut.
@SpiritusC that's just a guess and it's never referenced by them.
YEEES!! I was waiting this! Ty
You got it!
Here we GOOOO!
Haha oh yeah!
BTW, the area is just called "Whispering Rock". There is no "s" at the end.
Yep I got that after the fact. Always used to just add the S without thinking
I forgot the cougars lit you on fire
Damn those pyro Cougars
"Shaky Claim"
😂
Little on the nose huh
Watcha wanna bet that the meteor's presence on Earth is what led to the evolution of Psychic Powers in humans in the first place?
We never hear about psychic activity before this. So who knows. It's possible
I hope you get these out before psychonauts 2 there was a mess up on xbox so it will be close
In trying to push for it. I have 6 more videos planned for it currently. I hope to get then out before the sequel is released.
Good I'm currently watching your live streams
psychonauts 2 comes out on Aug. 25th.
I cannot wait!
Could you please send me the link to the song in the background music?
Might be 'Stay out of the Moonlight' if I remember correctly. The overworld night theme
Can you please add full English captions please.
Guess the sentient rat different from non-sentient stay a litte far for the metor some able evo some won't blow up