Thing I like the most about this is that Ford doesn’t dismiss Raz’s anger. He essentially tells Raz that he has every reason to be angry but it needs to be dealt with at a safer time
@@quinnholloway5400 Which honestly... it was. Maligula was a secondary... not even personality... from Lucrezia. It was just her anger, rage and sadness amplified by wartime when her mental defenses were just... non-existent. It really didn't help that the leaders of her birth nation were... well... dictators is an understatement.
@@christopherkidwell9817 A fight or flight instinct that was stuck on a practically permanent "fight" mode, meaning anything or anyone she might see as an obstacle, no matter how minor, would be fought with no mercy.
@@pphead9960 Yes, the build up was awesome and tense. And I love how Raz reacts through the whole thing, going from surprised to unsure to frustrated to terrified.
I think they flubbed it a little honestly. The moment was great, but the delivery was eh, and it was an easy fix. Ford says "No, Raz, she didn't." Without much of a pause. So next, it should be "No, Raz...you didn't." With a longer pause, instead of just "No, you didn't."
@@JmdMagic Nah, IMO, David Kaye’s (same VA for Clank) delivery works here. He‘s somber, but confident that what he believes is true compared to what Raz believes.
This is that rarest of things, a "your mentor has a dark, personal secret." twist done in a satisfying way that doesn't totally blow away previous characterization for the sake of drama.
It’s entirely believable, it also feels earned in a way, I don’t know how much was plotted at first (check the totem poles all they way back in the first game) but it works so well
Yeah, lot of media just kinda ruin the dark secret bit by making said mentor turn out to be completely evil, or have been doing what they do in order to maintain their secret and nothing else.
The reason why this works compared to others like say Professor X is because of two reasons. 1) Ford had no properly established backstory until this game. He had rumors and murmurs about who he was and what his role was in the context of the world, but we didn't get an origin to define who he was as a character until it was nessesary to the story. And 2) We only understood who Ford Cruller was through Rasputin's perspective. The game is designed where we only learn about things from Raz's point of view, it's an effective way of revealing twists in a character because Rasputin is like an unreliable narrator. Raz is a child, all he knows and understands is what he sees and reads in media. True Psychic Tales is proof of this and is constantly mentioned by Raz, there's a narrative reason for this, its affected his perception of what he understands to be fact. He dreams of becoming a super secret agent Psychonaut like his idols, but is too immature to understand that what he thinks as fact is basically propaganda.
@@ianmaluk1 And there are very realistic consequences of this revelation. Raz still cares for Ford, even loves Ford like a grandfather, but he is absolutely still uncomfortable about the whole situation and it's shaken his faith in the Psychonauts. It was a happy ending but not a clean one. Notice how he can't really refute Malik's instance that he won't be given a trial and that this thing between the two of them isn't over, a cynical thought Raz'd never admit to having about his heroes before. Professor X is a great example of a pretty good idea that got overused to the point where the character was unrecognizable, especially after the one two punch of Deadly Genesis and Astonishing. It's something I fear we'll never see resolved with the changes to Hickman's x-man run, he's just kind of stuck with his Ultimate characterization as a hypocritical monster.
@@drbeard4505 I think the underlying reason why it didn't work for Professor X is because, from the beginning he was written as a noble hero who had a defined character and ideology. He was originally written as a man who wanted to help those who were and weren't like him, because he believed it was his duty. When other writers like Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis and Ed Brubaker went down the hackneyed story route of deconstruction. It doesn't work for established characters with an identity that readers already understand, because it fundamentally breaks the character and ruins every aspect of them that people enjoy. But I honestly blame Watchmen for this mess. If Alan Moore had finished the original idea of his initial story or if the comic never got as popular as it did, maybe we wouldn't have this constant identity crisis with hero stories. As you see it everywhere in comics now. With comic book writers shamelessly trying to copy what the Watchmen did and project it onto established characters and properties, but its completely failed and all its done is ruin what attracted people to them in the first place.
Besides the epic reveal, what I love is how Ford tackles Raz. That was a full-speed, whole body clothesline tackle. That was a serious NFL-tier "This man must go down and not get back up again" tackle.
said this in another video, but i think this also explains why ford gave raz such special treatment during the first game, compared to the other campers (besides illy) cause of the guilt he felt for what he did to raz's family
@Swamp Expert Extraordinaire woah, really? That sounds really interesting, is there a way to watch it anywhere or is it just forever stuck as backer exlusive?
4:38 ill never get over this scene. the way he cuts into "someday when you fall in love you'll understand." then he just plonks his head back down and flings back into the pins. the strike. the strike jingle. what a masterpiece
I’m surprised the game didn’t have Raz freak out to his family immediately after hearing Ford out. He stopped himself and focused on helping Ford. That’s pretty mature of him!
Yeah rather than actually pretty mature I think that's been kind of a thing throughout both of the games he's basically just a giant nerd for Psychonauts
It could be argued that he was influenced by his own major mistake the way Hollis was. That he understood the drive of recognizing what you did wrong and being willing to do anything to make it right again.
@@mathewhaight Since Microsoft owns double fine now, it is less about it selling massive amounts of units itself and more about it getting good critical acclaim and people playing it in general, be it that they buy it or play it through Game Pass.
Man this was a really intense and dramatic scene. Raz finds out about a dark truth and his immediate response is to get his family away from what is basically a dangerous ticking timebomb. Raz really does care about his family. He also rightfully gets mad at Ford at what he did and Ford doesn't deny what he did and fully acknowledged what he did wasn't ok. I also like that both characters are aware that there's a serious situation on their hands that needs tending to and that they will deal with it first before dealing with the other issues.
3:00 Didnt notice this on my playthrough, but the thing following Raz is the comb of a music box and the tombstones are the pins on the drum, which is represented by the curved map.
@@liammccbyrne4184 I’m actually a little annoyed because I think I can’t get all the figments. I’m missing a single one out of all the levels and I’m pretty sure it’s in the pachinko machine in the casino level.
@@pphead9960 That sucks its an easy problem they could have solved by leaving an npc that let's you play the machine again. Figments are a pain in general especially when your missing just the last few with no indication where to even start looking. I'm having that problem in Helmut's brain but with all the crazy colours and random stuff everywhere I end up getting a headache and have to quit.
As a 90s gamer, I feel like this has to be a place where cheat codes can be entered, like in Banjo Kazooie. I spent too long knowing the answer was Lucy, but entering in random shit as well looking to elicit a response. Something tells me that Tim Schafer being an old school dev would have placed in an Easter egg here as well.
3:10 I was confused about what this thing was supposed to be and just realized it's the keys of a music box, being played by the gravestones. That's really cool.
Yup, and also said Aunt was the notorious Maligula that killed so many people to begin with, and who enabled Raz to go and become a Psychonaut. O and she happened to be dating his mentor.
No one I've seen in the comments is mentioning this, but when Ford says "They could kill her!" Raz DOESN'T STOP WALKING, he only stops when Ford points out it could bring Maligula back. Raz was ready and willing to have Lucy killed via his actions for a second there.
this is reaching SO MUCH lmao, raz is ten and has never wished harm on anyone. he was just mad enough to not want to listen to ford at that moment. don't try and make it edgy lmaooo
One nice thing I like about his explanation is that when he talked about messing with their psyches Raz says, "That doesn't sound safe." Ford tells Raz the standard excuse of 'It was a different time' before affirming that Raz is correct in his assumption. Showing that Ford has grown from where he was back then.
A lot of new science is unsafe. Just look at the apollo missions. Today we have the benefit of hindsight and new technology, but exploring new horizons always carries risks. At the very least, the compound kept them as safe as one could hope for. Provided they didn't leave. Which unfortunately, Lucy did.
Innovation requires exploration, and exploration always comes with risk. The real problem is figuring out how to manage those risks. Even today scientists are experimenting with progressively denser molecules that, with one wrong move could end in a black hole swallowing us all in the matter of mere hours. it just... comes with the terriotry of pushing boundaries.
One small detail I didn't notice until a rewatch of this scene is that during the bit directly after the reveal where Raz is running facing the camera he wipes a tear from his eye. That shit BROKE ME when I noticed it, I feel so so bad for him
I took one look at Nona and went "okay my grandma is Maligula. That's very clearly her," and went through the story bracing myself for a disappointing reveal, but the way the game played on those expectations by going "okay yes, that IS Maligula, buuuuuuuuuuuuuut..." absolutely floored me. This game's narrative was incredibly well constructed, from this twist, to the fact that there was still plenty more game to play through afterward, to the final reveal at the very end that, in hindsight, was wonderfully built up to. The kind of twist that almost seems obvious when you look back at all the conspicuous hints that they managed to sneak past us by presenting them as jokes. I'm so happy this game got to be everything that fans wanted from it.
I sorta had that with Truman Zanotto and the search for the mole. When it turned out he'd been faking his sleep until Lili ran off, Lili kept talking about how there's something wrong and dark about her father's mind, and he asked Rasputin to fix Ford, I knew HE was the mole. But I didn't know the "why". I did not expect the twist that followed at all.
@@apieceoftoast768Funnily enough I realized it at the same time you did in regards to Truman being the mole, because he said to "fix" Cruller right after Hollis told us we aren't here to "fix" people. I didn't expect Maligula to be Nona though, that one caught me my surprise.
I completely understand why Ford did what he did. He couldn't kill her, I mean how could he. He knew it was best to try and bury Maligula as deeply as he could into her mind.
Apart of me thinks this works well thanks to the fact that the first thing Raz does as a intern is unintentionally fuck with someones brain and that being his first lesson there about, well, not doing that.
Oh my god you’re right it’s like Hollis’s level but on steroids, and the fact that they have literally been foreshadowing this the entire game - and even since the first - shows how dedicated and smart the team behind this is. God I love Psychonauts
Not just that. Hollis having done exactly that and getting a second chance, and then going on to be such a good teacher, foreshadows both Ford having done it too (if one Psychonaut did it, why not another?), and shows Raz that he doesn't need to let one mistake ruin him for life (which lets him see that Ford _did_ let his one mistake ruin him for life). It works on so many levels.
I loved this game so much. I'm just disappointed by how little the psychonauts valued Raz's actions. He basically restored the minds of the legendary psychic 6 and technically was the only who could have beaten maligula since Nona had a direct connection with him. I really thought he was going to be an honorary psy 6 tbh.
You kinda have to keep in mind that making him such would likely draw a ton of attention, and that is something they do not want as Maligula being still alive, repaired or not, could have some dire consequences for the psychonauts, the psychic six, the aquattos and Raz. They probably can't do much more than what they've already done to reward him, besides also continuing to train him. Simply put, making him an honorary psychic six member would draw WAY too much attention imo, especially some pointed questions as to how he went from a no-one to a position that powerful, honorary or not, in the space of just, what, a week or two?
Hes a 10yo still in psyconaut cadet training. Legally they can't award him with much due to his age, if he was 18 they might have been able to, and the fact that by making him an honorary psy 6 (which i doubt they can since the psy 6 seems to be the tittle for the psyconaut founders) would draw attention to his psychic capabilities and even his family's. This would lead in turn people wanting to abduct and use Rasputin or any of his siblings with psychic talent, possibly creating a magula 2.0.
I’m just gonna go ahead and leave a comment saying that I completely agree. Especially when all the other interns achieved the same rank as him. He’s practically a child prodigy and they should have treated him as such. Being mad talented and mentored by experts who still have the upper hand on him just because of life experience would’ve been great characterization.
I mean, I realized the "Lucy is Maligula" twist when she was first introduced, and I had a little hunch she was also Nona, but I never guessed she was actually not Raz's grandma!
@@rosykindbunny1313 What I don't get is how Raz found out she was her great-aunt instead of some random stranger. There was nothing that said they were sisters before he first mentions "great aunt".
100% Love this game! It gets so dark, and the way parts like those are introduced is so perfect. Plus it really tugs at your heart when you piece together Maligula and Fords whole story.
This storyline is great - mostly because you start by learning that Maligula was this unstoppable force that caused atrocities, then discovered that she was manipulated by her government to become a killing machine. You can see this exemplified at the end when Maligula is talking about her sister and how she killed her, then immediately dismisses it like "eh, I've killed tons of people, big deal". What Ford did was indeed a terrible thing, but I think he was probably the only person who genuinely understood that Maligula wasn't actually Lucy - it was a part of her she just couldn't control, and that part took over. The story has a good number of layers, and is probably one of the only stories in a video game that I legitimately enjoyed, through and through. I also agree that it was nice that the game allowed Raz to remain upset at Ford for what he did, and didn't just immediately dismiss it like "oh well, it's Ford, he can do no wrong". Even post-game, you can talk with some other characters and they still harbor resentment for what happened, but understand that can't change the past, and they need to work for a better tomorrow for their relationships, and selves. The only nitpick I have is that the ending of Psychonauts 1 doesn't gel with Augustus's very basic knowledge of psychic powers in this game. The first game made it seem like he had these amazing, latent psychic powers, and understood how to use them, but in this game, he's astonished he can make a pinecone start smoking. Probably had to do that to kind of justify his existence in the first game. A bit sloppy, but meh. I'm willing to write it off.
I really like the fact that the developers specifically chose Ford's shenanigans with Maligula to have happened 20 years ago in-universe. The same amount of time that was between the releases of Psychonauts 1 & 2. It especially gives the scene of Raz running back to her family's camp a sort of meta weight without taking a dump on the actual scenario. I like to imagine Raz as the fans of Psychonauts 1 and Ford as Tim Schafer, having an emotion-filled conversation over how Tim has been hiding a massive plotpoint that would turn everything upside down for 20 years. A plot point that while the biggest of them all, wouldn't even be the only one.
0:19 “Lucy is dead. She is never coming back.” That line is so tragic. Edit: I stumbled upon this clip before I knew the context, i thought it was someone bluntly telling him that person who actually died is never coming back.
Psychonauts is one of those games that I've played and re-played and re-re-played over and over and over again. It's a comfort game of mine. I'm never going to be able to play that game without looking at that one tutorial scene at the beginning, with Ford entering Raz's mind while he's sleeping to give him the tutorial, again. I'm gonna look at that and just be like '...Son of a....You KNEW. This whole time, you KNEW. You KNEW who this kid was...' And. I. LOVE. that.
I think this is one of the best bits of the game and a really nice twist. Raz discovers a dark truth about his family and Ford and he's a immediate response is to get his family safety and away from a what is basically a Pandora's Box fixing to blow. Raz also rightfully gets mad at Ford for what he did and Ford doesn't deny what he did was wrong and admits that Raz has a right to be mad. At the end they both realize they need to focus on the current crisis and then they'll work out their issues later.
So, let's do a little thought experiment. Would things be better if Ford hadn't tried to hide Lucy as Nona? First off, Ford probably keeps his mind. Or he might've used the Astrolathe to make himself forget Lucy anyway so we might still have a broken Agent Cruller. Augustus wouldn't have had his "mother" growing up. The Aquatos might still fear/distrust psychics because Augustus still remembers how his aunt killed his parents (but maybe not have the curse hanging over their heads, who knows?). Raz doesn't get the pamphlet for Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp from Nona, because well she's not around (dead or imprisoned). So, he stays with the Family Circus, possibly getting accustomed to hiding his powers and feeling ashamed for them. Raz doesn't stop Couch Oleander from trying to take over the world. Lili and Raz don't meet. The only really positive outcomes I could see in this alternate story is IF Ford kept his mind in tact, he and the rest of the Psychic Six would've worked with Helmut's brain to find his body and reunite him with Bob. Bob wouldn't have been fired from his nephew. Cassie wouldn't have left. Compton wouldn't spend all his time in psycho-isolation. and Otto... stays Otto. Compared to what did happen because of Ford's meddling, I think he made the right call in the end.
Say anything about game pacing and design, but Tim Schafer writes excellent twists. And those character designs are so unique, they alone basically made me play the original game.
It shows how much the choice he made long ago did put alot of weight onto him over the years. He did loved Lucy and he knew the world wasn't going to forgive her due to her actions since whatever war she went through herself trying to defend her family really did mess her mind.
Fun rambling time on the ingenuity of how this affects everything. Ford saving Lucy was what he believed to be the best option at the time. It did have some good, such as giving Augustus a new family by taking him from the orphanage and reuniting him with the only family he had left and also providing a future where Lucy could one day bring Maligula fully back under control. There’s a pretty decent amount of unintentional bads that followed because of it, though. The Aquatos used to do water tricks as part of their act (learned by talking to Donatella post-game) that they were no longer able to do thanks to the "curse", which hindered the circus's most unique trait. The "curse" also meant that in the off chance another hydrokinetic psychic *_was_* born to the Aquato line, they'd be tormented by their own power, which is exactly the situation Raz landed himself in. Arguably the worst unintentional consequence, bare minimum two game's core events wouldn't have happened the way they did had Lucy been killed in the fight like many were led to believe. While I can't say too heavily how much Psychonauts 1 would've been affected by Lucy's death, Rhombus of Ruin only happens because Gristol hired Lobotto to kidnap Truman for the mindswap, and he only does this to infiltrate the Psychonauts because he needed easy access to Maligula and wanted to destroy the organization for his perceived sleight against his royal status in Grulovia. And obviously Psychonauts 2 revolves entirely around this plot. Oleander might've still tried to take campers' brains to use for tanks, but Truman would likely have never been kidnapped and Psychonauts 2's core plot wouldn't have really been a thing had the Maligula fight actually gone down the way everyone thought it did. It's really neat to be able to see cascading consequences, both good and bad, in an enjoyable way like this.
I am so relieved that the game was so worth the wait. I was pretty concerned with how it would come out since a lot of these new games have been pretty bad. Good ol’e double fine
There is a 0% chance that they did not drop insane amounts of acid. Plus, they had a guy who could talk to plants, so they could easily get the best magic mushrooms just by asking the shrooms themselves.
@@Rhino1004 Fun Fact: In real life, the term "psychonautics" refers to the act of purposefully entering an altered state of consciousness in order to explore and document the resulting experiences in hopes of better understanding the nature of one's mind.
I figured it was going to be one of two things: 1. A composite projection of a bunch of Maligula's Delugionist followers made into a single psychic entity, or 2. Maligula had managed to project her psyche before her death into someone else's body and was doing the "mental parasite" immortality loophole, jumping bodies to avoid being caught and stay alive forever
I was already hooked on the game from the moment I started it but I this *really* hooked me to the point to where I didn't want to stop playing and I needed to know what happened next. Never felt such emotion in my life
6:28 this was the moment the pieces started falling into place for me. All up to this point the dread of the reveal was building, but only here did it start to click.
@@spongeintheshoe the only importance is that she is the sister of someone. The point is that there is no mention of her grandma being important for any other reason throughout her whole life
@@buster5661 Why would she? She died twenty years ago and Raz is ten. The real grandma isn't important to him, Hell most of the kids stick to calling Nona their grandma. The Dad is the one really affected by it.
That's the thing, though- Ford _isn't_ sorry. The post-game makes it clear he's planning to pick up where he left off with the Astralathe experiments, and Raz doesn't even get the option to call it a bad idea.
I feel sorry for Raz for discovering the horrific truth that his great-aunt, who is a Maligula, killed his grandma. Ford didn't mean to lie to Raz, he only did it to protect him, including Lucrecia.🙁
Okay I just finished this game (completely slipped under the radar for me until I saw it in Game Pass by chance) and I gotta do this little squee rant This game has been everything I ever wanted / imagined for a sequel, and I mean that quite literally 😂😂😂 Years ago I legit drafted a fan fiction where Ford had an old romantic interest that happened to be an Aquato-Galochio (through a previous marriage) and inadvertently caused the curse - I never wrote it because this character was such a blatant Mary Sue like she even had a kid that she had lost on a mission and it broke her mind and because of some old enemy coming back that she had supposedly killed, Ford sends in Raz to fix her mind and Raz has to basically glue the broken pieces together with all the mental cobwebs he’s ever collected 🤣 So I kinda saw it coming / hoped the twist would go that way and I’m so happy that it did 😂 Feels like I now have closure and a part of my life is now complete 🥰 Fantastic job on Schafer and his team’s part! They delivered yet another work of art! ❤️
What I love about this is it avoids a pitfall Psychonauts 1 fell into, if you managed to guess that Oleander was the main villain, there was no twist, sure, you could find all the imagery with bunnies and butcher knives that foreshadow the Meat Circus, but if you figured out Oleander was the main villain from Basic Braining, there was no twist, though it's fine because the minds you go into are interesting enough to explore that the overarching story not being the most well-developed is fine, I honestly forgot about Oleander and Loboto a lot during my first playthrough because I was so invested in the asylum patients Here, Lucy being Maligula was obvious, and on top of that, it's perfectly reasonable to guess Nona is Maligula purely from their visual similarities, but even if you guessed that, the twist still works because of the fact that the game hides the How and Why, you know the What, the Who, the When, and even the Where, but How and Why this happened is well-hidden so even if you guess it, you're still knocked down by what Ford did, an amazing improvement over Psychonauts 1
In fact it is, idk why there is a lack of musical composition in most cutscenes that would usually compensate the lack of sound in a intense or agitated moment, but the game itself is great.
it was very subtle. Ford mentions that "She's with family" at 6:30. It didn't immediately occur to me that Lucy would be Raz's great-aunt at first. Not until I actually analyzed it and thought about it. I mean as sisters, they should look relatively the same. Another route they could've take is making Lucy something like Raz's first cousin twice removed (i.e. Raz's mother's cousin). What bothers me though is that there was no mention of Raz's grandmother having a sibling.
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Thing I like the most about this is that Ford doesn’t dismiss Raz’s anger. He essentially tells Raz that he has every reason to be angry but it needs to be dealt with at a safer time
Ford knows he fucked up
And he regrets what he did
He just thought it was the best thing he could do at the time
Like Dumbledore deal with Harry anger when Sirius die
The brain does not think when angry enough tbh
@@quinnholloway5400 Which honestly... it was. Maligula was a secondary... not even personality... from Lucrezia. It was just her anger, rage and sadness amplified by wartime when her mental defenses were just... non-existent.
It really didn't help that the leaders of her birth nation were... well... dictators is an understatement.
@@christopherkidwell9817 A fight or flight instinct that was stuck on a practically permanent "fight" mode, meaning anything or anyone she might see as an obstacle, no matter how minor, would be fought with no mercy.
"No, she didn't."
"No, you didn't."
Those two lines hit me harder than the reveal itself.
Bro this entire build up was so fucking good. I’m so glad the game wasn’t a disappointment
@@pphead9960 Yes, the build up was awesome and tense. And I love how Raz reacts through the whole thing, going from surprised to unsure to frustrated to terrified.
I think they flubbed it a little honestly. The moment was great, but the delivery was eh, and it was an easy fix. Ford says "No, Raz, she didn't." Without much of a pause. So next, it should be "No, Raz...you didn't." With a longer pause, instead of just "No, you didn't."
@@JmdMagic Nah, IMO, David Kaye’s (same VA for Clank) delivery works here. He‘s somber, but confident that what he believes is true compared to what Raz believes.
that was the moment i figured out what was going and what he was implying, it was such a good reveal
This is that rarest of things, a "your mentor has a dark, personal secret." twist done in a satisfying way that doesn't totally blow away previous characterization for the sake of drama.
It’s entirely believable, it also feels earned in a way, I don’t know how much was plotted at first (check the totem poles all they way back in the first game) but it works so well
Yeah, lot of media just kinda ruin the dark secret bit by making said mentor turn out to be completely evil, or have been doing what they do in order to maintain their secret and nothing else.
The reason why this works compared to others like say Professor X is because of two reasons. 1) Ford had no properly established backstory until this game. He had rumors and murmurs about who he was and what his role was in the context of the world, but we didn't get an origin to define who he was as a character until it was nessesary to the story. And 2) We only understood who Ford Cruller was through Rasputin's perspective. The game is designed where we only learn about things from Raz's point of view, it's an effective way of revealing twists in a character because Rasputin is like an unreliable narrator. Raz is a child, all he knows and understands is what he sees and reads in media. True Psychic Tales is proof of this and is constantly mentioned by Raz, there's a narrative reason for this, its affected his perception of what he understands to be fact. He dreams of becoming a super secret agent Psychonaut like his idols, but is too immature to understand that what he thinks as fact is basically propaganda.
@@ianmaluk1 And there are very realistic consequences of this revelation. Raz still cares for Ford, even loves Ford like a grandfather, but he is absolutely still uncomfortable about the whole situation and it's shaken his faith in the Psychonauts. It was a happy ending but not a clean one. Notice how he can't really refute Malik's instance that he won't be given a trial and that this thing between the two of them isn't over, a cynical thought Raz'd never admit to having about his heroes before.
Professor X is a great example of a pretty good idea that got overused to the point where the character was unrecognizable, especially after the one two punch of Deadly Genesis and Astonishing. It's something I fear we'll never see resolved with the changes to Hickman's x-man run, he's just kind of stuck with his Ultimate characterization as a hypocritical monster.
@@drbeard4505 I think the underlying reason why it didn't work for Professor X is because, from the beginning he was written as a noble hero who had a defined character and ideology. He was originally written as a man who wanted to help those who were and weren't like him, because he believed it was his duty. When other writers like Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis and Ed Brubaker went down the hackneyed story route of
deconstruction. It doesn't work for established characters with an identity that readers already understand, because it fundamentally breaks the character and ruins every aspect of them that people enjoy.
But I honestly blame Watchmen for this mess. If Alan Moore had finished the original idea of his initial story or if the comic never got as popular as it did, maybe we wouldn't have this constant identity crisis with hero stories. As you see it everywhere in comics now. With comic book writers shamelessly trying to copy what the Watchmen did and project it onto established characters and properties, but its completely failed and all its done is ruin what attracted people to them in the first place.
Besides the epic reveal, what I love is how Ford tackles Raz. That was a full-speed, whole body clothesline tackle. That was a serious NFL-tier "This man must go down and not get back up again" tackle.
And despite this absolute CHAD destructively, sidelining this kid, Razputin still got up after this full body, crushing tackle.
@@featherweight1745 Raz's parents did teach him and his siblings how to take a fall when they were just babies, so it makes sense he can take a hit.
I mean, despite being a withered old man, Raz IS still a 10 year old
bro he DOVE on a child at like, 90. imagine if he had physical strength
Agreed
said this in another video, but i think this also explains why ford gave raz such special treatment during the first game, compared to the other campers (besides illy) cause of the guilt he felt for what he did to raz's family
But his psyche was still shattered in the first game- he wouldn’t have remembered, right?
No in the first game he was sane only when he was near psitanium
@@theonegoldengryphon You can still feel something is wrong/right without remembering specifics.
@@christopherkidwell9817 the second game even proves this with lucrecia being somewhat aware that the identity ford put in her mind wasnt real.
@Swamp Expert Extraordinaire woah, really? That sounds really interesting, is there a way to watch it anywhere or is it just forever stuck as backer exlusive?
"No Raz, she didn't". Holy crap that moment of realization brought me chills
That part in the game made me go "Excuse me, _what?"_
That was definitely a what a twist moment
4:38 ill never get over this scene. the way he cuts into "someday when you fall in love you'll understand." then he just plonks his head back down and flings back into the pins. the strike. the strike jingle. what a masterpiece
even funnier to me is that that jingle is used for leveling up in an mmo called everquest i played growing up. fun reference, if it is one
Put it on 1.5x and it’s even funnier
Props for managing to actually make the scene somber and unnerving despite all that too.
Raz: um... about that..
Ford: hmm?
Raz: I actually am in love with someone its-
Ford: Lili? I know. Just don't break your heart is all I'll say
Bonk
I’m surprised the game didn’t have Raz freak out to his family immediately after hearing Ford out.
He stopped himself and focused on helping Ford. That’s pretty mature of him!
Plus he’s read what maligula did. He loves his family too much to have them killed.
Yeah rather than actually pretty mature I think that's been kind of a thing throughout both of the games he's basically just a giant nerd for Psychonauts
He was actually totally going to do that but ford stopped him and talked some sense into him.
It could be argued that he was influenced by his own major mistake the way Hollis was. That he understood the drive of recognizing what you did wrong and being willing to do anything to make it right again.
@@johanneshjortshj8646 I mean it’s heavily implied in his dialogue if you can read between the lines or you get all the vaults.
13:34 “I’m not gonna lie Raz we did a LOT of LSD here”
😄
“It was an age of exploration.”
He meant so say it was the 70s.
The fact that there exists concept art of Otto smoking psytanium makes this so much better.
Oh gosh, now I can't help but imagine them doing lines of powder psitanium
Bro this fucking killed me 😂
I cannot believe how good this game turned out. You wait so long for something and you never know if I'll actually be worth it.
Tim Schafer actually did it. The mad lad actually did it!
@@AlexSchmid-TheAceofSpades Now it just needs to actually sell and not fall into a classic status like every other game he's made.
@@mathewhaight Since Microsoft owns double fine now, it is less about it selling massive amounts of units itself and more about it getting good critical acclaim and people playing it in general, be it that they buy it or play it through Game Pass.
@@AlexSchmid-TheAceofSpades "I'm the milk MN, my milk is delicious!"
Like Neo twewy
7:39 "No, you didn't."
The moment Ford said that line I knew we were in for something special and boy did the writers not disappoint!
Man this was a really intense and dramatic scene. Raz finds out about a dark truth and his immediate response is to get his family away from what is basically a dangerous ticking timebomb. Raz really does care about his family. He also rightfully gets mad at Ford at what he did and Ford doesn't deny what he did and fully acknowledged what he did wasn't ok. I also like that both characters are aware that there's a serious situation on their hands that needs tending to and that they will deal with it first before dealing with the other issues.
You rarely get this kind of mature writing from protagonists that are much older than Raz.
3:00 Didnt notice this on my playthrough, but the thing following Raz is the comb of a music box and the tombstones are the pins on the drum, which is represented by the curved map.
That's super cool thanks man!
That’s freaking genius holy crap
Same. I was too busy looking for figments to notice that.
@@liammccbyrne4184 I’m actually a little annoyed because I think I can’t get all the figments. I’m missing a single one out of all the levels and I’m pretty sure it’s in the pachinko machine in the casino level.
@@pphead9960 That sucks its an easy problem they could have solved by leaving an npc that let's you play the machine again. Figments are a pain in general especially when your missing just the last few with no indication where to even start looking. I'm having that problem in Helmut's brain but with all the crazy colours and random stuff everywhere I end up getting a headache and have to quit.
I still find it funny that they censored the swear words on the key board. They planned ahead and I love it
You subestimate the power of shitpost
As a 90s gamer, I feel like this has to be a place where cheat codes can be entered, like in Banjo Kazooie. I spent too long knowing the answer was Lucy, but entering in random shit as well looking to elicit a response. Something tells me that Tim Schafer being an old school dev would have placed in an Easter egg here as well.
3:10 I was confused about what this thing was supposed to be and just realized it's the keys of a music box, being played by the gravestones. That's really cool.
I thought it was a comb cause of Barber Ford.
dude, i know this is a late reply, but nice KOL profile pic
So basically raz was thought to believe his aunt was his grandmother. When her nan was really dead
More Raz's dad, the family's memories are real in a sense as the kids came after.
No, his great aunt, i.e. his grandmother's sister.
Yup, and also said Aunt was the notorious Maligula that killed so many people to begin with,
and who enabled Raz to go and become a Psychonaut.
O and she happened to be dating his mentor.
@@generalhorse493 that's makes it worst
When was it established that Lucrecia was his great aunt?
No one I've seen in the comments is mentioning this, but when Ford says "They could kill her!" Raz DOESN'T STOP WALKING, he only stops when Ford points out it could bring Maligula back. Raz was ready and willing to have Lucy killed via his actions for a second there.
Anger makes us do stupid things.
Honestly, understandable. She was a mass murderer after all.
this is reaching SO MUCH lmao, raz is ten and has never wished harm on anyone. he was just mad enough to not want to listen to ford at that moment. don't try and make it edgy lmaooo
@@NoNo-or2wj Well said.
Ngl raz had every right to put her on a cross
One nice thing I like about his explanation is that when he talked about messing with their psyches Raz says, "That doesn't sound safe."
Ford tells Raz the standard excuse of 'It was a different time' before affirming that Raz is correct in his assumption. Showing that Ford has grown from where he was back then.
A lot of new science is unsafe. Just look at the apollo missions. Today we have the benefit of hindsight and new technology, but exploring new horizons always carries risks. At the very least, the compound kept them as safe as one could hope for. Provided they didn't leave. Which unfortunately, Lucy did.
Accountability can happen, and I’m glad the game says that.
Innovation requires exploration, and exploration always comes with risk. The real problem is figuring out how to manage those risks. Even today scientists are experimenting with progressively denser molecules that, with one wrong move could end in a black hole swallowing us all in the matter of mere hours. it just... comes with the terriotry of pushing boundaries.
Dude, seeing the caravan from the first game again gave me chills. This game is incredible!
One small detail I didn't notice until a rewatch of this scene is that during the bit directly after the reveal where Raz is running facing the camera he wipes a tear from his eye. That shit BROKE ME when I noticed it, I feel so so bad for him
I took one look at Nona and went "okay my grandma is Maligula. That's very clearly her," and went through the story bracing myself for a disappointing reveal, but the way the game played on those expectations by going "okay yes, that IS Maligula, buuuuuuuuuuuuuut..." absolutely floored me. This game's narrative was incredibly well constructed, from this twist, to the fact that there was still plenty more game to play through afterward, to the final reveal at the very end that, in hindsight, was wonderfully built up to. The kind of twist that almost seems obvious when you look back at all the conspicuous hints that they managed to sneak past us by presenting them as jokes.
I'm so happy this game got to be everything that fans wanted from it.
I love how the twist isn’t that “Lucy’s Maligula”, but that “Lucy is Maligula because of Cruller”.
in a weird sense, maligula isn't even real. a twist embodiment of fight and flight.
I sorta had that with Truman Zanotto and the search for the mole.
When it turned out he'd been faking his sleep until Lili ran off, Lili kept talking about how there's something wrong and dark about her father's mind, and he asked Rasputin to fix Ford, I knew HE was the mole. But I didn't know the "why".
I did not expect the twist that followed at all.
@@apieceoftoast768Funnily enough I realized it at the same time you did in regards to Truman being the mole, because he said to "fix" Cruller right after Hollis told us we aren't here to "fix" people. I didn't expect Maligula to be Nona though, that one caught me my surprise.
This does recontextualize a lot of Ford's interactions with Raz.
Yeah, it also explains why raz first met him in his dream in the beginning of the first game.
Playing the original game again is gonna be more disturbing after seeing this
@@aeroblu2002 Gotta love Tim Schafer and his insane writing
@@theblackswordsman5039 and why Raz ran away because he was so scared that his father might kill him.
@@mackielunkey2205 yeah that’s true
I completely understand why Ford did what he did. He couldn't kill her, I mean how could he. He knew it was best to try and bury Maligula as deeply as he could into her mind.
Yeah like Lucy became that way because of Cruller. I wouldn’t want to kill her either, I’d want to take ownership as well and reintegrate her.
Often the young will pay for the mistakes of the old. But this game shows that the old can still pay for their own mistakes and recognize them.
Apart of me thinks this works well thanks to the fact that the first thing Raz does as a intern is unintentionally fuck with someones brain and that being his first lesson there about, well, not doing that.
Oh my god you’re right it’s like Hollis’s level but on steroids, and the fact that they have literally been foreshadowing this the entire game - and even since the first - shows how dedicated and smart the team behind this is. God I love Psychonauts
Not just that. Hollis having done exactly that and getting a second chance, and then going on to be such a good teacher, foreshadows both Ford having done it too (if one Psychonaut did it, why not another?), and shows Raz that he doesn't need to let one mistake ruin him for life (which lets him see that Ford _did_ let his one mistake ruin him for life). It works on so many levels.
I loved this game so much. I'm just disappointed by how little the psychonauts valued Raz's actions. He basically restored the minds of the legendary psychic 6 and technically was the only who could have beaten maligula since Nona had a direct connection with him. I really thought he was going to be an honorary psy 6 tbh.
You kinda have to keep in mind that making him such would likely draw a ton of attention, and that is something they do not want as Maligula being still alive, repaired or not, could have some dire consequences for the psychonauts, the psychic six, the aquattos and Raz.
They probably can't do much more than what they've already done to reward him, besides also continuing to train him.
Simply put, making him an honorary psychic six member would draw WAY too much attention imo, especially some pointed questions as to how he went from a no-one to a position that powerful, honorary or not, in the space of just, what, a week or two?
Hes a 10yo still in psyconaut cadet training. Legally they can't award him with much due to his age, if he was 18 they might have been able to, and the fact that by making him an honorary psy 6 (which i doubt they can since the psy 6 seems to be the tittle for the psyconaut founders) would draw attention to his psychic capabilities and even his family's. This would lead in turn people wanting to abduct and use Rasputin or any of his siblings with psychic talent, possibly creating a magula 2.0.
That would be a LOT of paperwork
I’m just gonna go ahead and leave a comment saying that I completely agree. Especially when all the other interns achieved the same rank as him. He’s practically a child prodigy and they should have treated him as such.
Being mad talented and mentored by experts who still have the upper hand on him just because of life experience would’ve been great characterization.
After this game, Raz's therapists are gonna need therapists
All of this was surprising to me but to me the biggest revelation was finding out the curse wasn't real.
A good plot twist is when you figure it out before it hits and it still hits.
I mean, I realized the "Lucy is Maligula" twist when she was first introduced, and I had a little hunch she was also Nona, but I never guessed she was actually not Raz's grandma!
@@rosykindbunny1313 What I don't get is how Raz found out she was her great-aunt instead of some random stranger. There was nothing that said they were sisters before he first mentions "great aunt".
@@BokanProductions Yeah I'm confused about that too
@@rosykindbunny1313 I bet it confused a lot of people.
100% Love this game! It gets so dark, and the way parts like those are introduced is so perfect. Plus it really tugs at your heart when you piece together Maligula and Fords whole story.
Congrats to the Double Fine team. Finally, a game I don't regret buying
Should have got game pass it’s free on there regret that.
@@connorjohnstone728 nah, don't play games enough to justify the gamepass. Besides, I've no issue giving money to devs that deliver
In all honesty I use gamepass to see if the game is worth buying, I know I could just install it and play but I think this game does deserve the money
(Pirate theme intensifies)
9:06
I know this is serious moment and all that but that tackle though. Here’s a theory, Ford played football! I’m just saying what a tackle!
DAAAMN
He very well could have, considering the Li-Po doc
To find out your “grandma” is the most fear person in the world. Poor Raz.
In any other game, realizing your grandma is dead and has been replaced by a serial killer would be a horror story concept
@@rosykindbunny1313 who is also your great aunt
@@mariostarfan20who also was the girlfriend of your biggest idol(and also is a russian tyrant with aquatic power
Only playthrough I've seen where Raz didn't suddenly cut Ford off with "That's it! I think I've collected every figment in this mind!"
Pretty sure he only collected 19 out of 20 so that's why Raz didnt say it.
@@Thelastmanalive565Yeah I know
This storyline is great - mostly because you start by learning that Maligula was this unstoppable force that caused atrocities, then discovered that she was manipulated by her government to become a killing machine. You can see this exemplified at the end when Maligula is talking about her sister and how she killed her, then immediately dismisses it like "eh, I've killed tons of people, big deal". What Ford did was indeed a terrible thing, but I think he was probably the only person who genuinely understood that Maligula wasn't actually Lucy - it was a part of her she just couldn't control, and that part took over.
The story has a good number of layers, and is probably one of the only stories in a video game that I legitimately enjoyed, through and through.
I also agree that it was nice that the game allowed Raz to remain upset at Ford for what he did, and didn't just immediately dismiss it like "oh well, it's Ford, he can do no wrong". Even post-game, you can talk with some other characters and they still harbor resentment for what happened, but understand that can't change the past, and they need to work for a better tomorrow for their relationships, and selves.
The only nitpick I have is that the ending of Psychonauts 1 doesn't gel with Augustus's very basic knowledge of psychic powers in this game. The first game made it seem like he had these amazing, latent psychic powers, and understood how to use them, but in this game, he's astonished he can make a pinecone start smoking. Probably had to do that to kind of justify his existence in the first game. A bit sloppy, but meh. I'm willing to write it off.
In fairness, it's possible that Augustus has simply never used pyrokinesis before. Different psychics have different strengths, after all.
@@Jordan-wv2xz Fair point. I guess it’s just the way it’s kind of built up in the end of the first game.
Lucy/Maligula is the Anakin/Vader of Psychonauts
And considering Augustus thought psychics cursed his family, he probably avoided using or exploring his own psychic abilities.
@@AtlinkIn addition to that, the psychic ability we see him use is a basic psy blast. Pyrokenesis needed to be taught to raz.
I really like the fact that the developers specifically chose Ford's shenanigans with Maligula to have happened 20 years ago in-universe. The same amount of time that was between the releases of Psychonauts 1 & 2.
It especially gives the scene of Raz running back to her family's camp a sort of meta weight without taking a dump on the actual scenario.
I like to imagine Raz as the fans of Psychonauts 1 and Ford as Tim Schafer, having an emotion-filled conversation over how Tim has been hiding a massive plotpoint that would turn everything upside down for 20 years. A plot point that while the biggest of them all, wouldn't even be the only one.
0:19 “Lucy is dead. She is never coming back.” That line is so tragic.
Edit: I stumbled upon this clip before I knew the context, i thought it was someone bluntly telling him that person who actually died is never coming back.
Psychonauts is one of those games that I've played and re-played and re-re-played over and over and over again. It's a comfort game of mine.
I'm never going to be able to play that game without looking at that one tutorial scene at the beginning, with Ford entering Raz's mind while he's sleeping to give him the tutorial, again.
I'm gonna look at that and just be like '...Son of a....You KNEW. This whole time, you KNEW. You KNEW who this kid was...'
And. I. LOVE. that.
I think this is one of the best bits of the game and a really nice twist. Raz discovers a dark truth about his family and Ford and he's a immediate response is to get his family safety and away from a what is basically a Pandora's Box fixing to blow. Raz also rightfully gets mad at Ford for what he did and Ford doesn't deny what he did was wrong and admits that Raz has a right to be mad. At the end they both realize they need to focus on the current crisis and then they'll work out their issues later.
I'm so glad I avoided the spoilers. My jaw left a crater after this scene.
3:06 I love the level design here, with the graves plucking a tune on the music box
An actual good sequel game unlike most sequel games that came out tbh, they did a fantastic job on this game!!
4:42 when mom says we have food at home
Even though they had a serious situation the entire scene in the hut in the green needle gulch with the water dripping was kinda relaxing.
I love even when Raz is very upset he will still fucking nerd the fuck out about Amy psychonaut shit
This man NFL tackled a little boy
What an absolute chad
So, let's do a little thought experiment.
Would things be better if Ford hadn't tried to hide Lucy as Nona?
First off, Ford probably keeps his mind. Or he might've used the Astrolathe to make himself forget Lucy anyway so we might still have a broken Agent Cruller.
Augustus wouldn't have had his "mother" growing up.
The Aquatos might still fear/distrust psychics because Augustus still remembers how his aunt killed his parents (but maybe not have the curse hanging over their heads, who knows?).
Raz doesn't get the pamphlet for Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp from Nona, because well she's not around (dead or imprisoned). So, he stays with the Family Circus, possibly getting accustomed to hiding his powers and feeling ashamed for them.
Raz doesn't stop Couch Oleander from trying to take over the world.
Lili and Raz don't meet.
The only really positive outcomes I could see in this alternate story is IF Ford kept his mind in tact, he and the rest of the Psychic Six would've worked with Helmut's brain to find his body and reunite him with Bob.
Bob wouldn't have been fired from his nephew.
Cassie wouldn't have left.
Compton wouldn't spend all his time in psycho-isolation.
and Otto... stays Otto.
Compared to what did happen because of Ford's meddling, I think he made the right call in the end.
be fair i think that ford could probably easily dispatch coach oleander. but it would still endanger several children.
Say anything about game pacing and design, but Tim Schafer writes excellent twists.
And those character designs are so unique, they alone basically made me play the original game.
I’m at 11:00 and so far Ford seems like a good person, in spite of what he did in the past.
It shows how much the choice he made long ago did put alot of weight onto him over the years. He did loved Lucy and he knew the world wasn't going to forgive her due to her actions since whatever war she went through herself trying to defend her family really did mess her mind.
I honestly felt so sorry for Ford all around.
He’s been through more then he should have.
"Green Needle Gulch"
You can NOT tell me that that is not a reference to the "Brain Storm/Green Needle" situation.
The what situation
I’ve never played psychonauts or heard much about it until now but I might pick it up now! It looks AWESOME just from this!
As much as I’m saying you should absolutely play it, you did kinda spoil the entire series from this video😂
You should do it! This game is very fun, you might have been spoiled on the big twist but this game still has so much to offer!!
Fun rambling time on the ingenuity of how this affects everything. Ford saving Lucy was what he believed to be the best option at the time. It did have some good, such as giving Augustus a new family by taking him from the orphanage and reuniting him with the only family he had left and also providing a future where Lucy could one day bring Maligula fully back under control. There’s a pretty decent amount of unintentional bads that followed because of it, though. The Aquatos used to do water tricks as part of their act (learned by talking to Donatella post-game) that they were no longer able to do thanks to the "curse", which hindered the circus's most unique trait. The "curse" also meant that in the off chance another hydrokinetic psychic *_was_* born to the Aquato line, they'd be tormented by their own power, which is exactly the situation Raz landed himself in. Arguably the worst unintentional consequence, bare minimum two game's core events wouldn't have happened the way they did had Lucy been killed in the fight like many were led to believe. While I can't say too heavily how much Psychonauts 1 would've been affected by Lucy's death, Rhombus of Ruin only happens because Gristol hired Lobotto to kidnap Truman for the mindswap, and he only does this to infiltrate the Psychonauts because he needed easy access to Maligula and wanted to destroy the organization for his perceived sleight against his royal status in Grulovia. And obviously Psychonauts 2 revolves entirely around this plot. Oleander might've still tried to take campers' brains to use for tanks, but Truman would likely have never been kidnapped and Psychonauts 2's core plot wouldn't have really been a thing had the Maligula fight actually gone down the way everyone thought it did. It's really neat to be able to see cascading consequences, both good and bad, in an enjoyable way like this.
13:19 We did SO many drugs
I am so relieved that the game was so worth the wait. I was pretty concerned with how it would come out since a lot of these new games have been pretty bad. Good ol’e double fine
13:17 so they totally dropped acid right
There is a 0% chance that they did not drop insane amounts of acid. Plus, they had a guy who could talk to plants, so they could easily get the best magic mushrooms just by asking the shrooms themselves.
They did all the drugs, just go to Helmut's Mind
@@magicrainbowkitties1023 They did go to Helmut's Mind, just to do all the drugs
@@Rhino1004 Fun Fact: In real life, the term "psychonautics" refers to the act of purposefully entering an altered state of consciousness in order to explore and document the resulting experiences in hopes of better understanding the nature of one's mind.
@@Rhino1004 Bonus Fun Fact: Hallucinogenic mushrooms are fungi, not plants.
What a plot twist
You said it
8:38 ICE AGE BABY
ICE AGE BABY
I'm happy to announce that I guessed who Lucrecia really is. Didn't know how she survived though.
I didn't guess this twist but I kind of guessed who the mole was or at least I guess who the mole was acting as
@@rockassassin64 Funny, I guessed who Nona was but didn't figure out who the mole was until the reveal.
@@rockassassin64 I had a feeling who the mole was. But not who the mole really was which blew my mind
I figured it was going to be one of two things:
1. A composite projection of a bunch of Maligula's Delugionist followers made into a single psychic entity, or
2. Maligula had managed to project her psyche before her death into someone else's body and was doing the "mental parasite" immortality loophole, jumping bodies to avoid being caught and stay alive forever
ididnt juess who maligula was but i die guess the twist with nick
Game of the year material right here.
I swear this game is the GOTY of 2021
4:42 my heart is broken but I must go. My people need me.
Goodbye chat
11:04
Green Needle Gulch
OR
Brainstorm Gulch
Both sound like a place to get high as fuck.
Good catch, that had to be intentional
I was already hooked on the game from the moment I started it but I this *really* hooked me to the point to where I didn't want to stop playing and I needed to know what happened next. Never felt such emotion in my life
Pretty sure Raz is going to have a neurosis about being buried alive now.
Yea, considering he's canonically claustrophobic, that would add to it
@@trashrat7416 he is?
4:43 me when the bell for the end of the day at school is about to ring
Wow that's some good design that Lucy works too. I assumed when I played it I had to spell out the whole name.
I’m pretty sure Lucy was the intended name.
Fun fact: if you type fuck into the writing machine in this level it actually censors it
ford turned into a god darn bowling ball for one moment
6:28 this was the moment the pieces started falling into place for me. All up to this point the dread of the reveal was building, but only here did it start to click.
Would of been nice if his grandma was more important than “your grandma is dead bro”
She died by chance
Well, she was also Lucrecia's sister, and her death was the catalyst that resulted in Maligula becoming dominant.
@@spongeintheshoe the only importance is that she is the sister of someone. The point is that there is no mention of her grandma being important for any other reason throughout her whole life
@@buster5661 Why would she? She died twenty years ago and Raz is ten. The real grandma isn't important to him, Hell most of the kids stick to calling Nona their grandma. The Dad is the one really affected by it.
Same applies to his grandad though
8:11 door graphics change
This game has so much heart.
4:44
C R U L L E R B A L L
C R U L L E R B A L L
3:58 this scream sounded so similarly to moxxie from helluva boss that i had to look this up and turns out the voice actor also voices invader zim
Man wha talent.
He also did Alpha 5
It’s natural to be angry, but forgiveness is always the best course of action, especially if whoever wronged you is truly sorry.
That's the thing, though- Ford _isn't_ sorry. The post-game makes it clear he's planning to pick up where he left off with the Astralathe experiments, and Raz doesn't even get the option to call it a bad idea.
I also love seeing the different aspects of Ford being reincorporated one by one back into his mind, kind of like Cassie’s different personas
I think all of this could've been avoided if Lucy turned down the, Minister of War, job.
I feel sorry for Raz for discovering the horrific truth that his great-aunt, who is a Maligula, killed his grandma. Ford didn't mean to lie to Raz, he only did it to protect him, including Lucrecia.🙁
I never realized the strange resemblance to a Martin Walls character the robotic Ford has
14:51 ah yes the tobaco
These types of games are my lifeblood
Hey babyzone nice video 👍🏻👍🏻 wow this game is legendary and this game have a legendary story just like ratchet and clank
bro poor raz he's only 10
So in a way raz's aunt subconscious knew where to go to her head together but she didn't know why
Okay I just finished this game (completely slipped under the radar for me until I saw it in Game Pass by chance) and I gotta do this little squee rant
This game has been everything I ever wanted / imagined for a sequel, and I mean that quite literally 😂😂😂 Years ago I legit drafted a fan fiction where Ford had an old romantic interest that happened to be an Aquato-Galochio (through a previous marriage) and inadvertently caused the curse - I never wrote it because this character was such a blatant Mary Sue like she even had a kid that she had lost on a mission and it broke her mind and because of some old enemy coming back that she had supposedly killed, Ford sends in Raz to fix her mind and Raz has to basically glue the broken pieces together with all the mental cobwebs he’s ever collected 🤣
So I kinda saw it coming / hoped the twist would go that way and I’m so happy that it did 😂 Feels like I now have closure and a part of my life is now complete 🥰 Fantastic job on Schafer and his team’s part! They delivered yet another work of art! ❤️
What I love about this is it avoids a pitfall Psychonauts 1 fell into, if you managed to guess that Oleander was the main villain, there was no twist, sure, you could find all the imagery with bunnies and butcher knives that foreshadow the Meat Circus, but if you figured out Oleander was the main villain from Basic Braining, there was no twist, though it's fine because the minds you go into are interesting enough to explore that the overarching story not being the most well-developed is fine, I honestly forgot about Oleander and Loboto a lot during my first playthrough because I was so invested in the asylum patients
Here, Lucy being Maligula was obvious, and on top of that, it's perfectly reasonable to guess Nona is Maligula purely from their visual similarities, but even if you guessed that, the twist still works because of the fact that the game hides the How and Why, you know the What, the Who, the When, and even the Where, but How and Why this happened is well-hidden so even if you guess it, you're still knocked down by what Ford did, an amazing improvement over Psychonauts 1
I knew who Maligula was when I saw Raz’s “grandma” but I was not ready for this when I first played this, friggin brilliant
This game looks amazing
In fact it is, idk why there is a lack of musical composition in most cutscenes that would usually compensate the lack of sound in a intense or agitated moment, but the game itself is great.
I'm not sure what the reason or connection is but at 14:30 isn't that Fred Bonaparte's theme there for a second?
Holy shit, It was
It's like how the song in the intern wing sounds like the Milkman Conspiracy song
I appreciate your commitment to pacing here, rather than spending the extra 5 minutes redoing parts to get every little bit.
7:38 somethings wrong I can feel it
7:06 Raz sounded like Invader Zim here
Same voice actor
What a twist lol
I hear Ford and I see Clank heheh!
Great video 🔥🔥
Ok, can somebody help me here please? When exactly was it established that Lucrecia was Raz's great aunt?
7:14 onwards
@@lksas2295 That doesn't answer my question. What I'm askeing is how did Raz know Lucrecia was related to his family in the first place?
At the end of the game
@@olsonbryce777 But this video occurs maybe 60-70% into the story, and Raz states Lucy was his aunt.
it was very subtle. Ford mentions that "She's with family" at 6:30. It didn't immediately occur to me that Lucy would be Raz's great-aunt at first. Not until I actually analyzed it and thought about it. I mean as sisters, they should look relatively the same. Another route they could've take is making Lucy something like Raz's first cousin twice removed (i.e. Raz's mother's cousin).
What bothers me though is that there was no mention of Raz's grandmother having a sibling.
One thing I'm a little unclear on is when exactly ford's mind was shattered.
He shattered it himself using the astralathe after hiding lucrecia. We see it happen in one of helmut’s memory vaults.
@@unionjacker1531 sadly he shattered it before saying he had fullbears brain
1:49 i really love the music here
Ah yes, your mentor burying you alive which totally won’t affect you growing up, no siree