![]() The level "Compton's Cook Off" seems to be inspired by The Gods Must Be Hungry from AF 2017.There's a mug shaped like Big Leg from Pendleton Ward's Little Pink Best Buds from AF 2014.The game contains a few references to previous Double Fine projects, as well as some game prototypes made during Double Fine's "Amnesia Fortnight" game jams. ![]() Likewise, said kits also come with a real version of the Messenger Bag Raz uses in the game, which high level backers also received. Defictionalization: As this video shows, Press Kits come with a real pair of Razputin's goggles for use with the kit.Celebrity Voice Actor: Jack Black as PSI King /Helmut Fullbear and Elijah Wood as Nick Johnsmith /Gristol Malik.The Cast Showoff: Appropriately, for someone voiced by Jack Black, the ending of PSI King's Sensorium involves a big musical number from the PSI King himself.When they get sucked into the whirlpool immediately afterwards, Milla's back in her new outfit. Blooper: In the cutscene where Maligula reawakens, Milla and Sasha are seen wearing their old outfits. ![]() This is intentional, as in an article, Double Fine expressed a desire to deal with the topic of mental health in an even more tasteful way compared to the last game. In the case of "Truman", not only does Raz have reasonable motivation to enter "Truman"'s mind after seeing how odd he's acting, but Lili asks him to help her dad, which is also presented like an intervention for someone clearly suffering from an unaddressed mental disorder. The only two minds that buck this trend are Bob and "Truman", but both minds have reasonable explanations for this - for Bob, his plants request Raz's help in curing their gardener in the same way a group of friends might stage an intervention for someone that's suffering from addiction, and it's implied that subconsciously, Bob is the one controlling the plants and secretly desires help through them. Additionally, almost every mind you enter in the second game is done so either at the patient's explicit consent, a superior's consent, or to prevent a crisis from occurring, which prevents any questionable implications from arising. So in this game, Hollis' levels are dedicated to showing just how badly recklessly trying to affect people's minds without their consent can go, and Sasha explicitly points out to Raz that because of the immense power they hold over a person's mind, the Psychonauts have to respect the boundaries of their patients and be careful not to overstep them. After that, he flees with the other patients, never to be seen again, and we never know whether or not he changed for the better. This is driven home especially in the "Milkman Conspiracy" level, where Boyd Cooper, thanks to Raz, changes from a paranoid gatekeeper to his old arsonist self, as he destroys the building near the end of the story. While the original game treats the patients with enough respect to make this a non-issue, Raz performing mental psychiatry for people who physically can't say no has implications that are questionable at best. While Edgar and Fred had expressed a desire to be helped, Gloria and Boyd couldn't ask for it due to their impairments.
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