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It isn't long before you're able to leave the safety of headquarters and head out on field missions, with external locations and characters all helping to give further background and context to the organisation. The original had Raz on the periphery of the organisation, and by design, so it's awesome to see where the magic science happens and to follow Raz as he lives his dream, rising through the ranks to try and make a name for himself alongside those legendary Psychonauts who once trod the twisted halls of the Motherlobe. This affords us a much closer look at the inner workings of this strange squad, with Raz operating out of their HQ, the Motherlobe (which serves as the game's main hub area) and working more closely with the various eccentric agents who also call this place home. Psychonauts 2 tells the tale of Razputin, a former cadet with the Psychonauts - a team of psychic spies and mind manipulators - who now joins the outfit in a more official capacity after making it into the intern program as the game begins. And on top of all that, it's a damn fine game to boot. It's a journey into the bizarre, a double-jump on the wild side, an adventure unafraid to go to some strange, dark, and unexpected places. Psychonauts 2 is creativity incarnate, so good luck even trying to work out what kinds of weird and wonderful mindscapes the game might send you to next, with each adding its own unique mechanics and twists on top of having its own visual flavour and theme.

It's so refreshing, then, to see a major release that has more than enough imagination to make up for the platoons of me-too battle royale games and the squads of predictable yearly updates that try to pass off a few bullet points as originality.

In a gaming era where the top flight seems to be made up almost exclusively of safe sequels, identikit free-to-play shooters, and annual retreads of the same ground, you'd be forgiven for thinking that creativity was on the way out. Well, it can certainly seem that way, at least.

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