PSYCHONAUTS 2

We’re not sure we quite believe it, but the game we said in E349 had been 15 years in the making is out in a matter of weeks. Over those 15 years (16 now), Tim Schafer has had a lot of time to think about the Psychonauts universe, and the result digs deep into every corner, expanding character backstories, the Aquato family history and the origins of the titular organisation. To which end, Raz will visit the Motherlobe, aka Psychonauts HQ, near to which is The Questionable Area, a place with upward-flowing waterfalls and other strange phenomena. But the weirdest sights are inside people’s minds: an experiment turns the new Psychonauts chief’s brain into a casino hospital where you smash gambling machines and hop across X-rays. Even if the rest is more Meat Circus than Milkman Conspiracy, we’re willing to bet the wait will have been worth it.