'Psychonauts 2 'Takes Place Mere Hours After the First Game; Original Game Releases to PS4 in Spring
Developer Double Fine Productions certainly has good things going on for it this year. First, the original "Psychonauts" game is coming to Sony's PlayStation 4, and second, the game's sequel has been successfully crowdfunded and will be coming in a few years time.
Double Fine's Community Manager James Spafford announced on the PlayStation Blog that the studio's classic PS2 platformer will be available on the PS4 this coming spring. This won't be a remastered version, but rather a straight port of the game, according to Engadget.
The title joins Double Fine creations "Grim Fandango," "Days of the Tentacle," and "Full Throttle" in the PS4. The addition of the original "Psychonauts" game also means all three games in the series will be playable in the popular gaming console from Sony. "Psychonauts 2" and "Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin" have both been announced previously to come to the PS4 as well.
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The classic "Psychonauts" game ends with a cliff-hanger, which the sequel will continue. But the interim between the two games will be told by "Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin."
As for "Psychonauts 2" itself, game creator Tim Schafer has revealed in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread that events in the sequel start not long after the original game.
"Raz will be a few hours older than in the first game, because it takes place soon after the events of Psychonauts," Schafer told a Redditor.
In the same thread, Schafer also reveals a little background information on the game's conception, as well as its plot. He said "Psychonauts 2" was something he had wanted to do since back when the first game was released. He started the game with a rough story figured out and he has been jotting down ideas in a notebook in the years that followed the original game's release.
In "Psychonauts 2," Raz will be fulfilling a lifelong dream that is to go to the Psychonauts headquarters. "But he finds several things strange about the organization ... Raz soon uncovers sinister things at work in the shadows of Psychonauts headquarters, including double agents and evils of the past. Raz's own family history plays a pivotal part in the story, and Raz must confront the roots of the curse placed on his family once and for all," Schafer reveals.
Double Fine is targeting a fall 2018 release date for "Psychonauts 2." The game will release to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
