Double Fine Productions is launching a new Psychonauts game today. It feels so weird to type that, 12 years after the studio first made their mark on the industry, with a 3D platformer-adventure set in a weird and wonderful psychic summer camp, with psychedelic levels based on individual characters' warped minds.
Playstation VR's Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is a standalone adventure that connects that 2005 game with its upcoming, 2018-expected sequel, and picks up right where the psychonauts themselves left off. But this isn't a platformer—it's a first-person puzzle-adventure steeped in the same warmth and zaniness that made the original game so special.
"I love being back working on Psychonauts again, because it means working with those people again," Double Fine Creative Director Tim Schafer told us by phone. Those people being "our great artists and composers, and the actors," including the voice talents of Richard Horvitz and Nicki Rapp from the original game.
"Being in the studio with them again, it was just like 'this feels really comfortable', and this is a chance—now that we know a lot more about making games and we have new ideas—I feel like we can make an even better game from the first one. It's super exciting."
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