Hey Duders,

Here is the latest Deep Look! Deep Looks are largely gameplay and commentary like a Giantbomb quicklook; however, I try to cover games that have been out for a while and I intend to use the videos to highlight moments and mechanics that I found particularly worthy of highlighting and exploring. Also I aim to keep the videos under 20 minutes.

In this Deep Look I examine Psychonauts once again to show off how the game utilizes real world objects and concepts to condense and contextualize gameplay information. The world of Psychonauts is rife with symbolism and intelligent design that both makes the world aesthetically cohesive and teach the play about the world in a quick and effective manner. By conveying so much information through smart naming and symbolism, Psychonauts allows its relatively unintuative gameplay systems to blend together naturally into one compete whole. Piggybacking ya'll, it saves a lot of time and energy!