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Please read the whole thing, I tried to keep it short!

Best game I've played in years.
Don't watch screenshots of it or so, they are totally misleading.

It has such great characters, dialogues, so much fun....I could hardly stop laughing throughout the whole game.
It's surprising from the start till the end, it's always being original.
All the time it felt like I've never played anything like that!

Gameplay wise it's starting as jump'n run, but it's turning more and more into an adventure, but sooo original.
It also makes big use of RPG aspects.
It's always very fair, when you drop down in a pit by accident, no problem, you just reappear next to the hole and play on. NEVER a need to play the whole level again...maximum just a little part of it.

Story is great, great humour, very creative!

So much for the pros!

Contras: (very subtle hardly worth mentioning)
-The end level is a bit frustrating and I wanted the designers to die several times!
-The controls are a bit gay, because cursor (or WASD) keys are turning the character, not the camera, as it usually does in these games. And the camera is a bit steering against what I want to look at sometimes, annoying, but no problem actually, because you always see what you need to see.

The setting of the game is cartoon, but not childish at all. Very smart, well done, funny/weird characters. It's a bit like Simpsons, where no kid has fun with, because they don't understand the fun. They only laugh when a guy falls down a cliff, slips on a banana etc...thats NOT in this game
You play a 10 year old kid (with the intelligence of a 30 year old) that infiltrates a summer vacation camp to become a psychonaut (yeah...just play it and you will understand ).

Performance: it doesnt look like a hardware eater, here it was super smooth all the time (amd 3400 gf6800 1gb ram), and it's very stable, not a single crash or anything. Bugs? Not a single one.

BUY! ENJOY

PS: there is a demo of it, but IMO it's not giving a feel of what the game is like. It's pretty much jump'n run in this demo, because it only has the first "level" (there are no levels, stages etc, story super well done) and this one has no adventure aspects, but they are coming in more and more. One level even has no enemies at all, because you just need to figure out what to do )

PPS: I played the English version, voices there are bloody excellent.

GG Tim Schafer and Eric Robson
:p
11 of 10 Stars

other games by Tim Schafer: Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1 and 2, Full Throttle

Was planning on buying it tomorrow

Yush!

(ps: I agree the camera, even after some tweaking in options, is rather 'linear' and stubborn in that it only wants to show you what's relevant..and I want to look around more There's enough gameplay value even in the demo though ;p so I'm curious for the whole game)

gg..post scriptum being longer than the entire post.

edit:

DavidM wrote: -The end level is a bit frustrating and I wanted the designers to die several times!

I think a lot of people who finished/are playing notpr0n would testify that a lot of notpr0n levels rank about the same ;p
(Of course, that's just me judging from what I've read)

in the demo the camera gives you an option to disable "smart camera move" or so...but that has no effect, and in the full version it's removed as well.

using middle mouse button you have a free look from first person, that does the job always

go find the dead milkman

Roger.

Been meaning to get it since it first came out. Anything with Tim Schafer's name attached to it has to be good. Shame I spent the last spare cash I had on Fahrenheit then (good game, if flawed). >.<

Fahrenheit was fun, but far away from what it promises to be. No matter what you do, you basically always end up with the same
If you don't find the book under the table, someone else will come to you...look what I found....
was dissapointing

nm, only psychonauts talking here

wasd... FPS?

what the characters like? is it fantasy character sheet?

Cartoon, but not childish at all. Very smart, well done, funny/weird characters.

its not FPS, it's third person

Are you using the keyboard? Does it handle OK?

i use WASD and mouse

Hmm, I missed the bit in your review that stated that. Must have not wanted to read anything negative about it. :O Only £17.99 from play.com. Bargain.

thats very cheap...
because it's new and has full prize actually
45€ (30 pounds ...dont have that sign on my keyboard)

Play often sell less high profile games at that price point.

i somehow dont know what you mean by that

When games aren't hyped, demand is expected to be lower. Play try to stimulate demand on such games by lowering the price.