Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

Rhombus of Ruin is a great short title, the hours on this review is literally how long it took to beat the game (albeit I did use a nudging guide at 1 or 2 parts). The Cons: - Rhombus of ruin suffers from the same things a lot of modern VR titles do where the control scheme is only set for one type of headset, so using others gets a bit disorienting, for instance I have a Valve Index and the button mapping was different as opposed to what they show you in the tutorials for how to use the powers. - Story wise its good, but its a very short game so very little is actually furthered by the story aside from a lot of gags and one of the previous enemies from Psychonauts 1 getting a backstory. - Yapping, if you're slightly stuck on any puzzle or taking slightly too long (especially around the train sequence) the characters do NOT stop talking, which has always been a gag but they don't use it as a gag its meant to be helpful hints or just dialogue but it does not stop long enough before old voice lines get replayed over and over again, as well as if you click through a section a little too quickly or miss click you miss entire dialogue's for moving ahead to quickly. The Pros: - Short and sweet, you get into the game, the story is straightforward and doesn't add anything contradictory or confusing with Psychonauts 1, aside from the hang ups on Raz and Lily's relationship which continous in Psychonauts 2, and the fact that Ford Cruller is not with the gang despite leaving with them in Psychonauts 1. - The graphics are the best in modernizing Psychonauts style, it brings the old playstation 2 graphics to the modern age while looking clean but keeping the same visual style, unlike Psychonauts 2 which is similar but somewhat offputting by their attempts to retain the style but upscaled. Overall for a short title bridging Psychonauts 1 & 2 its pretty good to cover the short space between the two, maybe unfortunate for those who missed out on it because they don't own VR, but yeah if this game is on sale for cheap its a decent two hours of your time.

Short and sweet. Double Fine at their finest. I’d love to see another VR game from this studio.

Тим Шейфер не подкачал с филлерной частью психонавтов. Очень грамотно завёрнуто в VR платформу. Как всегда отличная история, раскрывающая становление одного из персонажей прошлой части. Мир как всегда невероятно проработан и разумеется фирменный абсурдный юмор команды Double FIne на месте. Очень жаль что во главе Microsoft сидит нейропридурок, которому не нужна платформа Xbox. И из-за этого страдают культовые разработчики. Молюсь что бы разрабы выкупили себя и наконец сделали так ожидаемую мной Brutal Legend 2.

Good use of VR and surprisingly friendly to people who get motion sickness. Would recommend but it's a bit short for $20, get it on sale.

Short but good. Buy cheap don't buy full price. 6/10 for me but it's Psychonauts so 7/10

always wanted this game since i played psychonauts 2 and this game is a perfect replayable sidestory

Very charming! Pretty simple and straightforward VR Experience that is still a lot fun. There's a couple moments that have that "VR Magic" that makes games like this special. The only minor gripe is that there's a tad too much "navigation" in large open areas. Where for a long time you're just hopping from one place to the next with nothing really going on. Felt a little meaningless at times.