One of the most creative platformers ever created.
At its heart its really just another platformer, but its presented in such an awesome way that it stands above all others. It's not the most perfectly coded game, its got a few bugs here and there, but there is so much true game here that it doesn't even matter.
Psychonauts puts in the seat of a kid named Raz who goes off to Psychonaut summer camp. A catastrophe then happens and its up to him to recover everyone at camps brains. He must do so by going inside the minds of other people and traveling through their crazy twisted worlds.
You'll be traveling through many insane worlds such as on a chess board with Napoleon, the Milkmans twisted town, or the great underwater city. Throughout these worlds he will need to use different Psi powers such as levitation, telekinesis, pyrokenisis and many more. The powers and the presentations of these worlds are what truly set this game apart from others. Although Nintendo makes great platformer games, you always know what to expect from the games because they all follow the same formula. You won't see any typical things while playing through psychonauts.
The story is fun and amusing. Its not to often you get a decent story while playing a platformer game so its nice to be able to enjoy this one. You'll find plenty of laugh out loud moments in this game. Between the funny dialogue or the old man who lives in your ear and comes out when he smells bacon. Graphically this game is gorgeous. It really utilizes the power of the Xbox which is nice since theres not much else the system has to offer game wise. On top of it being nice looking the vibrant awkward colors they chose to use in the game really help make the game stand out.
If you pick up Psychonauts you can't go wrong. As I said, its a little less than perfect asthetically, but its got so much heart that it can be overlooked and seen as one of gamings greats. Face it, with the lack of creativity going into games now days the world needs more Psychonauts.