Double Advantageous’s Psychonauts 2 documentary PsychOdyssey simply bought one ultimate episode, wrapping up the sport’s years-long journey.
Again in 2023, beloved indie developer Double Advantageous launched a 32-part collection masking the complete growth of Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the PS2/ Xbox unique. It tracked the sport’s growth proper from the very starting, I am speaking after they had been simply spitting concepts out into the wind, providing a really distinctive look into the trials and tribulations of sport growth you just about cannot get anyplace else. And now, Double Advantageous has launched one ultimate episode of PsychOdyssey, charting what got here after the sport was launched, together with reflections on a number of the collection’ extra dramatic moments.
Psychonauts 2 did not precisely have the smoothes of growth intervals. Double Advantageous kicked issues off with the sport by launching a crowdfunding marketing campaign via Fig in 2016, a crowdfunding platform particularly for video video games, which particularly allowed backers to realize a share of future revenues in future initiatives (the corporate was dissolved in 2023). It did not truly launch till 2021, however was truly acquired fairly positively – Ty gave it full marks for VG247 on the time of launch in his assessment.
Double Advantageous was additionally clearly acquired by Microsoft in 2019, one other huge change for a corporation that had been utterly indie since its inception. Since Psychonauts 2, the developer hasn’t launched or introduced every other video games, although it nonetheless recurrently hosts its Double Advantageous Presents streams exhibiting off different cool indie titles. That places it in a questionable spot, particularly contemplating the layoffs at Microsoft earlier this 12 months, and the closure of studios like Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin.
Nonetheless, should you do need an in-depth have a look at Psychonauts 2’s growth, you may watch the entire collection on YouTube – or you may decide up the Blu-ray set that was additionally simply introduced, which is due out later this 12 months by way of Restricted Run Video games.