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a little comparison

A comparison between X-PO's leaked Lord Vortech pack design and his classic design.

November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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BIG thanks to legoanimegirl and wave9nut on reddit for posting the images of these builds from in-game, and the parts list for them too! (2/3)

Build one of the unreleased Lord Vortech Fun Pack

Build two of the unreleased Lord Vortech Fun Pack

Build three of the unreleased Lord Vortech Fun Pack

The piece list for the unreleased Lord Vortech Fun Pack

November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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someday we might even get a vortech figure to go with them... (1/3)

Three unreleased builds from Lego Dimensions of a larger X-PO/X-PO like character recreated in Studio.

November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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wednesday

the raincoat girl from very little nightmares

November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM

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fuck it, some thoughts on both games from a while ago

very far into psychonauts 2 now and man with this being my second only full playthrough i'm understanding why i don't come back to this one as much as the first game
the gameplay is so often rigid and stiff in some places and it does get under my skin a little bit
the wall jumping especially has this problem, it doesn't feel right to me and i don't think it ever will
this might be heresy to say too but, some of the later levels just don't interest me much on the gameplay side of things, especially (and i know this'll get me shit but) bob's bottles
it's a gorgeous level from the narrative's side, but the gameplay is really lacking for me and it's really weirdly jank too
the door boat, the mario galaxy style disappearing floor, having to hold the bob bulbs?
all of it feels just off enough to feel awkward
none of it's bad, it's tolerable, but it continues to remind me why i liked the first game's gameplay so much
it was also jank as hell, i'll never deny that, but it was the kind of jank that allowed more freedom
weird level collision that meant you could skip parts of levels if you were good enough, a movement system that's slightly unwieldy but so SO fun to get good with and a strong sense of momentum that added to both of those aspects
levitation is the big thing that i hate that they changed, it's so lame that it has a top speed and it does NOT let you get up as high as it used to
i also enjoyed the level design more in the first game, partially because it's "poorly" designed with the first game you could really tell that it was a dev teams first foray into making a 3d platformer, and for better and for worse it means a lot of parts of psychonauts' level design is often... unusual

but combined with this stuff leads to levels that are weird and strange and only really make sense with the gameplay they're combined with
where for psychonauts 2's levels, it feels more
standard
nothing wrong with that, i still think psychonauts 2 is a fantastic game so clearly it's not a dealbreaker, but a big part of the draw of the original game to me is that it's so non-traditional to other 3d platformers of then and even still now
is psychonauts 2's gameplay better? i mean it's subjective, but you could probably make a strong argument for that being the case and i might even agree with you
but psychonauts 1's gameplay is more interesting to me, and also just more fun some extra little notes while they're on my mind; i hate the weird ghosting effect that happens on moving objects sometimes? it's like there's rtx enabled but psychonauts 2 doesn't have rtx support so i don't know what's happening there. psychonauts 2 has a lot of nice quality of life improvements, most notably 100% being WAY easier to get and there being no true point of no return like the first game. norma is still incredibly unlikable and i'm 90% she will remain that way (she puts bobby to fucking shame my GOD she's so obnoxious).
spoiler tagged something for the first game just in case anyone here wants to play that one still
that's all i got for now, i'll probably have a lot more thoughts by the time i'm finished with the main story and then even more after having 100%ed the game again

November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM

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a thought experiment

willie doing poses and flipping the bird

November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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this wednesday

October 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM

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feeling shameless today so, if you're bored and looking for something to watch this fine sunday, consider checking out my big edited opinion pieces! specifically my personal favs shown below!

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Tak and the Power of Juju Trilogy Retrospective

October 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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the ps5 turns 25 today, these 4 games are my favs

October 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM

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the miku just on her own

hatsune miku (as depicted in the music video for gifted)

October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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"DO YOU THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME?"

"CAUSE I GUESS YOU'RE SO MUCH SMARTER?"

"DO YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T SEE?"

"CAUSE I GUESS YOU WORK SO MUCH HARDER"