What are you playing?

Bones · 2024-12-03T11:50:05-0600

ThatNickGuy said:
Psychonauts

Or at least nine tenths of it, because I can't fucking finish the Meat Circus level. There's a part with this netting you have to jump across, but it's on a curve, so it's impossible to figure out how to properly jump. Worse, the double jump only works once in a while.

Fuck it. I give up.

that final level is notoriously difficult, im sorry you had to give up literally right before the final boss. I am a master platformer, I had a lot of trouble!

figmentPez · 2024-12-03T12:00:04-0600

ThatNickGuy said:
Psychonauts

Or at least nine tenths of it, because I can't fucking finish the Meat Circus level. There's a part with this netting you have to jump across, but it's on a curve, so it's impossible to figure out how to properly jump. Worse, the double jump only works once in a while.

Fuck it. I give up.

I know that exact jump. I usually have to do it dozens of times, if not more.

ThatNickGuy · 2024-12-03T12:22:44-0600

Bones said:
that final level is notoriously difficult, im sorry you had to give up literally right before the final boss. I am a master platformer, I had a lot of trouble!

The funny thing is, I've beaten it before...on PC, with an Xbox controller.

I bought it dirt cheap on PS5 and been re-playing it. For whatever reason, I just can't make the jumps in that net area at all. It's just been an exercise in frustration.

figmentPez · 2024-12-03T12:29:29-0600

ThatNickGuy said:
The funny thing is, I've beaten it before...on PC, with an Xbox controller.

I bought it dirt cheap on PS5 and been re-playing it. For whatever reason, I just can't make the jumps in that net area at all. It's just been an exercise in frustration.

I know the PC version got a balance patch at some point that made the Meat Circus easier. I wonder if the PS5 version is emulating the original PS2 version, one that never nerfed the Meat Circus.

ThatNickGuy · 2024-12-03T13:54:23-0600

figmentPez said:
I know the PC version got a balance patch at some point that made the Meat Circus easier. I wonder if the PS5 version is emulating the original PS2 version, one that never nerfed the Meat Circus.

Ohhhhh, maybe! The PS2 logo appears when i first load up the game. I assumed they were both the same version.

Bones · 2024-12-03T15:18:54-0600

that would explain a ton, honestly. I also beat it on pc, both before and after that patch, I think at least, I remember it being easier when i played it again to get ready for 2.+

EDIT:

For the Steam, Xbox Live, and PSN releases, the level was slightly edited to decrease its difficulty, and more frequent checkpoints were added.

That said, while this update was meant to increase Oly's health in the escort section, it only does so for the first part, and his health resets to its original values when he takes off for the second time.