History YMMV / PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin

* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Raz feels horrible for Loboto after learning what his AbusiveParents did to him.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Loboto gets some due to his DarkAndTroubledPast--how much of his insanity comes from [[spoiler: his botched lobotomy]], and how much from his true nature? [[spoiler: His memories imply he heard his parents planning the lobotomy well in advance. Did he not know what was going to happen? Or did he know, and was unable to stop it from happening? Maybe, as a third option, he didn't want to stop it...]]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the biggest complaints about the game is that the game is incredibly short, especially for the price of 20 dollars - if you know what you're doing, you can beat it in just over an hour.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the biggest complaints about the game is that, if you know what you're doing, the game can be beaten in just over an hour.

** [[spoiler: This can hit especially hard for players with mental disabilities whose parents treated them poorly as a result. One of Loboto's memories is of his parents arguing over him bending spoons with his mind with Loboto's father giving a cruel HopeSpot by saying that Loboto "Is our son". Given one of the possible roots of the myth of Changelings[[labelnote:*]]It's believed by some that the myth of changelings started because of mental illnesses and disabilities like Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Down Syndrome and others being misinterpreted as a fey being who "replaced" the "real" "normal" child[[/labelnote]], his mother's "Is he?" bites ''hard''.]]
** [[spoiler: What's more sad is both parents are clearly voiced by Loboto himself putting on voices, to the point where the subtitles refer to them as Loboto (Mom) and Loboto (Dad). He remembers what they said about him and what they ''did'' to him, ''but he can't remember their voices anymore.'']]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: The game is barely over an hour long, if you know what you're doing, which is one of the biggest complaints about the game.

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: The game can be beaten in about an hour, but offers some interesting [[WorldBuilding details]] to the setting of ''Psychonauts'', along with the fact that at the time of it's release in 2017, it was the first official new story in the franchise in a little over a decade.

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: The game can be beaten in about an hour, but offers some interesting [[WorldBuilding details]] to the setting of ''Psychonauts'', along with the fact that it's the first official new story in the franchise in a little over a decade.

** [[spoiler: This can hit especially hard for players with mental disabilities whose parents treated them poorly as a result. One of Loboto's memories is of his parents arguing over him bending spoons with his mind with Loboto's father giving a cruel HopeSpot by saying that Loboto "Is our son". Given one of the possible roots of the myth of Changelings[[labelnote:*]]It's believed by some that the myth of changelings started because of mental illnesses and disabilities like Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Down Syndrome and others being misinterpreted as a fey being who "replaced" the "real" "normal" child[[/labelnote]], his mother's "Is he?" bites ''hard''.]]

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the [=PlayStation=] Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the [=PS4=] console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the [=PS4=] Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a ''Psychonauts'' fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR (although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16838-ps4-exclusive/?do=findComment&comment=398928 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.
** This has been mitigated somewhat as of April 19th 2018 by the PC release of the game. It's still an expensive experience in that it ''requires'' one of the two major VR Headsets, either the Oculus Rift ($399 USD) or the HTC Vive ($499 USD), but it's ''considerably'' more affordable now.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYkNKO9F28s The James Bond-esque trailer theme.]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Loboto's childhood was ''not'' a happy one. Anyone whose parents send them off to get lobotomized because of their psychic powers while calling them "little monster" and "devil child" ''can't'' have had a happy childhood.]]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: The game is barely over an hour long, if you know what you're doing, which is one of the biggest complaints about the game.

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the [=PlayStation=] Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the PS4 console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the PS4 Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a ''Psychonauts'' fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR (although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16838-ps4-exclusive/?do=findComment&comment=398928 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the Playstation Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the PS4 console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the PS4 Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a ''Psychonauts'' fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR (although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16838-ps4-exclusive/?do=findComment&comment=398928 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the Playstation Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the PS4 console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the PS4 Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a ''Psychonauts'' fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR (although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16838-ps4-exclusive/?do=findComment&comment=398928 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the Playstation Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the PS4 console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the PS4 Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a Psychonauts fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR(although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16838-ps4-exclusive/?do=findComment&comment=398928 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.

* CrackIsCheaper: The game costs $20. However, at the time of its release, the PSVR headset required to play the game cost $400 - and if you didn't have the Playstation Camera required to operate the headset, that's an extra $60, and if you didn't already have the PS4 console required to power all this, that's $300 - $400 if you wanted the PS4 Pro. All assuming that you could find the PSVR headset not sold out somewhere, rather than being resold for a few hundred more by some eBay scalper. That's upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS to play one game, if you're just a Psychonauts fan who just wants to keep up with the story. And, as of this writing, the game is exclusive to PSVR(although Double Fine has not ruled out support for other platforms in the future). While some fans were devoted enough to happily cough up the cash for the required tech, others were [[https://forums.doublefine.com/topic/16923-rhombus-of-ruin-community-qa/?do=findComment&comment=398924 less happy with this decision]], feeling that they were being locked out of a follow-up to their favorite game with an enormous paywall. Other fans pointed out that Sony funded the game, and the deal to make it exclusive to PSVR may have been the difference between ''Rhombus of Ruin'' not being made at all.