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I played Psychonauts again for almost three hours straight, after a maybe half-hour earlier session. I finished the warped neighborhood, then went through a few of the earlier stages dusting for cobwebs and grabbing any figments of imagination I missed or didn't have the cobweb duster to collect.

Then I went through this bipolar actor's head, which was kind of bizzare. There were three sets, and a switch to turn each set between good and evil, and this big fat crtic guy gave me a script. I had to activate that script on the right set, such as the script which called for a knight to run through the scene had to be activated on a set with a dragon. Then that got me another script, and another. Then I got up in some catwalks and had to fight the masked guy who was sabotaging the show, who turned out to be the critic, who I then had to battle. I guess he symbolizes that actor woman letting some critic's scathing review control her life.

Then I went back through some more earlier stages for more collectables. I think I'm at level 57 now.

EDIT: I also got back to Doom after I was able to get those two Xbox Live Achievements with the help of one of the guys from Gamers Anonymous - we basically took turns busting caps up each other's asses until we both had 100 kills. Thy Flesh Consumed got a lot better at the third stage, when they knocked off that shit with every other enemy being a Baron of Hell, and in fact in the three stages I've cleared so far I've only seen one. I'm at, I think the sixth level now.

EDIT 2: Well, I did it. I beat Thy Flesh Consumed. Level 6 went back to BoH spamming, and Levels 7 and 8 had some but they weren't bad. Plus, I had plenty of ammo, and the game didn't throw four at me at once like it did in level 2.

I beat Psychonauts. I scaled a tower and beat some tank boss on my first try.

Then Raz and Oleander's brains mingle and you're in the final level, which is EXTREMELY irritating.

First you're inside a circus tent with Coach Oleander as a kid and everything's made of meat. Bunnies keep getting dropped into a meat grinder and spat out as monsters which go after Oleander. He's chasing a bunny around which you have to grab with Telekinesis and wait for Oleander to come grab it, but Oleander takes his sweet fucking time, and usually I have to drop the rabbit and beat a monster rabbit off him, and then the rabbit hops away. After he gets the rabbit, his beanie flies him up to a higher level, and you have to get up there and help him catch the rabbit again, and he's taking a beating from another monster rabbit while you're struggling with the camera trying to figure out which direction you're supposed to go in.

After about four rounds of this, you go outside and ride a rail, but the camera comes back with a vengence as you fight to keep the camera one step ahead of the track.

Then you fight his dad, a butcher. The reason Oleander went insane was because his father butchered a pet rabbit of his, or possibly just rabbits in general. You run around a circular room trying to get him to chop so he gets his knife stuck in the ground, run up his arm, and punch him in the face. But most of the time I tried to punch him he shifted and Raz slid off, or the punch went right through him. Finally, I found juuust the right spot to hit him.

Then Raz's dad appears in zombie form, and I had to go through this obstacle course with more bad camera and control programming, plus some other BS like Raz's zombie dad dropping bombs on him while he's trying to climb up a bunch of ropes, but Raz wouldn't climb the rope right away, and would often get knocked back down when a bomb hit him. The end was just me holding up to have Raz climb a ladder for about two minutes. I think Tim Schafer was channeling Fumito Ueda for most of this level.

Then Oleander and Raz's dads team up, and you throw these flaming juggling pins at the butcher dad, then punch his head again. When he dies he falls into a giant meat grinder in the middle of the room. Then Raz's real dad comes in zaps the evil dad into the meat grinder, and the two evil dads fuse into one and you're at the final boss.

Raz's dad charges him with psychic energy, which creates this giant red electric Raz with the real Raz in the chest, and the final boss goes like this: Run up to the monster dad and button mash him until Raz turns back to normal. Slowly run from the monster dads so he tries to stomp you, and double jump to avoid that. Keep going until that blue meter in the upper right fills, Raz goes super, and button mash the monster until the meter depletes. Repeat until final boss dies.

The ending was all warm and fuzzy, at least, so the game tried to make up for that.

Is the RAU cast watching a movie?

I started Tail Concerto and got the Green Crystal. Wow, this game's voice acting sucks.