![]() ![]() The guitar with Bajakian’s vintage pedals, on the other hand, either goes funky, blues or rock and roll. ![]() The tuba, the lowest brass instrument, sounds quite soft in the background of Traversing The Stacks, but it becomes a massive metronome in The Flea Circus, a march similar to Julius Fučík’s Entry Of The Gladiators. Strings and brasses – with a tension between them they go for noir and spy films ( Casino Monorail with the super-dry drums from the era), but when relaxed they bring a jazz band to a little stage in a smoky room ( Feeling Lucky Tonight). In fact, what never leaves Psychonauts 2 is a retro vibe, but each instrument shows plenty (plenty!) of different faces. I can only imagine the Skywalker Ranch’s appearance with Peter McConnell and his mates playing around with all these music styles like in a magical jukebox. Why is music ignored in video game reviews? But suddenly the thread stops short and the conversation turns into an almost cartoon-like punch line. It starts with the string and brass sections having a dialogue with each other and the electric guitar putting its oar in. Let’s take Something Fishy At Headquarters as an example. McConnell goes above and below that surface, switching moods so seamlessly. The surface of the game is rather insane and unpredictable, but the story dives beneath it going towards a spy intrigue, bright characters, and plot twists. Plus, for one song the trio was enlarged to the 4-piece band with Jack Black ( Tenacious D). With Michael Land and Clint Bajakian he went to the legendary Skywalker Ranch that belongs to George Lucas and fulfilled his destiny. I said humans because McConnell invited his friends to work with some part of the score. If Google asked this soundtrack to confirm its humanity – yes, these are definitely humans. All the little noises, imperfections and nuances on strings or frets, they’re all there. And in this case, the difference is huge. Peter McConnell kind of followed the convention from 2005, but there’s the first difference – last time he included some virtual instruments and this time he wanted to record only live ones. Nothing expresses it better than the noir big band… who’s not always noir and is not a big band, if we peeked into the backstage. Raz (officially: Razputin Aquato), a young skilled psychic who can literally visit others’ minds joins the international psychic organisation (Psychonauts, indeed) as their secret agent, but their leader’s seem odd since he was kidnapped. Anyway, Psychonauts 2 takes place right after the previous part. ![]()
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