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psychonauts is one of the best games of all time, being released in 2005 on xbox it looked amazing, the artdirection is still great on the pc port today and with controller it plays amazing.

while bastion is good it's nowhere near the quality in writing, creativity and gameplay

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Personally I loved everything about psychonauts (played the original xbox version), except the game play. Story, art, writing etc. etc. all amazing, and all rate among the best ever seen in a game. Unfortunately the actual gameplay let it down.

I agree that Psychonauts writing and creativity is better than Bastion, I found Bastion to be a better actual game all around.

The bugs in the Linux port let me down. I played quite a bit of Psychonauts and enjoyed it. Certainly some things are annoying (like finding those arrow heads). But the biggest disappointment was that the game was constantly crashing and you had to look up the bugtracker (at least there was a public one) for workarounds and wait for the few patches that were released.

Bastion was a fun game but not really creative.

In my opinion, Bastion is one of the best games I have played in a long long time. I really enjoyed its writing, creativity and gameplay. The soundtrack is utterly amazing to boot.

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