The main antagonist of Psychonauts kept a disguise from the beginning as a strict teacher for budding psychic students, but in reality, was planning all along to harvest their brains to power a bunch of tanks and take over the world. His excuse? Being unable to obtain a high rank in the army due to being too short.
All this built-up evil, as the final level reveals, turns out to be caused by childhood trauma, as Oleander had some serious daddy issues with his butcher father. After the game’s hero, Raz, enters Oleander’s mind and helps him deal with his personal demons, the coach releases everyone from his captivity, apologizes…and goes right back to being a camp counselor, with no apparent repurcussions. Sure, I’d be messed up too if I saw my father slaughter my pet rabbit as a kid, but that’s no excuse.
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Published: Jun 13, 2013 03:04 pm