It Takes Two scored very high and sold over 2M copies. I think that one's more important and relevant than Psychonauts 2.

Psychonauts 2 won't be a big seller.

If one big hit was all it took to revive the genre, the Crash N Sane Trilogy would have done it with 10+ million sales.

Oh yeah, and its showing great legs. Frequenty in the top 10 on PSN/Steam charts

Frankly if Mario O did not revive 3D platformers Psychonaughts isn't.

Despite what some people thing, developers do pay attention to what Nintendo does.

You'll need to play Rhombus of Ruin as Psychonauts 2 is a continuation of the events in the PSVR game ;)

I never got through the first game, neither the original nor the steam version I bought later. The platforming is really showing its age now and the graphics are hard to look at nowadays. Rhobus of Ruin was amazing though, the perspective changes are mind blowing. So now I'm kinda hesitant to play a 2D version. I guess there won't be a PSVR version, there's not even a ps5 version. Maybe I'll get it one day in a Steam sale or with a month of game pass. No physical edition is the final nail not to get it at release.

I'm not sure that the genre needs to be revived, as it isn't dead. Most games don't sell huge numbers, but there arena decent number of games released.

That said, as a fan of the genre, I'd like to see more AAA and AA level 3D platformers come along. But, I'm doubtful that we'll see much of that. There's more money to be made elsewhere.

A Hat in Time - 79
Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 79
Crash Bandicoot Nsane Trilogy - 80
Spyro Reignited - 82
Crash Bandicoot 4 - 85
Psychonauts 2 - 87
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart - 88

Pretty sure Crash Bandicoot and Ratchet & Clank did it first, if you want to think it needs "revival" at all

FYI, Steam has the original and the VR game on sale right now for deep discounts. The original is $1 and the VR game is $2.

Isn't Psychonauts mainly a puzzle/adventure game with platform elements in it? Or did they change it up drastically?