INCEPTIONAUTS!

The Internet has been swamped these past few weeks with so many Inception mash-up trailers I'm starting to feel like we will soon have an Inceptionized trailer for every significant movie of the last 20 years. Up, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, THE SECRET OF NIMH! I was on the verge of saying that the whole meme had been officially beaten into horseburgers until I saw this: Inceptionauts.

If anyone remembers this criminally underappreciated game, good on you. It's Psychonauts from Double Fine which is the company Tim Schafer founded after working on such amazing games as Monkey Island 1 and 2, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle Full Throttle and Grim Fandango for Lucasarts. If you haven't, add it to your bucket list. (Though people still give Psychonauts crap for having the difficulty spike near the end that hits you like like a volleyball player after an adrenaline shot to the heart. I didn't think it was that bad. Your mileage may vary.)