10 Video Game Moments You Were SUPPOSED To Hate

There is nothing that makes completing an objective in any video game more stressful than when developers include a time limit. This is exactly what happens in Psychonauts 2 when protagonist Raz enters the mind of Psychonaut founder Compton Boole to find himself participate in a colourful cooking-based gameshow named Ram It Down.

The goal is simple: collect, prepare, and plate the necessary ingredients needed to make the required dish before the timer runs out. If you manage to present the meal to the sock puppet judges while the clock’s still ticking, you’ll be awarded with an alluring mystery prize.

As the dishes become increasingly complex to create, meeting the deadline to claim the prize becomes a frustrating undertaking. But there was a good reason for this.

Each of the minds Raz enters in this series highlights a specific area of mental health, with Compton’s being used to represent the character’s severe anxiety.

While running around an obstacle course to appease overly critical judges is a creative and fitting metaphor for anxiety, the developers likewise offer some advice on how to deal with being overwhelmed by having you take breaks between rounds.

You can even go back to collect the prizes you missed.