No. 005Psychonauts 2 · Xbox MENA · CC BY
The Frames
The Quarry, mid-levitate
Jul 19, 2026
A place that keeps running whether or not anybody is standing in it.
Idle Frames·1 min read
No argument in this one. Just a place.
I stopped here for a while and did nothing, on purpose. No objective, no collectible, nothing pinned to the map. The water kept going. The light kept moving. Somewhere off screen something made a noise it was always going to make whether I was there or not.
The best thing a game can do is carry on while you are not playing it.
That is the whole frame. Games get judged on their busiest minute and almost never on this one, which is a shame, because this is the minute I remember.
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