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Why isn't he leaving?

–Loboto's dad

Vault5

Loboto's beat-up memory vault.

Little House in the Psyche, AKA Painful Memories, is a memory vault found in Loboto's Mind. It shows his tragic childhood. The memory vault is dropped from Monstroboto upon his defeat.

Description[]

BGM
Background music from the Memory Vault.

The memory vault is different from the ones in Psychonauts. Instead of being multiple two dimensional drawings pictured together to tell a story, the entire sequence is 3D animated and viewed through a first person perspective. Raz sees through the eyes of multiple younger versions of Loboto interacting with a toy dollhouse representing his childhood experiences.

Story[]

Once Monstroboto is defeated, a Memory Vault falls onto the boat, which First Mate opens to find a stereoscope inside, and brings it up to his eyes. Raz then uses Clairvoyance to access the memory inside the stereoscope.

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Loboto's dollhouse.

Inside the Memory Vault is a small dollhouse, fashioned out of a similar material to the boat. On the house's porch are patchwork doll recreations of Caligosto's parents, who are seeing a young Loboto off for an unknown procedure. The two refer to Loboto as a "devil child" and a "little monster" before heading back inside. A younger Loboto then appears to the side of the dollhouse, which Raz uses Clairvoyance on to access other scenes in the dollhouse.

The next scene involves young Caligosto hiding in a closet in his parents room and watching them argue about him. His mother is extremely stressed over her son's unknown condition, and the two have agreed to send him off for an icepick lobotomy. His mother initially voices concerns about the dangers of the procedure, but eventually declares she doesn't care if it does or not. Raz uses Clairvoyance again to move to the next scene.

The following scene is in the Lobotos' family kitchen, where it is revealed that Caligosto's "condition" is that he is a psychic. His mother calls his father into the kitchen and shows him all the spoons they own, which have all been bent by Caligosto using Telekinesis. His mother is so disturbed by this revelation that his father has him taken to the hospital to have tests run on him.

The final scene is of Caligosto as a baby, laying in a crib. His parents come into the room and are very evidently fond of him, wistfully discussing his future.

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Loboto's parents looking at their infant son in his crib.

“I can already tell he's going to be a doctor. Just like his old man. (Or an architect, or a lawyer! Maybe a dentist!) God forbid! *laughs*”

Caligosto's mother notices that the teddy bear she removed from his crib because the "eyes aren't childsafe" is back in it and berates his father before moving it to the other side of the room. The two then leave, Loboto's father saying it "must have been the cleaning lady". Baby Caligosto then uses Telekinesis to move the teddy bear back into his crib and removes the compass from his crib mobile, sending it back to the boat. Raz pieces together the truth of Caligosto's background, realizing that he is a psychic and was lobotomized by his parents to remove his abilities, which ultimately led him to become insane. Raz then uses Clairvoyance to go to the final room of the dollhouse, the bathroom, which shows a sad patchwork doll of Monstroboto in the tub.

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The compass being restored.

With the compass restored to the boat, First Mate declares it's "time we sail for new waters", to which a cuckoo-bird named Crackers pops out and says "it's about time". Once the Compass is recovered, First Mate and Crackers can finally sail to safety far away from Monstroboto.

Video Walk-through[]

Trivia[]

  • Another memory vault, Sasha's First Loss, is also viewed through a first person perspective.

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Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin[]

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