Mental Shards are glass shards found across the different Mental Worlds from Ford's Fractured Mind. Each contains the lost memories about Ford Cruller's past, caused by the Astralathe after the fight with Maligula and psyche modifications towards Lucy and Augustus. Raz must collect all three shards to repair Ford's mind but for that, Raz needs to reach the inside of a mental replica of Ford Cruller and his different personas.
Gameplay[]
Like some of the other collectibles in Psychonauts 2; the mental shards are objects located at certain points of the level that can be easily collected by interacting with them, however their guide to find them is what makes them troublesome. Each one of them is inside the head of an aspect of Ford and to do that each and one of them has their own paths, obstacles and more. Collecting any of this pieces gives more clues on Lucrecia and Ford, as well as the relation the two had prior to the events with the Maligula's emergence, this is reflected via cutscenes of Raz putting the shards on the hand mirror the headless Ford is carrying and the little psychic putting an object related to the mind in a furniture.
Dialogues[]
Strike City[]
- (Bowling Pin Ford) "Hey! Bowlers aren’t allowed in here! Now git! ’fore I spray ya!"
- (Bowling Pin Ford) "Don’t touch that! That’s private!"
- (Bowling Pin Ford) "OOH!"
- (Razputin) "You and…"
- (Razputin) "You… loved her?"
- (Bowling Ford) "Her name is Lucrecia."
- (Ford Cruller) "But I called her… Lucy."
- (Ford Cruller) "And even from that first date in that grimy bowling alley, I knew…"
- (Bowling Ford) "Knew that it was too good to last forever?"
- (Bowling Ford) "Hey, all relationships end, one way or another."
- (Ford Cruller) "I just didn’t think it would end… so badly."
- (Bowling Ford) "Hey, cheer up. Even gutter balls return, eventually."
- (Razputin) "(Sighs)"
Ford's Follicles[]
- (Lighthouse Ford) "Hey you lousy little mite! How’d you get in here?"
- (Lighthouse Ford) "Don’t push me! I’ll gargle a bottle of Hydrocide if I need to!"
- (Lighthouse Ford) "GRAAH! OH!"
- (Razputin) "Lucrecia went to Grulovia."
- (Barber Ford) "She went back to protect her family, to help her country…"
- (Barber Ford) "Oh, but it changed her."
- (Ford Cruller) "War changes everybody"
- (Ford Cruller) "Inside all of us… We all have…"
- (Barber Ford) "Dark roots?"
- (Ford Cruller) "Well, sometimes we need that darkness. To survive."
- (Barber Ford) "Careful. Sometimes it’s hard to get it back in the bottle."
Cruller's Correspondence[]
- (Ford-Ford) "This is a private mailbox! You aren’t allowed in here! You’ve been mis-sorted!"
- (Ford-Ford) "You touch that and it’s a FEDERAL CRIME!"
- (Ford-Ford) "AGH!"
- (Razputin) "What did you say in that letter?"
- (Mail Clerk Ford) "Nothing important, really."
- (Ford Cruller) "Just that I loved her."
- (Ford Cruller) "She just wanted to help, but they pushed her too far."
- (Mail Clerk Ford) "How should we have known? It’s not like she was marked, "Fragile!""
- (Ford Cruller) "I thought I knew her, and everything she held inside herself."
- (Ford Cruller) "Ahh, I had so much to learn."
- (Mail Clerk Ford) "Ah, I guess some packages are better left unopened."
Trivia[]
- Upon revisiting Strike City and Ford's Follicles, the player can get inside the sections with the inside skull of Ford but it will lack the appearance of the small brain along with the mental shard since this area technically shouldn't be accesible.