“Pins allow you to add custom tweaks to your PSI Powers! You can mix n' match them to suit your style of play, and as you rank up, you'll gain access to more powerful ones! Why don't you try one out on the house? Pick one of those three levitation pins...”
Pins are items that Raz can obtain at any Otto-matic shop. Some pins will give Raz various power buffs, while others are purely cosmetic. Raz can equip up to three of them at a time by accessing his journal. They were first brought up in one of the Basic Braining episodes.[1] Pins are not necesary to complete the main story of Psychonauts 2.
Available Pins[]
| Badge | Purpose | PSI Rank Required | Psitanium Cost | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levitation | ||||
| Sapphire Lev Ball | Shifts your levitation ball color to a soothing blue. | 1 | 10 (Initially Free) | |
| Emerald Lev Ball | Shifts your levitation ball color to an emerald green. | 1 | 10 (Initially Free) | |
| Ruby Lev Ball | Shifts your levitation ball color to a rubious red. | 1 | 10 (Initially Free) | |
| Cannonball | Smash your lev ball to the ground when you press the action button while in the air! | 12 | 100 | |
| Projection | ||||
| Gag Order | Muffles your Archetype to give your ears a rest! | 30 | 400 | |
| Pixel Pal | Digitizes your Archetype for a retro makeover! | 32 | 400 | |
| PSI Clone | Pin this and watch your Archetype move like the wind! | 40 | 400 | |
| Wastepaper | Your Archetype explodes into confetti upon death, damaging nearby enemies! | 48 | 500 | |
| Mental Connection | ||||
| Food For Thought | Each Mental Connection node has a chance to restore a little Mental Energy! | 18 | 200 | |
| Heavy Thoughts | Use Mental Connections to anchor your enemies in place! | 28 | 200 | |
| Mental Tax | Making Mental Connections has a chance to tax the mind, causing it to emit Psitantium! | 40 | 200 | |
| Brain Drain | Grabbing an enemy with Mental Connection will deplete their health! | 56 | 400 | |
| Clairvoyance | ||||
| Mental Block | Extends the duration of your Brain Block upgrade! | 1 | 50 | |
| Speed Reader | Enter a clairvoyant state in double time! | 10 | 100 | |
| Melee | ||||
| Rainblows | Bedazzle your enemies while pummeling them with full spectrum fists! | 12 | 300 | |
| Strike-onaut | Channels more psychic energy into your punches to deal more damage! | 48 | 600 | |
| Assorted | ||||
| Bobby Pin | Break into dance when you're standing around doin' zilch! | 1 | 50 | |
| Mental Magnet | Dropped items will be drawn to you from a greater distance! | 8 | 200 | |
| Goo Proof | Keeps you from getting encumbered by those gooey Doubt droppings! | 22 | 200 | |
| Glass Cannon | Deal more damage! But also take more damage! | 24 | 200 | |
| VIP Discount | Very important Psychonauts wear this special pin for discount Otto-Matic prices! | 50 | 750 | |
| Psimultanium | Psitanium is dropped at double the rate! | 52 | 750 | |
| PSI Blast | ||||
| Stun Gun | Sets your PSI Blast to stun if you'd rather not do damage! | 1 | 100 | |
| Censory Overload | Censors take more damage from PSI Blasts! | 32 | 500 | |
| Chain Grain | If you have the Chain Brain PSI Blast upgrade, this will tack on some more links! | 36 | 500 | |
| Pyrokinesis | ||||
| Fever Reducer | Fire hazards and attacks won't drain as much of your Mental Energy! | 14 | 200 | |
| Goonade | Doubts explode when you take them out with Pyrokinesis! | 24 | 200 | |
| Telekinesis | ||||
| Beastmastery | Use Telekinesis to pet your furry forest friends. | 1 | 50 | |
| Power Nap | Thrown objects will daze your enemies for much longer! | 22 | 200 | |
| Plucky | If there are no objects to TK, just pluck a ground chunk to throw! | 36 | 400 | |
| Time Bubble | ||||
| Time Warp | Speeds up objects and enemies rather than slowing them! | 36 | 400 | |
| Bubble Wrap | Inflates your Time Bubble to slow a much bigger area! | 44 | 500 | |
| Big Time | Squeezes some more time out of your Time Bubbles! | 52 | 500 | |
Trivia[]
- While in the first game Raz would do the "Bobby Zilch" dance whenever he was idling in certain locations, as well as after beating the luchadores, now he needs a specific pin to do that.
- The "Mental Magnet" pin is a carryover of the badge of the same name from the first game.
- Pins received criticism from critics due to the game only allowing the player wear three pins at once.
- Combining all three levitation ball color pins will make the levitation ball white.