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Gloria's Theater

Listen, the burden of being the only sunshine in this theater is just too much for one beautiful, glowing, inspirational muse to bear you know?

Bonita Soleil

Gloria's Theater is a level in Psychonauts. It is set in the mental world of Gloria Von Gouton.

Description[]

Gloria’s mind is stained with Broadway failure, Raz is lucky enough to explore the inner workings of Gloria’s mind first hand.

Old Psychopedia description

Gloria's Theater is a large, dark theater constructed from Gloria's memories of being a stage actress, where horribly acted plays that re-enact episodes of Gloria's life are played out repeatedly under the watchful eye of Jasper Rolls, the resident critic, as overworked stagehand Becky stands by in dismay. The theater's main star, Bonita Soleil, is often absent from its stage by the time Razputin pays it a visit, because she's tired of the terrible plays depicting Gloria's life.

The theater comes equipped with most of the features one would expect to see: a backstage area with a dressing room for Bonita and a storage room, an orchestra pit, very expansive catwalks, and seats for the audience—though no actual audience is present aside from the critic and various figments. The theater's most notable feature is the mood light, representing Gloria's intense and sudden mood swings. When active and hit, the light switches the entire atmosphere of the stage area from overly happy and saccharine to grim and hostile, and back again. This affects even the actors, who attack Raz when the stage is in its dark mood.

Points of Interest[]

  • The Stage: The main area of Gloria's mind. Raz can switch the sets on the stage by physically moving through them, as well as change the mood light for a total of 6 possible sets to perform the scripts on. During the fight with Jasper tons of objects that were close to the seating tiers fall including the platform where the mood light used to be, this was occasioned by Jasper's balcony when detached from the wall it was situated.
  • Storage Room: A storage room full of props. Raz finds the candles in here.
  • Bonita's Dressing Room: The dressing room where Bonita Soleil hides away from the audience when she isn't ready to perform. It contains many breakable trinkets, gifts from admirers, and posters of various classic Bonita Soleil performances.
  • Catwalks: A large area above the theater's stage that's only accessible by using the balloon prop from one of the plays. It contains a multitude of mechanisms, spotlights of various colors, suspended pieces of decor, and curtains, as well as sandbag weights that are dropped on Raz as he passes through. By revisiting the catwalks there are no longer sandbag weights that can hurt Raz as well as the fact that the upper entrance to the stage seems to be blocked.

In Psychonauts[]

After Razputin manages to pass the gates of Thorney Towers, he finds a back entrance that takes him through a dilapidated greenhouse. This is the usual hangout of Gloria Von Gouton, who he finds repeatedly bowing to wilted potted plants with faces drawn on. Gloria is very friendly, if clearly confused about Razputin's identity, until she steps out of the light and becomes outright hostile, chasing the boy away. Raz can approach the three patients on the asylum's lower floors in any order, but since he needs Gloria's acting trophy as part of a disguise to trick Crispin into taking him up to the upper floors, he must use his Psycho-Portal to try and leave Gloria in a more helpful state.

Entering into the fallen actress' mind, Razputin gets transported to her inner theater, and is immediately asked to get off the stage by Becky, the stressed-out stagehand. When she exclaims that her play is ruined because of Raz's confused reaction, a rude, fat man in the audience points out it was already a horrible play anyway. The man turns out to be Jasper Rolls, Gloria's inner critic. His cynicism is unpleasant, but Becky has bigger problems: Bonita Soleil, the star of the show and Gloria's muse, has locked herself into her dressing room and refuses to come out. Loud sobbing can be heard from her dressing room all the way to the back of the corridor. Using Invisibility, Raz infiltrates Bonita's room, where he finds Bonita in tears. However, when he talks to her, it becomes apparent that the delicate crying comes from a tape set up to get Bonita into her role, while her real voice is rather deep and masculine.

Gloria mind

The stage.

Bonita tells Raz she's tired of having to be the only light on stage for the otherwise terrible plays, and so she instructs him to go get a candle from the storage room and put it into the mood light. Once Razputin has done so, Bonita goes out on stage, but a shadowy figure soon thwarts the show by dropping a spotlight on one of the actors. Jasper immediately blames Bonita's bad acting, which causes her to retreat to her dressing room yet again, this time actually in tears.

Rumors had it that the culprit was "The Phantom", a villain who only comes out when Bonita Soleil is on stage, and supposedly lurks in the catwalks above the stage. Razputin immediately wants to investigate, but the only way to get up to the catwalks is by using a hot air balloon used as a prop in a certain play. Razputin needs to gather up different plays (including plays representing memories of Gloria asking about her father, being sent off to an abusive acting school, yearning for letters from her mother, and becoming successful as an actress), and find new options by combining the plays he has with the right set and mood, physically traversing the sets to switch them. There are 3 decors: a maypole, a cliff, and the docks, in happy and sad variants, making for 6 sets total. Finally, the play "Goodbye Hagatha Home", when combined with the maypole set on the dark mood, brings out the balloon Raz needs.

The Phantom

The Phantom.

Razputin hitches a ride on the balloon and onto the catwalks. As he makes his way through, the Phantom keeps taunting him as well as attempting to drop sandbags on him, but once he reaches the end, the shadowy figure simply waits for him on the other side of a large gap in the path. Raz manages to chase him out of the way by lighting a spotlight nearby, which apparently both blinds and hurts the villainous specter. Looking down on the theater, he sees the Phantom remove his cape and slip into Jasper's seat. Confronting the critic, Raz accuses him of being the elusive Phantom, and manages to get a confession by insinuating that Jasper would be too fat to be the limber, catwalk-climbing villain.

Jasper does not simply come quietly, however. He reveals that his seat can fly and proceeds to attack the psychic kid with negative adjectives shot from large fountain pens on either side of the floating balcony seat, as well as siccing the dark versions of the actors on Raz. By floating up above the orchestra pit and repeatedly lighting the spotlights in his face, Razputin can stun the critic long enough to get some hits in. He beats the angry critic, returning peace to the theater and alleviating Gloria's endless internal self-deprecation, thus curing her of her terrible mood swings. Everyone watches Bonita's latest performance in awe, as Jasper, while still equally vitriolic, is reduced to about one-tenth of his original size, shrinking to fit inside his popcorn bag.

Upon revisiting the theater, Becky informs Raz that Bonita is gone. After "an amazing 60-week run, 3 sold out performances a day", she's on vacation while the rest of the company rehearses some old material to prepare for a tour. As such, Raz is welcome to hang around and ask to run the same plays as before again.

Collectibles[]

Figments[]

Gloria's Theater contains 157 figments, ranging from props to audience and staff members to images of a young Bonita. For a list of figments and their locations, see the unofficial Psychonauts figment guide.

Figments of Interest[]

Among Gloria's figments, some that stand out include:

  • A trunk filled with letters, either fan mail or in reference to Gloria's mother's letters, which she never received while at Hagatha Home.
  • A woman hitting a small girl with a riding crop, in reference to the physical abuse Gloria endured at Hagatha Home.
  • Children in ratty clothes forced to clean and carry laundry, and crying ballerinas.
  • Various glamorous pictures of Bonita, one of which includes her signature.

Emotional Baggage[]

  • Purse
    • Bag: On Jasper's platform.
    • Tag: Behind the stage.
  • Dufflebag
    • Bag: At the end of the catwalks.
    • Tag: Behind the large censor at the top of the ladder in the catwalks.
  • Hatbox
    • Bag: On the platform directly below the Dufflebag tag.
    • Tag: In the catwalks after the light poles.
  • Steamer Trunk
    • Bag: At the top of the storeroom.
    • Tag: Under the Manual Mood Override machine.
  • Suitcase
    • Bag: Behind the corner cobweb behind the stage.
    • Tag: In the storage room.

Mental Cobwebs[]

  1. Underneath Jasper's seat.
  2. Underneath Jasper's seat.
  3. On the opposite side of the room from Jasper. Levitate and PSI float over to the high seats. The cobweb is on one of the seats.
  4. Behind the stage in the far corner behind some props.
  5. In Bonita's hallway behind the stage.
  6. In the storage room at the top of the ladder.
  7. In on a platform in the corner of the storage room. Drop down to this platform after obtaining the candle.

Memory Vaults[]

  • Gloria's Cruel Training - After talking to Bonita, enter the storage room near her dressing room. The vault is in here.
  • Gloria's Fallen Star - After you find the hatbox tag, jump down to the lower catwalk to find this vault hopping around.

Enemies[]

Trivia[]

  • When Razputin is left idle on the stage, he will wave to the audience and take a bow.
  • Gloria's Theater is one of only two minds in Psychonauts in which an inner version of the mind's owner does not make an appearance, the other being Lungfishopolis. In this case, it is because Bonita Soleil is a stand-in for Gloria who is literally acting out her role.
  • All combinations of sets and scripts have their own dialog, even when the scene simply fails to play out properly.
  • Using Clairvoyance on the Phantom as he stands in the catwalks already reveals him to have the same vision of Raz as Jasper (One and a half stars floating in the air).
  • Though the images on the props change when the Mood Machine changes, they still retain their shapes.
  • When Razputin lands in the cardboard waves, a prop version of the Hand of Galochio appears. Afterward, Raz will appear back on the stage.
  • While Invisibility is technically necessary to get pass Bonita's door, this can be bypassed by using Marksmanship while facing the door, which will place Raz's head through the wall and above the game trigger that opens it.
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