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Lungfishopolis

Our noble, all-volunteer navy has been surprised only by the senseless lust for mayhem that seeps from the twisted, black lump of a heart in this creature, still known only as Goggalor.

–Lungfishopolis Live

Lungfishopolis is a level in Psychonauts. It takes place inside the mental world of Linda the Lungfish.

Description[]

Deep within the subconscious of the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata lies the thriving metropolis of Lungfishopolis, home to the repressed Citizens of Lungfishopolis and the gargantuan monster known to the citizens as Kochamara. This landscape consists of beautiful hills and greenery surrounding a centralized city scape. The city itself is illuminated with the lights from towering skyscrapers and the neon signs of local lungfish nightclubs.

Old Psychopedia description

Lungfishopolis as it appears in Psychonauts is a huge modern metropolis inhabited by humanoid lungfish citizens and surrounded by a large lake. Due to its obvious kaiju movie inspirations, it is reminiscent of a Japanese city, complete with billboards featuring faux-Japanese characters. The metropolis has all sorts of buildings one would expect to see in a major city: orphanages, skyscrapers, libraries, nightclubs, suspension bridges, and restaurants, as well as a prison and various military bases. Judging by the construction sites in various places, the city is still being further expanded. Perhaps Lungfishopolis' most important building is an enormous broadcast tower located on Kochamara Island, separate from the main portion of the city.

As shown in one of the Memory Vaults found in this world, Linda's mind did not originally look like a modern cityscape. Instead, it was a peaceful underwater commune of lungfish until Coach Oleander and Dr. Loboto's brainwashing influence created Kochamara, a building-sized human man clearly meant to resemble Coach Oleander himself in a superhero outfit, who forced the citizens to adopt a new lifestyle above the lake. In its new form, the city's broadcast tower sends out propaganda that keeps the Lungfish citizens complacent with its current regime, and the military imprisons any rebellious elements left in Linda's mind.

While visiting this mental world, Razputin defeats Kochamara and destroys the broadcast tower, which will cause the city to revert to its old state in the long run. Given Linda's irreparable mutations, however, some parts may simply continue to exist as is, albeit free from Kochamara's tyrannical influence.

Points of Interest[]

  • The Laser Tunnel: As its name implies, this is a tunnel with its inside walls plastered in lasers, to annihilate any intruders to the high-security prison where the lungfish military keeps some of the revolutionaries and their blimp. Razputin can only pass by using the Shield PSI-Power.
  • The Dam: A large dam separates the lower part of the city, which contains the prison, from its main portion.
  • Skyscraper Island: A district of the city that contains 5 particularly high skyscrapers. This area is defended by the lungfish air force as Raz tries to pass through.
  • Kochamara Island: The farthest point from where Razputin enters Lungfishopolis, this island hosts the broadcast tower that sends out media propaganda and is therefore the main source of the brainwashing that plagues Linda. It is defended by Kochamara himself as soon as Raz tries to get close to the tower.

In Psychonauts[]

As night falls, Razputin is left completely alone to thwart Coach Oleander's plot for world domination. He uses the old bathysphere at the lake to pursue the huge mutated lungfish who has kidnapped all of the campers, and after fighting her at the bottom of the lake, Ford Cruller convinces him to enter her mind using Sasha's Psycho-Portal and rid her of the influence of the brainwashing implant Dr. Loboto placed on her.

Upon entering the mind of the hulking lungfish, Razputin finds himself in the middle of a bustling metropolis inhabited by lungfish citizens, but he is enormous compared to them, easily the size of a large office building. As Raz makes his way through the city, causing destruction throughout, he is spotted by a freedom fighter lungfish, who Raz accidentally kills with the sheer volume of his voice. Another lungfish comes along to inform Raz about the broadcast tower, which emits a mind controlling frequency that keeps the city's population under Kochamara's control. He instructs Raz to first free his comrades from prison, so they might help Raz reach the tower and destroy it.

Raz breaks open one prison, but also needs to free a blimp pilot, for which he needs to pass through an impenetrable laser tunnel. The freedom fighters give Raz the merit badge for the Shield PSI-Power, which he can use to reflect the lasers and get through unscathed. Afterwards, he'll use the revolutionaries' blimp as a springboard to make it over the large dam that walls off the next part of the city.

As Raz sets the plan in motion and makes his way towards the broadcast tower, the lungfish military attempt to destroy him using various weapons including tanks, electricity, and bomber jets. The lungfish media, meanwhile, nicknames Raz "Goggalor", and constantly broadcast propaganda that slanders him and the freedom fighters, going so far as to accuse them of taking drugs and soliciting "inexpensive call girls", while singing the praises of the city's military. The more Raz advances, the more the media becomes critical of the military's efforts, however.

Razputin fights off the air force by climbing skyscrapers, jumps across two freighters to reach Kochamara Island, and finally approaches the broadcasting tower. He is suddenly stopped by Kochamara himself, and must fight him to proceed. After a two-stage fight, Raz strikes him down and climbs to the top of the tower. Upon reaching the top, Kochamara reappears and dives at Raz, but the boy dodges, landing safely, while Kochamara accidentally knocks down the top of the tower himself and crashes to the ground. Kochamara disappears humiliated, and all of the freed lungfish citizens cheer for "Goggalor".

Out in the real world, the huge lungfish thanks Raz for setting her free, brings him to the other side of the lake, and hands him a Lungfish Call to use in case he ever needs to be ferried across again. She also reveals her true name: Linda.

Upon revisiting Lungfishopolis, Raz finds the city once again in a less than peaceful state. He is informed by a nearby freedom fighter that some of the military remains unconvinced by the revolutionary ideology. The freedom fighter lungfish goes on to explain that Raz can feel free to continue destroying the city's buildings, since he claims lungfish weren't meant to live in cities and the entire area is now scheduled for reforestation. His argument for squishing people being allowed, meanwhile, is simply that his own family lives in a different town.

Collectibles[]

Figments[]

Lungfishopolis contains 133 figments, most of which are shaped like Japanese-looking billboards, buildings, and other city features. For a list of figments and their locations, see the unofficial Psychonauts figment guide.

Figments of Interest[]

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

  • A billboard showing Kochamara hugging a group of Lungfish citizens.
  • A schoolbus full of panicked lungfish children.
  • Several billboards advertising the virtues of eating kids, including one where a pair of chopsticks hovers over a kid on a plate, and two on which two children are inside a sandwich and a taco, respectively.

Emotional Baggage[]

  • Steamer trunk 
    • Bag: On top of a tower past the dam to the right.
    • Tag: On the shore near the second boat.
  • Suitcase
    • Bag: On top of the tower closest to the ships at the plane fight.
    • Tag: In the tunnel with the train tracks.
  • Hatbox
    • Bag: On top of the dam, to the far left side. 
    • Tag: On top of the dam to the left.
  • Dufflebag
    • Bag: Past the jail to the right.
    • Tag: At the end of the laser tunnel.
  • Purse
    • Bag: Near the jail.
    • Tag: At the top of a tower past the jail.

Mental Cobwebs[]

  1. Behind a nearby tower after the second news flash.
  2. On the nearby wall to the right after the laser tunnel.
  3. The web is behind a silo on the top of the dam to the right.
  4. Behind a tower on the left side of the area near where the airplanes circle.
  5. On the right path next to the tower when the path splits above the dam.

Memory Vaults[]

  • Lungfishopolis Under Siege! - In the back left corner of the prison yard, after the Laser Tunnel
  • Lungfish and Loboto - In the area directly after the bridge where the path splits above the dam. Take the right path, not the left to reach this vault.

Enemies[]

Trivia[]

  • This level is largely based on the 1954 film Godzilla. Furthermore, the music on the level is extremely similar to the music played in the film when Godzilla rampages through Tokyo.
  • In Lungfishopolis, Razputin is considered a large creature. He's too heavy to use Levitation (when attempting to use it, he states "I don't think that's gonna work"), the PSI-Punch's astral fist is a monstrous claw instead, and the upgraded Palm Bomb attack has little feet appear around it instead of hands.
  • In this level, Raz gets pulled underwater by the Hand of Galochio when he hits the water twice, instead of three like most everywhere else.
  • Lungfishopolis is the only mental world in the series so far to not belong to a human.
  • Censors do not appear in Lungfishopolis, either because of Coach Oleander's interference or because Linda, being an animal, does not have them.
  • Lungfishopolis and Gloria's Theater are the only mental worlds in Psychonauts where no inner version of the mind's owner makes an appearance.
  • Officer O'lungfish, the Lungfish Zealot, and the hulking lungfish were voiced by David Kaye, who also voices Ford Cruller.
  • Skyscraper Island contains an easter egg left in the game by one of its developers. If you climb the building closest to the mountain near the ships, around 3-4 stories up, and angle the camera in just the right spot, you might find an image of one of the developers' girlfriends on the inside of the mountain.
  • A glitch in Lungfishopolis allows the player to, with some effort, return to Kochamara Island and climb the tower to exit the mental world even after the game's Point of No Return.
    • If the player uses this glitch, then tries to return to Lungfishopolis, they'll be teleported straight to the island, meaning they will not be able to go back to the city collect any items they've missed in the level.
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