Sasha Nien - Blog Posts

Sasha: "It's not experimenting, it's training for both me and the child's mind. It's not my fault this one smells like a guinea pig!"

Hey this is cool–here’s confirmation on who Norma’s mentor is, since there’s some confusion over it. Often I see people claiming that Sasha is Norma’s mentor, but there’s nothing in the game suggesting this. However!

[ID: A Discord screenshot. User “RRR” asks “who are the respective mentors” to which Harper_Jay replies:

Norma- Hollis Lizzie - Compton Adam - Truman Gisu - Otto Morris - Milla Sam - Coach Raz - ???

/end ID]

This is from Psychowhatsits, a Psychonauts fan-server that some of the Double Fine staff lurk in. Before Psychonauts 2′s release, Harper would occasionally tease stuff and answer questions. In this case, they confirmed that Hollis is indeed Norma’s mentor! (Raz’s mentor is listed as “???” here because the game was not yet released and Harper was avoiding spoilers.)

Which, IMO, just brings up a hilarious question–with Truman completely unresponsive (or so they think) and Hollis massively stressed out and overworked, why did they both get mentees and not Sasha?

This means that either Sasha adamantly refused to receive a mentee, or Hollis adamantly refused to assign a mentee to Sasha, and the latter especially is extremely funny to me.

Going back to trying. Is it worth it?

What do you guys think? Think I should keep going or just stick to writing?