Customer Reviews

Sanitarium

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am not much a gamer myself but Ive been played some very great adventure games that I would recommend anyone anyday. For example: Monkey Island Series, Grim Fandango, or Indigo Prophecy. This Sanitarium game give a whole different kind of adventure. It mingle well between sci-fi horror and pure point-and-click with amazing puzzles to be solved.

You woke up seeing yourself in a mental institute, next level you were a little bug, another you would be an Aztex soilder (not in any particular order) The scenery were eerie enough and exciting enough to keep you through all nine levels and keep you amazed until the end. The story unfold in your eyes and then make you wonder wow, it's over??? --or at least thats what I thought when I finished the game.

Get this game, I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

If you remember that ol' 80's late night T.V. show called "Tales From The Darkside." That is the best way to describe this game. This game is a gem to dig up and play. They really need to update this game with todays stanards. I think it would be a hit, only if they did it right. But until then we have a game that has 1998 graphics. Point and click controls. Puzzle solving. Bizzare story line. All this makes it a great "weird" game and thats good! The story is that you are in a car accident and wake up in a sanitarium not knowing anything about yourself. So you go about talking to other people, if you can call them that, trying to piece your memory back to sanity. Or are you dreaming. Or are you really crazy? (Don't call me crazy) I didn't call you crazy, you called yourself crazy. (I didn't say that, YOU DID!) I'M NOT CRAZY!!!!!! Yep folks, that's Sanitarium and by looking at the other 5 star ratings, I think that speeks for itself like the voices in my head. So order Sanitarium before they put the straight jacket on you and you end up playing the game with your toes. That's my review! This is Hopscotch saying,,,,, BLLLAAAHHHH!!!!

While a bit tough, Sanitarium is one of the most amazing and fun games ever. Most would say the replay value is pretty low, but I've played it over and over and I love it. Not to mention it's long enough that trying to play it all in one go is pretty difficult. Some of the puzzles are difficult, but none are so incredibly hard that there's no way you can figure it out without a walkthrough. I adore this game, I would recommend it to anyone who likes something a little offbeat.

Sanitarium is one of those rare jewels which, for some strange reason, don't have all the recognition they deserve.

I am 33 years old and, after many many years of computer gaming I can say this is one of the best adventures I have ever played. But it is not for everyone.

This is an adult game. It doesn't mean that it has sex in it, but some secenes could be disturbing for children.

The plot evolves around a man who, after having a car accident, awakes in an asylum with his head wrapped up in bandages and without a clue about who he is and what has happened. Your goal in this adventure is discovering your identity and why you have ended up there.

But you don't seem to be in the real world anymore... along your adventure you visit a small rural town where all the children have been horribly difigured by someone called "Mother"; you visit a disturbing circus and freak show, isolated by a flood and surrounded by floating corpses; you watch some ghostly secenes of your chilhood happening around you in the darkness of an abandoned manor... It's better that you discover the rest on your own. Grim poetry, unbearable sadness, deep regrets... all of this and even more you will witness if you manage to get yourself inside the story which develops in the screen before your eyes.

Regarding the ease of installation, everything is straightforward. As it should always be.

The music is very good. I can't say it is something spectacular but it makes you feel what you are suposed to feel in every scene.

The only problem I found with this game is the control system. It isn't as good as it could have been and it makes the few action scenes of the game a little bit more difficult but... If you want to enjoy a state-of-the-art narration, don't let this glitch refrain you from getting this game.


As a bottom line I can only say this:

If you want to play something different, a dark story (not unpleasant but disturbing at times), with an intriguing plot, a game that could make you shiver if you play it alone and with the lights out, a game that will make you wish there were more games like that on the market so you could find something similar once you have finished it... you should give a try to Sanitarium.

As I said, a MUST HAVE. I wish it had the recognition it deserves.

This game came out in the late 90's and still remains one of the best games I have ever played. I still own the original version, bugs and all, not wanting to part with it.

I had a blast playing this game! I constantly found myself giggling and within no time had the whole house watching.

The theme is rated T and the game play interactions are 'quite unusual'.
Definitely worth the play!