Sanitarium Reviews

I played through it all and wasn't really impressed. It's still a decent adventure game, but I could really never get into the story. It just felt like a cluster fuck of ideas. The Max segments would good, but the cyclops, little girl, and Aztec felt out of place. If the game was more like the first two chapters I would have better things to say about it.

Idk to me it still doesn't hold a candle to games like King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Phantasmagoria 1 and 2, Harvester and all of the Lucas Arts point and click games. And yes I take into account that Phantasmagoria 2 and Harvester were both really out there. At least they had a consistent theme and a lot of laugh out loud moments to keep me going.

If you are a point and click adventure fan I would still recommend playing it from GOG as it is rather easy and short. The puzzles aren't too challenging. The conversations were decent as well.

You can dig your old NES or Genesis out of the closet, but old computer games often plain don't work on a new rig. I feel lucky to have experienced this game-- one of my favorite point and click adventures ever. The story and even the graphics hold up very well, almost 15 years after its release.

in the beginning, it looks like it might be a story with an interesting twist, which maybe deals with the inner thoughts of a psychopath. after about halfway through, it is becoming clear that it's just another run-of-the-mill pseudo-mystery story which has about as much complexity as the story of house of the dead 2.

i continued playing because i hoped there might still be a twist coming but pretty short before the end, i'm not even interested in seeing some cliche ending.

also, the control scheme is pretty awful (no ability to run and at times it's easy to mistakenly walk up and down stairs - during which one loses control of the character) and while some of the images were interestingly surreal, they IMO should've shown a lot more gore and maybe if the camera was more close up, it would've been nice especially for the gore.

puzzles are nice and pretty logical though, that (and the fact that it does have a nice overall design) is the reason why i still rate it 5/10. but i wouldn't recommend it.