by Nemoide Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:16 pm
I've been chipping away with Sanitarium and am now up to Chapter 6 "The Hive" which I think is about as far as I got the last time I played.
It's an interesting game with an engaging story that's undermined by one big flaw: it goes too slowly. If the game gave you the ability to run or made the default walking speed faster, it would be a lot more fun to play. Instead I find myself slowly walking back and forth along twisting paths. It gets obnoxious. The game could definitely stand a bit more polish, but it's still a very solid point & click adventure. The puzzles aren't too difficult but I'll still end up checking GameFAQs because there are some things that are very easy to miss clicking on.
But the game's structure is really interesting. You start off as a man with a bandaged face trying to remember who he was, then you transform into his little sister who died when he was a child so that he can right some wrongs in his own mind while visiting an evil circus, and now the protagonist has transformed into a muscular cyclops with four arms out of his favorite childhood comic book. In between that are segments in the titular sanitarium, showing things more and more disturbing (I'm surprised this game got away with a T rating, there's some explicit gore here. I don't really know where the story is going to end up, but I hope to finish it by Halloween!