LGR - Sanitarium - PC Game Review
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2015
- Quick commentary and gameplay on the Windows PC game Sanitarium! One twisted psychological horror adventure.
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● Full review of Sanitarium by Pushing Up Roses:
• Sanitarium: It's All I...
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● Music used in order of appearance:
"Back In Town" and "Howling"
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I actually went from super hyped to seeing LGR + Sanitarium in my sub box, to kind of disappointed to see the time of the video was only just over 4 minutes! While I love the quickie reviews and how they allow for coverage of smaller, obscure titles that don't necessarily warrant a full-fledged exploration, I don't really see this game in that light. Even if I sort of am very biased when it comes to surreal horror stuff.
Regardless, great little showcase video LGR, and I was glad to hear you're still interested in doing a full review at some point, I'll keep my hopes up! Love this game.
I had this game as a kid, I'll always remember that children of the corn style village.
nice chair man
+Draegast Thanks! It feels classier than it should.
I can't remember who else talked about this game in a video, but you have definitely made me feel that I need to give this game a try one day. Thanks, LGR!
I'm really glad you said you wanted to do a longer review at the end. Can't wait!
now im curious about this game! your channel is a continuous discovery!!
I must say, I do enjoy quickies with LGR. Sometimes, I'm in the middle of Accounting homework, and I just need a quick 5 min. break. I don't have enough time to watch a full 10-20 min. video, and that's where the quickies come in. It gives me a short video to watch on my 5 min. break. So yeah, I'm definitely a fan of this feature, and am glad you are including it in your show on a regular basis. Keep up the good work!
I remember this game very well! I took 3 CDs to play! xD
I still love it and think it's awesome you dedicate a whole video to this, so that maybe people who never heard of it can finally take notice. This game had me theorizing about a lot of the symbolisms and characters almost as much as I did (and do) about Silent Hill 2 ^^
I like these quick reviews man. I'd love to see more with some of your more quirky games in the collection you have.
Early Christmas gift! Thanks for doing this quickie review!
1996-1998 or so had a lot of really awesome point-and-click adventure games that were trying to put that gameplay in different environments. Normality, Zork, and Myst are great examples.
Dude I remember trying to play myst as a 10 year old and could NOT figure it out.
Myst and Riven weren't as good as the Zork graphic adventures. I found the lack of protagonist disorientating in the former games, whereas even though you don't ever see yourself in Zork, you know you're seeing things from a human perspective.
Unfortunately now I've got things like a PS5 etc, going back to playing the old stuff I played at uni like these games is disappointing. The graphics are never as good on a modern screen as they were on CRTs, even monitor CRTs.
I love this game, revisit it every two -three years. just amazing. I got the boxed version around the year 2001. great to hear you mostly like it as well Clint.
Nice collection dude!
I've always wondered why is this game clearly divided into two distinct parts - the first one being focused on Max reconciling his emotions and grief associated with losing a loved one, and the second half revolving around the Dr Morgan story. Later on, I heard that devs couldn't make up their minds on the storyline, so they decided to merge two different ideas together. They did a good job, but I still had a feeling that the game ended and started all over after the house chapter.
So I was watching a review of this game in another channel and it was hella freaking long. I gave up half way and now im here. Thank you for the "Quickie" amigo.
That neat Longest Journey box always catches my eye in your reviews... :D
I'm so glad that you are giving this game attention, one of my all time fav games. Safe to say that next to doom Sanitarium got me into PC gaming!
these quickies are a treat
I completely get what you're saying. I did play this when it came out and I remember not finishing it because the game, to me, lost what originally got me hooked. Thank you for the review. It brought back memories. I want to finish it now.
This was very intertaining (and enformative!)
I got to know about this game because of a trailer included in the CD-ROM from a PC Gamer Magazine (July 1997 issue IIRC). The trailer itself didn't say much, but name alone caught my attention, enough to say "Yeah, I'll play this game sooner or later". I played the game years after, expecting nothing about it, and got hooked to it immediately.
the way you change characters always reminded me of Eternal Darkness for gamecube. Also a great game.
This game looks amazing. Now it is on my GOG wishlist. Thanks.
Great review!! c:
One of my all-time favorites! Thanks for the awesome review! You're the best! Cheers! Take care! Be well! Umm...yeah.
Its always fun to have a good quickie with Clint. Of course it helps that he likes things that are thick.
I got the nice boxed version on eBay many years ago. Really enjoyed it. Nice quickie! 👍 Reminded me how creepy fun this game is. 😜
Yes! This is one of the best adventure games ever made! I was hoping to see this one on LGR one day!
Lol I see that Septerra Core on your shelf. It is one of my favorite games and it took me a ton of years to get it semi-working on a modern computer.
Man, I LOVE this game, it's great to see it featured here
You're right. This game is so great, it would deserve a full review.
Thank you my good fellow gamer! I remember this game from my youth. I think my friends big brother used to play this game or something like that. But every now and then this game has crept in to my mind and untill this day I haven't had a clue what it was.
Really enjoying this quick unscripted style of videos Clint, keep up the good work man!
+Klaymen Thank you!
:)
Quickie!? Nooo! This was my favorite game of my childhood! I didn't get to finish it until I was 27 or so.. STILL great!
8 years later and still hoping you'll cover it in detail one day. It's my favourite adventure game ever!
Me too lol
Thanks for showing this off. I remember seeing this game in stores back when it was new, but I never bothered to check it out. I'm going to see about picking it up from GOG.
+Gameplay and Talk It's one of the best games I ever played, so do it.
Did you get it after all? If so, what you think?
Bo88y Beretta I did not.
I had this game for Windows 95 when I was a kid, couldnt get past the first screen. Didnt even know what a point and click game was and would get so frustrated I couldnt just walk wherever I wanted to go. I thought the game was broken but I just couldnt figure out what to do. Funny thing is I played it all the time because back then those prerendered graphics were top notch, It really blew my mind. I think the only reason I remember this particular game is because of how mad I used to get that I couldnt play such an awesome looking game. Thanks for the video it was a blast from the past for me plus Ive never seen anything past the stone dungeon (sanitarium?) from the beginning.
lol! again these dude and i have been searching for this games for ages without even knowing the name and then find the name and then your review as always....
wow. I loved sanitarium.
I was so blown away, when I had finally beaten it!
^^
I quickly touched on this one in my greatest adventure games video, it is a fantastic and surreal piece of storytelling - and it always reminds me of another classic in the form of I have no mouth, but I must scream - have you ever covered this one?
I love how you have to fight your urge to laugh (or at least grin) everytime you say "quickies" :D
0:18 loved the sound effect mimicking the reverse reverb they use in the main menu... i guess its the same technique used in whole lotta love by zeppelin: you basically invert the audio track, apply reverb and then invert it again!
This was just a gem! I had to go through shit to get this to run on my modern PC back in 2013..it's available on Steam and GOG now and it runs natively
Saw a screenshot LP for it, pretty good story, though I imagine that you could get lost in some of these puzzles if you don't know what you need to do. The ending credits have a nice musical arrangement too of the dialogue in the game.
+Hussam Barouqa errr, what do you mean if you dont know what you need to do? thats the whole idea behind these kinds of point and click games! you need to try stuff, talk to people, use items on other items etc etc, stuff like that to figure out what you can do... these games dont just tell you "yeah go there and do that" :')
Yeah, but there is 'that point' when you run out of ideas and run around clicking on everything and trying every item on everything.
Hussam Barouqa nah this game does give clues if you talk to people and look at object etc, you will get further... but the point and click games from the 90s were made to keep you busy for weeks or months! it was not ment to be so easy that you can play through it in one go and be done in a few days ;) like the first 2 monkey island games took me over a few months each! we didnt have walkthroughs back then :)
TheBrazilRules
yeah, MI 1 and 2, still the best games ever made.... although i never really understood the ending, but they did that intentionally so you could decide for yourself wether you took it serious or as a joke hehe
Played this long long ago. Just searching UA-cam to see who else played this. I remember being so intrigued by this game.
I enjoy that blurb of the game very much.
I bought this game LGR!! I remember he hype in the game mags. I played it and it blew my mind. Cool find.
The visual style reminds me of Planescape Torment. Thanks for bringing this game to my attention, will definitely check it out.
funny thing, in portuguese, sanitario means bathroom.
thats maybe one of the main reasons i was never able to take this game seriously...
Same thing happens with spanish, hehe.
One of my favourite games of all time. And I played a few up until mid 2000s :)
Damnnn the nostalgia of seeing the original PC boxed game. I wish I still had all of my big box PC games. There was some cool boxes, like Realms of the Haunting, Duken Nukem 3D, World of Combat (HUGE box).
I remember really liking the demo of this game, never got a chance the play the full release. But it always was dope as hell in my mind.
Most reviewers and LPers seem to just immediately crap all over a game for comedic effect these days, so I really like the way LGR can admit something is dumb or obtuse without writing a game off completely... If there was ever a trustworthy source for seeking out odd curios, it's this fine fellow.
Love this game, been waiting for you to talk about :D
There's a recent point-click isometric horror called STASIS. Might wanna check that out.
Didnt know you did this.
This game. I played the demo of it. Finished the demo, Immediately went to the store, bought it, got home and quite literately DID NOT STOP PLAYING until i beat it. I seriously played it non-stop all the way through from the moment i got home and installed it, until i finished it. I think i finished it at 3am.
This game got its claws in me in a serious way it was so good. I have the box, the dual jewel case, but i let a friend barrow it once and the disks went missing. Im so bummed. :(
I was thinking about this game the other day, meaning to look at what else the company made since I loved this one so much.
That sudden guy smashing his head on the wall @1:05 made me spit my drink! XD
It's pretty much the first noise that you hear, when the game starts. It's just off-screen, so it's a nice little surprise, when you walk up the stairs.
I was playing that th other day - it is just as awesome as you said. The gog version does not work out of the box on windows 10 (and I love gog but is not about half the point of gog that they recompile the games so that they *will* work on new pc's ?)
The fix (for me) was pretty simple change the LaunchSanitarium shortcut to add the following switches -w -e
"E:\GOG Games\Sanitarium\sntrm.exe" -w -e
Set the compatibility of strm.exe to Win98/me and run as administrator.
Now available on Steam.
...too late, right?
I bought this way back when it came out and it blew my mind. if you like adventure games, you owe it to yourself to play this one.
This game made listen to the Metallica's Welcome Home Sanitarium, which is pretty fitting song based upon the lyrics of the song
great vid btw, Clint
I grew up playing point-and-click adventures (even got to play some text-based ones). Any chance you could review some of the classics for your younger viewers so they don't miss out (and the older ones can reminisce :D )? E.g. the Monkey Island series (you could make a comparison of the older and the remastered versions), Simon the Sorcerer series or Day of the Tentacle? Thank you for your uploads and for keeping it real. Please don't change :)
This is such a memorable game. The first half of it is absolutely amazing. In the big picture the whole thing ties itself together well enough but some of the later puzzles can be a bit annoying to solve (The warriors names in the right order for instance) but the whole mystery of remembering especially the key-points of the character's life that made him who he is is really good. Well worth buying this at GOG.
Too bad the studio went bankrupt after this game I would have loved to see what else they would do after this game.
Love the box for this game.
That's a nice Chair Clint. FYI, I just lost a $5 bet with a friend because you didn't go further with the "Chair" into a Sim Pack joke. NIce Quickie. :-D
I've heard of this game before. I'm a survival horror junkie and find that I have to play older games because the new ones just aren't doing it for me. Have you ever played Clive Barker's Undying, it was always one I really liked growing up. Hope to see an LP of this in the future from you.
I would love to see you do a review on Faxanadu. It was my favorite game as a child on the NES.
I loved this game as a kid.
I remember playing demo for this game from some magazine CD and searching everywhere for it but couldn't find. Thankfully GOG happened later.
This was an amazing game. I played it multiple times. I do not remember much except that I liked it.
Hey! This game looks awesome. BTW have you ever played one of the Benoît Sokal games?
I played this around 2001 and thought it was so atmospheric and creepy..and I loved it lol
I loved that game, the Aztec stuff and the red herring still cling to my mind. It's on Steam now and I'll ... "double dip" when it's a bit cheaper, just to have it again.
I love this game!
Played the english demo way back than and loved the atmosphere.
Years later I found the german version on a flea marked and HAD to have it.
Its great (the german translation and Voiceover is horrible but you can count that as good trash). I finished it 2 times now and totally agree with you Clint. The second half lost me too and especially the God part brings back very bad memories of total confusion and frustration.
I personally love the first part the most. The old town with these crazy childs....brrrrrr.
I only got the chance to play this a few years back and it was a good, bizarre and very adult adventure! It was flawed in a few ways and I can't help but think it would've looked better if it was portrayed as a standard point & click adventure (drawn 2D sprites & BG's rather than pre-rendered 3D BG's and 3D characters turned into 2D sprites). It had a really good atmosphere, which to me, is one of the most important things to nail in any game along with good gameplay and pleasing graphics.
Mine started crashing at some point though so I never managed to get much further than wherever that was (somewhere after the Aztec/Mayan looking level)... I wish there more dark, purely adult fantasy games like this!
I LOVED this game (thanks for letting me know of its existence, BTW), well for the first half anyway, it started going downhill with the Cyclops fellows, and then went off the scale with the Aztecs, genuinely hated that maze.
And the ending was so lame compared to what I thought was going to happen.
Nevertheless. a fantastic game that held my attention because I wanted to know the ending, they just fluffed their lines right at the finishing post.
+JG L I agree with you on that last maze. I quit the game my play through when it first came out because I was stuck on it, and only recently went back and beat it from start.
please do a Myth 2 review, is one of my favorite games and box covers circa 1998
I liked the game back then I like it even now... it's one of the games that will never die and people will always keep playing it..
Loved this game!
I have to agree about the later parts of the game. IMO it stopped being creepy and atmospheric and just went full silly.
+mcgibs I found the deformd/mutated children of the corn level pretty disturbing & creepy, but then again I think that was only the 2nd stage! The Aztec style level is the furthest I ever got, which just reminded me too much of a nightmare version of Crystal Maze.
+mcgibs it went insane
One of my favorite pc games of all-time!
Hey Clint, I'm your fan for good 2 years. Is there any chance for Captain Claw review? It's a awesome platform game from Monolith. Please :)
+DarkBolo My favorite platformer! It's sad to see that it doesn't work properly on my modern pc.
+Coffee works fine on this end tho
Hubert C.
With a little bit of tweaking I got it to work. Not perfectly, but enough to get my daily dose.
+Coffee Just download application called DXwind, it will allow to play Captain Claw in a windows. Worsk well for me in Windows 7x64.
The music... That music.
I like this graphical style that PC-games used back then. I just find them ejoyable to look at.
Sanitarium... It frequently pops up when I'm browsing games somewhere. Maybe someday.
The Mighty Olmec finds this review pleasing
I played through quite a bit of this game years ago. Reached a point where it was impossible to go any further...Some place where I had to cross a stream I believe. I found out there was a patch to fix that. Saved games couldn't be used after patching the game. I never went back to this game since I would have had to start from the beginning :(
adored this game
You sold me with the aztec god
3:20 You can tell he really likes to grab a sweet box.
wow the prologue to mgs 5 looks great 1:05
Not sure if you saw it, but there is a brand new game on Steam called Stasis that is a lot like Sanitarium, at least from the gameplay and presentation standpoint, though it's actually more of a space horror game. Still - I think you'll really enjoy it if you dug Sanitarium.
can you review RING ? (the 3rd box from the right in the middle shelf at 0:10)
I absolutely agree with your opinion on the later points in the game. The first half was horrifying. The last half was kinda stretching it. I played this game as a child and had nightmares because of the first half. Then the last half... was like ...what?
I played the demo of this back in the day! Maybe i should play thru the whole game, i remeber liking it. It was at the same time as that military sneaky game, what was it called? Behind enemy lines?
What would be your favorite old school (pre 2000s) GOG game you would recommend? Something that's a hidden gem that most people didn't know about. I played "I have no mouth and I must scream" which was a hidden gem. I'm looking for stuff like that.
I loved this game, still have it. Great game! Never beat it, sadly.
+SegaCDUniverse me neither, i remember when it came out i was a bit young to fully understand the game, since then (17 years ago) ive quite often thought about finally installing it and beating it, but it just never really happened... the game is still sitting on a shelf with barely 2 hours of play on it LOL
+SegaCDUniverse That is sad. The ending is really good.
i found a complete big box copy in a Value Village about 5 years ago along with Flashback, and could never get it to run, unfortunately
still have it on my shelf
I don't know if you have, but in case you haven't, you should check out Planescape Torment. Sure in the beginning it drags, but once you get a ways into the game, it does start to grab you.
Also it's on steam too !
could you review 'Stasis' as well? It just came out, but it's a throwback to these old isometric point'n'click horror games
I plan to take a look at it sometime, yeah!
The very different settings has a explanation. When the team brain stormed for making their new game, they came up with a bunch of different ideas.
One of the idea was putting all those ideas into one game. Hence the asylum being some king of hub-world connecting those other "games". There is a great site talking about the development of the game, can't remember which it was though (Gamasutra?)
+ZeromSama Yes, I'm aware of the explanation, and it makes sense from a "wow, this development was pure chaos" standpoint. But it doesn't exactly make for a cohesive end result in my opinion :)