Sanitarium

I played Sanitarium a loooong time ago and completing it again was a genuine challenge. The puzzles are relatively simple and very self contained within specific adventure chapters. All of your tasks are completed within the current chapter/ sub-chapter, so you'll never feel like you forgot something from a separate location. If you can't find something, it's likely that you didn't pay attention to detail or simply overlooked it. The visuals are disturbing, especially your character's perception of other characters in the story and the psychological aspect keeps the story interesting. I was able to connect each of the chapters to the main story, but I think I missed out on the meaning of the Aztec chapter... maybe, I wasn't paying close enough attention. I gave the game 4-stars due to the sub-par voice acting, IMHO. While the actors weren't truly bad, most of the voices, especially the main character seemed a bit flat after playing a while. Otherwise, many of the other characters had strong character in their voices. If you want a classic and relatively simple adventuring game, this one is for you. The story, visuals, and psychology are pretty good and worth the GoG price!

In late 1997-98 tried this gem out, but in my country at that time it can't be bought so it remained on my get it list. After so many years I finally purchased it and played it to the end. The game itself runs on any modern system / OS but sometimes crashing now and then, but with regular saving it can be neglected. The story is good with many twists and imaginary places and characters. The music and soundtrack are fitting the scene and mood. The puzzles are well made and could be figured out with some gray mater. The game play is polished and straight forward with isometric graphics it looked great back at its release date. For the story it's five stars, but with constant crashes i give it a four star.

Terrible, dark, fascinating and wonderful. That's all.

Just finished, it is a very,very good adventure, very unique, hold its own very good, mainly because the story (which wasn't what i expected first) unfolds in a very interesting way. Encountered a few crashes here and there but nothing major, i went and added some reg entries regarding the directdraw and this game and then it worked smoothly.

Creepy, weird, replayable greatness. Last time I played I even realized it has deeper meaning than I originally knew. I love this game.