Posted on: May 31, 2012
patwater
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An Inspirational Adventure Game
Recently after becoming a member here I picked up Sanitarium not knowing much about it. And boy, am I glad I did! Where to start? In opposite fashion to the game, I'll start at the surface and work deeper. (You'll get it if you beat the game.) The graphics are good. The visuals are beautiful when they need to be, disturbing when they need to be--actually, they're usually both at once. Personally, I think too much graphical detail in a point-n'-click can distract from the story and dialogue, but Sanitarium walks the line with near-perfection. The real artistry of this game is that all the visuals tie in directly with the story--often literally but more often than not figuratively. Together with an appropriately unnerving soundtrack, the result is an experience which engrosses and invests you in an emotionally complex story that goes from terrifying to weird to sad to beautiful to... weird again... and then to... well, just play the game; you'll see what I mean. All this would be lost if it wasn't for unique puzzles, perfectly calibrated to the abilities of the average adventure gamer (I only used a walk-through twice). The majority of the puzzles were just hard enough to make cheer out loud and pat myself on the back when I figured them out, with a few that were difficult enough to keep me stumped for a long time (Ok, I'll admit, I used the walk-through three times). The dream-like logic of these five bizarre worlds allows the game to explain away some of the odd combinations of items which many puzzle-based games use. Most important to me in a game, Sanitarium tells a good story; but not only that, it tells it in an incredibly unique and effective way. Any game that can get such a strong emotional reaction from me gets four stars easy. The fifth star is for exciting my intellect with puzzles that made me feel good about myself.
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