![]() Hey, squid boy, squid smash - lovely ham-fisted foreshadowing there, game!ĭown at the freak show, a wolf man asks me to free him, and because I’m both nice and realistic in the fact that the game won’t progress otherwise, I do. She indicates that Max is actually the one piloting this Sarah avatar, and tells me that it’s my destiny to face off against the squid boy. Sarah then goes into a fun house, where a mirror shows a freaked-out Max trying to rip off his bandages.Īfter the fun house, I visit the fortune teller. Because that is totally a skill that a responsible adult should teach any little girl. Understandably, everyone’s a little morose about their impending doom.Īfter accomplishing a typically strange set of adventure games tasks, Inferno teaches Sarah how to breathe fire. The squid is growing larger and larger, and it’s only a matter of time before it can reach everyone on the island. The troupe got trapped on the island after a great flood (that hasn’t since receded) and can’t leave because there’s (why not) a giant squid in the waters killing people. These characters spell out the dire situation of the circus. It’s a weird flashback in that the bride is first topless and then has her face turn into a skull, but hey, random manniquin-like nudity. In the big top I meet several of the circus troupe, including Inferno - a lady who triggers a Max Flashback(tm) of him getting married to his bride. After about 25 tickets, I call it a day and move on. It’s a series of dialogue repetitions as I have her smash the squid and see if she gets more tickets or not. And the only way to get tickets is to play a bunch of Squid Smash, the exciting game that isn’t a game at all. Bobbing for corpses, always a good time in my book.Įven though I’m the only attendee here, I still have to pay tickets for the attractions (um… that makes sense). The ringmaster seems surprised that someone showed up and encourages me to check out the attractions and have a good time. It’s entirelly located on an island, around which partially flayed corpses float about. The circus of fools is disturbing from the start. The game isn’t explaining much right now. The gargoyle in the fountain at the asylum not only sent Max into a bizarre circus, but it put him in the shoes of his younger, probably dead sister Sarah. ![]() You can follow the entire series on the Nostalgia Lane page.) He remembers the death of his younger sister Sarah years ago and the real reason behind his institutionalization.(This is part of my journey playing through Sanitarium. ![]() Between each episode, Max returns to the asylum grounds, blending real and unreal, each time closer to regaining his memory and unraveling the truth surrounding the mysterious Dr. As he delves deeper into the asylum's corridors in search of answers, Max finds himself transported to various obscure and otherworldly locations: a small town inhabited only by malformed children and overseen by a malevolent alien entity known only as "Mother", a demented circus surrounded by an endless ocean and terrorized by a squid-like individual, an alien hive overrun by cyborg insects, and an Aztec village devastated by the return of the god Quetzalcoatl. In 2015, it was ported to iOS and Android devices.Īfter a car accident knocks him unconscious, a man awakens from a coma, his face fully bandaged, to find that he has been admitted to a dilapidated sanitarium and that he cannot remember who he is or where he came from, or how he came to be there, though his fellow inmates seem to know him simply as "Max". It was a commercial success, with sales around 300,000 units. It was developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by ASC Games in 1998. Sanitarium is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure video game that was originally released for Microsoft Windows.
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