Sanitarium: Plot questions.... ALL SPOILERS
I just beat the game and I wanted to discuss the plot, to see if I got what was going on and such...
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It seems as you pretty much figured everything out. With the things like the angel, there's no need for us to be that specific - it can have a bunch of different meanings.
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Yup yup... I'd forgotten about that. ;)
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Spoiler: This game is truly one of THE best. I must play it again. |
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Now I remember. Moreover, I think you might have incidentally solved it. I believe it's one of "red herings" throughout the story.
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There is really only one red herring in the game:
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BTW, have you guys discovered the following easter egg:
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Good thing I have a save on every chapter! Thanks! |
Oh. And don't have thise game anymore. :sad:
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I just beat this game, and I thought it was awesome as well.
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Great game, takes a bit of figuring out though. It was the game that got me back into adventure gaming quite recently. It makes an excellent initiation into adventure because the poor controls will be less noticed and because the puzzles are not difficult generally. I really enjoyed the game and finished it quite quickly as it was very engrossing. It's one of my favourites still, though The Longest Journey is now my number one adventure game.
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On some emule server I saw Sanitarium with genre : Adventure/RPG
I just see those tomb Rider/ Diabolo fans playing Sanitarium :) |
Okay, after I finish playing a game, I always have to go online and look at other fans' theories about what happened in the game to get my own sense of what happened. So all of it, even the Sanitarium bits, were in his mind? That makes sense, I guess. I thought he ended up in the hospital because they strapped him down and injected him since he had seen too much. :P Man, dense moment.
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That's the point, really -- what you're supposed to think. You begin by believing the sanitarium scenes are real and the freakier levels are hallucinations. Only at the end is it revealed that it's all unreal and part of Max's struggle toward life and sanity.
I actually began by thinking that it was all real, and he was somehow slipping in time and space, or between alternate realities. It wasn't until the end of the "children's village" level that I started thinking "real mental hospital and hallucinations". My take on the bandages is that the hidden face is symbolic of his loss of identity -- or loss of memory of his identity, which amounts to the same thing. My understanding of the Grimwall level is that it's a test of courage and strength of will. If you recall the very final action level with the black goo on the floor, the three main scenes/characters are linked to three different qualities of spirit. Can't be sure I remember now, but I think they were intelligence, compassion or love, and courage. Max had to prove all three qualities to make it through: intelligence to find the answer, compassion to care about the results, and courage to persevere -- as embodied in himself, his sister, and Grimwall respectively. The level that baffled me most, from a plotline point of view, was the circus. Looking back from the end, this level is the test of compassion, and Max (as his sister) does show compassion, as in releasing the beast-man from the cage. But the various conversations with the people in the big top seemed to lead nowhere. It just introduced several people with personal problems, none of whom you can help. Or is this the point, to want to help and not be able to? |
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