14 Hidden Details You Probably Missed in Sanitarium
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Sanitarium, a point-and-click horror adventure game from 1998, is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm not alone in that assessment, even though it seems many people have never heard of it. But even if you have played Sanitarium, you probably don't know the secrets I'm about to share in this video.
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If you want a review or plot analysis of the game, these two videos are excellent:
GrimBeard: • Grimbeard - Sanitarium...
Scarfulhu: • Sanitarium | Hidden De...
Sanitarium Postmortem write-up by the game's writer: www.gamedeveloper.com/design/...
If using any of the command-line parameters causes your GOG installation to crash, try moving the location of the game to a folder in the root of your C:\ drive. I'm not sure why this makes a difference, maybe something about the length of the file path, but it worked for me.
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Plot Recap
01:31 #1 Pumpkin Patch Shortcut
02:00 #2 Hidden Sound Test
02:16 #3 Foreshadowing
05:38 #4 Red Herring
06:14 #5 Puzzle Solutions
09:57 #6 Where Are We?
10:15 #7 Version Differences
13:49 #8 Boss Fight Differences
14:44 #9 Menu Secrets
15:50 #10 Movement Glitching
16:56 #11 Pause Buffer Movement Glitching
18:39 #12 New Game Plus
19:00 #13 Disappearing Juggler
19:22 #14 Postmortem
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There's a secret I didn't mention, but is actually in the first thirty seconds of the video. Did you spot it?
I did :)
@@SageOwl ⭐ for you!
@@RafaCoringaProducoes It's not a big secret, more of a neat detail. On the water puzzle, there are bugs running around on the wall, and you can click on them to squash them. You can see it at 00:33
It was added to ScummVM 3 weeks ago/Fully works now. Have you tired it?
@@Thrakus Is it in the official release now? I played it a few months ago when it was just in the daily builds. There was a bug where right-clicking to move wasn't disabled during the in-game cutscenes. I submitted a report and the maintainer promptly fixed it, so they seem on top of things.
I worked on this game back in the day and always glad to see people discovering it and spreading the love. Great stuff.
Awesome! What part of the game did you work on? And do you have any fun behind-the-scenes stories?
@@OneShortEye @OneShortEye I was a Game Tester on the first version of it put out by ASC Games. I help balanced out some of the puzzles, As some of them were super hard to figure out. Though my claim to fame was the idea for the ending TV at the credits. As the game ending as plan was super abrupt.
I do remember one of the tester spending a whole day trying to get the scythe out of the Pumpkin Patch in the second chapter. He did finally succeed and tried to use it on one of the kids causing the game to crash to the desktop. Also Travis didn't know about that Easter Egg in Chapter 2 and when he found out was pissed. haha.
@@GrimSanto Where is his cut originally from? (the "gros'em out" bit)
@@joeyarcade5865 If i remember correctly. It was a interview given to PC Gamer back in the day. It was on a demo disc that was packed in the mag that had a preview of the game back in the day.
Thanks for making this, i played it alot as a kid.
i mean, 451 is a famous video game thing beginning in system shock 1, as the first door code and seeing references in games such as system shock 2, deus ex, and bioshock. The code itself holds little meaning, as it was the head dev's room code at the time
Dude. It's all reference to the same book - Farenheit 451. Pretty much every game with dystopian setting feels itself obliged to have it somewhere.
@@SinaelDOverom Good guess, but it’s actually just a reference to a door code at Looking Glass Studios
@@SinaelDOverom It's not a reference to the book, that has always been a lie...
HOLY SHIT. I was watching your King's Quest stuff, saw this and was all "huh, seems interesting."
I spent YEARS trying to remember what this game was called. I had a super short demo of it back in the late 90's as a kid, and could only ever remember some vague aesthetic of creepy horror, but not the name or what it was actually about. Soooo, thank you! So glad to finally have found this after so many years.
It's such a shame this game isn't talked about much nowadays, it's one of my all time favorites, a really solid creepy adventure. I missed a lot of these things, this video was super interesting!
Of all games to make a clickbait style "things you didnt notice" video, I hardly expected someone to make one on Sanitarium
I loved this game back in the day. When it came out, it was one of only a handful of games explicitly written for a mature audience. Not mature as in "contains sex and violence", but as in dealing with mature themes such as psychology, the subconscious, repressed trauma, etc.
THERE'S A BLOODY SHORTCUT?! Replayed it just a couple of months ago, never knew.
Still damn good game though.
Que gusto ver a más gente mencionar este juego, mi personal favorito.
Un detalle no mencionado acá que quizás no conocías: en el escenario del circo, vuelve a hablar con la adivina y el diálogo cambia a "You Will play a Game called Sanitarium".
Great game, I would be curious to see how a modern facelift for the graphics and controls would turn out. I'd definitely buy a remaster.
This is one of those games that stays with you and I'm so happy to see someone talk about it! Definitely underrated! In '98 most people were not giving adventure games a chance so a lot missed this.
Did you ever try Blade Runner, or the Broken Sword games...?
I slept on this game when it was released. Didn't play it until last year. What a goddamn adventure, this was.
Great vid! Played this game years ago on a wim and loved it. A side note actually found the pumpkin patch password from playing tic-tac-toe and didn't notice that church sign has it! Super cool having alternative ways of finding the solution!
I had never heard of this game before but I went and watched an entire playthrough of it before coming back to watch this video and I'm really glad I did. I really enjoyed the game and the story, its so well made and is actually pretty funny for a horror game. Thanks for sharing things you're passionate about :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Your editing style is fantastic
There are a couple of things you never mentioned, likely because most people never discovered them. Years ago on the something awful forums, a user made a lets play of this game, and it just so happened that one of the game's developers was on there, he shared two bizarre easter eggs that they put in the game, here's what I remember off the top of my head: 1. In the "Innocent abandoned", if you click on a specific feather on the angel statue Max will transform into a bird, he can then fly himself to the bottom right of the screen to see a bunch of Mayans worshipping what I assume is one of the developers, you click the same feather again to transform back. The other one I've only seen in screenshot form, but on the chapter before you become Olmec, if you click on a specific leaf (something along those lines) a giant corn cob with a face will move onto the screen. The first one can be found in a youtube video, but the second one would require me to get archives access in order to look up the instructions.
Yes! Someone clued me into those after I put this video out. The giant head is Travis Williams, Sanitarium's executive producer. For the second easter egg, it happens when you hold Ctrl and click on the grove to the left of the talking tree. But it's a spork, not a corn cob: bugs.scummvm.org/attachment/ticket/13143/an%20apparition.jpg
There's one more easter egg that I'm aware of, pointed out by scotttl04 in the comments here. After you get teleported by the fortune teller in the Circus of Fools, go back to her. She'll tell you your fortune, but in a way that breaks the 4th wall, something like "I see you playing an adventure game called Sanitairum." If you go back a third time, she turns you (temporarily) into a frog.
@@OneShortEye I'm not sure I've ever heard of that third one, wow! Maybe a short follow-up video might be in order.
@@OneShortEye I think Travis Williams says "Gross em out!"
I have never heard of this game before, but this is quite fascinating
I don't really play horror-games myself, but is there a reasonably quick playthrough of someone going through the game, explaining the story you would recommend? (Like, does your run in the horror marathon maybe cover that? ^^)
Edit: Wow, I should've read the description first. Thank you :)
Glad you found the links! I considered doing a more thorough story explanation, but many others have done such a good job of it already, it felt redundant.
How does this video only have 443 views?!
best game ever! my favourite. the memorable loader and menu… the fantastic story, the immersive atmosphere.. the puzzles, the horror.. the sheer originality and uniqueness.. and the joy of old school point and click adventures. sanitarium ftw
And that creep kid voiceover in the options menus...?
"sssssave game"
@@Diablo_Himself yes, very spooky and unforgettable. even the spinning cd loader was cool. I can’t believe I’m talking to Diablo himself!
I'm so glad someone did a video like this for Sanitarium, a forgotten classic. interesting vid, great work!
I used to play the soundtrack on loop while I slept, but that didn't last long as the nightmares became pretty extreme.
YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS GAME TOO?? no now i DEFINITELY am subscribing. you just made my day. thank you for this !
This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. I'm so glad to see this video. Really brings back some good memories of my dad and I playing it together.
ah sanitarium, too bad it got banned in France due to Catholic lobyying . But, the feeling of playing a forbidden game that is also a small gem make him so precious in my heart. Thanks for your passion
Okay just watching this now and I didn't realize you had runs in NASA. The Halloween side banner from NASA was made by me. That's my hand. What a weird cameo to have lol.
Nice! I had a great time at that marathon. Love the banner. :)
@@OneShortEye Honestly my friend helps run NASA events and he wanted to know if I had anything he could use that was spooky and I had that old photo and sent it his way. Just a small world that I'm watching a video of you showing neat things about a game I don't know much about only to see my hand in the video haha. Made my day.
This is on my list (video) of underrated horror games. So glad to see a proper secrets video.
Great video man! I love people sharing info about one of my favorite adventure games! But it kinda seemed like It went from things you missed to things you didn't know if that makes sense? Either way all great info I hardly knew! Except the plank and Sign Board.
Great video. Haven't played this for many years, really did enjoy it though back then.
Used to the King's Quest content, but I'm loving this too!
Coming back to this after I play it. Looks awesome just from the intro!
i was 6 when i first saw this game, and man it haunted me then and it haunts me now. whats funny is my parents had this church party, and a kid brought it over and played it on our pc. he also showed me runescape so i can’t be completely mad at him.
Oh my... I spent months until i discovered that you need to throw the stone on the bell to call the kids... Awesome game
I remember being stuck on that part, too. One of the few pixel hunts that was actually frustrating. I think I caved and looked at a walkthrough after a day or so.
Awesome game, but I remember the cyclop and aztec part being difficult as hell, couldn't beat them without a walkthrough whereas the rest of the game was pretty doable. First and second chapter was amazing, especially with those deformed kids.
One of the game's few blemishes, imo, is that the emotional highpoint is in the middle of the game (with the reveal about Sarah). The Hive and the Lost Village are inventive, but I like them less than the earlier parts.
I remember playing this game when I was a kid and it creeped me out enough to still remember after all this time. Personally, I haven't beaten it, but I hope to get my hands on it again so I can try to finish it.
Same. One of those games I always meant to come back to but just never did.
If i remember correctly this game was supposed to have more chapters with different characthers but the idea was scrapped during development, partly because the chapters didnt have an intereconnected story. Sarah and max initally in development didnt have a connection that was written in later. The game is also heavily inspired by jakobs ladder and the developers didnt have experience in creating adventure games.
Also i think the whole padlock puzzle thing was not because the developers were frustrated but because the publisher asked them to make it approachable by a mass market forcing them to revision at the last minute, some of the dialogue giving away the puzzles also stems from this.
The various inconsistencies between versions could also be because its a engine slapped together from source code they had left over from previous projects. This also probably why there are so many weird bugs leftover.
I finished this game 20 years ago. This video brought back memories. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure the code 451 is a reference to System Shock. It's the first code you enter in that game, and it's been referenced in many games since. Often appears in immersive sims, but different genres also referenced it
I recently got this game for someone and they enjoyed it. I'm glad people still remember
Zippy the clown's predictions are foreshadowing too.
I hadn't noticed the plank! Or the IV in the last level (I too was too busy examining the puzzle itself).
I loved this game so much when it was released. Think I need to replay it...
9:56 Same. I beat it first try, pausing multiple times to check things around the stage.
I'm always surpised how little coverage this game got in modern youtube era. You have plenty of channels and media going back, and rightfully so, to Silent Hill series, System Shock, Dexus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, yet if my dad didn't play it back then I would have never encountered this title again over the years. And I truly believe it deserves its flowers, one could even go as far to say that this game is a predecessor to what Silent Hill 2 perfected, a depressive, twisted dream-like reality that ultimately stems from feelings of grief, guilt and hopelessness for not being able to alleviate the suffering of a loved one.
Same goes for I Have No Mouth and I Must scream. While based on a written story, it still masterfully executes a world made of nightmarish embodiments of real-life memories for the characters. I also dare you to finish this game with no walkthroughs. And to find this game I probably typed something like "games similar to sanitarium" in the search bar lol.
finally I can watch this video. I saw everything else you put out and it was excellent but I had never heard of this game. Just got done watching a full playthrough just so I can understand the context of this video.
edit: It is an awesome game! Really cool ideas, I loved the different areas, deff creepy... except for the Aztec level. The person I watched clearly played before or was using a guide but good god some of those puzzles looked hard.
In that yard outside the morgue with the talking tree, I got one of the background trees to turn into a strange colourful dancing stick figure. I guess it's an easter egg but I don't know how I did it and I've never seen it on any videos...
I know what you're talking about! It's a dancing spork. You activate it by holding Ctrl and clicking on the grove next to the talking tree in The Morgue and Cemetery. First place I saw it documented was here: bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/13143
@@OneShortEye That's it!
I remember playing the 1st level as demo and I knew I just have to buy the game - loved it since!
Deadly video, classic game! Also in Aztec level if you give red herring to the fisherman's wife she'll tell you that this fish is no good and brings nothing but bad luck.
Nothing quite takes me back to that era those eras as this piece
It was a real classic! It was hard to solve! Loved it!
3:10 Starship Troopers movie quote
True! I had forgotten about that.
Mediiiiiic!
Glad I knew most of these, except the drawing next to the lock and version differences.
Some other things are two characters on some art of the game. Showing a fat person whose muddy with pupils, unlike Lumpy who a comment suggested it was.
Another is a skull with scars. Neither of them appears in the game not to mention the unused music track that's never been clarified what it was meant for.
Ah, yes, I know what you're talking about! Creepy stuff.
@@OneShortEye More frustrating than anything. Like a friend knowing something about you but won't tell.
I just wanna know. The track keeps making me imagine the level and the two unused faces boggles the mind even further. Especially their unusual looks.
It's like they were part of a completely different level just as unique and different as The Hive and Innocent Abandoned
It sounds like a level in a junkyard with machinery similar to Machinarium with some foreign unnatural elements hence the alien sounding instruments.
This was an awesome game me my brother and dad played this one still a favorite of point and click puzzle games didn't know about a lot of these
Have you played Dark Seed? I'm more into Kings Quest than I am this spooky stuff but Dark Seed seems to give off some similar vibes.
I have not played Dark Seed, though I know of it and the aesthetic looks intriguing. No real reason I haven't played it, other than there are so many other games in the backlog already.
@@OneShortEye Slowbeef, more specifically Retsuprae have let's plays of Dark Seed and it's sequel. It looks intriguing but it's...maybe more enjoyable hearing someone dunk on it while playing through it.
@@OneShortEye dark seed is non intuitive and has a complex daytime system. Check out kozma's surrealidade for a unkmown mindblowing adventure point and click and thank me later lol
4:04 also that Marty Johns character tells Max he has a cousin with the same name. When playing as Sarah (Max sister) walking around the mansion you can see a picture of Marty Johns in the house and when clicking on it Sarah comments "This must be the ugly cousin"
Nice one, didn't know about that one
I was JUST thinking about replaying this game yesterday
It's a good one!
"I've been speedrunning the game"
"Speed" is relative :P
Love this game, it's a cult classic. Couldn't finish the game when I was younger but a few years later completed it.
ive never heard of this game before! (though i suppose its older than me) fascinating though, im going to have to look up some lore videos or maybe play it for myself!
I just played through it myself. It's fantastic.
great video! I bought Sanitarium because of this!
Recently learnt of a secret I've never seen before.
In the morgue if you walk up to the trees, hold down ctrl and left click on one of them I can't remember which. Then some noodle thing animation will popup.
Yep! There's a follow-up video on my channel on Easter eggs that explains it.
I made a video about the secret in the red herring house, but I see in the comments that you already know about that one. :)
Thanks for posting your video! It helped in knowing exactly where to click. That's a crazy easter egg.
I wish they'd make a remastered version. One of my favourite games.
this game is so superb, that i tend to play it over and over for since my childhood. and i am 36 now :) i have found the head of Travis two times in my life, by accident, tryed to recreat it, never managed on purpose. I am glad i know now. I think i found one more eastern egg few years ago, but i neeed to play it again to be curtain. I am also a music producer, i have managed to recreate the intro sounds, back in 2007 it was not able to learn it through tutorials via youtube, but i managed to recreate the very same scary ghosty effect by recording an audio in reverse, with specially prepared reverb set on WET 100%, than reversing it after a record, and layering it a bit off, on the original voice. also, i have sampled many many games through out of my life, incorporated in my rap and other beats, i have made an EP, of some of my chilled/marijuana instrumentals, something like Cypress Hill kinda music, but without rapping, and i have named it Bonewerkz - 7 Ways to Fly EP....every instrumental was named after one masterpiece game i grew up with, and was sampled in some way in the EP, some games are sampled but never mentioned, like Starwars Broodwar, like an eastern egg of some sort, so the listener (almost no one listened lol) can be happy when/if they found out. the very name of the project was a chapter or lets say ,a factory, in Oddworld and Oddworld Exoddus, one of my favorite games BONEWERKZ. One instrumental i named Sanitarium :) check it if you like, its free. i have made it back in 2015 but some instruemntal are from 2010 or even older.
ruclips.net/p/PLhXu5ks763bnbd4UXzw700hB0I3p1y8Sg
p.s. also, i have made a rap song, i have rapped and made instrumental and everything, i have sampled the main theme from the second chapter. i guess its not very legal, but i have made totally old school boombap beat like many famous producers out there, just to keep the spirit of the game somewhat alive, i will leave the link here as well
ruclips.net/video/jCAB6fqejZA/видео.html&ab_channel=Najstefaniji
Glad you enjoy the game! Thanks for the link to your music. I've actually been listening to the EP while driving and working the last few days, and I really enjoy it. Would you mind if I used it in the background of a video? I don't have anything in mind right now, but I'm always on the lookout for music options.
Also, if you ever rediscover that other Easter egg you mentioned, I'd love to hear about it.
Of course the code is 451 - it`s the Looking Glass code. ;)
Also used in classics like System Shock or Deus Ex.
Never heard of this game but its totally my style going to try it out not sure if I will buy gog or steam version yet though
Here's another bit of foreshadowing, maybe a bit obvious, bit I was quite pleased with myself when I got it: Gromna is an anagram of Morgan.
It took me way too long to figure that out. You're absolutely right!
By using the "red herring shed" it is possible to transform yourself into a raven and fly off to find an easter egg.
Yep! Someone mentioned that after I came out with this video, then I made a follow-up: ruclips.net/video/dSYnfLwGDRI/видео.htmlsi=O3OlNoaJA51qvdz3
"the creators wasnt sure on which story to pick and mixed them"... I guess this was quoted in an online forum trying to analyze the plot!
Funny it's 451, since that code or 0451 since that is a common code in games.
I THINK because of the book Fahrenheit 451. I dunno
That's what I thought for the longest time, but I learned that it was the office door code to Looking Glass Studios, who developed System Shock and Thief. Well, supposedly. According to this article, even people at the studio eventually started associating it with F451: deusex.fandom.com/wiki/0451
A true classic.
Subbed and liked
Have you played the point-and-click game Harvester?
I haven't, but I have seen Let's Plays.
I wish that some indie horror game developer will make game with style like this. This game is not scary but its creepy and haunting.
If only Sanitarium had an UrQuan who could make an emulator that ran it consistently across all hardware _and_ was speedrun-competitive with the GOG version.
I remember this game 👍
What would be the preferred method of playing the game casually? The GOG or Steam version?
The only difference you're likely to notice casually is the aspect ratio. The Steam version is in the original 4:3, while the GOG version is stretched. Some people are bothered by one or the other. Others don't care, and if that's you, it doesn't matter.
@PurpleHaze - Now that the GoG version uses ScummVM, it's probably your best casual option. :)
I have to say, I know this is not typical for Speedrunners, but if you did casual LPs of games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory and Sanitarium, I would totally watch them.
I did an LP on Sanitarium that's on my other channel. I like to keep the polished, highly edited videos here, and the informal ones (as well as my speedrunning PBs) on the other. Here's a link to part 1: ruclips.net/video/ZibsVwhf8ys/видео.html
@@OneShortEye Wow, and a pretty recent LP as well. Thanks for letting me know, will definitely give it a watch soon. I actually knew about your second channel, but I thought it was only for your Speedruns, didn't know it had other content as well. Ty.
Underated game!
This is a great game
I would love tp update the performance in the steam version since the game version currently is just 1.0 and the mouse seems laggy for me everytime:(,
The version on GOG is much smoother, as it now bundles the game with ScummVM. I know it hurts to have to buy a game twice, though.
@@OneShortEye its honestly worth it for this game, love it everytime I play it again
@@OneShortEye By the way...AMAZING VIDEO!! As a kid I would have love to see content like this come out for this game in particular, not many know about it as you pointed out. Amazing content!
Any NEW game similar to this that you recommend? Thanks!
You can go back to the fortune teller in the carnival for an Easter egg.
Wow! I had no idea. Did you know that the third time you go back, she gives yet another, different response?
Also, I was unaware of this easter egg until just now: www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/8zgtpl/in_1998_game_sanitarium_allegedly_it_is_possible/
She just sends you back to the front the third time, I think.
Never knew that other one!
8:07 - For those wondering there is no Psalm 4:51
the graphics remind me of the sims 2 on the gba aha
Cool :)
Am I the only one who keeps hearing James Hetfield scream the name of this game in their head?
SA NI TARIUM!!!!! 🤘
Do NOT pass the white boy the aux they'll just start playin Rockabilly Swing Thing
Clearly inspired by "Torment"
Lol I discovered this game on google play store and I must say mobile version fk good. It consume 1.5gb. Can someone let me know what engine they used for this game. I really love games which have graphics like this.
The original game used an in-house engine. There isn't much detail about it, other than this: "At first, we planned to convert an existing adventure game engine. Initial prototyping showed that this was about as likely as an Oscar nomination for Jackie Chan. So, we set out to create a new engine, re-using existing source code wherever possible." - www.gamedeveloper.com/design/postmortem-dreamforge-s-i-sanitarium-i-
The mobile version was made by DotEmu, and I have no idea how they adapted it.
Can you explain the major spoiler redacted
The major spoiler is that the entire game is in Max's head. In other words, we might be able to make sense of the puzzle solution, since Max's mind would adjust the combination after he lost to Jessie. (Since the last digit is the amount of times she lost to Max, which didn't happen until after the padlock was already on the gate.)
What's the retarcted spoiler?
**SPOILER**
"None of this is real!" The entire game takes place in Max's head, so you can (kind of) explain away the puzzle inconsistency by saying that, since Max knew how many games of tic-tac-toe he won, his subconscious altered the lock.
The ending kinda ruins the game for me, i was expecting a darker ending.
The game plays much better on scummvm
Planescape:torment is king of story telling ever made of gaming but Sanitarium is a prince storyteller of all time.
I've only played Planescape: Torment once, but I've been thinking about it ever since. Love that game.