Let us languish in Sanitarium (completed)

Brother None said:

Man I hate it when people bump up LP threads, it makes me thinks there's an update...oh wait.

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Quit your stalling BN !

Need more madness, its been several months since the last update already.

Hey everyone! Guess what? Time to pick up this LP again!

For those who lost the thread of our story:

In update 1, we saw Max crash a car and escape the sanitarium through an angel's arm, sent on a quest.
In update 2, Max found out his name as he arrived to save the town of Genet. Includes digging up kiddy corpses.
In update 3, Max defeated Mother and freed the children of Genet.
In update 4, Max found himself back in the asylum, where a friendly gargoyle reflection interpreted his wish to see his sister as a wish to be his sister.
In update 5, his sister finds himself at the circus, looking for Mr Clown, but instead encountering a town terrorized by a Squid Monster Thing.

So in update 6? Do we find Mr Clown? Or does Mr Squidman find us first?!



Here's where we were, just after convincing Geno to get a tattoo. Because everyone knows if you're stalking a woman and she's not responding, getting a tattoo of her name will certainly do the trick.

Inferno! Guess what! Geno is getting a Tattoo for you!

Really? Maybe I misjudged him. He must have meant what he said in those sweet, simple poems!

Yeah ok whatever.

We've talked to everyone so now obviously we need to go around and pick up more stuff. This is an adventure game.



Starting with this pin. Then let's head to Wilbur's Smith. He's busy with tatooing now, so I guess he wouldn't mind if...



I swiped one of his needles. Perhaps we can use it to give the octopus man AIDS!

Cantcha see I'm busy? Scram, ya nosy brat!

Actually, the needle is for lock-picking. It's time to let the dogs out! Hope he doesn't bite.



FRAPS started acting up so I don't have a good screenie, but he lopes off north.



Nearby, some expert application of the oilcan gets the merry-go-round machinery unstuck, and we can get on.

Wheeeeeeeeee!



But it grinds to halt soon enough. Nevermind, it now allows us to pass to the...errr..."funhouse".



Only we're not allowed in.
(I remind you FRAPS fucks up the cinematics, so I just link to them on youtube from now on, thanks to the Sanitarium LP from LParchive)

My name's Sarah. What's yours?

Oliver Tweed, and I may say that I have never seen so little a Sarah in my life! You're small, kid. S.M.Alll!!! Har de har har!!

Well that hurt my feelings.

(Clown) Who's that clown on the roof?

That's Spanky the clown! He sits on the roof so he can see far and wide!

Why?



Oh my.

(Tickets) How many tickets to get in?

It don't matter to you, runt! Spanky's arm was way over yer head, so am-scray! Come back innabout three years! Haw haw haw!

Gahahaha.

This is an easy enough challenge. The clown needs a red ball, so...





He tosses Sarah a ball.

Thank you!

You're welcome!

We take a detour to see what happened to Timber, the werewolf we set free.



A hole. Let's look down it.

Oh sheee! It got Timber! Can we save him?!?! But then, a voice!

On your way home, beware the pit of darkness. You can only pass through safely when you have sought out the wand, flask and reflection.

Oh my. Let's head to the funhouse to try and see if the red ball helps us get in.
It does.

(Tickets) How many tickets to get in?

Five tickets, kiddo! I don't know how you did it, but you grew up real quick. Dat's da damndest thing I ever saw!!





I got you your five tickets.

Thanks, squirt! The house of horror awaits!



Into the maws of horror.

Well that was...interesting.



Checking our inventory, we find a broken piece of mirror. That must be the reflection the voice spoke of! And two cents to the dime that the baton is the wand and the alcohol the flask. We bring fire and truth!

We talk to the clown.

Are you my mummy?

Oh wait, wrong show.

My name's Sarah. What's yours?

Well I'll be! Hee hee hee! A leprechaun! Where's yer pot of gold, little leprechaun? Heh heh heh.

I'm not a leprechaun! I'm a girl!

Ah, you don't fool me, leprechaun! Hee hee hee! My name is Laughin' Larry. Heh heh heh. Show me to your pot of gold!

Drunk idiot.

(Circus) Do you like it here at the circus?

Oh sure. Nothing beats waitin' to die of starvation or bein' eaten alive by some freak, ha ha ha ha! Oh, let the good times roll! Hic!

(Starvation) Don't you guys have enough food?



Situation: dire!

(Eaten) Eaten alive, you mean?!

That squid's gonna eat us all, I tell ya! We're all doomed! Heh he he, ha ha ha HAAA!! It's enough to drive a clown to drink! Hic! Belch!

Poor circusfolk. Moving up we find a tent with a lady in it.



Hello, my name is -

Sarah.

Wow! You knew!

She's a witch! Burn her!!!

Of course I did. I'm quite skilled in the mystic arts, my child. My name is Lady Ivanna.

We can ask her about Zippy but I forgot, and asked my Fortune instead.

(Fortune) Would you tell me my future?

Normally I would charge you... but with the way things are, I see no point in it. Come closer, I will need to see your palm.



On your way home, beware the pit of darkness. You can only pass through safely when you have sought out the wand, flask and reflection.

We heard that before. I think I'm doing things out of sequence again and we're supposed to hear it here first.



And then she teleports us back to the big tent!

So, we now have the three items she listed, so let's head after Timber.





Can't head into the water. Here's where our tools come into play.



Use the mirror to set the kindling aflame, then use the fire to light the baton. And head in.



Gotta burn some tentacles and dodge some falling stalactite on the way.



He rises! Looks like just another dude to me. Bit pale, bit big...



What is this I don't even



So basically you have to dodge his poison spit. Rush back in and burn him.

It is, in fact, popamole.



If he nails you three time you drift back, seemingly dead. Harsh. You pop right back up tho.





Burn, you murdering bastard!

See you in hell, freak.

Oh my.



Now we head to a short but extremely well-done part. I'll save it for my next update.

A glorious resurrection :D

Pimpingly awesome. MOAR

Awesome, now if Prisoner of Ice, Dark Earth and Bloodnet were resurrected too...

Hopefully we won't have to wait more than a few weeks for the next update.

The next part is probably one of the best, because after it things will take a turn for the worse regarding gameplay.

Little girl avoided tentacle rape and destroyed multi-headed dick. Lilja 4-ever would be proud.

Now let's see some mansion madness !

I really liked this segment. It's not as full-out disturbing as some of the others but it certainly goes for the jugular. I hope it still works in LP-format.



We enter the mansion through the basement. It looks...wonky.

But as we head up...

Gasp!




What the...



Max?

Okay dad. I'm comin'...



We follow them up, in the distorted den of what we can now only assume is Sarah and Max' childhood home.



More ghosts appear

Steven! Stop that! It's not done yet!

Oh, come on! I'm starving! When will it be ready?

The same time as it is every other day! 6 o'clock, and you know it! Now shoo!

All right. I'll be in my study...until 6 o'clock.

And they fade.



I'm not too surprised. There's one more room at the end of the hallway that makes ghosts appear.

I'm gonna be a doctor when I grow up!

If you keep doing well in school, I don't see why not.

You really think so?

Of course, dear. I'm sure you'd be a wonderful doctor.



Nothing much to see on the ground floor so we head on up. You can easily tell this is Max' room. Grimwall in 4 Fists of Fury sounds badass. The little stereo set can be switched on...

MERcy corporation stocks continue to rise as the HOPE drug treatment is being used worldwide.

Oh?

To the right is mother's knitting room...



She's pretty - for a ghost.

Fuck you game.

More ghosts appear in the TV den.

Steven, why do you do this to yourself?

I just miss her, Diane. I miss her a lot.



I guess you're right.



Heading to the master bedroom we find a brass key.

It doesn't fit in father's study, or the attic, or Sarah's bedroom. So where? Well, remember how father said he'd be in his study until 6.







He's a big ghost.



A silver key and videotape can be found in the study.



Destination of the tape is obvious. The video is charming enough, and gives us a vital clue.

The silver key unlocks the door to the attic.



Which is a mess. I need to get past the pile of junk.

Looking around, I find a key in one of the stuffed teddies, but that's not what I need.



Of course!



Up and over!



The key from the bear unlocks the trunk. Which contains...Mr Clown!



Luckily, it's easy enough to climb out from this side to help Max.



Let's follow him.



This is a very familiar scene.



Max runs up to open the door. The ghosts fade as Sarah walks in.

This is too creepy...

I kind of agree.





I'm sorry it took so long ... I'm so sorry!

Don't be sad, Max..







I thought... I thought I let you down when you needed me most.

No...don't think that. You could never let me down. You're my hero.

H- Hero?

That stage was one of the only times in video gaming when I felt genuinely fucking sad.

My CD was damaged right at the point where this level loaded and it gave an error. You can imagine the RAGE. Thankfully I found some savegames online.

I found that level REALLY, REALLY disturbing and with a loving mindscrewing atmosphere. Also, you should not blame Sanitarium's combat as popamole, it's more a gimmick than anything, after this section there isn't any combat "section" anymore.

So sad.

Keep going!

About fucking time!

Many for updating!

Came to this thread hoping for some powerful necromancy...



I'm not disappoint

I only just now noticed this, and I'm hoping for some MOAR. I remember I played this when I was like 13 or something and I couldn't understand shit, but I was always sort of attracted to the game even though I could never leave the first screen for obvious lack of understanding. Glad to see it now.

Good to see you're back on track.
Now can we please get to the next page so I don't have to ruin your photobucket every time there's a new reply?

Yeah, next page would be great.

Zdzisiu said:

Yeah, next page is great.

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