Game:

Sanitarium (1998)

Duration: 18:22

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I've played the game before so in these descriptions I will be posting massive spoilers to reflect on the entire game.

*Massive spoiler Alert*

So in case you haven't played/finished the game yet, the first chapter is a summary of the entire game. After you've been in a car crash (caused by Doc Morgan, because you created a new cure, which would put Doc Morgan out of business) you awaken in an asylum (which is not even true, because you're actually in a coma). The game has different chapters, each of the patients you can talk to, reflect one of the chapters, the stained glass windows also show you what to expect.

First we got stutterman "da Don". He talks about the spirits of the fallen Temples who demand vengeance. This is Chapter 8 where you visit a village of the Aztecs. The warriors of this tribe have been killed by a wizard called Quetzalcoatl and they need your help (you're in shape of a God) to destroy him (Quetzalcoatl, referring to Doc Morgan). Don says he's hiding from Him, else he would die as well. (Doctor Morgan conducts experiments on his patients, according to Chapter 5).

Then we got Lenny. Who talks about the pumpkin patch (which we will see in Chapter 2). I'm not quite sure what this refers to yet, in terms of Doc Morgan's research (I think the Pumpkin patch is the laboratory or mortuary). For now we can only compare to it Chapter 2, where the pumpkin patch is off-limit for the children of the town. "Mother" (Lenny says Mom) tries to change the children by changing their form (Doc Morgan's research focuses on changing DNA, as far as I could tell). They shouldn't search for their real parents (trying to go back to the old form, or to their true nature) which refers to progress at the cost of anything (I believe, this is just my idea behind the game). We'll leave it at that for now.

Then we got Martin, Martin I tell you! He refers to Chapter 6: The Hive. Martin says Doc Morgan will destroy the bugs together with Martin, while in fact he forms a conspiracy with the bugs in Chapter 6. In Chapter 6 Doc Morgan is referred to as Gromna (Gromna, Groman, Morgan, it's that simple!). He forms a pact with the bugs (the disease that you are trying to cure) to take over the planet (to prevent your cure). In Chapter 6 he grants the bugs technology ("These be robots") to take over the world (thus preventing a cure). More about Chapter 6 when we're actually at Chapter 6.

Then we got the guy we see fall down as soon as we come near him, however we can hear him talk: "Watch the death defying spectacle keep your eyes on the high wire, never before has any circus presented such an amazing keep of balance". He refers to Chapter 4: The Circus, where you play as Max's sister (you are Max, but you don't know your name yet in the first Chapter), Sarah. Who died of the same disease that you're trying to find a cure for. I'm not going to spoil everything about Sarah yet, but Max has the feeling he's responsible for her death. Sarah wanted to go to the circus, but was too ill to come along. She then asks Max to get her doll Mr. Clown from the circus they visited the year before, from her toy box. Max cannot find it and when he gives up searching for it/can't find it, Sarah passes away.

We also got the stained glass window:
1. A clown, referring to the circus.
2. Pumpkins, refer to the pumpkin patch.
3. Children, refers to the ill patients you're trying to cure, you'll see them in Chapter 2.
4. Scarecrow, you'll see it in Chapter 2, I'm not sure what it refers too.

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