etiolate said:An empty sanity bar cost you life. Those scythe things also popped out from Zombies when your sanity was low. So yes there was actual punishment for low sanity. I think it would work better if you couldn't see the sanity meter.
Yeah, but the problem was that it didn't cost you much life, and it was WAY too easy to recover both health and sanity. If either one was running low, all it took was a simple recovery spell to get you back up and running. More often than not, I found that once I was a short ways into the game, I had to actually make an effort to go insane, as it was way too easy to keep everything topped off. Of course, it didn't help that recovering magic was as easy as just walking around, so there was no penalty for casting spells other than a little time.