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[Vlad]

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.

 

[Amir0x]

An empty sanity bar cost you life.

Yes, but very little life and when they happened you could quickly pop a sanity spell. Itwould be much better if the sanity actually caused increases in difficulty so that the gameplay was fundamentally altered when it occurred. There's also others ways the sanity could have effected gameplay, although I'm not nearly creative enough to think of many more.

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.

I don't even remember that. But even so, there's a great many more ways they could have intelligently increased the difficulty of the sanity.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I just picked up two. One as a Christmas present for my little sis, and one to replace the no-box copy Gamestop sent me a couple years ago.

 

[Solid]

Best game this generation. It has the best atmosphere ever. You'll be eaten by it. Pure masterpiece.

Dyack for president.