Trauma Center: Under the Knife

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, I got this game the other day because I need more DS goodness [to go along with Castlevania and Trace Memory]. Trauma Center is more or less a puzzle game with scalpel and a storyline about bio-terrorism [I kid you not]. Where this is different from other games [storyline aside] is that not only are you timed [most operations are 5 minutes] the patients have vital signs, meaning if there vitals drop to zero other doctors came in and take over leaving you to be fired in disgrace. What this means is that you are fighting to seperate clocks AND working on a semi-realistic person at the same time. Needless to say it can make things really intense. I'm talking 10X more intense than the really hard levels in Dr. Mario intense. It's also HARD. And not just the very last levels [which I'm sure are even harder], but even some of the ones in the earlier chapters are hard. It's also one of the best games on the DS.

If you have a DS I suggest you give this a good look, it just might be what you're looking for.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well, I figured both aspects would exist, but I wasn't aware other surgeons were around to keep anyone from dying.

So now we just wait for that crazy go nuts Attorney at Law game.

[Great Rumbler]

Well, I figured both aspects would exist, but I wasn't aware other surgeons were around to keep anyone from dying.

It's basically there to keep you from feeling like a totally failure AND a patient-killer.

[Dark Jaguar]

But, what if you want to, you know, just hack the patient up and go pretty much insane? Are you saying that they will like, stop you?

[Great Rumbler]

You're allowed a certain amount of "misses" which is basically if you use one of your tools in the wrong place, when those run out I assume it's the same as if the time runs out or their vitals reach zero.

[Dark Jaguar]

So you never decided to go completely evil and dash up innocent unsuspecting people with lives and desires and THOUGHTS all their own?

Yeah I can understand that.

I recently saw a video on it. What's with those weird magical runes you seem to be able to draw on a patient and then things happen? Is the doctor some sort of witch/doctor hybrid, completely original and never though of before?

[Great Rumbler]

So you never decided to go completely evil and dash up innocent unsuspecting people with lives and desires and THOUGHTS all their own?

No, but it wouldn't really do anything anyway. It just says "MISS!". You can't actually cut someone up.

What's with those weird magical runes you seem to be able to draw on a patient and then things happen? Is the doctor some sort of witch/doctor hybrid, completely original and never though of before?

The Healing Touch. You use it to slow down time, something that's absolutely necessary for some operations.

[Dark Jaguar]

So you have magic powers. Oookay...

[Great Rumbler]

It's a videogame...

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm aware. I just thought it was supposed to be a realistic simulation of surgery, to at least some extent. I'm disappointed just because I had played a realistic surgery type game a long time ago on the PC (using the mouse) and it was pretty fun. I was just hoping for a more extensive type of game with an interface that felt more hands on.

This is that, but it's clear it's more arcade, maybe more of a puzzle game than an actual surgery simulation. That's not a bad thing, and I may end up getting it anyway. I just was interested in a simulation.

[Great Rumbler]

Realistic? It's set in future with several impossible tools, including a salve that immediately heals small cuts.

maybe more of a puzzle game than an actual surgery simulation.

It's not super-realistic, but it's not like that's a bad thing.

[Dark Jaguar]

I just said that it's not a bad thing. Don't take what I say as some attack.

I wasn't aware it took place in the magical future.

But anyway, as I said, I'm still interested. It's just not the game I thought it was and I was a little hyped up for a simulation.

[Great Rumbler]

It's probably a lot more fun than a simulation, since things can happen very quickly.

[Dark Jaguar]

I can see how a simulation that simulated things right down to the average time it takes to do it could be annoying :D.

[A Black Falcon]

If I had a DS I might get it.

[Great Rumbler]

You should already HAVE a DS, Brian. I'm ashamed of you. :shake:

[A Black Falcon]

Maybe I should, but hey... I didn't get a GBA for two years after it came out, remember...

[Dark Jaguar]

Eh, don't worry about it. I STILL don't have a Revolution, like lazy.

I mean that as in I am similar to lazy in that I don't have one, justifying my lack of one, as opposed to saying... Oh well...

[Great Rumbler]

Revolution? I've had one of those for like 8 years.