I gotta say, this game is pretty dang good.
The game is a kinda surgeon-simulator-but-it-feels-like-an-action-game by Atlus about a medical group called Caudacous fighting a bio-terrorist plot to kill the world, with the protagonist, Derek Stiles, being a surgeon with the mysterious Healing touch ability, the ability to move his hand at supersonic speeds when treating a patient. The story, while simple, is quite entertaining, and provides numerous instances for unique surgeries.
The graphics look alright. It's a Wii launch title, so I wasn't expecting much. The internal organs look fine, and the 2D art look pretty good, but the outside of bodies look overly simple, especially when they don't change when operating on major characters.
The music's pretty good. he song selection isn't large, and not much of the music I'd go out of my way to listen to, but it's fitting and is still nice to listen to during the game.
Now for the gameplay. It's a surgeon simulator that, lets just say, takes many liberties with realism. At first, you're dealing with normal patients, but by the second half of the game, nearly every patient is infected with GUILT, which is pretty much just a bio-weapon disease. It's extremely fast paces and very, very, very fucking difficult near the end of the game. It took me about 3-4 hours to finish the second-to-last mission. Still, the game never feels unfair, and when it gets too tough, you can always choose to lower the difficulty or use the Healing Touch (Though triggering the Healing Touch is rather finnicky). It's mostly hard because the game does not understand that precision is not the Wii Remote's strong point, though for the most part, despite being a launch title, the motion controls are done tastefully.
Overall, the game is very fun, very difficult, and an overall fun time. It's not going to change your life or anything, but it will provide a solid challenge for 13 hours, and is a definite recommend for any Wii owner.
8/10
The game is a kinda surgeon-simulator-but-it-feels-like-an-action-game by Atlus about a medical group called Caudacous fighting a bio-terrorist plot to kill the world, with the protagonist, Derek Stiles, being a surgeon with the mysterious Healing touch ability, the ability to move his hand at supersonic speeds when treating a patient. The story, while simple, is quite entertaining, and provides numerous instances for unique surgeries.
The graphics look alright. It's a Wii launch title, so I wasn't expecting much. The internal organs look fine, and the 2D art look pretty good, but the outside of bodies look overly simple, especially when they don't change when operating on major characters.
The music's pretty good. he song selection isn't large, and not much of the music I'd go out of my way to listen to, but it's fitting and is still nice to listen to during the game.
Now for the gameplay. It's a surgeon simulator that, lets just say, takes many liberties with realism. At first, you're dealing with normal patients, but by the second half of the game, nearly every patient is infected with GUILT, which is pretty much just a bio-weapon disease. It's extremely fast paces and very, very, very fucking difficult near the end of the game. It took me about 3-4 hours to finish the second-to-last mission. Still, the game never feels unfair, and when it gets too tough, you can always choose to lower the difficulty or use the Healing Touch (Though triggering the Healing Touch is rather finnicky). It's mostly hard because the game does not understand that precision is not the Wii Remote's strong point, though for the most part, despite being a launch title, the motion controls are done tastefully.
Overall, the game is very fun, very difficult, and an overall fun time. It's not going to change your life or anything, but it will provide a solid challenge for 13 hours, and is a definite recommend for any Wii owner.
8/10