Maybe I just have anime brainrot but I honestly love how insane and over the top the trauma center games are. The first few missions are standard surgery stuff, fixing broken bones etc, and by the end you're stopping time to kill a flaming spider inside someone's heart.
The plot follows Derek Stiles, the most generically designed man in the world on his quest to cure all disease. Pretty soon we learn he's actually the descendent of the god of healing or something and can slow down time. This comes in handy when bio-terrorists release genetically modified disease called GUILT to the general population and only YOU can stop them. Standard anime stuff.
Super challenging gameplay, you WILL need to master the mechanics and learn to juggle attacking the guilt, managing vitals, healing wounds, and watching the time limit to beat this game. The DS screen is the size of a postit note so this can get frustrating at times, be warned. (high point for me was doing the first optional post-game mission and almost immediately getting so many cuts on screen the game lagged to a standstill. This actually made it easier to manage vitals since the game was so much slower!)
I love how bizarre the guilt are, each one looks like some kind of alien organism and it's actually horrifying to think about these things crawling around inside your patients. Each one requires a different strategy and it keeps the game fresh: triti is setup like a puzzle, requiring precise removal or else you'll trigger new growth, pempti requires you to play a game of Galaga in someone's lungs before you can attack it's core, etc. It's super weird and otherworldly and I loved each one (except triti. fuck triangles). Definitely the main draw of the game, and each time you discover a new one is an anxiety-inducing race to figure out the strategy before it kills the patient.
Overall if you can handle anime nonsense and like challenging arcady gameplay? This is the game for you. If you're looking for a more realistic surgery sim you probably won't enjoy this, the normal operations quickly take a backseat to the guilt missions.
Also you defuse a bomb
The plot follows Derek Stiles, the most generically designed man in the world on his quest to cure all disease. Pretty soon we learn he's actually the descendent of the god of healing or something and can slow down time. This comes in handy when bio-terrorists release genetically modified disease called GUILT to the general population and only YOU can stop them. Standard anime stuff.
Super challenging gameplay, you WILL need to master the mechanics and learn to juggle attacking the guilt, managing vitals, healing wounds, and watching the time limit to beat this game. The DS screen is the size of a postit note so this can get frustrating at times, be warned. (high point for me was doing the first optional post-game mission and almost immediately getting so many cuts on screen the game lagged to a standstill. This actually made it easier to manage vitals since the game was so much slower!)
I love how bizarre the guilt are, each one looks like some kind of alien organism and it's actually horrifying to think about these things crawling around inside your patients. Each one requires a different strategy and it keeps the game fresh: triti is setup like a puzzle, requiring precise removal or else you'll trigger new growth, pempti requires you to play a game of Galaga in someone's lungs before you can attack it's core, etc. It's super weird and otherworldly and I loved each one (except triti. fuck triangles). Definitely the main draw of the game, and each time you discover a new one is an anxiety-inducing race to figure out the strategy before it kills the patient.
Overall if you can handle anime nonsense and like challenging arcady gameplay? This is the game for you. If you're looking for a more realistic surgery sim you probably won't enjoy this, the normal operations quickly take a backseat to the guilt missions.
Also you defuse a bomb