Post by Gilvan Blight on Feb 26, 2007 3:31:26 GMT -5
Quickly: a very odd and very cool use of the wii. Jumps up in dificulty around act 4.
Summary: the odest game I have played in a long time. Not Rayman odd, just odd that a surgery game exists. In this game you are a young doctor just getting started in the O.R. The gameplay consists of watching a storyline session that reminds me of Japanese dating sims (barely any movement, static backrounds and lots of text), and then doing the 'mission' in the O.R. The missions are a wide variety of surgical operations from Healing Broken Bones to removing Tumors. You use the nunchuck to select from 8 different tool and the Wiimote as each of those tools. You have at your disposal, antibiotic Gel, Laser, Suction, Suture, Scaple, Ultrasound, needle and forcepts. In addition the nurse will sometimes put special items on a trey for you to take (syntetic skin and bandages most often). After each operation you are rated on your accuracy, speed, ability to keep the patient calm and other mission specific goals. As the story evolves you find out you have a magic ability (the Healing Touch) that you can manifest (as your typical bullet time), while in the OR by drawing a pentragram with the Wiimote. The operations also go from the ordinary to the extraordinary as you learn more and more about the human created virus GUILT.
The Good: an interesting idea for a game that works out to be quite fun. This was orgiinally a DS game created to work with the stylus and touch screen, and I think that the Wiimote works just as well if not better. The motions required are pretty natural and you will be cutting, healind and sewing like a pro in no time. The graphics are pretty well done without being disturbing. This could have looked dumb if too cartoony and disgusting if too real, I think they got a good balance. Three different difficulty levels and a side plot actually give this some replay value. Also trying to improve your score on a certain level is actually enjoyable enough that I re-did all the oringal operations after playing for 4 hours to see how I improved.
The bad: no multiplayer. Really it's a single player storyline so I guess it doesn't need multiplayer, but I think having two players do the same operation in a row to see who scores best, or even having two 'doctors' work on a patient at once would be fun. Touchy. Some of the tools, I find the forecepts especially are a bit touchy causing you to drop objects when you don't plan on it (usually involving sticking whatever you are trying to remove from you patient back in. The subject matter may not be for everyone, though Pandora, who usually has a week stomach for such things didn't find the game disturbing. I also wasn't a fan of how this went 'glish' I wasn't expecting to be chasing galaga style 'aliens' around someones pancreas and trying to zap them with a surgical laser. I should have expected it, but I think I would have prefered the game if it just stuck to basic surgery.
The Ugly: the story. At best it's pretty typical and tollerable, but at worse it's a daytime soap, a bad daytime soap. There was once scene where you are trying to cheer up a Suicidal girl. The music suddenly drops to piano and the conversation starts with "I once had a cat named..." Oh gods it was horrible. The melodrama is just so overdone. Around act 4 the difficulty jumped incredably. You get to the point where you difuse a bomb and everything becomes way to hard. Everything since then has taken multiple tries and has caused quite the amount of frustration. I am still hoping that it's just a bump in the road, and that things will get back to a playable level.
Overall: actually probably the most fun Wii game I have played. It uses the system well, and in a unique way. I definately suggest a rent. If the games long enough (I've been playing about 5 hours, not sure how much is left) or if you like replaying games on ever increasing difficulty levels, I suggest picking this one up. It's a rather unique and cool game.
Summary: the odest game I have played in a long time. Not Rayman odd, just odd that a surgery game exists. In this game you are a young doctor just getting started in the O.R. The gameplay consists of watching a storyline session that reminds me of Japanese dating sims (barely any movement, static backrounds and lots of text), and then doing the 'mission' in the O.R. The missions are a wide variety of surgical operations from Healing Broken Bones to removing Tumors. You use the nunchuck to select from 8 different tool and the Wiimote as each of those tools. You have at your disposal, antibiotic Gel, Laser, Suction, Suture, Scaple, Ultrasound, needle and forcepts. In addition the nurse will sometimes put special items on a trey for you to take (syntetic skin and bandages most often). After each operation you are rated on your accuracy, speed, ability to keep the patient calm and other mission specific goals. As the story evolves you find out you have a magic ability (the Healing Touch) that you can manifest (as your typical bullet time), while in the OR by drawing a pentragram with the Wiimote. The operations also go from the ordinary to the extraordinary as you learn more and more about the human created virus GUILT.
The Good: an interesting idea for a game that works out to be quite fun. This was orgiinally a DS game created to work with the stylus and touch screen, and I think that the Wiimote works just as well if not better. The motions required are pretty natural and you will be cutting, healind and sewing like a pro in no time. The graphics are pretty well done without being disturbing. This could have looked dumb if too cartoony and disgusting if too real, I think they got a good balance. Three different difficulty levels and a side plot actually give this some replay value. Also trying to improve your score on a certain level is actually enjoyable enough that I re-did all the oringal operations after playing for 4 hours to see how I improved.
The bad: no multiplayer. Really it's a single player storyline so I guess it doesn't need multiplayer, but I think having two players do the same operation in a row to see who scores best, or even having two 'doctors' work on a patient at once would be fun. Touchy. Some of the tools, I find the forecepts especially are a bit touchy causing you to drop objects when you don't plan on it (usually involving sticking whatever you are trying to remove from you patient back in. The subject matter may not be for everyone, though Pandora, who usually has a week stomach for such things didn't find the game disturbing. I also wasn't a fan of how this went 'glish' I wasn't expecting to be chasing galaga style 'aliens' around someones pancreas and trying to zap them with a surgical laser. I should have expected it, but I think I would have prefered the game if it just stuck to basic surgery.
The Ugly: the story. At best it's pretty typical and tollerable, but at worse it's a daytime soap, a bad daytime soap. There was once scene where you are trying to cheer up a Suicidal girl. The music suddenly drops to piano and the conversation starts with "I once had a cat named..." Oh gods it was horrible. The melodrama is just so overdone. Around act 4 the difficulty jumped incredably. You get to the point where you difuse a bomb and everything becomes way to hard. Everything since then has taken multiple tries and has caused quite the amount of frustration. I am still hoping that it's just a bump in the road, and that things will get back to a playable level.
Overall: actually probably the most fun Wii game I have played. It uses the system well, and in a unique way. I definately suggest a rent. If the games long enough (I've been playing about 5 hours, not sure how much is left) or if you like replaying games on ever increasing difficulty levels, I suggest picking this one up. It's a rather unique and cool game.