Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Trauma Center: Under the Knife


Another of the now "classic" games on the Nintendo DS, I finally got a chance to play Trauma Center (and need to return it to another co-worker).

As Dr. Derek Stiles, you play through several medical emergencies, using various tools such as a scalpel, suturing needle, etc.

As I had heard, this is pretty challenging, and maddening, however, I did get sucked into it for a little bit. I got stuck on one of the cases where you need to excise an unholy number of tumors and keep the patient alive in a very short timeframe.

Biggest interface frustration was the magnification - trying to draw a little circle where I wanted it to magnify never seemed to work.
Online faqs advised to draw it like a backwards "C" - that worked a lot better, but still it seems like it could have been a button on the screen.

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