Doesn't get my pulse rate soaring (Trauma Center: Under the Knife (DS))

Member Name: valve90210

Product:	Trauma Center: Under the Knife (DS)
Date:	12/08/08 (22 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great control system, lots of techniques to learn

Disadvantages: Too repetitive

Having read good reviews of this game, I decided to give it a try. I initially spent quite a lot of time on it and was quite enjoying it. Ok the story segments were rather cheesy but being fairly used to the anime style I was expecting that. I quite enjoyed the initial aspects of the game, learning to use the different medical techiques, cleaning a patient, opening them up, removing glass, draining blood, stiching them back up and bandaging etc etc. It was all quite fun.

However after spending quite some time on the game and learning more techniques and facing more and more complicated challenges, the cheesy storyline and cut sequences really started to grate on me. I also found that it started to become rather repetitive. I was doing much the same things over and over again.

Maybe I should have continued played on, as maybe it was just ensuring I had learnt the various techniques and skills well enough to progress to other things but I have to say I didn't find out because I got bored and stopped playing it.

The control system worked really well, the stylus allowing you to quickly select the tools you needed and allowing good levels of precision for tasks like the stitching etc.

The graphics for the most part were very good. They were in the typical anime style but looked good on screen. My only criticism would be the cut scenes which I initially put up with but after a while really started to get on my nerves.

I think this game could well be thoroughly enjoyed by a lot of people but for me it just became too repetitive too quickly.

Summary: Probably really enjoyable to some but too repetitive for me