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Atlus Readies Stylus-Based Surgery Game For DS

Posted by simoniker on from the cut-snip-snip dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its article discussing Atlus' announcement of a stylus-utilizing touchscreen surgery game for the Nintendo DS handheld. According to the article about Caduceus: Surgical Operation: "The player steps into the role of a talented young surgeon who must operate on different maladies in each of the game's stages... Actions such as cutting the patient or getting rid of an unidentified parasite are done with the [Nintendo DS] stylus. In addition, while operating, the player must cheer on the patient using the device's voice recognition." There's also a couple of screenshots of the forthcoming Life & Death-eque game, featuring the "Hurted Heart" mission, on the Japanese-language NTT site.

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  1. "cheer on the patient" ???? by menscher · · Score: 3, Funny
    while operating, the player must cheer on the patient using the device's voice recognition

    Yeah, that's what I always look for in a surgeon... someone to "cheer me on" while I'm unconscious.

    1. Re:"cheer on the patient" ???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm guessing that this patient belongs to some cut-rate HMO that won't pay for frills like anesthesia.... "You can do it! Don't start writhing on me now! The pain will only make you stronger!"

  2. This game does look cool . . . by dgrgich · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . they didn't even mention the fifth level, entitled "Busted Balls".

  3. Mods by Cyberop5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    First thing I'd do is create a plastic surgery mod for m' ladies ;)

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  4. Life and Death! by prockcore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man I loved that game, and I sucked at it! I used to play on my ][gs. I couldn't get past the apendectomy. The game didn't like my sutures or something.

    But man, if I ever had to perform an emergency apendectomy, i could. Oh sure, you'd bleed to death later because aparently I can't sew, but at least you wouldn't die from apendicitis.

    1. Re:Life and Death! by vjmurphy · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Man I loved that game, and I sucked at it! I used to play on my ][gs. I couldn't get past the apendectomy. The game didn't like my sutures or something."

      "But man, if I ever had to perform an emergency apendectomy, i could. Oh sure, you'd bleed to death later because aparently I can't sew, but at least you wouldn't die from apendicitis."

      Screw that. From television, I've learned that all you need to do is finish the main part of the operation, then tell someone standing around to "close this up for me." Then it's off to the golf course.

      The problem I have with those games is one of freedom: Yes, I do really need to perform an amputation on your right arm before getting to the appendix. Got a problem with that? I was always the kid who purposely screwed up removing the wrenched ankle.

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  5. Won't someone please think of the children? by TheLoneDanger · · Score: 2, Funny

    And when will we have the lawyer claiming that he is trying to save the moral fabric of our society by claiming that this game will result in increased malpractice rates by doctors desensitized to surgery?

    Or more likely, some kid will take a knife to his pet or smaller sibling and then someone will suggest they learned it from the game.

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  6. Slice N Dice by blueZhift · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm, suddenly a see a game in which you as a Samurai slice and dice your opponents with a sword shaped stylus. Miss the vitals and he may kill you, with bonuses for slicing style and penalties for too many strokes!

    And for the kids, a Harry Potter game with a wand shaped stylus...The hits they keep a comin!

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  7. In case you didn't read the article... by osrevad · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...It says that this game will fall under the "sci-fi surgery action game" genre. I think we can all agree that we've already had way to many games in this category. Why can't they do something original for once!

  8. And you hated mobile phone users before by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the looks from your fellow travellers while screaming "hang in there" "don't die on my now" "we got a squirter here get a me a clamp he is bleeding all over" into you gameboy.

    On a side note, why can't I ever turn of the music on gba games? Is it somekind of mind control program that I must play with horrible repetetive crappy soundcard music?

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  9. Delivering babies... by JFMulder · · Score: 2, Funny

    That game look's interresting, but if there's n option to deliver babies, I'm sure not playing it in the subway or any public transport.
    "Ok, there you go, breathe harder, harder. Push push push - Sir, I'll have to ask you to leave or stop that camcorder or I'll shove it up your a** - No nurse I don't have a time for a sponge bath - Push harder lady. Yes!!! Congratulation it's a boy. Here sir, cut the umbilical cord. *clip* Congratulation, you've got a girl!"