Atlus Readies Stylus-Based Surgery Game For DS

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.

Comments

"cheer on the patient" ????

[menscher]

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.

Re:"cheer on the patient" ????

[Anonymous Coward]

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!"

Mods

[Cyberop5]

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

Life and Death!

[prockcore]

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.

In case you didn't read the article...

[osrevad]

...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!

And you hated mobile phone users before

[SmallFurryCreature]

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?