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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. Argh! No! by cluke · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh wow! The possibilities of this exciting new form of input! Why, it's revolutionary, it's some sort of pointing device!
    Like a mouse then?

    Come on people, stylus input freakin' SUCKS BALLS. It's is rubbish. They tried similar things with light pens in the 1980s and instead of opening up new vistas of UI possibilty everyone totally hated them. Why don't they just stick a trackball on it and be done with it?
    Seriously, stylus input is not more natural. It's a gimmick, and an expensive gimmick to boot (you need to bolt on a whole second screen??). People like conventional forms of input, they don't want to be scraping away like some medieval monk scribing out copies of the bible. As far as games are concerned, choices should be made with minimal efforts. My thumb twitches left, I move left. Right, I move right. I don't want to be describing circles with some sort of midget pencil, or painstakingly dragging my 'scalpel' from A to B, like one of those god-awful 'don't touch the wire or the buzzer goes off' so-called games. Does anyone like that sort of thing? Masochists maybe. Why don't you just spend your day threading needles, it would be about as much fun, and cheaper.
    And as for that guy salivating over the modelling and level creation possibles - what, you need a stylus to do that?