Lifesigns Surgical Unit
- Feel the adrenaline rush of dealing with non-stop medical emergencies as you live the life of a young, motivated doctor!
- Cooperate and converse with staff and patients that you meet throughout the game – review and discuss patients’ medical records, question questions as you diagnose patients’ problems and resolve precarious personal conflicts before they boil over!
- Find out what it is really like to juggle your personal affairs with the demanding lifestyle of a medical intern!
- Examine, diagnose and operate on patients using the unique stylus and touch-screen features of the Nintendo DS to go actual medical techniques and use medical instruments – take auscultation, pulse tariff, incisions, sutures and many more!
- Play a variety of mini-sports meeting as the tale unfolds!
Product Description
Surgical Unit is an original, exciting game for the DS that allows you to experience what it’s like to be a top doctor in one of the best hospitals around. Just like on box, you’ll be endlessly confronted with interpersonal issues between you and your staff and you’ll need to resolve them as quickly and professionally as possible. Of couse, you’ll also have the opportunity to operate on those who need your help the most. By using the DS touchscreen, you’ll be able to converse with, examine, diagnose, and operate on many of the hospital’s patients.
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Lifesigns: Surgical Unit is less about surgery and more about…well, it’s kind of hard to figure out. Mixing elements of Trauma Center: Under the Knife and the Phoenix Wright series, Lifesigns puts you in the shoes of Dr. Tendo, and follows his adventures and conversations in the surgical world. Where as Trauma Center was all about the deep gameplay, Lifesigns makes you navigate around the hospital, and talk, talk, talk. Seriously, there’s so much talking and dialogue here that the game quickly grows dull. By the time you in fact get to go an actual surgery, you’ll learn that the surgical gameplay is quite simplistic, and nowhere near as deep as you may be led to believe by the game’s box and cover art. The surgeries themselves are few and far between, with all the talking and dialogue thrown everywhere else. As a whole, Lifesigns is simple to pick up and get into, and the game is well animated as well, but the shallow, dull gameplay and disappointing surgery elements are what ultimately kill the game. All in all, if you’re expecting another Trauma Center here, you’ll be quite disappointed, and you are much better sticking with that game instead.
Rating: 2 / 5
This game is very perplexing to figure out, I have owned it for nearly a month and can not figure out how to play it.
Rating: 1 / 5
This game has a alot of text. But that is what I like. There are multiple endings , so it has alot of replay regard. There are surgies but i like making a web of relationships and seeing what will happen. If you want straight surgery than this is not what you want but if you like a bit of both, try life signs. I loved it. But i also loved Hotel dusk and that game was loaded with text.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this game believing that it would allow me to examine patients and go surgery… how naive of me. Unfortunately, this game is not anything more than a misogynistic soap opera. Notice the teen rating. This can’t possibly be for the gore of surgery, since there is very small of that in the game.
Here are the things I don’t like about the game:
1. Nearly no surgery! In 3 “days” in the game (about 4-5 hours of play), I have had only one patient. I had maybe 3 minutes of “examination” (dragging the stylus across her abdomen) and about 5 minutes of surgery. The surgery was not even fun or fascinating.
2. It is BORING. Most of the play consists of conversations where I (as a male intern) alternately offend and attempt to seduce the other characters. Also, I do not have control of these conversations. It’s just a matter of tapping the screen owing to endless dialogue that bears a tenuous relationship with medical practice at best. In fact, some of the situations have not anything to do with the hospital at all, like when I went to buy a birthday present for my supervisor (a woman that I am apparently trying to seduce).
3. I have small control over the game play. As I mentioned above, I am permitted no choices regarding interactions with other characters. I just have to click around the hospital locations available to me at the time and talk with people. I have played this game for 4-5 hours altogether, because I keep hoping for more patients. So far it hasn’t happened. There’s not anything I can do to alacrity things by the side of, because the game requires you to converse with certain people in a specific order for the game to progress.
4. It shows Japanese people in a terrible light. No doubt about it. This issue was initially a minor annoyance but has become quite annoying. Although the characters are Anglo-looking anime people, they have Japanese names and use -san and -sensei after the names. The way these people cooperate is not an American way of communicating at all. Also, occasionally an outburst will be in black and white in Japanese characters (foul language that they didn’t want to translate?). My conundrum is not that the characters are culturally Japanese but that I don’t believe they are an accurate representation of Japanese people (I reflect). The only Japanese people I know are culturally American, so I have no basis for comparison, but this game has made me marvel: are all Japanese men really dominating and disrespectful toward women? Are all Japanese women either mad/defensive or seductive/flirtatious? Obviously I don’t really believe this, but the game would certainly lead me to these conclusions.
I wish I had researched this game before buying it. Sadly, it was an impulse buy at a mall store. I remembered having a surgery computer game when I was a kid and how much I loved it, so I immediately selected this one up when I saw it. What a disappointment. Please learn from my mistake!
Rating: 1 / 5
Check out Professor Sawai, you’ll see what I mean.
First of all: this is not Trauma Center. This is not Phoenix Wright. The series started in Japan way before the former, and though it’s an adventure game, the feel is entirely different to the latter. Despite the soap-operaish storyline, this is ultimately more realistic than either game. Trauma Center was splendid fun, but lost the plot for me once I started drawing pentagons and fighting bug monsters in the operating theatre. Lifesigns sticks with honestly typical operations in a moderately realistic hospital setting. The simulation part is similar to the ancient PC game, Life and Death, in that you’re expected to follow standard procedures and know some of the basic supplies of surgery; there’s small hand-holding here.
The major downside is that this is a translation of the second game in the series; the first was exclusive to Japan. Consequently, you’re thrown into the tale with only a basic description of who your character is, and the setting in which he works. I hope they eventually give the first game an English release. The translation is also unadorned and patchy; don’t expect the outstanding level achieved by the Phoenix Wright sports meeting. Lifesigns sticks with the Japanese names for all characters, and the game has some awkward dialogue. The graphical stylishness takes some adjusting; it’s anime-stylishness, but sort of sketchy. The character designs are splendid though, and the characters themselves are fascinating and practically well-developed. There’s also a very sweet small romance subplot between you and another intern doctor, if you do well enough on the operations for each stage.
I’m not quite sure what the other reviewer meant when they said this game shows Japanese people in a terrible light. First…it’s a Japanese game, by Japanese writers, and the translation is in fact honestly literal (therefore some of the awkward dialogue). Also, it trades in some typical anime stereotypes – attractive but unattainable grown-up woman (your supervisor), flirtatious but slightly inept young male protagonist, meek and devoted young girl (the nurse), etc.
It’s right, there is a lot of text, and you spend a honest amount of time outside of the operating theatre. But this is the nature of the game; it’s about the setting and the characters as much as the medical procedures. Sort of a dating-sim/adventure/surgery sim, if that makes sense. If you despise reading dialogue and description, skip this game; you’ll get small out of it. Try Trauma Center instead, there’s small characterization or dialogue and much more direct gameplay (even if the plot does turn ridiculous by the last few stages). But if you like a fun tale and a small bit of light-hearted soap-opera with your simulations, give Lifesigns a try. I honestly didn’t expect much at first, but I’m glad I selected it up!
Rating: 4 / 5