Reviews

Review by amarillion all reviews by amarillion

You are running a surgery, and patients come in with various ills. You could try to prescribe some medicine to cure them, but where is the fun in that? Or you could prescribe something that makes the condition much, much worse.

The game cleverly lets you choose between pairs of prescriptions with opposing effects. So you could make the condition better, or you could make it worse. Further twist is that patients can be allergic to prescriptions, which gives them an extra illness that you have to cure with yet another medicine (mercifully, I haven't discovered a patient with an infinite loop yet)

So yes, you might choose to cure the patients. But eventually the timer runs out, and the game positively encourages you to toy around. It's a lot like lemmings, really.

Especially impressive is the morphing effect: it interpolates between animation frames, creating a very smooth animation from a small number of hand-drawn frames.

Brilliant, sick, childishblobotic humour. Love it!

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 5

Review by SuperSilvey all reviews by SuperSilvey

An excellent, complete entry. I often asked my wife, who's a registered nurse, what I should give patients and the game seemed pretty solid. I noticed most of the time it was safe to go with antibiotics unless they were allergic to it.

Regarding the rules, the morphing is very impressive! I loved reading the explanation in the read me. I did feel the artistical rules could've stuck out a bit more. Like, they had the minimum required to satisfy the rules (i.e. silly weapon and funky dance).

Ultimately, I played the game a few times and my family joined in to. Made sure to hide the name of the game from the kiddos. Since we had fun as a family, I'd say this is one of the better speedhack games I've had the pleasure to play. Two thumbs up!

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 3 Technical 5 Genre 5

Review by SiegeLord all reviews by SiegeLord

No patient deserves the doctor that you can play in this game. While you can play nicely and treat the patient's actual maladies, performing heinous malpractice is where the real gameplay lies. I enjoyed the meta strategy involved to maximize the havoc. A fun game!

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 5