UltimaLink007
Hope Never Dies
Trauma Center: Second Opinion review
By: UltimaLink007
By: UltimaLink007
Yes! My review is finally going to finally exist! YAY!!! I beat the entire game! Note that this review will not be spoiler free, and I'm too lazy to put in a ton of tags. If anyone wants the full story, PM me, and I will make a thread under a full spoiler tag. Please comment as you will.
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The year is 2018. Many dangerous and deadly diseases have been eradicated from the world. Cancer, AIDS, and TFTA Influenza are now just footnotes in history..... But! A new disease arrives, and is threatening all of mankind. You play as Derek Stiles, a 26 year old surgeon who has just completed his residency at Hope Hospital. He has no idea of the destiny that awaits him. Another story, another doctor, as you also play as Dr. Nozomi "Weaver". It’s time you got a Second Opinion!
Sound/Voice Acting - 9.5/10: There isn't too much voice acting, but there are a few words that will be said before the operations, after the operations, or sometimes during the operations, but those are mostly the assistant yelling "Derek!" because you did something wrong...The music is a lot more clean and crisp, and they improved Savato's theme and the "super awesome heroic music" greatly. I also enjoy that for the entire GUILT outbreak in chapter 5, the super awesome heroic music plays, rather than in just the first mission like in the DS
. Well done, and godspeed.Graphics - 9/10: Extraordinarily good. The characters look like real people as opposed to the more animated look of the DS. also, the GUILT look stunningly cool, now the first guilt are blue, the second GUILT look like birds that have the ability to make themselves darker, the third GUILT are still ugly, but they look better in green, the fourth GUILT look really cool too, I like how it looks like they have really long arms. The fifth GUILT actually looks worse, but it's a lot easier to determine it's core's position. For the sixth GUILT, it is changed so that I actually know how much more I need to cut it before extraction, and the seventh GUILT just looks freakin awesome. The organs had a makeover, and look a lot better than on the DS. This game is very stunning, and looks really great.
Gameplay - 10/10: You have your normal operations for a while, which teach you all of the basic uses and operations, for when you get to the more difficult missions, i.e. missions that you operate on GUILT. The varieties of surgery that this game allows you to do is great, ranging from tumor extraction, to transplants, to destroying GUILT... there are three difficulty levels, which adds to the fun, and the menu that your file is on, acts as challenge mode, where you can go back and retry operations that you've already completed to try for a better rank. Ranks go as such:
C - Rookie Doctor
B - Specialist
A - Senior Surgeon
S - Master Surgeon
XS - Medical Prodigy
The difficulties are good, and going up or down can add more of a challenge or help make it easier if you're struggling. This game is centered around gameplay, and it hits a complete home run in that department.
Use of Wiimote/Nunchuck - 10/10: You use the wiimote to do the actual surgery and use it to apply whatever tool you need to the task you currently need it to do. You will be making different motions with it to accomplish those tasks. The nunchuck is your surgical assistant, allowing you to switch your tool at will in order to accomplish what is needed or desires, such as raising vitals with the stabilizer from your syringe. The use of these two “vital” ingredients to this game is innovative just as every Wii game is, but kicks it up a few more notches with Trauma Center: Second Opinion.
Story – 10/10: Trauma Center: Second Opinion has almost a mirror story of Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
The story for Derek Stiles is exactly the same through chapter 5, but chapter 6 is completely different, and even though I knew it was different, I never expected what actually happened. Also, during Derek Stile’s story. Another doctor Naomi Kimishima a.k.a. “Nozomi Weaver” has a story all of her own, which contains 5 missions for her which take place during Derek’s story, and are unlocked after each chapter of Derek’s story is completed. After chapter 5, the huge raid on Delphi’s headquarters is just a bit of story, as opposed to the entire chapter it was in Under the Knife, and Derek and his assistant, Angie, go to Europe for a conference hosted by Caduceus Europe, where they meet Dr. Kimishima, and that’s all I’m saying for now. The 6th chapter saved this from being a complete repeat, and it convinced me to give this a ten. Overall – 10/10: This is a phenomenal game, and probably one of the most underrated new games for any system. I recommend this game to anyone who has a Wii, who wants a good challenge, and who want to have hours of fun playing this game. The innovativeness and the great job Atlas did taking advantage of the wiimote and nunchuck, make this one of the best games on the Wii to date.
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That’s my review! I hope you all enjoyed it!
If anyone wants the full story, PM me and I’ll post it in a spoiler tag as a new thread. 
