What Happened to Trauma Center?

[@metalkiddoc7342]

Persona Fans: I want a switch port and I want it now! SMT Fans: We just want our next mainline entry to be released if we are being honest. Trauma Center Fans: Wait you guys are still getting games?

[@realhuman3871]

Atlas:here’s smt 5 and a Nocturn remake Persona and trauma center:those that mean we get what we want Atlas:hell no

[@stonalisa3729]

Jack Bro’s fandom: forgotten

[@stonalisa3729]

Umbrella Samurai they are working on persona 6 right now though

[@realhuman3871]

Rely

[@AshleyRiot]

@@realhuman3871 atlas lmao

[@popcultureoverdosed]

Atlus fell victim to Sega tunnel vision syndrome. They only focus on their absolute most popular series and leave everything else to the wayside

[@charlestrudel8308]

the problem lies with the fact that they did the exact opposite of that until 2013 and never got money for it... They are also translating sega game in english and that takes a lot of their time. Atlus is still great, but I think they are fatigue of doing new stuff since most of them are very niche cult classic that were not that successful.

[@jmaster4941]

Probably has something to do with the fact that they're OWNED BY SEGA.

[@popcultureoverdosed]

@@jmaster4941 Yeah I know but they've had tunnel vision before they were owned by sega. I guess " great" minds think alike.

[@jmaster4941]

@@popcultureoverdosed Omg. This is why I'm still shocked that Tokyo Mirage Sessions is even being ported to Switch. I thought they forgot about it, but it's a great game. (I beat it.)

[@brycerichardson3687]

To be fair, their most popular series are really good

[@007MrYang]

Did people seriously complain about "the healing touch" not being realistic? Out of everything that's unrealistic in this game? Seriously!?

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

Tbh I'd love more off the wall and darker and more surreal themes like SMT mainline/Devil survivor. Great games

[@Dukefazon]

I remember I giggled all the way through the first game on Wii, the story was cheesy but the healing touch felt so good, it gave me goosebumps. I love the series.

[@Prinny_421]

That skill felt more as a Deus Ex Machina. It cheapens the work the player feels they did throughout the rest of the surgeries. I get that there should be some tense moments, but it feels pointless to design critical moments during surgeries, only to be able to brush it off with a star.

[@B0K0691]

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO USE IT LMAO

[@SylverMage]

@@Prinny_421 It did feel a bit like a deus ex machina, but I found in later surgeries that knowing *when* to use it was as key to being successful as all your other skills. You really had to hone some of your skills to be able to avoid using the HT too early (And you could always challenge yourself to finish without it :) )

[@royalkumar795]

Trauma center: you took everything from me.. Altus : I don't even know who you are...

[@yukinasakura9502]

*SMTV

[@nahmunch9794]

Yukina Sakura aged like warm tomatoes

[@bk-ql2is]

Wow, the panic memories I have playing co-op in Trauma Center: New Blood for the Wii. If there was one thing that bonded my younger brother and I together as kids, it was our combined surgical incompetence leading to the deaths of hundreds of innocent NPCs on the operating table.

[@fakegrant]

“FBI? Yes, this comment right here”

[@monkemaster7208]

Yeah, I later ended up trying to speedrun the game and COULD HAVE gotten a top record, but I can’t record my wii at the moment

[@gelidafrumentum3044]

Tbh, new blood is easier than second opinion

[@monkemaster7208]

@@gelidafrumentum3044 you crazy man

[@Ashbringer36]

@@monkemaster7208 Nah he's right, with the exception of a handful of gauntlet missions in New Blood that are race against time Second Opinion is def harder overall, or rather GUILT is more difficult then Stigma blow for blow, case and point My record is an A for Cardia and C for Savato

[@bumbleboosh]

"Second Opinion's music was, for the most part, perfectly fitting for each situation." [energetic electronic music intensifies as patients contemplate their mortality]

[@rudeboyspodcast]

THE ALIEN PARASITES HAVE TAKEN OVER THE PATIENT'S BODY [*banging Shoji Meguro music intensifies*]

[@hellpunisher]

"We have an emergency!" *Music is still upbeat*

[@orangeblitz4786]

Brown Chie is Trauma Center best girl.

[@o_tout0]

I think there was a brown haired Naomi from persona 5.

[@Ravencourt66]

Angie to

[@deathzonekiller2261]

You´re damn right

[@smithwimm1575]

White Maria Torres

[@nicholas3445]

Let's be real, Chie is white Maria. Chie is litterally just a turned down Maria.

[@M0NDAY2FRIDAY]

There was at least a nod to the Trauma series in P5. Nothing super obvious but while watching TV - the medical drama - it plays an OST track from Trauma Team. Would love to see a new title for the switch with the joy cons, even if it’s just a remake. Some sort of proper recognition would just be enough even...

[@Alovon]

TBF wonder if the Trauma Series may actually be in the Persona Universe. Under the Knife/Second Opinion take place in 2018 (At least all signs indicate that at least), and Persona 5 is in 2016, so the medical tech advancement very much could fit with the timeline of Persona considering all the way in Persona 3 (2006 to 2009?) you have people creating life-like battle androids who are capable of enough sentience to manifest a Persona. UTK2 is in 2021 which nothing particularly off there. New Blood is in 2028 so fair bit out there, but considering forces like the Antisocial Conspiracy in P5 exist, other similar organizations probably could result in the dystopic elements seen in New Blood's 2028 (Can't expect a Phantom Thief-like group to rise up in every country and learn of the nature of those sorts of things) Trauma Team is firmly in the USA and Portland Maine of all places, so fair bit away from Caduceus Japan of UTK/SO, Caduseus Europe of SO, or even Caduceus USA in Maryland (Although TBF makes one certain plot point very "huh" with respects to viability unless a certain helicopter is the most fuel-efficient thing in the universe.). But it is after UTK2, so probably could be in their universe's equivalent to 2023 (COVID not happening to the degree it did due to the universe's further medical tech advancement in the late 2010s and GUILT making people more scared about that)

[@Giovansbilly]

​@@AlovonI like that theory. That would also imply that Asclepius is real and he's the one who gifts doctors Healing Touch, which is kinda like their version of Persona without summoning a Stand-like being. He may also be on the side of Philemon Also P4 has the antibiotic gel, so they've already invented that since at least 2011. And I saw another theory that theorized RONI is the invention of a certain character from a P5 spinoff

[@Sygmus6]

We were agreeing on everything up to the Ace Attorney-like mode on Trauma Team. I found the murder mysteries engaging and a nice way to take a break from the heart-pounding first aid segments. TT might be my favorite game in the series, despite the endoscopy.

[@mauriciomeireles1210]

I think i DO agree with him... but you also right, the rhing they did wrong was the focus of the gameplay: instead of a detective game they shoukd had focused on the autopsy part, identifiing wounds and trying to piece together a story... being a medicine student mysself you would be surprised how much corpses "talk" about their life and death

[@ThatNorthWind]

Plus, he said nothing on its story. Granted, most of it may spoil how each case goes, but a simple “they are good” would have been fine, since, well, each scenario’s story is really good

[@vgmaster9]

It's funny, cause Trauma center is to medical dramas, as Ace Attorney is to legal dramas.

[@CrimsonLiv]

Endoscopy was such a pain!!!!

[@shadowstar8619]

@@vgmaster9 Besides, Ace Attorney once got canonically crossed with the puzzle-riddled mystery-solving series known as Professor Layton. Who's to say it wouldn't work out if there was a crossover with one of the Trauma Center games? Especially when the main surgeon in the game was an innocent man convicted of bioterrorism. They'd help him get out of what's left of his 250-year sentence by reopening the case and revealing the true culprit.

[@martiplus7350]

The only thing people remember from this game is Gentle Breeze

[@ahmedfalahy9337]

The memes

[@vertient71]

Oh its the Handsome Squidward theme

[@ZaWarubro]

Facts

[@ahmanetbones9496]

Am I truly the only person here who believed that Trauma Center Under the Knife 2 was the best of the games? It may be because it was my first ever trauma center game, but I think it's fantastic, much better than trauma center under the knife 1

[@Yuzuki1337]

@@ahmanetbones9496 I think they were all great games in their own right but I agree, for me UTK2 was the best out of the series but not by much

[@Hastur_Carcosa]

After the murder cases in Inaba, Yosuke went on to study medicine and changed his name to Derek Stiles.

[@mintberrycrunch3630]

Why does this make sense, with the fact that Yosuke is a good support and one of the only characters who was confirmed to go to college

[@hernandovallejo]

@Flipper after Chidori died (again), Junpei Iori snapped, lost his baseball career, went under the radar as Yakuza and changed his name Munehisa Iwai.

[@chuckles3116]

And Pixy survived his crash only to die while being diagnosed by Gabe (there’s a line during phase 3 where if you go to the office and back to the patient while Gabe is having a “normal discussion with a friend”, Gabe will say “yo buddy, still alive?”)

[@Giovansbilly]

​@@mintberrycrunch3630Also Derek is a little incompetent as a doctor when he first worked in 2018 despite being an amazing surgeon, so that'd kinda fit with Yosuke's work ethos

[@Entropic_Alloy]

Trauma Team was an insane disaster sales wise....fantastic game tho, but it probably killed the series.

[@lolzman999]

neoepochx My favourite game on the wii........ U’s download store

[@Rogerioapsandrade]

@@lolzman999 I bought it and it's my favorite Wii game. I love everything about Trauma Team.

[@chasemantkd]

are those playable characters in Trauma Team actually some of the same names as Persona characters?

[@EM-st9ji]

@@chasemantkd yeah i noticed it too, especially yukiko amagi is from persona 4 lol

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

@@chasemantkd No, he was joking about who they look like. That's why he said he couldn't come up with a name for the last one so he used her actual name. lol

[@heeho3360]

Hospital: 6 doctors sounds like a fun game

[@Nellyc1]

Hospital: 7 doctors is even crazier

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

Tbh if you know Japanese that title doesn't sound as silly as it does in English

[@mauriciomeireles1210]

It sounds like a detective novel story tbh

[@Hambs23]

It's like the reverse Fire Emblem Three Houses. The original name for FE was really good and the localization fucked it up. It was called fuukasetsugetsu, and it represented the 4 seasons, nothing to do with 3 houses whatsoever. Though, if I have to say, aside from the first title (the Super Surgeon one), I actually like the name Caduceus more than Trauma Center. It sounds more unique.

[@noodle1448]

I just wanted to point out the switch joycons have motion controls in the style of the Wii remote, so that could be a control option.

[@VolkColopatrion]

Among other factors

[@groznjigradsoviet1366]

Ever play the worlds ends with you on switch?It uses motion controls and it is actual ass it straight up ruined one of my favorite games ever.

[@irrelevoice]

It could be a handheld game using the touch screen, maybe use a joycon to swap tools

[@kaliskonig]

@@groznjigradsoviet1366 Because TWEWY just didn't work well with that type of control scheme. Trauma Center works good with both.

[@groznjigradsoviet1366]

kaliskonig i preordered that game and words can’t describe how disappointed i was with that gams

[@Hilly_LittleFeatheryCorner]

Devoted Trauma Center fan here. I came across your video just today and I absolutely love how everything is laid out. As much I really love the game (I will literally gush about it like a hyper fangirl), I am not afraid to admit its flaws. I think your video helped me articulate it better to why UTK2 was kind of forgettable and why New Blood is probably the best. I am actually torn between NB and TT being my top favorite. NB does have a more mature story especially with a themes. A friend of mine pointed out that NB could've been made the way it is as a sequel because the TC fans were growing up. Trauma Team does have its flaws, I was surprised you didn't like the forensics section (i clearly loved it and you were definitely right about it being like the Ace Attorney investigation gameplay); however you pointed out "Trauma Center is to save lives" and then I understood why you think Forensics is out of place. Although I see the forensics as another branch of understanding anatomy or medicine (i could be railing away here) since a background of the field requires it, just in a different way. Fun fact, Naomi was supposed to be a vet apparently (how does that relate to human medicine???), but as you stated, the devs can only cram so much into one disc. I absolutely love the nicknames you came up with for the TT characters. I also agree Hank's superhero bit was totally unnecessary, also I just find Tomoe being a ninja very extra. Nevertheless I had fun with the games

[@TheDudeOfSteel87]

I always loved your videos when I was younger and played the Trauma games on the Wii

[@HikariGamer1]

Human and vet medicine are not so different,they share many basics,techniches and treatments. If anything,a vet game in the TC perspective could be just as interesting,since you have to learn an adapt to all kinds of species,not just one.

[@firesnakex8]

wasn't there a live action pilot of the game that got leaked?

[@rotomfan63]

Honestly I always thought a crossover between Trauma Center and Ace Attorney would be really cool. You could do the autopsies and healing people in the cross fire while Ace Attorney does it's Ace Attorney thing.

[@shadowstar8619]

@@HikariGamer1 Besides, there was a small taste of veterinary medicine in Trauma Team itself, via one of the minor characters and a small but important Endoscopy procedure. If it went to the veterinary field, there's all kinds of possibilities in how to create a classic Trauma Center/Team-style story mixed with commentary about pet-related issues, like how certain animals or breeds of an animal might have more trouble in life than others due to specific health problems.

[@kabusohikaru6187]

Trauma Center was a crazy series

[@ApexGale]

i too loved pulling fish shaped, worm shaped, octopus shaped and triangle shaped cancer out of bodies, and drawing a star to slow down time

[@kabusohikaru6187]

@@ApexGale imagine picking up the game thinking it's going to be a realistic surgery simulator and then you have to use your occult slow down ability to beat cancer bug boss battles with a laser pointer

[@SOMERANDOMPERSONNPC]

Spider that can use Hassou Tobi to your heart

[@NEETKitten]

@@SOMERANDOMPERSONNPC The medical staff tasked with removing it affectionately named it "Ushiwakamaru". "Ushi" for short.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Atlus moved on from their artstyle to make an endless flow of Elsa Pregnant Foot Doctor etc. games

[@VolkColopatrion]

and censoring Catherine : full body

[@colebadguy]

@@VolkColopatrion What did they censor?

[@VolkColopatrion]

@@colebadguy voice lines and a scene . Little or a lot it is still censorship and capitulation to an abusive group... that some how says they are for "justice". Much like the same asshole critics that want to cancel David Chappelle and Kevin Heart. It is one thing to think and say something is in bad taste. It is another thing to wish harm or even bring harm / legal sanction on someone for offensive speech. Words are not violence. All speech should be free. No preferential treatment.

[@VolkColopatrion]

@@colebadguy in short... something something misgendering... something something transphobic... something something ResetEra bitching and causing harm.... again. Horray witch hunts /sarcasm

[@VolkColopatrion]

yes it does. the only consequences of speech should be more speech. you'd be a dictator if you were to punish words, thought and writing. any such thinking should be left back in history where it's rightly hated and reviled just like hitler, stalin and mao. your objections to free speech and liberty have no place in the present or the future.

[@adriangonzalez3600]

Trauma Center without co-op wiimote action can't be topped. It's the one game that used the gimmick to perfection

[@poodychulak]

_Heart_ -ily agreed

[@XiaNaphryz]

The diagnostics sections I thought were great and were pretty straightforward and mostly easy. But I think that's because I'm a point-and-click adventure vet, and many of those games (especially the older ones) were all about figuring out how things work within the game world's particular logic and what crazy solutions there were to a particular puzzle. Same with the forensics section. Both those parts were by far my favorite parts of Trauma Team and I wished there were a lot more of it. But I can see why newbies to these style of games would get confused.

[@kabusohikaru6187]

I wish Atlus would make an old school dungeon crawler where you have to explore the insides of a human body in first person, like the surgery minigame

[@faidou9954]

It's called Mario and Luigi: Bowser's inside story. It's not a dungeon crawler, but it's still the same kind of game.

[@theprocrastinator6813]

Inside a human body , not inside bowser

[@theprocrastinator6813]

The closest youll get to that though is Etrian odyssey 1 Where the 6th dungeon is a dungeon of flesh made to give you.nightmares

[@kabusohikaru6187]

I was exactly thinking something more blobber-like, like Etrian Odyssey. Something to give you an atmospheric dungeon crawler, not a cartoony vore fetish fantasy

[@amandabushore7890]

Sounds vorey

[@Batbimbo]

I remember being around 12-13ish and being OBSESSED with these games with my best friend. We especially loved Trauma Team

[@eepy7764]

13:21 I would've called her Sae Nijima because when I first played Persona 5, my first thoughts were "Hey wasn't that that white haired chick from Trauma Center?"

[@clodaghay]

Or if he wanted to keep with the persona 4 theme, i would've gone with Margaret

[@yolomasta6940]

The switch is the best console for bringing back Trauma Center imo cuz of how the Joycons have the HD Rumble features and are a lot more accurate than the wiimotes.

[@kaseyhart8034]

But there small af

[@charlestrudel8308]

@@kaseyhart8034 with the little extension, not that much thought, still smaller than wii motes or ps move.

[@kaseyhart8034]

@@charlestrudel8308 literally infants can only press the buttons on it

[@ct2651]

@@kaseyhart8034 the wii mote had some problem too, trying to click on the farther buttons was difficult, not sure that a perfect controller exist in this form. It probably needs less buttons or having some them out of reach.

[@kaseyhart8034]

@@ct2651 yeah but at least you can Press the buttons and the switch is a glorified tablet tbh

[@yukureimu8403]

Imagine getting a PhD from playing Trauma Center and becoming a lawyer from playing Phoenix Wright

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

The next game be like "SMT: Digital Devil Dentist" or something

[@FeedYourNeopets]

my icon has been CR-S01 for the last 10 or so years on youtube and I honestly think of this question almost every day for the last 7 years

[@MarcusWolfe]

In defense to Kimoshima's mortician portion of the game, it is technically dealing with patients in trauma. For morticians, dead patients are their victims; the diagnosis is to realize how they were killed. Granted they stretched it where Kimoshima is both mortician and detective; it also showed how she helped to discover where the main game's disease occurred and how it was transferred. In that respect, illnesses can be learned from morticians who search through dead patients for answers. Though I will admit it feels a bit random when comparing to the previous games. It is pretty much hit or miss; one either likes the slower pace mystery-portion of the doctor world or finds it a slowdown compared to the faster-paced operations.

[@RESURGAM.]

Yeah, i agree.. i feel if it were refined like the video said it would be a lit better 🤔however i really enjoy Naomi and it was really fun to see her and Navel again in this game (their revamped designs are much better imo!) -- plus the music was top tier so it feels kinda worth it to me a new trauma center game isnt COMPLETELY off the table, im still holding on to hope so maybe they will see their mistakes and improve upon them later on.. here's to hoping!🙏this series will continue to be a big inspiration to me for a long time!

[@banami651]

Funny, because UTK2 is my favorite game from the series. I agree that the story was kind of all over the place, but it felt a lot more personal when it came to the characters. Second Opinipn/UTK was very heavy on the impending doom of bioterrorism and seemed to entirely focus on that. On the other hand, I really liked to see how the characters would interact on a day-to-day basis in UTK2. It opened the doors for some pretty good character development and made them relatable, especially Derek and Angie. I do certainly think that they could have done a better job story wise, but I did appreciate that switch in focus. I think that game honestly made me like Derek and Angie the most and I hoped for them come back in a later game. But unfortunately... we know that never happened. I really wish they had gotten the same treatment/revamp as Trauma Team. They really deserved proper voiceover and dynamic cutscenes. Speaking of Trauma Team, that game truly stepped it out with the gameplay, interface and artwork. It angers me how ATLUS did an absolutely horrible job marketing the game despite it being an absolutely wonderful and unique experience. It was also not the best time to release a game for the Wii... it would have been revolutionary had it been released years prior, properly marketed, at the heat of the Wii hype... *sigh* and Its poor sales really screwed over the series. Ah, so long trauma center :( one can only hope

[@Blarglesnarfe]

Trauma Team was a game I was strongly following at the time, but I was distraught that it fell off the radar so fast, and all went quiet. Second Opinion was by far the most advertised. I really liked all the modes of Team besides Tomoe's Endoscopy, and thought the final scenario really brought up the game.

[@Alovon]

Ah, Trauma Center, a series that was amazing, and that, if it is over truly, I do think it did end on a high note with Trauma Team, it was amazing, and definitely the best of the Trauma Center Games, best story, best look, the most developed gameplay, and IMO the best music. Although, a Trauma Center game on Switch, with the base of Trauma Team, with some of Persona 5's flare thrown into it would be amazing to have, and would give it a great treat Heck, they could go back and make a "Trauma Center Collection" and remake all the old games in the style of Trauma Team (Touching up in regards New Blood primarily, the Voice Acting can likely stay the same on that one) with a reworked story (And freaking fix the continuity of where Caduceus and Dr.Stiles.etc, especially due to the English Translation clashing with New Blood and Team). And the Switch would be perfect, for it, in portable mode, you can have the style of the OG DS games (With adjustments due to the Switch not having a Stylus), and the Wii control style for Console mode. The reason that's possible is due to the JoyCons actually having the ability to be used as Wii controllers, heck there are a number of straight-up Wii ports with controls being relatively intact, the Joy-Cons are accurate enough for a Second Opinion/New Blood/Team style game

[@CB-L]

As it sound interesting enough, it's gonna be dreadful to deal with Bythos without touch screen interface

[@darksigma0282]

Wow. I remember the game but didnt realize Atlus made it. Man picture if there was a huge crossover game of all the SMT and Persona stuff going together against a big bad boi. I am not one who believes that Persona and SMT are different and honestly dont care about the debate and such. Would still be cool if all the stuff came together against one foe.

[@kurtgalicha3827]

DarkSigma02 Although a crossover would be cool, power scale wise, it wouldn't make sense. Only Tatsuya Suou would be able to compete with SMT MCs and that is too much of a stretch.

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

@@kurtgalicha3827 We'd be stitching up the Demi Fiend after his battle with God

[@ryoumiru593]

Imagine if the characters from SMT, Persona, etc. are like comparing their abilities and their strengths and weaknesses and stuff and then Derek Stiles just walks in and activates some kind of godly power that he just has but never uses or mentions it because it isn’t very useful in surgery.

[@AraAra-pw7tl]

“Oh no the patient is bleeding out, let's cast dirahan! ”

[@KazeshiniGamer]

I still have ptsd after the 5 kyriaki in 10 minutes opreation in under the knife. I don't know how it was in second opinion, but in the ds it was so ridiculously hard that the rest of the game, including X1 wasn't even a challenge in comparison

[@gyppygirl2021]

What really irritates me about the Second Opinion version of that operation is that they use the regular operation theme, as opposed to the GUILT theme. It's really dumb, since it played the GUILT theme in the original game...

[@SunsetCompass]

Trauma Team was my childhood,and I still play it to this day, it's a fantastic game with really beautiful music and art too! It's sad that it pretty much killed the series,it deserved so much more praise (also I had a big crush on Rosalia back then haha)

[@gyppygirl2021]

Rosalia best girl

[@lordofhostsappreciator3075]

Another Direct without SMTV. RIP

[@lolzman999]

FF & Pokémon will NEVER be good again still got tgs, but I’m still getting worried though

[@pinkflametheepic]

I'm going to guess that after Royal comes out we might get some news in a few months after its release. Basically my hopes are down for now for any news for the time being

[@alinepiroutek8932]

@@lolzman999 Tokyo Game Show got nothing news of relevance for Switch.

[@alinepiroutek8932]

It is almost like as TGS wasn't for Japanese people anymore, the country that has more Switch than PS4.

[@gitgud3245]

I hope ATLUS before P5S will stop whit Persona for idk 4 years and start doing more of other franchises and then will be equali like SMT P TC CK and other stuffs

[@neor2354]

I was like 15 when I first played it, and I really enjoyed it. Even tho I did not finished it... It was very nice to play it, hopefully in the long time we get something with Derek again.

[@shrimpchipp]

i remember playing trauma center EVERY DAY after school when i was like 9. good times. i was just wondering a few weeks ago what happened to this series

[@enxceedwill209]

Since Atlus is currently milking Persona 5, I think it would be a great idea if Atlus make a crossover between Persona and Tramua Center to bring back the series. We can have Legion as a tumor and and battling Legion by performing surgeries.

[@homuraakemithehero7707]

I think maybe Trauma Center could have a chance with a game on the Switch but at the same time not sure how well that would work. I’m holding out hope that Atlus does something with the IP eventually since I really enjoyed all the games I’ve played. (Under the Knife 1-2, Second Opinion and New Blood) I played Under the Knife on DS and ended up clearing 1 level per day almost with it because of how stressed I felt after failing and re-trying. I wasted a lot of time on one early on patient because I misunderstood instructions. Also the game made me hate triangles

[@melaniey.5596]

God I feel your pain. Those damn triangles just kept killing my patient, so I gave up and just consulted a walkthrough.

[@homuraakemithehero7707]

Melanie Uyema I think I just managed to brute force it with the healing touch and moving my hands fast enough to get through the brunt of it. I’m not about to try playing any of those levels anytime soon to see how well my memory would help me. Always felt like I was gonna have a heart attack after a difficult operation in game lol

[@Altair718]

*looks off in the distance with dead eyes* yeah same.

[@notsatan5457]

it will happen if sega let atlus to do so... well after sega bought atlus, it now cannot do anything freely as before... even sega reorganizes atlus inside

[@tbe9790]

Such a touching tribute to one of the games that defined my childhood. There actually was a point where I thought I was the only one who knew it existed. Thank you for this!

[@KazeShikamaru]

"What does Forensic have to do trauma center?" My guys forensic science is very critical to medical field and helps them develop plans on how to treat certain things more effectively. I like your channel, but that's a dumb question to ask. Forensic peeps have to go to medical school too and while you're not saving lives or helping patients you are helping the family of victims who lost a love one.

[@madalynnsullivan8197]

I absolutely agree. I am studying forensics right now and I can verify this.

[@diegorojas2049]

Man, I remember getting New Blood for christmas when I was 12, the rush of panic induced adrenaline was something I've never felt with any other game.

[@MrCarrot14]

If Trauma Center ever gets a new release it better have Covid-19 as the main antagonist.

[@faidou9954]

Gentle Breeze was an original Spongebob YTP gag. Surprised to know that this is where that theme came from.

[@raseruuu3742]

Antibiotic Gel is the solution to most of the situations that you can't kind of solve immediately

[@Lauren-ol1fo]

god this is one of my favorite franchises. i bought new blood for my mom when she graduated nursing school ~2008 and now i’m in nursing school myself. it’s such a great franchise and it just makes me soo sad that we haven’t gotten a new release in years. atlus pls we all love P5 but I don’t need it released for a 2nd time, pls give me Derek & Angie

[@ajaykundlas7461]

The gyro controls on Super Mario Galaxy and Pikmin 3 legit made me dig out my Wii U to play Trauma Team. I would love to have these games on Switch, the Gyro controls felt soooo good.

[@arito1014]

I am so glad that someone had finally talked about this game in depth! Trauma centre was the series that got me into Atlus when growing up and It had disappointed me finding out that they had discontinued the series and the last trauma centre game that I played was New Blood and the games on the DS as Trauma Team never got released in Europe. I agreed with many things you had said and I really do hope that people speak up more on this series! Keep up the good work with these videos!!

[@satunbreeze]

Honestly Trauma Team was my entry into the series and I had no idea there were other games in the series. Personally I LOVED the detective stuff and Naomi Kimishima's story as well as Hank Freebird's personality. Seeing them all intermingle with each other was just amazing to me and I hadnt seen anything like it when it first came out. PLEASE ATLAS IM BEGGING YOU please make a new one like trauma team for the pc Ive been obsessed all these years 🥺

[@superiordeftrex4196]

With Covid, could it make things even worse for a possible sequel? Could a new game coming out right now be seen as insensitive?

[@Dragonboy55564]

Forensics was actually one of my favorite modes, especially the story portion of it.

[@faidou9954]

Persona 4-5 milking happened.

[@lordofhostsappreciator3075]

Yup lol

[@Ezequielroldan2901]

No regrets...

[@wesleymateus2891]

3-5*

[@moonsys]

"hurr durr Persona killed everything"

[@lemonov3031]

@@wesleymateus2891 Only one direct P3 spin-off was released. P3 was mentioned a lot in P4U and PQ, but that's it. Now P3 is forgotten as well.

[@PokemonaMoni]

You know, there's another medical game on the DS that is a mix of Trauma Center and Ace Attorney, and it's called Life Signs. Unfortunately it's a very obscure game (in fact, that's actually the second game of the storyline, the first one was Japan exclusive) but it's actually pretty good. It's not very long, and there aren't many operations, but I love it. It's very realistic, it doesn't have any fantasy stuff like the Trauma series and deals with a lot of common problems related to health. Like, one of the characters is an old man who's being living on the hospital for a long time because of an illness and he decides that even if he's gonna die soon if he leaves, he wants to leave and stay with his family the time he has left. The game is goofy at times but then it has some really human and realistic moments like that and it's pretty good. I wish it would be more well-known.

[@RaithAtsutane]

I never have played a Trauma Center game but a revival with Tae from Persona 5? I mean you can sell it as a Persona 5 spin off (which they are already milking) and Tae already has the perfect storyline for it.

[@candidpepper]

Trauma Center was my first Atlus game that I picked up because I was a curious child but when I played it I enjoyed it so much and I agree New Blood is my favorite too. So I kinda have to thank Trauma Center for making me aware of Megami Tensei xD

[@HFOfficial]

Trauma center collection on switch when?

[@WeeLin]

Second Opinion was probably my favourite game on the Wii. I remember the first time I diffused the bomb - it was right before I went out to a job interview, and after clearing that level I got this huge surge of confidence and felt like I could handle anything (and yes, I got the job!) I liked New Blood, but got stuck on the skin grafts for ages. I didn't even know there was a Trauma Team, but now I really want to check that out!

[@IzzielBaksai]

I miss Trauma Center... All I can do is hope

[@cidredwood6170]

"Brown Chie" That's so fitting, wtf?

[@iXiTeZz]

One method worth mentioning is the joy-con for docked mode. The joycon can replicate the Wii mote and function as a cursor. Games like TWEWY and World of Goo utilize this feature.

[@brynge.]

interesting takes on trauma team. personally kimishima's sections were refreshing to play after all the surgeries. As well as being someone who's been on the receiving end of multiple endoscopies i found the tomoe sections very intersting to play through.

[@gyppygirl2021]

The main issue with endoscopy (at least imo) was that the control scheme was absolutely horrible. I actually liked the way the operations were designed, and they would've been fantastic if the controls were even slightly better than they were. Nothing can salvage Tomoe as a character though.

[@braveeguana]

It’s funny I got this in my recommended ‘cause I, no joke, just started playing this game for the first time today...

[@polydipsiac]

BraveEguana your smart devices be listening to you 👀

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

28:50 Broke my heart, many of my favorites are in the NDS like Osu! Tatakae Ouendan or y'know, Trauma Center. I really wish there was a console with a stylus again, especially made for those underappreciated gems in mobile or newer entries in those beloved series, but I think it's too late for it now. They had the chance with the 3DS/Wii U but threw it away and now it's not coming back.

[@heavenlyfrosted]

I have the Wii version (second opinion) after it being passed down from a relative and I gave up playing a long time ago b/c my hands would shake from the intensity. The music definitely played a big part in rattling my nerves. Crazy to see a video about this! Thanks for making it, I didn't know there was a series!

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Shin Megami Tensei: Trauma Center

[@SKSith]

Got Second Opinion and New Blood coming in the mail. Dug up my Wii recently and was so happy to see how cheap they are because these were probably my favorite games on the console.

[@DynoSkrimisher]

Patient: Am I gonna die? Surgeon: I played all Trauma Center games with XS rank. The illness: FFFFFFFFFUCK.

[@Paddy-if3nd]

This would be amazing to have a remastered collection on Switch.

[@CC_Reads]

Paddy 2890 it would be really hard without motion control

[@fungusonus]

@@CC_Reads the switch has motion controls

[@jtetsuya]

I found this video after being reminded and reminiscing about this game. I enjoyed your coverage, but man it also made me sad and miss the game so much.

[@PressTurnDemon]

Holy shit I realized I'm watching this on May 18 2020 when I came across the part where you mentioned when Trauma Team was released

[@ZephyrusRaine]

Growing up with Atlus games on the DS was such a good time, Trauma Center is definitely a blast from the past. It's unfortunate they're tunnel visioning on Megaten and Persona nowadays and not so much their other franchises. I'm still waiting for a new Etrian Odyssey entry for close to like 4 years now

[@Tuxum]

Honestly it would be nice to even have some cameos of some of the trauma center characters in let’s say a persona game, but who knows. I just don’t see this series getting another installment, unfortunately. But it would be nice to see some of these faces in some way or another.

[@Tuxum]

I still think it would be neat to see Stiles or even someone like Erhard Muller from Trauma Team

[@antoniusstanley1366]

The only possible characters to exist in persona universe is Derek Stiles and Angie Thompson as they are working in japan at the latest trauma center timeline

[@Tuxum]

@@antoniusstanley1366 Dr. Stiles Social Link would be sick, imagine a Caduceus opening in Tokyo

[@imthethriller]

Tramua Center was The Gateway Drug that got me into Atlus' Games

[@nobodyimportant5140]

I’m with you, dude. I loved the Trauma Center series and it’s definitely a series that needs some “New Blood” to revitalize it.

[@godofmediocrity7582]

Take my thumbs up and never speak to me or my family again.

[@dj-chemicalz811]

Holy shit I didn't even know trauma center was made by Atlus, its been so long since I played trauma center on the DS years ago as a kid. I just recently got into persona and the shin megami tensai series...talk about a coincidence am I right?

[@papermoon5517]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers the Trauma Center games. I had under the knife 2 on my DS 8 years ago. It was a fun game.

[@moejuggler6033]

Man I loved this video! Made me super reminiscent. Personally, and something you didn't mention; while the story does suffer in Under the Knife 2 for the DS, the high-score difficult arcade chasing action is way better than Under the Knife 1. Also, there's a romhack for Under the Knife 2 that allows you to use the Wii-style tool-switching on the DS! (i.e. the only way some of us will EVER beat those X-missions).

[@mi2-c035]

Trauma Center on Switch could work: Joycons have motion controls for TV mode, and touchscreen in handheld works better than on DS/3DS.

[@jokerinsmash9155]

I've played Trauma Center UtK 1 & 2 in 2020 and I must say these games are one of the most charming, frustrating games I've ever played. It really drew the line (pun intended) of fun and chalenging gameplay. I played these on a DS btw. Spoilers: I remember getting so mad when treating a Triti patient on UtK1 and one of the reasons I haven't completed the game yet is because of the Triti sinner operation on Act 6 (I finished UtK2 tho).

[@melissagreen714]

I remember playing trauma center on my Wii. I loved it and the music was fire. I remember being stuck for the longest lol

[@val71999]

i actually only discovered this game about a week ago; finally modded my wife's wii and saw it while browsing roms, now we are absolutely addicted. I'm a huge persona fan, don't get me wrong, but man i would love if atlus would revisit this one. ive only ever played p5r&p4g and trauma center being a blast is making me want to get into older atlus games... but i also don't want to be disappointed if i end up loving something that everyone else has forgotten, you know?

[@gus_0065]

hospital: 6 doctors may be a dumb name, but you gotta admit, the japanese cover is beautiful.

[@hobobob59]

Well, I definitely think switch motion control for docked/tabletop mode, and touch for handheld is the move. Okami HD is a wonderful proof of concept for this idea, where you can use different control schemes based on the mode your switch is in.

[@zjzr08]

First time I knew about this when Dr. Ed Hope (the one who reviewed Cells at Work episodes) played the tutorial level and was fascinated about it. Saw a bit of Game Grumps gameplay, and shocked how it spiralled to a world threat story hehe. The soundtrack I agree is pretty great. I do hope they think of returning it, and frankly Switch's pointer-style potential hasn't been fully been unlocked yet (as its 3D gyro technology enables it to accurately read changes of position to simulate Wii pointer functions).

[@Tulase]

Funny thing is, I started with Trauma Team and now I don't want to go back because I like the forensic and diagnosis parts that lack in the other games!

[@charlestrudel8308]

Trauma Team was a variety games, Quite different indeed than anything else, And Atlus can easily make a better game by refining these 6 differents way of playing doctor. (Forensic is a POST TRAUMA doctor... there, thats the link.)

[@DemonSilverHuskey]

Same here! My love of Ace Attorney made me interested in the forensics section of Trauma Team, and I bought it in 2010. I was aware of the Trauma Center games on the DS, but the difficulty scared me off.

[@indiegamerred553]

I can't believe you never talked about the 7th campaign in trauma team. The 7th campaign becomes available after you beat all six doctors campaigns and it fleshed out all the characters as you go on this epic quest to save humanity from a super virus. Because it's not a trauma center game without you fighting a man made super virus at some point in the story.

[@ReesesBees]

I would be concerned if a Trauma Center game DIDN'T have you saving humanity from a super virus.

[@atniel8023]

That franchise was a masterpiece in my opinion😣😏

[@MisterFael]

One of the things I remember the most about Trauma Center is that Vulnerability is my favorite soundtrack.

[@erosagape7944]

The soundtrack was funky as funk

[@largefam3109]

The switch version could work like The World Ends With You, where you have motion controls in docked and touch controls in portable mode. I think it would work a lot better since so many of the issues with motion controls in TWEWY imo had to do with the action combat. Here, there'd be much more room for recentering your cursor (plus they'd definitely put more effort than square into making good controls on a game centered around them).

[@aragoonn]

RE investigations in the Trauma Team. I haven't played them so I can't speak for the story. But quite often investigation is needed for treatment. For instance, a fungal infection in the lung, an investigation team may be needed to look at the patient's home to locate the origin of the fungus so that when the patient goes home they're not re-entering a dangerous environment. Active operations are actually a very very minor part of most medical treatments, take it from someone who's been caring for a chronically ill person for 2 years. investigating and understanding the illness/trauma, and what happened up until the point of hospitalization, are often be very important in treating something. Which can be difficult if the patient cant tell you what happened. So to me, the investigation aspect of the game makes sense to be in there, just sucks that it's not fun to play (though I do enjoy Ace Attorney).

[@PaulNBlack]

LOL. I find really fun your complain about the endoscopy section. Because it's actually pretty close to how you would do an actual endoscopy. Of course, it's extremely simplified, but it still has a similar feel. I really loved Trauma Team, it might feel unfocused (specially with the forensics part), but as a med student back then, when I was still undecided about what specialty I wanted to follow, it was fun to not be stuck as just a surgeon.

[@Netist_]

Extremely hard disagree on the diagnostics and forensics in Trauma Team. Trauma Team definitely isn't my favorite Trauma Center game, but I just can't wrap my head around thinking those two modes were mediocre or bad. Both were extremely enjoyable, with well-told stories, and I honestly never thought they were terribly difficult. I can understand how forensics might not totally fit in with the rest of the gameplay, but not only was it a good mode, but frankly it might have been my favorite mode in the game. The only thing holding it back is the inherent lack of replayability compared to most of the other modes.

[@rivereatr]

this is truly one of your best vids bro

[@ScapeGoatAzazael]

I remember actually trying under the knife due to a cousin owning it. I found it interesting. Honestly I've been wanting to re-enter the series so I'll probably buy Second Opinion and New Blood since they seem inexpensive

[@jediknightjameslunagazer7632]

I think another factor might have been that around the time of 2008 to 2009 when Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 PS2 came out, Atlus was struggling financially heck, Persona 4 was pretty much made on almost no budget to the point it can be considered an rom hack of Persona 3, so maybe they wanted to avoid another situation like that. There's also the fact Under the Knife 2 had low sales as well, so they maybe felt it was too much of an risk budget wise.

[@EmmaTheShark]

I wish I could play Trauma Team on my Wii, but for some reason they never released a PAL version... I'd either have to somehow get an NTSC Wii running or emulate it, which would probably have its own share of issues. I would be all for a remastered PC collection with reworked controls.

[@liawfeng8075]

13:20 Nonono Vincent from Catherine

[@MajinBoowomp]

Not related to Truama Center, but I bet everyone’s having a field day now that the first SMT game in 3 years is a port of TMS

[@marunomi]

SJR came out last year my dude.

[@Nyarly]

I would have preferred info on 5, but I'm at least glad to see something MegaTen that isn't Persona 5.

[@Flash33c]

Me and my mom had Second Opinion many years ago (I think she got it for herself since I only remember playing it to help her), but after we couldn't get past a specific operation we just lost interest and got rid of it. As far as an adaptation of the series is concerned, I feel like it wouldn't work very well as anything but a game series without major changes ala Pokemon. I just have a hard time picturing it working well in anime form. Regarding future installments, I think part of the reason more games weren't released for systems like the 3DS and Wii U is because developers rarely utilized those systems gimmicks effectively or properly, if at all. Had more games properly utilized things like touch or motion controls then maybe, but because they didn't it led to the stigma that gimmick=bad and so was often ignored in favor of traditional controls. Maybe in the future it can come back but don't hold your breath.

[@chuckles3116]

The story of the Trauma Team is even more fantastical CR-S01’s entire plotline is one big cliche of fantastical afflictions Not-Chie is haunted by a ghost Hank has his superhero side-gig, performs an incredibly precise surgery with a bullet in him, and manages to power the old wing using his body as a conduit for at least 10 minutes (and afterwards is willing to throw hands with FBI agents) Everybody from Tomoe’s family can Instant Transmission around, and her dad had to be cut open with a katana because normal blades couldn’t cut him Gabe has his robot friend Naomi talks to the dead.

[@Giovansbilly]

And if you play Second Opinion, Naomi can also draw a star to restore patient's health when doing succesful actions during a surgery