

You also have a tag partner, who has a special ability you can utilise when you've built up enough power. The second time around it's the same jokes and the same disgusting things stuck in people's livers. The game is fresh and funny the first time around. Even if you get two stars on all of the first chunk of content, you're going to have to play at least one of them again. The barriers for unlocking the next set of levels are pretty high. It's here that the grind starts to creep in. There are bonus stars for completing missions too, but you need to play the missions after you've completed the level once. Slowly sliding a finger down a scored line in order to move down into the next layer of mangled organs and infested bones can be a tense experience, and a combo system that gets you extra points kicks in the faster you thread together your healing moves.Įach surgery you perform gives you a star rating, and you need these stars to move on to the next part of the game. But go too slow and the sap will die before you've had a chance to close his wounds. Go too fast and your tools will fail, injuring whatever unlucky sap is under your blade. You need to balance speed with precision. It's all splendidly silly, and the surgery itself is a lot of fun. A pizza slicer cuts open chests, while a lighter cauterises wounds, a chainsaw dislodges diseased organs, and a hoover sucks up fire. You have a set of tools at your disposal, each of which has its own unconventional role to play in your surgeries. You'll need to chainsaw cement out of prisoner's lungs, electrocute the fire bugs in an explorer's belly, and fix the broken innards of a dummy with medical Tourette's.
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The game casts you as an apprentice surgeon who's sent out on a series of jobs to prove her mettle. It's still fun, but when you should be moving on it makes you grind through the same levels again, and when you should be enjoying its cleverer aspects it's locking them away behind cash walls and making you wait. When it's going well it's every bit as entertaining as its predecessor Amateur Surgeon 2, but forced waits and ticking timers get in the way of what should be a vile reinterpretation of Operation. Amateur Surgeon 3 is a funny, occasionally disgusting, often frustrating game that loses some of its identity in its payment model.
