Doublepoint hospitals are said to have a cure rate of up to 52 percent, or at least 52 percent of patients who are discharged with the belief they are cured. With a familiar word, consciousness was dragged back to the double-point hospital. 23 years ago, a simulation business game named theme hospital was once popular, I believe that many small partners in the era of button machines may have played, so after 23 years, how does this theme hospital perform in the second era of remake of the double-point hospital?
First, a funny monologue, thick black humor
At the beginning of the game, a doctor in a white coat introduces the double-point hospital in The Town of Two-Point with a standard broadcast voice, and the first few sentences can be said to be a serious book, but the further back it is, the more wrong it is.
For example, "52% of patients are discharged from the hospital believing that they are healthier than before", "Our doctors have attended medical training classes or watched medical dramas"... At the beginning, the "cold joke" attribute of "Double Point Hospital" is revealed by these "neuropathic" general advertising words. The same is true of the Chinese broadcasts in the game, such as "Yoneda Kogyo Farm", "Please Entertain Yourself" and so on.
In the story mode, the player will create and customize the hospitals in each area of Shuangdian County, and the hospitals in each area face different problems: some have hot temperatures and need to install air conditioning to cool down; Some are located in high mountains, the temperature is low, and heating needs to be installed; Some earthquakes are frequent, and you need to maintain your medical equipment in time, otherwise a fire will occur; Some are public hospitals, unable to make money on diagnosis and treatment, and can only rely on completing tasks to obtain government subsidies; Some doctors have low skills and need to be trained and promoted step by step...
As with its predecessors, a variety of strange patients are one of the highlights of Double Point Hospital.
For example, the "bald head disease" where the head becomes a light bulb, the "epidemic pot disease" with an iron pot on the head, and the "fading disease" that turns the whole body into black and white... Watching these patients with their own sense of joy walking around the corridors of the hospital, the serious hospital seemed to be filled with laughter and laughter in an instant.
And the equipment for treating these diseases is also very funny, the machine for treating bald head disease is named "stripping machine", and the machine for treating epidemic pot disease is named "throwing pot machine" as the name suggests...
Second, the rare hospital simulation operation game
Patients who come to Double Point Hospital are actually taking risks, and the entry threshold of "Double Point Hospital" is low, and it has a very reasonable difficulty curve.
Like the previous game, "Double Point Hospital" adopts a level management, the initial few levels are essentially teaching, the game through a step-by-step approach to guide the player to familiarize themselves with the game mechanics step by step, the difficulty will gradually increase.
Each level will have specific objectives for the player to complete, and when they complete these tasks, they can skip to the next level. Unlike the previous game, the completed levels in this game will not really end, but will retain the player's state when they were last managed, so that the player can come back at any time to continue the operation.
And the equipment and props unlocked in each level can be continued to be used in the next level, which makes each level more than just completing the goal. Careful management to unlock more equipment, so that each hospital to form a virtuous circle is one of the key points that players need to consider. And watching the hospitals of their own on the big map slowly take shape, it will also make me have a sense of achievement in building a medical empire step by step.
Third, although there is innovation, there is not enough novelty
Most of the common problems of simulation business games, that is, waiting and boring, the producer is aware of this aspect, and there are some measures, first of all, the death of the patient is no longer taken away by the death god of the previous game, but the probability of death becomes the ghost of the ghost himself "medical trouble", at this time it is necessary to have ghost catching skills of the handyman to go out and relieve the crisis.
In the middle of the period, the staff will release you some challenges, such as earning a certain amount of money, creating a high-star lounge, how many days in a row there is no death, etc., and the hospital will also have some challenges, such as a large number of patients with specific diseases, but the challenge is not sudden, you have enough time to prepare, and it is also allowable to accept the challenge after preparation.
In addition, there will be vaccination problems at the higher level, giving a limited vaccine to treat specific patients, the hospital in the middle stage is fine, and the hospital in the late stage is full of people, and finding out specific patients is often the groaning of the eyes.
Overall, there are many bugs in the emotional aspect of the game, but the unique black humor and the rare gameplay of running a hospital are still very worth playing.