Trauma Team for Wii Reviews by Gamers

My girlfriend and I are into health science, she is a nurse and I am studying respiratory therapy. Maybe that is why we enjoyed it, but at the same time we wished there was an option for advanced users or something because we just could not skip intros and long winded explanations fast enough.
The game was fun, but it moved too slow for us. We only played it once.

I generally applaud experimentation, but in this case, I think there were more misses than hits.

About the same number of levels as previous Trauma Center games, but split between 6 styles:

SURGERY - The UI is a little more polished than previous games, but less interesting levels. IMO, the best levels were ones where you had to switch strategically between treatment, damage control, and healing; in comparison, the levels in this installment seem simple, linear, and easy.

FIRST RESPONSE - Like surgery, with simplified treatments but multiple patients. Well done; I approve.

ORTHOPEDICS - Zero choice, infinite time, focus on precision. Fairly dull, and much of the difficulty comes from poor UI (imprecise targets, wonky scrolling) rather than inherently difficult tasks.

ENDOSCOPY - Much like surgery, except you're moving through 3D tubes instead of having a simple top-down display. Tolerable, but not as good as surgery.

DIAGNOSTICS - Awful, and time-consuming. Most tasks for discovering symptoms are trivial and tedious (examining a list of numbers to find ones that are out of range, spotting the difference between two pictures). I hoped that comparing symptoms to conditions would yield useful clues, or you'd need to cleverly string together cascading conditions to explain all symptoms, but no such luck.

FORENSICS - Less awful than diagnostics, but even longer levels (10x as long as surgery). Clues are pixel hunts; "reasoning" is mostly parroting back info the game already gave you; solutions must follow the predefined path.

Diagnostics and forensics don't even require thought, just memory and patience (and patience). And no particular reason they'd appeal to people who liked the previous games, even if done well. I'd gladly have skipped them, but they're required to unlock levels of other types. Worse, they're the bulk of the play time, because they take so much longer to finish.

Some good levels, too much random other stuff.