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[kjorteo]

Beat X-Sige, had to use Healing Touch because X-Sige is bullshit, got an A anyway.

For the remainder of the time I spent playing Trauma Center this evening, I had four options for things I could try work on:

• Try to beat X-Aletheia, like, at all
  
• Go back and XS X-Sige
  
• Go back and XS X-Tetarti
  
• Go back and XS every single operation in chapter 2 edit: chapters 2 and 3 just for kicks, one of which includes Sinner, on which I had been stuck enough to seriously complain in the past.

Guess which three of these things are completely impossible and which one I did instead!

Man, I am embarrassed that I ever said anything about Sinner being hard. Or that I ever put that XS run video in the "clearly either tool-assisted or a cyborg from the future" pile--now I see it and think "eh, pros and cons compared to my own XS performance--he's a little faster with the membranes but I'm much better with the scalpel/suturing of the hemorrhages." (He did get 108 points more than me, but eh.) I said it was a strict time bonus? You need to do it in under 60 seconds for the bonus, and tonight I could have done it in under 30 if I had been in "crap, speed run the closing up and throw a bandage on him as fast as I can" mode rather than spending ten seconds just spamming stabilizer at the end to get more vital bonus. (My clear time is 00:32:51 after that.) Anything I can do in literally half the time it allows isn't strict. Fibrillation? That's just not something that even comes up when you do the operation in thirty seconds. Geez, that post would almost be shameful if it weren't so hilarious instead.

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[sethimothy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're really coming to terms with what it takes to excel at the game!

[kjorteo]

I used to think JRPGs were unrealistic with how they translate experience into power. I don't care how much "experience" you have with being in battles; it's ridiculous to think the same monster can kill you in one hit early on but have its attacks bounce off your chest with absolutely no effect at all later on, unless you are a Saiyan.

Trauma Center is not a JRPG, of course. It's a fast-paced action game with no stats to worry about beyond the player's own skill. However, I swear I have gained levels in it in real life, and I cite things like this as evidence.

(However, I'm still not at a high enough level to take on X-Aletheia at all or to XS X-Sige or Tetarti, at least not yet....)