Line #20 VideoGame/MondoMedicals


1	[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4r12uds_5966.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:256:Mondo Medicals is not responsible for any damage to your mental health.]]
3	->''Welcome to Mondo Medicals! You have applied for research! You will help us help you! Help to find the cure for cancer! First we need to verify you! A test will perform this! We hold no response for your safety!''
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5	''Mondo Medicals'' is a first-person perspective puzzle game by Creator/{{Cactus}} that puts the player in the role of someone participating in an experiment run by the titular Mondo Medicals to cure [[TheTopicOfCancer cancer]]. In order to find the cure for cancer, the player must go through 8 levels (called 'dissorientations'), where your task is to find the exit. The levels, built of blank, gray walls, require the players not to think "out of the box" as much as to devastate the box completely. To reach the exit on each level, you'll have to ignore obvious clues, distrust your seeing, and abandon typical computer-game thinking. After each level, the experimenter will monologue at you and direct you toward your next task.
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7	Oh, and all the people in the game have [=TVs=] instead of heads.
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9	It's got a sequel, ''VideoGame/MondoAgency'', which makes even less or even more sense, depending who you ask.
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11	It's freeware, and can be downloaded [[http://cactusquid.com/games.htm here]].
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13	!!Provides examples of:
14	* AlienGeometry: The stages are not called "Disorientations" for nothing. For example, the very first stage causes you to go in an infinite loop [[spoiler: unless you go the opposite of where the arrows tell you.]]
15	* AlliterativeTitle: '''M'''ondo '''M'''edicals.
16	* BigBad: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Shouty Guy, who has been directing you through the experiment, [[EvilAllAlong is actually]] a complete maniac who will do [[WellIntentionedExtremist anything]] to kill cancer, including shooting the player to "kill the cancer inside them"]].
17	* BizarrePuzzleGame
18	* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: You can walk through the light spots on walls.
19	* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Shouty Guy's father died of cancer, which led him to obsess over it to the point of madness.]]
20	* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Apparently, you have the cancer, or maybe you are cancer. Shouty Guy shoots you. You just got "cured". Game over.]]
21	* HeartbeatSoundtrack: The soundtrack consists entirely of heavy breathing and what appears to be a heartbeat.
22	* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Used intentionally to both comedic and disturbing effect.
23	* MindScrew: The whole game.
24	* NoIndoorVoice: The Shouty Guy.
25	* ShootTheShaggyDog: You wander through the corridors (of the eponymous facility?), solving your way past mind-boggling obstacles and generally being confused and creeped out, and at the end - instead of any answers at all - you get [[spoiler:a sudden bullet in the head]].
26	* SpeakingSimlish: It's actually garbled, reversed speech.
27	* StylisticSuck: This game would be a whole lot less creepy in high-resolution, high-detail graphics. Meanwhile, the bad translation was intentional; Cactus is actually quite fluent in English, as his blog reveals.
28	* SurrealHorror: The creepiness is mostly from the empty, featureless levels and the Shouty Guy's strange speeches. [[spoiler:That, and the darned man on level 2 who opens his fanged mouth and roars at you when you try to talk to him.]]
29	* TheTopicOfCancer: It even provides the page quote. You are helping an experimenter find the cure for cancer by... going through 8 disorienting obstacle courses. The experimenter is very ''[[NoIndoorVoice passionate]]'' about the Topic of Cancer.
30	* TVHeadRobot: Everyone, including, apparently, the protagonist.
31	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Shouty Guy shoots people to prevent cancer from spreading.]]
32	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Shouty Guy was to appear in ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' as an unlockable character. He was cut due to space concerns.
33	* YouKilledMyFather: Shouty Guy's motivation for fighting cancer.
34	-->WHEN I WAS YOUNG I SAW IT HAPPEN! \
35	A CANCER TOOK MY FATHER AND TURNED HIM TO DEATH!! \
36	IF HE WAS HERE TODAY I WOULDN'T LET HAPPEN!

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