History VideoGame / TraumaCenterAtlus

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Naturally, since [[RuleOfFun this is a video game, not a training tool for aspiring real-life surgeons]]. You'd have to be really lucky to come out of an O.R. with debilitating tumors, viruses, or lacerations treated in less than five or even ten minutes.

** ...Sort of. In one mission of ''Under The Knife'' / ''Second Opinion'', Derek has to perform an operation on an airplane. There's a gimmick where the plane flies into turbulence occasionally, and if you do anything while the plane is shaking, a laceration appears. So why is this here? Pretty much because that if you use the Ultrasound, a laceration still appears. The freaking ULTRASOUND.

* DivingSave: [[spoiler:Little Guy tackles Naomi when the bombs strapped to a suspect goes off.]]

* EvilIsNotAToy: In the 6th chapter of ''Second Opinion'', Nozomi expresses this sentiment about [[spoiler:The Z-Cells, which are derived from Adam's own body. According to her, even Blackwell understood that GUILT cannot be controlled, and the Z-Cell treatment is bound to backfire at some point. Right after she says that, the Z-Cell treatment gives rise to a GUILT outbreak right before her very eyes.]]

** Usually avoided with [[SceneryCensor tasteful placing of the patients bodies]] or [[ModestyBedsheet a blanket]] in the right place. Still, Dr. Myers' operation for Paraskevi definitely qualifies, what with the camera starting out right on her exposed (undetailed) breasts before zooming in on her chest cavity. She is significantly reduced in cup size and more tastefully covered in the ''Second Opinion'' version of the same operation.

** In the First 'First Response' scenario, you end up with someone who suddenly starts having convulsions after you treat her wounds. [[spoiler:She has a black bruise mark on her neck. It could be mistaken for a sort of burn or soot marks if you're not looking at it directly. The bruise and the convulsions are ''both'' symptoms of the Rosalia virus. The weirdness of it all states 'Yep, Trauma Team has a super virus of it's own'.]]

** The third Diagnostics level, and it's followup Surgery likewise deal with [[spoiler: An early meeting with the Rosalia Virus.]]

---> '''CR-S01''': "Let this disease pass from this world."

---> '''Hank''': "Rock solid!"

---> '''Tomoe''': "______ path of honor."

--->'''Naomi''': "The dead shall speak. Let's put together the truth of what happened here."
* CentralTheme: ''Trauma Team'' deals heavily with how one determines their life and the way they live and all six doctors confronts this theme in one way or another:

** Naomi: With her life slowly coming to an end due to her genetic disease, she does all she can to ensure a future that she knows she won't be apart of.

** Diagnostics: Gabe is by far the most normal of the cast, but he's still a BrilliantButLazy DrJerk, with his weirdnes quotient partially being picked up by RONI, his AI assistant.

* BrutalBonusLevel: Completing the main storyline in all games except ''Trauma Team'' unlock the X missions, which take the super-pathogens encountered across the storyline and crank the difficulty up to eleven. ''Team'' unlocks a difficulty that lets you play ''every level as if it were an X opersation.''

** The games makes no attempt whatsoever to portray surgery realistically. Sutured wounds heal near-instantly, antibiotic gel mends small wounds instantly, vitals can be stabilized with a quick injection of a serum, among other fantastical depictions of surgical procedures. This is justified in the game's near-future setting; medicine has advanced immensely, making surgical procedures such as these feel routine.

* HesBack: [[spoiler:Dr. Hoffman]] finally returns to active surgery work in chapter 5-1 of ''Under the Knife'' and ''Second Opinion'' after [[spoiler:two decades of refusing to practice surgery, ready to unleash the Healing Touch as if nothing has happened]].
--> '''[[spoiler:Dr. Hoffman]]''': [[spoiler: How can I help?]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Dr. Hoffman''']]: How can I help? [...] My medical license has been an ornament for far too long... It's time I made good on the Hippocratic Oath.

* EvilIsNotWellLit: The GUILT research labs in ''Under the Knife'' and ''Under the Knife 2''.

** [[spoiler: In the fourth case, when Naomi sends a guitar broken by one of the bomber's bombs to be analyzed by Little Guy, he realizes it is a musical legend's guitar valued at about $100,000. Needless to say, he also isn't amused. (And yes, he literally says the trope name.)]]

* LuckBasedMission: The GUILT Deftera, Pempti and to a lesser extent Tetarti, which include a random element in the GUILT's movement or attack.

* ScienceHero: The main character is part of an organization dedicated to advancing medical science enough to eradicate disease, while the bad guys are a KnightTemplar organization who believe that medicine violates God's will by denying humans "the blessing of death".
** Of course, said science hero also uses [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane superhuman focus abilities inherited from a Greek demigod]] which he activates by [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything drawing a pentagram]], and he can apparently lose these abilities if he "loses faith".

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1d_ct6nI_8 The opening sequence]] of ''New Blood'' is probably a shout out to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6zJ9dEwNek opening credits]] of ''House''.

This series has a [[Characters/TraumaCenter character sheet]]. Put tropes related to the characters there.

A series of five {{Medical Game}}s (2005-2010) by Creator/{{Atlus}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and Nintendo UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} consoles (released in Japan as ''Choushittou Caduceus'', "Caduceus: The Great Surgical Operation"), where you get to save the world's health, one person at a time.

* AssholeVictim: The series has a fair amount of patients who are jerks and/or outright villains. For example, the first patient in ''Under the Knife 2'' is said to be a member of a criminal organization that poaches rhinoes, before he was injured by being [[LaserGuidedKarma bitten by a crocodile.]]

** Additionally, you can consider the Rosalia-ridden [[spoiler:Lieberman]] to be this as well.

* AssholeVictim: The series has a fair amount of patients who are jerks and/or outright villains. For example, the first patent in ''Under the Knife 2'' is said to be a member of a criminal organization that poaches rhinoes, before he was injured by being [[LaserGuidedKarma bitten by a crocodile.]]

* AssholeVictim: Two of the victims in the Forensics section in Trauma Team.
** [[spoiler:Dennis Taylor, in the very first case of Forensics]], was actually murdered because he was a drug dealer.
** The more notable example of this is [[spoiler:Stephen Eldred]], in the penultimate Forensics case (pre-Patient Zero). He is found dead in a bombing and believed to have been the serial bomber; however, Naomi and Little Guy eventually deduce that in reality, [[spoiler:Eldred was receiving money to voice the auditory bomb threats by the ''real'' bomber, Sandra Lieberman. When the money-hungry Eldred attempted to blackmail Lieberman, the bomber made Eldred [[DeathByIrony describe his own self (a Caucasian male) in the final bomb threat]] before [[BlackmailBackfire killing him off for good]].]]

* AssholeVictim: There's a fair amount of jerks and outright villains that you'll still have to operate on throughout the games.

* NintendoHard: It's an Creator/{{Atlus}} game, what did you [[ThatOneBoss/{{Atlus}} expect]]. They finally had to cave and add an easy mode in the sequels. It'll still break your arm. It seems that many of the operations in ''New Blood'' were designed around having two players, ''and'' both Healing Touches available, so operating alone can be a daunting task even though it is possible.

* EasyLevelTrick: By tapping A instead of holding it, Cheir becomes stunlocked and is unable to attack. This works for both normal and fused variants, meaning any operations starring it become effortless until X-1, and any that feature it alongside other things become much easier.

** Developers aimed for more realism in ''Trauma Team''. The result was less BulletTime and killer parasites, but more ghosts, flying superheroes, cell phone calls from dead people, and [[ButlerSpace teleporting]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot ninja butlers]].

* FatalFlaw: Discussed by Dr. Hoffman in ''Second Opinion'' and ''Under the Knife 2''. A doctor cannot operate on themselves both physically or mentally. This is also a test for them as well, that the bonds they forged and the training and wisdom they imparted on their fellow doctors, is enough to save them.

* ''Trauma Team'' (released in Japan as ''Hospital: 6 Doctors'')- The third Wii game, released in 2010. In a radical shift in gameplay, ''Trauma Team'' spans 5 other professions. Alongside the standard surgery gameplay, other professions include Orthopedics, Endoscopy, First Response, Diagnostics, and [[ForensicDrama Forensics]]. The latter two professions have a notable GenreShift in that they both play like a text-based adventure.

** The games makes no attempt whatsoever to portray surgery realistically. Sutured wounds heal near-instantly, vitals can be stabilized with a quick injection of a serum, among other fantastical depictions of surgical procedures. Given the game takes place in the near future, it can be easily read as high-tech medical advancements that make surgery feel more routine.

** The games makes no attempt whatsoever to portray surgery realistically.