Trauma Center: Under the Knife is a strange little DS game where you play the role of surgeon in a soap opera. As a surgeon, you have to excise tumors, remove shards of glass and dose your patients with a bunch of green goo using the stylus as your surgical instrument. As a cast member in a soap opera, you must strike striking poses and read a bunch of melodramatic dialog.

When the game is going well, which is to say, when I'm not killing the patient, I love it. It's great. But when the game gets hard, which is to say, when I'm killing the patient, I hate it. When Trauma Center is hard, it's brutally hard: just like in real surgery, a single screwup can kill the poor sod on the table. And having to skim through all of the pre-surgery conversation over and over again so that I can just kill the patient again is pretty frustrating.

So, as much as I love the game play and the idea of Trauma Center: Under the Knife, my heart just can't take the stress. And that's pretty much all I have to say about it.