I’ll admit, I haven’t finished Two Point Hospital yet, but I’m eight hospitals in, and I’ve no idea how many there are. Yes, yes it is.Īnyway, the bulk of your time is spent building up hospitals to cure a procession of ridiculous diseases. “It must be weird for you to hear this voice every few minutes,” he says. The radio DJ is another high point worth mentioning, his spoken interludes particularly surreal when you’re playing at 3 a.m. It rewards observation-pausing your relentless building efforts to take a look at your patients, or just appreciate the silliness of its procedurally generated names. Two Point Hospital is one of the most consistently hilarious games of 2018, rich with surprises. There’s the visual humor, the wordplay, the surreal absurdism of an eyebrow wriggling around the hospital like a worm, the fourth-wall breakage that comes from the mouse cursor transforming into a crosshair. Monobrow is contracted by, and I quote, “excessive consumption of both highbrow and lowbrow entertainment.” And when it’s cured? There’s a chance the monobrow escapes, turning into a monobeast and roaming the hospital until you spot and “shoot” it with the mouse cursor. If you’re a fan of dry sarcasm and bad puns (and I am) then Two Point Hospital is a joy.Ī personal favorite is “Monobrow,” a disease that manifests as you’d expect, giving the patient a single long and hairy eyebrow. It has the same wry sense of humor, one that’s consistently elicited laughs from me. The diseases are different, the interface more advanced and streamlined, but Two Point Hospital will feel familiar to any Theme Hospital veteran. And why not? With members of the original Theme Hospital team working on Two Point Hospital, it might as well fall to them to make a sequel.
#TWO POINT HOSPITAL MONOBEAST UPDATE#
Two Point Hospital is a faithful successor, one that’s content to mostly take the same ideas and update them for modern hardware. It worked, and two decades later Theme Hospital is still considered an all-time classic, even appearing in EA’s On-the-House program. Not really appropriate material for a video game adaptation.īut Bullfrog borrowed the mechanics of hospitals without the realities, cursing its patients with irreverent diseases like Uncommon Cold and Kidney Beans. Chances are if you’re in a hospital normally, it’s one of the worst days of your life. It wasn’t a game about curing cancer or staving off an influenza epidemic-and good thing, too. Theme Hospital was more a pseudo-simulation though.
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As I wrote a few months ago, Theme Hospital was “a simulator from that era in the ‘90s where seemingly everything was primed for simulation.” Even something as dreary as healthcare. Twenty years ago, Bullfrog put out a little game called Theme Hospital. Nurse Barney McBoatface, please report to the Dehumorfier immediately!” I’d watch that show. They’re asking if we can take an influx of clowns.
“There’s been an accident, and we’re the nearest hospital. Send the patient to General Diagnosis for further tests, and prep for Chromatherapy.” “Sounds like a case of Grey Anatomy to me.