![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gratuitous Panning: In 2-X, "All The Times", as the window moves around the screen, the music also pans from speaker to speaker.Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you manage to pause a recording just after Ada stops stammering in the cutscene midway through the boss stage of Act 3, One Shift More, you'll see some extra dialogue that isn't voiced.Featureless Protagonist: Since the intern, for all intents and purposes, is the player, they never appear on screen (aside from their hand) and have no in-game dialogue.Edega is always seen with his face buried in a clipboard, never showing what he looks like. Everything Has Rhythm: Including heartbeats, evidently.Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Several patients don't have given names, and are only known by their occupations or the conditions they suffer from.Endless Game: Beans Hopper, a bonus minigame that's unlocked after clearing Act 2, in which the Samurai jumps over a crate of beans being pushed back and forth by Logan and Hailey.Dysfunction Junction: The patients of the hospital quickly prove to have many issues beyond just their medical health, and even the doctors have a lot of baggage you have to help them with.Character Customization: The intern's shirt sleeve can be repainted in-game, and the hand's skin color can be changed.Cannot Spit It Out: Logan and Hailey, two young patients who obviously like each other, but neither one can work up the courage to be the first one to confess.As in, the wireless connection the player is using to remotely defibrillate the patient's hearts. Canis Latinicus: Connectifia abortus, an in-game bacterial infection that somehow disrupts wireless connections.Book Ends: At least in the first early access build, the Insomniac is both the first and final boss.Bilingual Bonus: The tutorial at the start of the game has a nurse counting in Mandarin rather than English, making following along easier with knowledge of said Mandarin.Big Red Button: The button used to defibrillate patients is one of these.Arc Number: Seven, the typical number of beats in each patient's heart rate.Adjustable Censorship: In one tutorial, it is possible to abort the summoning of a spider to scare a patient by pressing the spacebar twice when prompted, in case the player is arachnophobic.The Samurai wears his armor even in the hospital, despite the fact that wearing heavy armor all the time is what's causing so much strain on his heart in the first place. The full game became available for early access in February 2021. The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. Songs start at serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation, and many other rhythm complications. Openly inspired by Rhythm Heaven, the gameplay is hypothetically very simple: heartbeats are analogized to musical beats, and the player remotely applies a defibrillator with a single keypress to a patient on (typically) the seventh beat to keep their heartbeat going. Rhythm Doctor is a "tough-as-nails one-button Rhythm Game". ![]()
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