The human hand: capable of acts of compassion, hate, and, in the case of Surgeon Simulator 2013, horrific moments of pure comedy genius. Go in with the idea that this is actually a "simulator" and you'll be disappointed. That's the joke. Instead of creating hyper-realistic surgery situations, Surgery Simulator 2013 gives you some confusing and unintuitive marionette-like controls and shoves you right into an operating room without so much as a basic lesson in anatomy. If you can imagine a drunken puppeteer attempting an organ transplant, you have an idea of what these operations might look like. It's chaos.
...Which is also kind of the point. The vast majority of Surgeon Simulator's entertainment value isn't in actually completing surgeries and seeing patients off to a speedy recovery, but in how badly you fumble even the simplest of acts. Combined with the somewhat-realistic and occasionally buggy physics, the clumsy controls turn every mundane task into an absurdist spectacle as you struggle to grab a bone saw, or maybe knock over a whole rack of tools in your attempt to grab a small scalpel, or rake a laser across the patient's face. Even successfully finishing a surgery is cause for laughter, as "success" involves little more than ripping out the old organs and haphazardly tossing the replacement ones in. As long as the heart's replaced, it doesn't matter if the lungs have been tossed on the operating room floor.
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