Kiryaki are a GUILTY pleasure

I bought a Pink DS Lite a few months ago.
But last summer I bought two DS games in a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale: Trauma Center: Under the Knife and Kirby: Canvas Curse (the third was Psychonauts for PS2, if you are wondering). Dkaufman has already covered CC, but CC was the bonus purchase in that b2g1 sale anyway.
I purchased Trauma Center because I was terribly interested in it, and it was a test run for the DS itself. You see, I didn't know if I'd like stylus control at all.
So, on dkaufman's brother's DS, I tested it out.

For those who don't know, Trauma Center is a surgery game done in an arcade style. You use the stylus to perform various medical functions such as suturing, injecting, and cutting open patients. While it sounds like delicate work, the action is fast and fun. Surgeries usually have a time limit between 3-5 minutes, though some go as high as 10. Every action has a performance associated with it, and at the end of the surgery the score is tallied and a rank is presented. This is actually the first game where I've given a hoot about scores, and as of this writing I have S-Ranked most of the missions.
Like many arcade-style games played for score (SHMUPs, I'm looking at you), Trauma Center can be incredibly difficult and/or frustrating. But hey, if you are reading this you are probably prepared to jump over that hurdle with extending robot-legs. All that, AND that story doesn't entirely suck. It isn't super-great or anything, but it probably shinku-hadoukens the crap out of the last 10 seasons of ER.