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Surgeon simulator was, in-and-of itself, a good game. Yet, this new rendition - involving controls at opposite ends of the keyboard and clunky inputs - I feel, lost the spark that made the original so great. Gone are the funny moments, where you fumble around for tools that don't want to co-operate; instead, we have control schemes - which switch every 30 seconds – which, on paper, sounds like a great way to add confusion, but, in practice, fails to provide the same wackiness. This game was originally designed as an ‘alternative controller experience’ and, I guess, in that regard, this game certainly delivers in the sense that the unholy combination of buttons on which they decided makes me want to ‘alternatively control’ my pc out of the nearest window. The game, entirely reliant on flow and rhythm, somehow feels clunky and it wouldn't even load on one of our PCs (though we have yet to decide if this was a bad thing). Nothing in the game is intuitive and to be honest purely quality wise there are better flash games out there if you're interested in rhythm games. This being said, I can't be mad with the game. It's got great passion behind it, the characters are quirky and unique, and there's definitely been some time put into this - not necessarily time well spent but time nonetheless. Unusual as it may be, it results in the kind of bad experience for which you, a few friends and maybe a beer can sit down and thoroughly enjoy. Or, put another way, this game is like a small child with a cereal box on its head running into walls and pretending to be an astronaut. You can't hate it, no matter how many times it draws ‘planets’ on the wall, in crayon, or fails to provide basics that every other game contains, because it has a certain helpless charm about it. Yes, you will one day be an astronaut and - one day - this game will become a proper rhythm game, as well.