Posted on: May 18, 2023

thegreatkingbeef
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Charming but flawed classic
I had a lot of nostalgia for Theme Hospital, having played it as a child on original release but, returning to it today showed up all the gameplay issues that I didn't remember. The install was fine and the game ran well technically. I didn't experience any issues or crashes during my whole play time (A full run through of the game on hard mode). The problems are all gameplay related. There are many misleading or vague statements in game and in the manual which leave you scratching your head as to what decisions to make. After playing for a while you realise that some guidance has lead you down the wrong path. There is way too much reliance of pop up messages which take you out of the game for 2-3 seconds at a time. This doesn't sound too bad until you get a busy hospital with messages popping up every 5-10 seconds. There are a few minor gameplay bugs which can nerf a level for you but the biggest one is the epidemic bug. Any hospital that has outdoor paths between buildings suffers from this and you have to completely adjust your hospital to avoid continuous, gamebreaking, fines. Th final major issue is certain items and rooms being completely detrimental to the running of your hospital even though you're constantly encouraged to build them. I won't explain which ones because that would be too much of a spoiler but I'm sure you'll work it out once you get to the busier levels and they cause major problems for you. You can get a lot of fun from Theme Hospital but playing it for more than a few hours will start to reveal all of the frustrations.
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