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* FreezeFrameBonus: 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. And it doesn't sound good.
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* MagicalDefibrillator: Subverted. The game's premise is based on managing clearly dysfunctional heart rhythms, and mismanagement will mangle hearts regardless of defibrillator use.

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* MagicalDefibrillator: Subverted. Although your defibrillator helps with the abnormal heart rhythms caused by Cole and Nicole's caffeine and cigarette addictions, it's only a stopgap solution: it's mentioned that the problem needs to be solved at its root for their addictions to go away. The game's premise is based on managing clearly dysfunctional heart rhythms, and mismanagement will mangle hearts regardless of defibrillator use.



* RealityEnsues: Although your defibrillator helps with the abnormal heart rhythms caused by Cole and Nicole's caffeine and cigarette addictions, it's only a stopgap solution: it's mentioned that the problem needs to be solved at its root for their addictions to go away.
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* TwentyFourHourArmor: Deconstructed. 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.

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The At least in the first early access build, [[spoiler:the Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]boss]].


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* RealityEnsues: Although your defibrillator helps with the abnormal heart rhythms caused by Cole and Nicole's caffeine and cigarette addictions, it's only a stopgap solution: it's mentioned that the problem needs to be solved at its root for their addictions to go away.
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* PunnyName: Cole Brew (cold brew) and Nicole Ting (nicotine).

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* PunnyName: Cole Brew (cold brew) and brew), Nicole Ting (nicotine).(nicotine), and Richard Dan Hugh (richer than you).
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Richard Hugh, the Health Secretary who barges into the hospital, demands immediate treatment at the expense of other patients, then complains about getting the Rhythm Doctor treatment (despite him being the one who approved its use in the first place).


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* OriginalPositionFallacy: Richard Hugh complains about how the Rhythm Doctor treatment is administered by an intern who's working from home (that's you), despite the fact that he's the nation's Health Secretary and personally approved of it. That's because he didn't think that ''he'd'' be one of those who'd ever get that kind of treatment.
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* ShoutOut: The night shift version of stage 2-4, "Bomb-Sniffing Pomeranian", has Cole and Nicole playing a fighting game that is strongly implied to be ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
-->'''Nicole:''' Oh, you're going [[VideoGame/FZero Falcon]]?
-->'''Cole:''' You bet!
-->'''Ian:''' Oh no! Not [[MirrorMatch Falcon dittos]]!!!

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* BilingualBonus: 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.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Battleworn Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]

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* BilingualBonus: The tutorial at the start of the game has a nurse counting in Mandarin rather than English, making following-along following along easier with knowledge of said Mandarin.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Battleworn Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]



* CharacterCustomization: The intern's shirt sleeve can be repainted in-game.

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* CharacterCustomization: The intern's shirt sleeve can be repainted in-game.in-game, and the hand's skin color can be changed.
* DysfunctionJunction: 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.



* TheFaceless: Dr. Edega is always seen with his face buried in a clipboard, never showing what he looks like.



* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Battleworn Insomniac has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's connectifia abortus infection damaging the wi-fi. [[spoiler:Super Battleworn Insomniac dials it UpToEleven with not only more glitches, but a grueling 7/8 time signature represented by the patient's heart ''having a fragment broken off''.]]
* LevelEditor: Rhythm Doctor features a powerful level editor with many user-created levels. As of early access, the level editor has been implemented into the game itself.

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* InterfaceScrew: InterfaceScrew:
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The early boss level Battleworn Insomniac "Battleworn Insomniac" has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's connectifia abortus infection damaging the wi-fi. [[spoiler:Super [[spoiler:"Super Battleworn Insomniac Insomniac" dials it UpToEleven with not only more glitches, but a grueling 7/8 time signature represented by the patient's heart ''having a fragment broken off''.]]
** 2-X does something completely different with connectifia abortus: [[spoiler:it shrinks the whole game down into a tiny desktop window, and begins hurtling the window across the screen as you try to treat both Cole and Nicole.]]
* LevelEditor: Rhythm Doctor ''Rhythm Doctor'' features a powerful level editor with many user-created levels. As of early access, the level editor has been implemented into the game itself.itself.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: A variant with the patients' hearts, which indicate how many times you've missed inputs by how many cracks are on them; after enough screw-ups, the heart breaks apart like an egg, complete with a tiny chick sitting in the remains. Thankfully the patient doesn't die if it happens, though it usually means you've messed up too many times to get a rank that lets you move on from the stage.
* LocomotiveLevel: Act 4 features several of the patients taking a train ride through the desert, the instigator being Hailey, who wanted to leave the hospital to visit her grandmother's hometown. The long-distance functionality of the rhythm doctor machine is used to keep them safe.



* MeanBoss: Dr. Edega almost constantly hounds Ian and Ada so that they don't take unsolicited breaks, and uses the rhythm doctor program as a crutch to avoid hiring more employees, leaving everyone stressed out.



* OminousVisualGlitch: About halfway through Battleworn Insomniac the patient is confirmed to have connectifia abortus which apparently [[InterfaceScrew causes your visual (and sometimes, audio) signals to become glitched.]] [[spoiler:Super Battleworn Insomniac takes this UpToEleven with the ''intro screen'' undergoing InterfaceScrew from the get-go. It only gets worse from there.]]

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* OminousVisualGlitch: About halfway through Battleworn Insomniac "Battleworn Insomniac", the patient is confirmed to have connectifia abortus which apparently [[InterfaceScrew causes your visual (and sometimes, audio) signals to become glitched.]] [[spoiler:Super glitched]]. [[spoiler:"Super Battleworn Insomniac Insomniac" takes this UpToEleven with the ''intro screen'' undergoing InterfaceScrew from the get-go. It only gets worse from there.]]]]
* NintendoHard: The one-button control scheme hides how brutal the game can get. Like its inspiration ''Rhythm Heaven'', ''Rhythm Doctor'' doesn't allow for close-enough inputs; you either hit or you miss, with little in-between. As the levels go on, increased numbers of patients with differing heartbeats and numerous visual and audio tricks makes getting the ranks to progress even harder.



* SamaritanSyndrome: One Shift More features your senior doctor, Ada, being unable to ignore her patients yet starting to break down from overwork (while patients and budget-cutting politicians cut in)

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* RankInflation: Ranking on a level can go all the way up to S+ for a perfect score, though only a B is needed to continue the story and A for the level's alternate version.
* SamaritanSyndrome: One 3-X, "One Shift More More", features your senior doctor, Ada, being unable to ignore her patients yet starting to break down from overwork (while patients and budget-cutting politicians cut in)in):



* SuddenlyVoiced: One Shift More, as part of being a sudden musical number, switches from textboxes to voiced lyrics for the doctors.

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* SuddenlyVoiced: One "One Shift More, More", as part of being a sudden musical number, switches from textboxes to voiced lyrics for the doctors.



* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of [[spoiler:Battleworn Insomniac, called Super Battleworn Insomniac,]] features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.

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* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of [[spoiler:Battleworn Insomniac, [[spoiler:"Battleworn Insomniac", called Super "Super Battleworn Insomniac,]] Insomniac",]] features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.7/8.
* TheVoice: The nurse assisting you and the doctors. She never appears in gameplay, but her voice and other musical talents are part of the game's cue system, mostly used for the tutorials.
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* UncommonTime: [[spoiler:The night-shift mode of Battleworn Insomniac, called Super Battleworn Insomniac, features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.]]

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* UncommonTime: [[spoiler:The The night-shift mode of Battleworn [[spoiler:Battleworn Insomniac, called Super Battleworn Insomniac, Insomniac,]] features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.]]
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* EndlessGame: Beans Jumper, 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.

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* EndlessGame: Beans Jumper, 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.
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* CannotSpitItOut: 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.


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* EndlessGame: Beans Jumper, 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.


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* SleazyPolitician: Richard Hugh, a politician who barges into the hospital during Act 3, demanding immediate medical attention despite not even having an appointment and threatening to defund the hospital if the doctors don't comply.


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* SuperDoc: Despite working in a hospital for humans, you end up treating birds on at least three occasions.
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* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Battleworn Insomniac has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's connectifia abortus infection damaging the wi-fi. [[spoiler:Super Battlworn Insomniac dials it UpToEleven with not only more glitches, but a grueling 7/8 time signature represented by the patient's heart ''having a fragment broken off''.]]

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* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Battleworn Insomniac has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's connectifia abortus infection damaging the wi-fi. [[spoiler:Super Battlworn Battleworn Insomniac dials it UpToEleven with not only more glitches, but a grueling 7/8 time signature represented by the patient's heart ''having a fragment broken off''.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Lampshaded. Both the tutorial character and one of the patients later in the game are named Hugh. The latter does not like this, and demands that the former change his name.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Several patients don't have given names, and are only known by their occupations or the conditions they suffer from. (Samurai, Insomniac, etc.)



* MustHaveCaffeine: Cole, one of the two main patients of Act 2, is dependent on coffee to be able to produce his music.
* MustHaveNicotine: Nicole often smokes on the job, and even smokes ''on the hospital floor''.



* PunnyName: Cole Brew (cold brew) and Nicole Ting (nicotine).



* SeriesMascot: The Samurai, your first patient, serves as both the game's icon on Steam and the developer's profile picture on social media.



* WorkInfoTitle: The flash demo songs "Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.

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* WorkInfoTitle: The flash demo songs "Oriental first stage's song, "Samurai Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" its night shift version, "Samurai Dubstep" are named after their genres.

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The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently planned to release in February 2021. An in-progress level editor and player is available on the game's Discord server, as well as a pre-order purchase including a more advanced demo.

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The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently planned to release game became available for early access in February 2021. An in-progress level editor and player is available on the game's Discord server, as well as a pre-order purchase including a more advanced demo.2021.



* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Battleworn Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]



* CharacterCustomization: The intern's shirt sleeve can be repainted in-game.



* HeroicMime: Played with. The intern is implied to be ''you'', but since your machine doesn't come equipped with a voice module, your patients and fellow doctors will often ask you questions only to remember that they won't be able to hear your answer.

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* FeaturelessProtagonist: 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.
* HeroicMime: Played with. The intern is implied to be ''you'', but since your machine doesn't come equipped with a voice module, your patients and fellow doctors seniors will often ask you questions only to remember that they won't be able to hear your answer.



* LevelEditor: Rhythm Doctor features a powerful level editor with many user-created levels.

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* LevelEditor: Rhythm Doctor features a powerful level editor with many user-created levels. As of early access, the level editor has been implemented into the game itself.
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Insomniac is both the first and final boss of the early access build.]]


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* HeroicMime: Played with. The intern is implied to be ''you'', but since your machine doesn't come equipped with a voice module, your patients and fellow doctors will often ask you questions only to remember that they won't be able to hear your answer.

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''[[http://rhythmdr.com/ Rhythm Doctor]]'' is a "tough-as-nails one-button RhythmGame". Openly inspired by ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', 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 (mostly) seventh beats to keep their heartbeat going. Songs start at serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation, and many other rhythm complications.

The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently planned to release in 2020.

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''[[http://rhythmdr.com/ Rhythm Doctor]]'' is a "tough-as-nails one-button RhythmGame". Openly inspired by ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', 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 (mostly) (typically) the seventh beats beat to keep their heartbeat going. Songs start at serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation, and many other rhythm complications.

The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently planned to release in 2020.February 2021. An in-progress level editor and player is available on the game's Discord server, as well as a pre-order purchase including a more advanced demo.



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* CanisLatinicus: Connectifia abortus, an in-game bacterial infection that somehow disrupts wireless connections. As in, the wireless connection the player is using to remotely defibrillate the patient's hearts.



* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Oriental Insomniac has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's [[CanisLatinicus "connectifia abortus"]] infection damaging the wi-fi.

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* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Oriental Battleworn Insomniac has no real changes to one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's [[CanisLatinicus "connectifia abortus"]] connectifia abortus infection damaging the wi-fi.wi-fi. [[spoiler:Super Battlworn Insomniac dials it UpToEleven with not only more glitches, but a grueling 7/8 time signature represented by the patient's heart ''having a fragment broken off''.]]



* OminousVisualGlitch: Text glitches in the half-way point of Oriental Insomniac and visual distortion in the ''intro'' of the night-shift version warn of the signal soon about to face serious rhythmic issues.

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* OminousVisualGlitch: Text glitches in the half-way point of Oriental About halfway through Battleworn Insomniac and the patient is confirmed to have connectifia abortus which apparently [[InterfaceScrew causes your visual distortion in (and sometimes, audio) signals to become glitched.]] [[spoiler:Super Battleworn Insomniac takes this UpToEleven with the ''intro'' of ''intro screen'' undergoing InterfaceScrew from the night-shift version warn of the signal soon about to face serious rhythmic issues.get-go. It only gets worse from there.]]



* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of Oriental Insomniac features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.
* WorkInfoTitle: "Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.

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* UncommonTime: The [[spoiler:The night-shift mode of Oriental Insomniac Battleworn Insomniac, called Super Battleworn Insomniac, features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.
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* WorkInfoTitle: The flash demo songs "Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.
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The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently on Steam Greenlight for release in Q3 2017.

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* LevelEditor: Rhythm Doctor features a powerful level editor with many user-created levels.

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* BigRedButton: The button used to defibrillate patients is one of these.



* BigRedButton: The button used to defibrillate patients is one of these.
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-->I'm the one that needs some HEEEEEEELP!! / Someone save me from this he-ell! / ...shouldn't have gone to med school.
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-->You see, I've been on call this week / I'm barely getting any sleep / I'd love to catch up, I really would, / But they've been waiting for so long~

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-->I'm the one that needs some HEEEEEEELP!! / Someone save me from this he-ell! / ...shouldn't have gone to med school.
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see, I've been on call this week / I'm barely getting any sleep / I'd love to catch up, I really would, / But they've been waiting for so long~



* WorkInfoTitle:"Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.

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* WorkInfoTitle:"Oriental WorkInfoTitle: "Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.
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* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of Oriental Insomniac features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.

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* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of Oriental Insomniac features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.7/8.
* WorkInfoTitle:"Oriental Techno" and "Oriental Insomniac" are named after their genres.
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''[[http://rhythmdr.com/ Rhythm Doctor]]'' is a "tough-as-nails one-button RhythmGame". 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 (mostly) seventh beats to keep their heartbeat going. Songs immediately start serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation...

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''[[http://rhythmdr.com/ Rhythm Doctor]]'' is a "tough-as-nails one-button RhythmGame". Openly inspired by ''Rhythm Heaven'', ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', 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 (mostly) seventh beats to keep their heartbeat going. Songs immediately start at serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation...syncopation, and many other rhythm complications.
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* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Oriental Insomniac has no real changes to the beat timings, unlike any other level in the game... but slowly becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's [[CanisLatinicus "connectifia abortus"]] infection damaging the wi-fi.

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* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Oriental Insomniac has no real changes to the beat one's input timings, unlike any other level in the game... but slowly but becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's [[CanisLatinicus "connectifia abortus"]] infection damaging the wi-fi.
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-->You see, I've been on call this week / I'm barely getting any sleep I'd love to catch up, I really would, / But they've been waiting for so long~

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-->You see, I've been on call this week / I'm barely getting any sleep / I'd love to catch up, I really would, / But they've been waiting for so long~
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''[[http://rhythmdr.com/ Rhythm Doctor]]'' is a "tough-as-nails one-button RhythmGame". 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 (mostly) seventh beats to keep their heartbeat going. Songs immediately start serious and steadily get vicious with tempo changes, off-beats and skipped beats, poly-rhythms, syncopation...

The original demo was released in 2014 and was selected for the IGF's Student Showcase Selection that year. The full version is currently on Steam Greenlight for release in Q3 2017.

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* BilingualBonus: 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.
* EverythingHasRhythm: Including heartbeats, evidently.
* InterfaceScrew: The early boss level Oriental Insomniac has no real changes to the beat timings, unlike any other level in the game... but slowly becomes severely chopped-and-screwed due to the patient's [[CanisLatinicus "connectifia abortus"]] infection damaging the wi-fi.
* MagicalDefibrillator: Subverted. The game's premise is based on managing clearly dysfunctional heart rhythms, and mismanagement will mangle hearts regardless of defibrillator use.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Text glitches in the half-way point of Oriental Insomniac and visual distortion in the ''intro'' of the night-shift version warn of the signal soon about to face serious rhythmic issues.
* SamaritanSyndrome: One Shift More features your senior doctor, Ada, being unable to ignore her patients yet starting to break down from overwork (while patients and budget-cutting politicians cut in)
-->I'm the one that needs some HEEEEEEELP!! / Someone save me from this he-ell! / ...shouldn't have gone to med school.
-->...
-->You see, I've been on call this week / I'm barely getting any sleep I'd love to catch up, I really would, / But they've been waiting for so long~
* SuddenlyVoiced: One Shift More, as part of being a sudden musical number, switches from textboxes to voiced lyrics for the doctors.
* UncommonTime: The night-shift mode of Oriental Insomniac features a virus breaking off part of the patient's heart half way through, shifting the beat from 8/8 to 7/8.

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