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  • Complete Monster: Dr. Joseph Randolph is the egotistical, newly-appointed chief doctor at the Heilwald Klinikum, who takes his promise that "no one dies at Heilwald" to disturbing lengths. Randolph used the Ominous Voice's power to turn Heilwald into a hellish nightmare of time loops and monstrosities, then sealed the Ominous Voice inside the walls to silence its protests. Randolph subjects the hundreds of mental patients to neglect, abuse, and heinous experimentation simply out of scientific curiosity, refusing to let any of them truly die. His own staff aren't exempt from the horrors, as Chef Sauer is forced to constantly boil alive and serve his own flesh to patients, and Nurse Astrid is shoved inside an iron lung and left to wander the halls in misery. Randolph personally takes to removing patients' livers and using a device that crushes their teeth to mulch as his latest "treatments", and by the end of the game, Randolph is affirmed to be a wholly self-serving madman completely unequipped for the job he holds, serving as the very antithesis to the Hippocratic Oath.
  • Squick: There are at least a couple of cases where you will be utterly disgusted. The biggest being when the Neglected Patient decides to reward you for your help by making an art piece in the pool out of...what we all wish is mud but if the toilet on top is any indication...
  • Tear Jerker: The player's encounter with the Iron Maiden when retrieving the medicine for Nurse Helene.
    I...I'm sorry.

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