Mind Scanners Reviews

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Great commentary on the current treatment of mental health and how capitalism handles it.

Fun and paced nicely, though I don't think its difficulty scales very well, even on the later days with more difficult mini games and supplementary patient illnesses. There are hard choices to make that suck away your resources, but with enough practice the mini games grow easy, even repetitive. Thus, the weight of your choices don't have a lot at stake. While I appreciate the visual design of Mind Scanners, its gameplay loop isn't quite as meaty as it could be. Nonetheless, the game does not overstay its welcome, so the repetition of what you're doing isn't as hard to swallow. [spoiler]Regarding its story, you are again the sand in the machine of an evil fascistic regime, and the rebels make lots of mistakes that are I guess worth it in the end, but you never really see their interactions with the people of The Structure. You're mostly just told that the ruling class is oppressing everyone, and all you really know is that people get exiled for treason. I wish more games that feature a "movement of the people" showed more people. While I found state-sponsored mental healthcare hilariously the most fantastical piece of the world, it feels like there's a disconnect between what you're doing and the goals of the state. It seems they would rather you erase the personalities of all your patients (who are potential threats to the state) but that also seems to remove their labor potential, which the state also requires to survive. The state doesn't seem to care one way or another if you're erasing personalities, it's just up to you if you want to go the extra mile. Surprisingly, for a game where you're against autocratic regime, there isn't enough conflict. From a gameplay perspective, it's mainly "do I have the ability to play mini games fast and well enough to avoid ruining peoples' lives?" The moral choices aren't weighty enough, probably because the focus is about rescuing your daughter, but a more antagonistic force that's more forthcoming with putting heavy decisions in front of you could've made this story stronger.[/spoiler]

even normal mode is incredibly difficult, personality is in the far corner of the screen and i keep forgetting to specifically look over for it, no alerts telling me its low, i basically cant beat the game without personalities being destroyed the stress minigame is hard as well, just not worth it, better to play the easy minigames and avoid stressing the patient and the mind scanning/diagnosing process can be so damn confusing (the above issues are far worse, but it still gets on my nerves im starting over and gonna try easy mode, ill update this review if its playable