In the ever approaching 20 years I've been on the internet, I'm genuinely surprised that Trauma Center never really took off outside of Gentle Breeze (this song that was in every other YouTube video in 2010).
It's understandable that this game doesn't have the mainstream following of fellow flagship DS titles Ace Attorney and Professor Layton or its Atlus brethren of SMT, Catherine, or Persona, but what I don't get is how this series doesn't seem to have any sort of cult following. I don't know of anybody who has heard of this game, let alone is openly a fan of it despite its supposed success and despite the universal recognition of this one track. What's even weirder is that Atlus seems to have completely forgotten about it too. It saw the release of five games across six years with the last one releasing for the DS in 2010, and that was the last we ever heard of Trauma Center.
The series has almost never even seen a rerelease of any kind since then. Only the final game Trauma Team was available digitally on the Wii U eShop (which was shut down last year), PC ports of that game and the others don't exist yet, and the last two entries never even came out in Europe. Officially speaking, this series is exclusive to the DS and the Wii, several console generations behind us now.
I've never played a single game in this series and otherwise I have no attachment to it whatsoever, I don't even really know what kind of game it is. I just think it's really, really weird that I have never overheard anybody talking about Trauma Center, ever. I may have seen one piece of fan art on Twitter and that's it, and I don't even remember if that actually happened












