I liked Delicious Emily: Message in a Bottle well enough to buy the gamehouse bundle. I was looking forward to more of the DE addictive gameplay and ludicrous storylines. This game disappointed me.

Instead of the insane sitcom plot of Delicious Emily, we get a semi-sane hospital-drama plot. A plus or a minus depending on how much you like helping your boyfriend / hospital director ditch his opioid habit via cutesy casual gameplay. Find all the pill bottles in time for a bonus!

More importantly - the gameplay is heavily loaded with minigames. Run the patient through the x-ray machine in under 5 seconds for a minor bonus! Set all the dislocated bones in 3 seconds, or the patient starts losing hearts!

So, if the Delicious Emily gameplay had a minor emphasis on reflexes, and a heavy emphasis on planning things out so that you take the optimal route and serve as many customers at once before they start losing patience, Heart's Medicine is the opposite of that. Most of the time, the optimal strategy is to serve each patient as quickly as possible when they come in, and pray you don't mess up the minigames. Do that, and the "serve several patients in a row" bonuses are mostly irrelevant (except for checkouts).

Since my reflexes aren't exactly great, I found the gameplay to be pure torture.
(Edit - you can pass each level and go on with the plot regardless of how well or poorly you've done. Getting three stars + bonus challenge + captured guinea pig [yes, really] per level is just a matter of earning trophies, which I usually don't care about. But... there's really no point in making any sort of effort to play the game if you're not going to ace every level, since that's the only challenge you'll find)

Oh, and last but not least - this very simple mobile game requires you to be online to start, for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason.

I liked Delicious Emily: Message in a Bottle well enough to buy the gamehouse bundle. I was looking forward to more of the DE addictive gameplay and ludicrous storylines. This game disappointed me. Instead of the insane sitcom plot of Delicious Emily, we get a semi-sane hospital-drama plot. A plus or a minus depending on how much you like helping your boyfriend / hospital director ditch his opioid habit via cutesy casual gameplay. Find all the pill bottles in time for a bonus! More importantly - the gameplay is heavily loaded with minigames. Run the patient through the x-ray machine in under 5 seconds for a minor bonus! Set all the dislocated bones in 3 seconds, or the patient starts losing hearts! So, if the Delicious Emily gameplay had a minor emphasis on reflexes, and a heavy emphasis on planning things out so that you take the optimal route and serve as many customers at once before they start losing patience, Heart's Medicine is the opposite of that. Most of the time, the optimal strategy is to serve each patient as quickly as possible when they come in, and pray you don't mess up the minigames. Do that, and the "serve several patients in a row" bonuses are mostly irrelevant (except for checkouts). Since my reflexes aren't exactly great, I found the gameplay to be pure torture. (Edit - you can pass each level and go on with the plot regardless of how well or poorly you've done. Getting three stars + bonus challenge + captured guinea pig [yes, really] per level is just a matter of earning trophies, which I usually don't care about. But... there's really no point in making any sort of effort to play the game if you're not going to ace every level, since that's the only challenge you'll find) Oh, and last but not least - this very simple mobile game requires you to be online to start, for some goddamned reason.