Dementium: The Ward

aka: Dementium, Dementium: Heisa Byōtō, Dementium: L'Asile

Released

October 31st, 2007 on Nintendo DS

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Developers

Renegade Kid LLC.

Moby Score

7.2

#9,779 of 157K

Critics

73% (25)

Players

(12)

Ranking

#210 on Nintendo DS

Collected By

23 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: 1st-person
Gameplay: Shooter
Survival horror
Narrative: Horror

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Description

Lying atop a gurney, you are pushed down a hospital hallway as horrific scenes play out around you. Later you wake up in a hospital room alone. Walking down the bloodstained hallway, you find that zombies have taken over.

Dementium: The Ward is a horror-themed first person shooter for the DS. Following the survival horror mold, you collect guns and ammunition moving from floor to floor in a desperate attempt to escape.

Spellings

Dementium～閉鎖病棟～ - Japanese spelling

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Credits (Nintendo DS version)

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Game Director	Jools Watsham
Producer	Jools Watsham
Art Director	Gregg Hargrove
Technical Director	Bob Ian Ives
Game and Level Design	Jools Watsham
Environment Art	Gregg Hargrove
Engine, Game and Tools Programming	Bob Ian Ives
Music Composition	Jools Watsham Gareth Vilday
Audio Effects	Jools Watsham
Character Artists	Gregg Hargrove Aaron Marroquin Noah Li Sean McIntosh Kevin Fung Ulysses Games LLC
Animators	Gregg Hargrove Aaron Marroquin Noah Li Sean McIntosh Kevin Fung Ulysses Games LLC
Interface Art	Michael Veroni Jools Watsham Gregg Hargrove
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Version differences

The US release of Dementium: The Ward gained a lot of criticism for its save system. The game could only be saved at the start of each level, meaning if the player's character died, it could result in a loss of up to an hour's progress. This was addressed for the Japanese and UK releases, when save points were added to each level. Changes were also made so that enemies did not respawn whenever the player entered a previously visited room.

Whisper

If you play backwards the eerie whisper heard at the beginning of the game, when the gurney is strolled through the asylum, you'll hear that the voice repeats "I am whispering now". Quite... appropriate.

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