WingDamage.com writes, "This a is statement I’ve heard a lot in the last few years. With the expansion of the medium, many have felt that the term unfairly describes certain forms of interactive entertainment. While I don’t necessarily agree, Trauma is the type of game that sparks this kind of discussion."
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Touch Arcade: Trauma [$2.99] gives us few concrete facts. There is a hospital, a woman in a bed, a doctor offering an uncertain prognosis. Beyond that, a series of dreams pieced together from photographs and memories, narrated by the woman, a victim of a traumatizing accident.
Growth and exploration are two themes deeply entwined in Trauma, and the game approaches them from a mature perspective. It's a tale of a young woman coming to terms with her life in the wake of an accident, dealing with her photographic dreams through a series of gestures and discoveries.
