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Brain Challenge (Nintendo DS)
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5/5 |
Great Game but Cheaper on iPod Touch
(August 10, 2008) |
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Great game which surprised me, however it is only £5.99 on the iTunes app store for the iPod touch. I would definitely recommend buying. |
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5/5 |
much more fun
(April 28, 2008) |
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So much more fun than the other brain training games. First of all lots of variety with loads more games to choose from. The original Brain Training can be a little boring and limited as A1 B2 C3 is not everyone's idea of fun. Best of all in the stress section is Animals with those nasty rats and spiders crawling over your screen as you inlock more games. Definite value for money with this one. Highly recommended to give it a go. |
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5/5 |
great fun!
(March 20, 2008) |
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i first bought this game for my phone and enjoyed it - i wasnt sure it was woth getting for ds aswell. However i'm so glad i did cos the gameplay is so much better. using the stylus, you get the full benefit. The games are certainely challenging and varied enough not to get bored, which makes the whole game great fun. If you want a change and something not so studious as brain and sight training i would reccommend this for all ages (I'm 45!) |
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5/5 |
addictive!!
(March 08, 2008) |
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this is the best game of its type on the DS, and i have played / own them all!! Two daily tests to take, 5 categories, 5 games within each category, 9 stress tests and 9 bonus games too - its such excellent value for money - it will keep you busy for months!!
Oh, and its great fun too!!
im sure you wont be sorry if you buy this |
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4/5 |
Not the best, but definitely not the worst
(February 23, 2008) |
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This game (which I just picked up for the DS) is one of the many spawn of the surprisingly successful "Brain Training", in this case a clone produced by Ubisoft, who are a company that I have at least heard of.
The general format and style is really ripped straight from Brain Training: a quick graphable challenge intended to be done daily to show how much the game has improved your life; a number of puzzle-like mini-games (most of which are initially "locked") to "train" on in order to improve your score; a handful of non-"training" but presumably thematically similar "bonus" games; and a rather chatty guide character.
I'm going to start by mentioning what's bad: the game unlocks things based (apparently) on how much you play (fair enough), but unfortunately after playing through all the initially-available mini-games (all five of them) once, nothing is unlocked, so if you didn't like them much, too bad, you'll have to play them some more in order to access the other games. This also suffers somewhat from the same problem that often plagues touch-screen games: if your hand/eye coordination is a little off (or you have inscrutable handwriting) then some of the games just won't like you - but thankfully that doesn't apply to the initial set available to you.
The initial set of mini-games includes a simple visual logic game ("balance"), an annoying addition/subtraction game ("trout route"), a trivial but somewhat poorly controlled memory game ("traveling"), a cute little visual perception/count-the-whatever game ("ascending"), and an inexplicably-different stuff-dropping-down-the-screen game ("catching"). It's basically all drag-a-line or jab-to-select games of one kind or another, but they are more fun and less input-sensitive than Brain Training.
The real difference that this game brings to the table, though, is the "stress testing", which does very similar games but under more pressure in order to gauge your level of stress or something. This includes it obscuring the screen somewhat during "ascending", having to tap to stop mice reaching the top of the screen while doing a pattern completion problem, having to do two games side-by-side, and having to do arithmetic while a rather angry and demanding character tells you what to do. It's very much as crazy and fun as it sounds.
One final thing to note: the music is pretty funky, which is quite unusual for a puzzle game.
So, if you want the best of this kind of game then you're probably better off with Brain Training or More Brain Training, but this game is a quite reasonable substitute, particularly if you're sick of rock-paper-scissors or trying to scrawl letters, numbers and symbols on the screen. |
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