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- Platform: Nintendo DS
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If you had suggested a few years ago that the Nintendo DS would be the fastest selling console in history and its most successful game was a self-help puzzle game more popular with the elderly than traditional gamers many would’ve wondered whether your brain didn’t need rather more training that it was currently getting. Nevertheless, the original Brain Training game has sold over 6 million copies worldwide and remains in the UK charts more than a year after a its initial release.
This follow-up is meant to complement the original game, not necessarily replace it, and contains seventeen new mini-games, each designed to stimulate your brain in a different way – enhancing memory, improving concentration and generally giving your ‘noggin’ a tune up. As before the game is meant to be played in short, five to ten minute sessions each day, the mental equivalent of a quick jog round the block. The game tracks your progress from day-to-day and you can also play any of the mini-games against other people, whether they have a copy or not.
As before the mini-games are all played either by writing or drawing with the stylus (the DS is held vertically, like a book, while playing) or by voice recognition via the built-in microphone. The actual mini-games are a more varied and imaginative bunch than before, with such exercises as playing a short piano piece, completing maths equations and unscrambling words. There’s also a fully featured version of Sudoku as well, making this the perfect video game for people that don’t play video games.
Harrison Dent
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More Brain Training features entirely new exercises, more brain training offers a more extensive wider variety of exercises. More brain training offers fans of brain training and opportunity to train there brain further. The DS Brain Age Checks take on a new form in this title as you're tested on three randomly selected exercises including old school classic Rock, Paper, Scissors which asks you to name the position to either win or lose against the object shown, Memorising 5x5 which sees you remembering the position of numbers on screen and Speedy Symbols which challenges your memory of symbols associated with specific numbers.
More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? features fun new training exercises including Correct Change which challenges you on an everyday day task- to work out the right amount of money to hand back after a transaction as quickly as possible, Missing Symbols, a twist on the classic `20 calculations` test, and Masterpiece Recital which invites you to follow a music sheet shown on one screen and touch the corresponding piano keys on the touch screen. As your daily training continues, additional new exercises are unlocked.
With More Brain Training you can also play with your family and friends. Using a single game card, two to sixteen players can participate in four different exercises together. Three to sixteen players can also compete in a picture quiz to test each others artistic skills, where players score the other drawings to find a winner.
More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? features fun new training exercises including Correct Change which challenges you on an everyday day task- to work out the right amount of money to hand back after a transaction as quickly as possible, Missing Symbols, a twist on the classic `20 calculations` test, and Masterpiece Recital which invites you to follow a music sheet shown on one screen and touch the corresponding piano keys on the touch screen. As your daily training continues, additional new exercises are unlocked.
With More Brain Training you can also play with your family and friends. Using a single game card, two to sixteen players can participate in four different exercises together. Three to sixteen players can also compete in a picture quiz to test each others artistic skills, where players score the other drawings to find a winner.
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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I certainly found the games in the sequel much more fun than that of the original. The original games did train your brain and were quite addictive, but in my opinion, that was for the sake of getting the highest score which many people wanted to do. However, the games in the second one are addicitive purely because they're more fun. It even includes an extra game which relaxes your brain, rather then training it, which I must say is the most addictive. Buy it and you'll be playing it for days, trying to get a brain age of 20. Basically if you enjoyed the first one, buy this. If you haven't got either but plan on getting one of them, get this one.
+ Fun games which train your brain.
+ And as if that wasn't enough, there's also 100 Sudoku puzzles.
+ Budget price of 20 pounds which is more than good value.
- Exactly the same layout as the first game.
- Some mini games are a bit boring.
+ Fun games which train your brain.
+ And as if that wasn't enough, there's also 100 Sudoku puzzles.
+ Budget price of 20 pounds which is more than good value.
- Exactly the same layout as the first game.
- Some mini games are a bit boring.
60 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OK - so I am behind. I never played the original brain training, and I only just bought my DS. I am 32. I have got tired of consoles and games. I recently played on my friends PS3, and yeah the graphics are great, but the gameplay on the games is the same old stuff it has been for the last 10 years.
Nintendo are changing all that. Just as they did back in the say of Game and Watch. Not only is the DS an innovative format with the stylus and two screens, but they are getting games released that will change gaming forever.
I love the way this game interacts with you. It keeps a track of real time, and is a genuine training assistant. If you log on at 11.50pm he says, my it's late, you know sleeping is good for you, if you come back day after day he congratualtes you. It is a very small detail, but it just makes the whole thing very personal.
The format works really well. Nice touches like for left-handed people it flips the whole thing round so you can easily play it.
The games are not graphical wonders, they are very clever and functional. They stretch you brain, just as they are supposed to, and you will find yourself competing with your personal bests to improve.
I haven't explored the whole of this game yet, as you keep earning extra features the more you play.
I congratulate Nintendo for bring genuinely innovates games and platforms out - and joy it is selling more consoles and games!
Buy this game as soon as possible.
Nintendo are changing all that. Just as they did back in the say of Game and Watch. Not only is the DS an innovative format with the stylus and two screens, but they are getting games released that will change gaming forever.
I love the way this game interacts with you. It keeps a track of real time, and is a genuine training assistant. If you log on at 11.50pm he says, my it's late, you know sleeping is good for you, if you come back day after day he congratualtes you. It is a very small detail, but it just makes the whole thing very personal.
The format works really well. Nice touches like for left-handed people it flips the whole thing round so you can easily play it.
The games are not graphical wonders, they are very clever and functional. They stretch you brain, just as they are supposed to, and you will find yourself competing with your personal bests to improve.
I haven't explored the whole of this game yet, as you keep earning extra features the more you play.
I congratulate Nintendo for bring genuinely innovates games and platforms out - and joy it is selling more consoles and games!
Buy this game as soon as possible.
67 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Having used the first Brain Training game and found it slightly buggy in terms of voice and handwriting recognition, I have to say I found this version an improvement.
The games are more fun and more challenging and it does feel like a real brain workout.
However, Dr Kawashima is still as tedious as ever with making almost exactly the same comments he makes in this version as in the first. He's not that clever either as he says the days are getting hotter when it's cold outside! With all the millions they made from the first, surely they could have altered this aspect of it - along with the transport analogies (Plane, train, cycle etc) of how you fare on a certain game.
This apart, it's still worth getting if your brain doesn't get much exercise in everday life. It just might make it that bit sharper. Who knows?
The games are more fun and more challenging and it does feel like a real brain workout.
However, Dr Kawashima is still as tedious as ever with making almost exactly the same comments he makes in this version as in the first. He's not that clever either as he says the days are getting hotter when it's cold outside! With all the millions they made from the first, surely they could have altered this aspect of it - along with the transport analogies (Plane, train, cycle etc) of how you fare on a certain game.
This apart, it's still worth getting if your brain doesn't get much exercise in everday life. It just might make it that bit sharper. Who knows?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Ideal for my eight year old to brush up on maths, although her favourite game is the piano one. All the family goes on it once a day.
Published 1 month ago by Lena Foden
5.0 out of 5 stars
bought as a gift
Bought as a gift and the person I bought it for is very happy with it and is glad to have it
Published 1 month ago by duckie
5.0 out of 5 stars
great
just as described at good price all in all a really good experience and really good quality I love it
Published 1 month ago by Tony
4.0 out of 5 stars
I do like it
I don't play on this so much now but yeah, I used to get a little frustrated at points but the more you play the easier it becomes which may mean it works?!
Published 1 month ago by Feeling_charmed
5.0 out of 5 stars
Train Your Brain
Having played the original Brain Training, purchasing this was a..... no brainer.......
Enjoyed using it daily on the commute to college, would highly recommend it to anyone... Read more
Enjoyed using it daily on the commute to college, would highly recommend it to anyone... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ben Small
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good!
The puzzles are good although i do miss 20x calculations, it might be here, i just haven't gotten to it yet, arrived quickly in good condition.
Published 2 months ago by BeeBee
5.0 out of 5 stars
more fun
love Brain Training, and husband has nearly done all the Sudoku puzzles, so needed more. This fits the bill very nicely.
Published 2 months ago by M. Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Ds
I bought this when I got my hubby his ds to keep is brain active & for the 1st few weeks he couldn't put down so I guess it worked.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. K. Thacker
5.0 out of 5 stars
More brain training
It is very good for your brain it trains it very well and is very relaxing and I enjoy it very much Thanks.
Published 3 months ago by Val Ormerod
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Brain Hurts!
I got the Brain Training for Nintendo DS with my console. So, I wanted this one too. It's just as good as the first one, but with a little more difficulty. I use it when I can.
Published 3 months ago by Linda J. Craine
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