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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day
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Overall Critic Score:3.1830
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day Critic Reviews
Once Prof. Kawashima has calculated the results, there are then nine main exercises for you to complete daily: Calculations x 20, Calculations x 100, Reading Aloud, Low to High, Syllable Count, Head Count, Triangle Math, Time Lapse and Voice Calculation....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Ferrago
For each day that you complete an activity, you get a stamp on the calendar. Finish three tests and you get a big stamp. As you progress and get more of these, you’ll unlock new tests. One measures how fast you can read out loud and another tests your...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Lawrence
It is best to think of Brain Age as a yoga tape for the brain, because that is exactly what it is. It is, thankfully, wrapped around a game, so it does not suffer the same tech-demo feeling that saddled Electroplankton. Essentially, Brain Age is almost...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at eToychest
Brain Age is based on the work of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a Professor of Neuroscience who specializes in exercises that stimulate the brain. The basic premise of the game is that by performing the included training tasks, your brain will become more fit,...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Entertainment Depot
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Once you've completed your exercise(s) for the day, you'll get your stamp, and depending on how many stamps you've got, you'll unlock more content, from extra difficulties to a brand new challenge. You'll eventually need twenty stamps to gain access to...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Planet Gamecube
You have to hand it to Nintendo. These days, it seems that some of their most brilliant ideas come to them when they’ve been backed into a corner. So, Sony’s PlayStation tramples the N64. What does Nintendo do? They create Pokemon, one of...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Digital Entertainment News
Nintendo has been helming a number of projects set to imbue the Nintendo DS with a number of programs that are less game and more application based software. Electroplankton was the first such project, a "game" in which you were able to craft musical...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Deeko
Each cartridge can hold up to four profiles. When a new profile is created, that player is given an exam to assess their "brain age." The brain age is a number between 20-80, with 20 being the best possible score. To assess your brain age, you will be...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Netjak
The minigames range from simple math to counting syllables in a passage to connecting letters and numbers with the stylus. All of these exercises are work for your brain concealed within expertly designed little games that can leave you coming back for...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Videogame City
For quite a while now, Nintendo has been doing their best to disrupt the videogame market by releasing games that appeal to all ages. This is their plan for going above and beyond what their competitors already offer, in making software that are...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at DS Advanced
The gameplay is based on the theories of Japanese neuroscientist, Dr. Ryuta Kawashima who believes that these exercises will stimulate somewhat dormant areas of the brain. Nourishing oxygen is then introduced to these regions which are stimulated by...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Cheat Code Central
The meatier part of the game consists of nine different �training� programs that you gradually unlock as you come back day to day. Each of these games has you doing various simple tasks. These are said to stimulate your brain, which is...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Portable Review
Brain Age was originally released in Japan and was designed by Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. The little challenges included are designed to get the blood pumping through your brain. They're nothing big - simple math problems, counting people...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at AtomicGamer
So here we are. The brain training game that took Japan by storm, challenging the nation’s citizenry’s collective gray matter has made its way to North America, and it was certainly worth the wait. While it’s tempting to start pontificating how...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Armchair Empire
Stripped down to the most basic of mental exercises, there's no "winning" in Brain Age. Beginning with the very first age check, the point of this program is to flex your grey matter, completing the exercises on a daily basis and charting your progress...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at 1UP
Sometimes simple things can have overwhelming power. One prime example would be how Nintendo’s Brain Age games for the Nintendo DS took Japan by storm. With surprising sales of over a million and a half copies for each of the games in the series, it...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GamersMark
Where the game gets addictive is with its scoring system. The cartridge records the top three scores in each exercise, and it’s fun to try top yourself over and over again. You’re also given an actual brain age after completing a series of tests. The...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at G4
There are a variety of activities; most performed with the stylus, though a few use voice-recognition. There are nine "Daily Training" regimens. "Calculations" requires you to do a series of arithmetic problems, so you draw answers on the touchscreen as...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Electric Playground
How you see the game displayed is unique though. Instead of holding the DS the traditional way, you actually have to hold it tilted on its side. Just imagine the microphone hole being to your far right when holding it, and you should understand. Instead...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Nintendo Spin
The tests consist of simple math problems, reading aloud as quickly as you can, counting aloud and as quickly as you can, as well as a series of other tests. The first test you’ll likely take has you say the color of a word. For example, the word may...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Team Fremont
From the main menu you’re give several options, the first of which is a trial version of the second which in turn is the main daily training mode of Brain Age. Once you have confirmed some housekeeping details you’ll be tested across a series of...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GameBrink
Daily training encourages you to play every day, as you can watch your progress on various tasks that are plotted on a graph. The interactive aspects require you to write on the touch screen to answer sums, read aloud into the DS’s microphone, draw...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at ThumbBandits
Make your mind sweat with Nintendo's unique handheld offering. Our full review....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at IGN
When the Nintendo DS was first released, it was dismissed as a mere gimmick, namely because the dual screen and touch screen features. But one notable advantage that the handheld has over the technically superior Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is the...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at DarkStation
Brain Age certainly isn’t your typical game. You hold the Nintendo DS sideways, like a book, and you’re presented with the question on the main screen with the answers being shown on the touch screen. The tasks range from solving basic math problems,...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at PGNx Media
It sounds like work, and some days it seems like just that. Your interest in the game is derived from your interest in simple brain teasers, math and everyday things like reading and writing. The game offers a number of nifty pointers on how to keep your...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GamerDad
Every day you're supposed to fire up Brain Age and perform a series of quick tests that gauge how old your mind really feels. They start out fairly simple, like basic math problems, then morph into three-minute memorization marathons. One test has you...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Games Radar
The game's presentation is sparse, to say the least. It's mostly a black and white world of plain text, with a little color thrown in to spice things up. The "face" of the game is an electronic representation of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the man who inspired...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Daily Game
You start off with a small number of puzzles to solve, and the better you do and the more you play the more activities you will unlock. The aim of the game is to get the age of your brain down to the optimum of twenty years. This is easier said than...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Cubed3
But enough technical talk. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is an example of Nintendo’s new philosophy with regard to simpler games. It’s easy to pick up, quick to play, and it’s priced at an attractive $20 (30% lower than most DS...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Gamerz-Edge
Originality – thy name is Nintendo. Bollocks to all this “it’s a non-game!” nonsense. Bollocks to all this “it’s a game that girls can play!” crap. None of that matters. What’s really propelling the DS to such dizzy heights of gaming at...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Jolt Online Gaming UK
Brain Age, at its core, is a puzzle game. What’s unique, though, is that this is a puzzler that guarantees to strengthen your mind or your money back. It’s based strictly on the works of genius neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GameZone
Brain Age is mostly about flexing your math skills....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GameSpot
The inspiration of Brain Age comes from Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a Japanese neuroscientist. He guides players through various exercises. He praises you when you do well and encourages you to try better if the results are not too hot. His presence in the game...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at N-Insanity
Wrong. Yes, Brain Training may require more concentration and intelligence than your standard third-person-action-shooter-slaughterfest. Yes, it may be asking you to do arithmetic, forcing you to renege on your personal promise to avoid Maths forever...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at N-Europe
The game provides you with other incentives as well. You'll start off with several available activities....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at GameSpy
Brain Age, which uses rapid fire math and memory puzzles, seems like the ultimate novelty game. It even arrives with a proclamation that playing a short time each day can actually train your brain, just like many repetitions of small weight exercises can...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Yahoo! Games
Back to the topic at hand -- what really makes Brain Age impressive is how it manages to keep track of all of your achievements. A slew of elaborate graphs and record saves are what show your progress as you finish each stage, alongside a calendar that...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at HonestGamers
What you're paying for is the structure in which the tasks are presented; challenged to return every day and complete at least one task, Brain Training tracks your progress on each activity and presents this via a handy graph to indicate whether you're...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at TotalVideoGames
Just as the name claims, all this takes between 30-60 minutes a day. Those wanting more can retake the daily challenges again (in both training and quick play), but sadly results won't be saved for later graph viewing. Thankfully, Sudoku doesn't have...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at VGPub
Brain Training isn't even a game. Its premise of requiring the user to carry out a set of tasks every day in order to improve brain functionality sounds a lot like homework. Something I'm far too lazy to do now my terrifying Head of Year isn't a factor....read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Pro-G
Brain Training is loosely based on the work of Professor Ryuta Kawashima of the Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. The professor’s work is mainly in neurology – he wrote the best selling book Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain, which...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at PALGN AU
This is a hard section for me to assess. Brain Age is not about flashy explosions, 3D landscapes or steady framerates. The game is about puzzles for the player to solve in a timely manner. It does not push the hardware of the DS as everything on screen...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Da GameBoyz
Well, not if their love of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is any indication. The first of several IQ tests disguised as games to arrive on our stupid shores, this odd piece of DS code claims that by spending a few minutes every day trying...read the complete Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day review at Game Revolution
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