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Difficult but rewarding

Advantages: Daily reward of knowing how clever you are
Disadvantages: Can take a short while to get used to if you don't play a lot with technology

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training is an excellent tool for those who want that bit extra from reading, or want to keep stimulated during boring days. The console itself can be bought second hand from Game shops, with the preference being the Nintendo DS Lite. It looks cute and can play a diverse amount of games (including Gamboy Advance Games - It has another slot beneath). The Brain Training game is excellent and has tools from simple calculations ...
...to setup, you just plug the cartridge into the top of the console and play the game everyday. If you can use a mobile phone you can use one of these. The aim of the game is to achieve the highest score. And in this game the LOWEST your score is the better you achieve. The ultimate score is usually your actual age, though the game tries to see if you can improve it. Overall, a fun and rewarding game in the sense that if you forget how many texts ...

Gamma239 14.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?

A Mass of puzzles for Professor Layton in the Curious Village

Advantages: Great mind bending puzzles
Disadvantages: None really

...it’s up to puzzle mastermind Professor Layton to unravel the mystery! Stretch your grey matter to solve brain-teasers and piece together the clues to uncover St Mystere’s secret... Underneath this there are three images of the game some more writing and three more images of puzzles. Also on the back is the age, an image of a spider, the fact that you can have it in five languages, important information and where it was made and assembled. Inside ...
...Also when you go into Professor Layton’s trunk which is where you save the game you can see what mystery’s you have to solve and read back what you have done in his journal. Also in the trunk is the puzzle index which lets you know what games you have solved and which ones you have quit. There is one mini game in the trunk where you collect items throughout the game when you have correctly solved certain puzzles. Last of all you have two things that ...

bohoangel 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS)

The best brain game for the DS out there for sure!

Advantages: The graphics and fun look to the game
Disadvantages: Not as many puzzles as I would like

There are a lot of brain training games around for the DS but hand on heart this is by far the best one! The graphics and music make the game more fun that the original brain games and fun for the whole family. Although there isn't very many games to play the games are much better than on other brain games. The first thing you'll see is the homeroom which is where the game begins. Register your name and you're good to go. You can plays the games ...
...a good idea until you've mastered a few of them) or play them in test mode which is a test of a few games and will give you a grade at the end. There's also a Versus mode for play multiplayer where you can connect 2 DS consoles wirelessly in the same room and play against each other. There are 5 cateogories with 3 games in each - Think, Memorise, Analyse, Compute and Identify. Each game in practice mode you should aim to get a gold medal in - it ...

emmajt81 13.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Big Brain Academy (Nintendo DS)

Play puzzles on the move - Puzzler Collection for the Nintendo DS

Advantages: Well presented and easy to pick up to play a quick puzzle
Disadvantages: Could do with a wider range of puzzles, touch screen sometimes frustrating

...for the Nintendo DS game, Puzzler Collection, developed and published by Destination Software. Puzzler Collection consists of four sub games, crosswords, word search, fitword and sudoku. There are lots of options in this game, which is based around the four different sub games. In the crossword mode, there are general knowledge and specialist crosswords to work through. There is the traditional word search where you find words in a straight line, ...
...of the puzzles from the Puzzler Magazine, which this game is based around, aren't available. Some more different challenges, even if they were occasional, would have been a valuable addition to this game. The controls in the game are good, primarily using the touch screen and the stylus as the input method. This is occasionally frustrating when you can't get the stylus to select the words or selections that you wanted to, but is much more frustrating ...

julwhite 05.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Puzzler Collection (Nintendo DS)

Professor Kageyama's Maths Training

Advantages: Gameplay, graphics
Disadvantages: Sound, more multiplayer options

...be fun then just buy Professor Kageyma's Maths Training! GAMEPLAY You create a user account, (up to three) and then you can take a Daily Test, practice the exercises or use the Kageyama Method. DAILY TEST Here is where you will do your daily test, if you have 5 good days on a level (e.g. Level 1), you'll advance to the next level! KAGEYAMA METHOD This is Professor Kageyma's special Math method. You get given a grid with some numbers going vertically ...
...quite often. LONGEVITY Professor Kageyama's Maths Training will last you about 4-5 weeks before you've fully improved your Maths through this method. VALUE FOR MONEY You can buy this game from Argos for £19.59. I'd buy it for £14.99, but if you're finding Maths really hard and want to do it the fun way, buy it now! DIFFICULTY I find this game neither too hard, and neither too easy. MULTIPLAYER The only option for multiplayer is doing the Kageyama ...

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Review of Professor Kageyama's Maths Training (Nintendo DS)