Big Brain Academy (Nintendo DS) > Reviews

Advantages: Keeps your best score and tests you on different aspects of intelligence.
Disadvantages: Not sure how to play it with other ds users yet.

I bought this game about a month after I bought Dr Kawashima's Brain Training. I love both games. While the "Brain Training" graphics make it perhaps more appealing to adults, the "Brain Academy" seems a lot more appealing for children. However this is still a fantastic game for adults. One of the main features I love about the Brain Academy (compared to Brain Training) is that your best score is always saved! This means I am quite happy to test myself ... Read review

Advantages: Fun sounds and graphics, lots of exercises to try
Disadvantages: Limited lifespan once got high grade on Test

...games that were released, so Big Brain Academy caught my eye. It is just like brain training, but is aimed at a younger audience as it makes use of more colourful graphics and animated characters as well as chirpy music. This game doesn't take itself too seriously, yet you can feel yourself thinking as you play it and you know you are giving your brain a workout. There are two sections to the game. One is a Test, where you are graded at the end ... Read review

Advantages: You don't need to read to be able to grow that brain! Fun for all the family!
Disadvantages: You can't set up visitor profiles - only permanent academy members can play

At last, a computer game even I enjoy (a 42 year old mum of 2!). We bought a Nintendo DS for my daughter to play with on long car journeys and this game came as an option to add to the package. It's really easy to set up and you simply follow the on-screen instructions to create your personal profile ready to get going, helped along the way by the be-spectacled cartoon character "Dr Lobe"! A maximum of four people can be set up as permanent ... Read review

Advantages: some good categories and will test your brain
Disadvantages: becomes a little boring but still fun game to own

...test your brain out on Big Brain Academy! This game will test your brain and give you a grade! Train your brain in five different categories at the big brain academy!. These are the 5 categories in the game: Analysis Computing Think Memorize Identify You can also play versus if another friend has a ds you can play head to head against each other to see which one is smarter. You can then go ont the Test mode. It will pick one random ... Read review

Advantages: A great collection of addictive mini games
Disadvantages: none really

This was the first game I played on the DS. My girlfriend's parents had purchased a DS and this game and let us have a go on it. I was immediately impressed with the game and even after a short amount of use, I could feel I have been using my brain, that sort of non specific tingling feeling in your head like lots of blood is flowing round your braing cogs. My first attempts on some of very varied minigames were not that great but after practicing ... Read review

Advantages: fun, keeps your interest.
Disadvantages: music is a little annoying, less sophiticated than some other versions.

THis game is designed to keep your brain active via training sessions and measure how \'Big\' your brain is via a test. The game has five areas that can be trained, compute, identify, think, memorise and analyse and eachCategory has 3 different games with three difficulty level so there is quite a lot to keep it interesting. What I liked about this game was when you test yourself they test you on every area, so the result is more rounded than on ... Read review

Advantages: Funny people
Disadvantages: Get boring very quickly

Big Brain Academy is a bit like a school for your brain! The game is rated 3+ but I would give it 7+, It is quite easy to understand after you have played it a couple of times and it then starts getting a bit boring...but if you have a friend with a Nintendo DS you can play Big Brain Academy with them too so it's much more fun playing it that way because if you just try and beat your high score every time you just want to put it down in the next 10 ... Read review

Advantages: Suitable for all ages, starts simple but gets harder!!
Disadvantages:

...with my sister who had Big Brain Academy and discovered the fun of sharing this game over two DS's. Got home and bought this one for myself. I won't go into details of the game as that's covered by other reviews. This game is more versatile than the Brain Training (though that is great too). More appealing to the wide range of ages in our family and great fun playing against each other. Have rated difficulty as average - start levels great for ... Read review

Advantages: great fun
Disadvantages: none

'Big brain acadamy' is great fun for all ages. You have different skills sections such as memorize, compute and identify. It has good games on here to make your memory better and you brain thinking level and reaction faster. When you take a test you do one test from each of the five sections to test all of your abillities. After you have compleated you get a grade from A+ all the way down to F- and you get a comment of what proffesion your brain is ... Read review