Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 60
Binding: Video Game
Brand: UBI Soft
EAN: 0008888163749
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: 43 unique games in 7 categories to keep your brain engaged in a variety of different
Label: UBI Soft
Manufacturer: UBI Soft
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publisher: UBI Soft
Release Date: 2008-01-09
Studio: UBI Soft
MPN: 16374

• 43 unique games in 7 categories to keep your brain engaged in a variety of different
• Stress Temperature mode tests your brain's abilities under unusual conditions.
• 3 levels of difficulty featuring different game features.
• Brain Percentage Usage is tracked via a scoring system that monitors the accuracy and
• Choose from 2 Coaches who will advise, guide, and interact with you.

An entertaining brain training program, ?Brain Challenge? boosts brain activity and helps players develop stress-management skills thanks to a wide variety of games. A personal coach helps players develop their abilities in several areas of cognitive function, including logic, math, memory and visual thinking, in a fun and entertaining way. ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Some glitches and moody coaches...
Comment: I've owned Brain Challenge for a couple of weeks, and I do enjoy the games, especially the daily brain and stress tests. However, the game does make mistakes occasionally (for example 3x3... you write 9 and it marks it wrong and says 32) which can be frustrating, especially since the coaches cop an attitude if you don't maintain good scores. There are also mistakes in the format of the coaches' brain questions... she'll ask you something that she's never asked you before, and then she gets mad when you get it wrong. I think the creators of this game may have been a little [...] because my coach will say things like "This is not a very good score", and if you get a question wrong, "Have you been listening to anything I said?" She scares me a little more than my TA in Biology, and I can only hope that when a new Brain Age comes out it will be on mood stabilizers. I don't need a DS game to judge me.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great game, but coaches stink
Comment: I, like many who have purchased this game, also have played the Brain Age 1 & 2, Flash Focus, and other similar games. I will agree with the others and say that it does have the best variety, and best graphics.

The only thing that I really don't care for is the attitude of the coaches. In the Brain Age games, if you have an off day, your coach has an "It's okay, you're just having an off day, you'll do better tomorrow" kind of attitude. This game, the coaches have a "What's wrong with you?!" response to an off day. All I can think is how much that would suck if the person playing is sensitive to criticism. I'm against putting people down to help them improve. So a word to the sensitive people, if you are going to buy this game, skip past coach comments.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I have a LONG way to go on this game. Yikes :(
Comment: I just got my first hand held video game unit the Nintendo DS lite. I got this as my first of two games. I took the brain test and was very shocked at my brain age. I have work to do.

The game is fun and challenging for me. Some exercises are very difficult to do. I have read so much on how important it is to exercise your brain and work with eye hand coordination as we age. I thought this was a luxury item that on a fixed income I should not get. WRONG.
Now I condiser it physical therapy and a medical need.

They test you then give you a work out. You see your scores and are praised or told you need to work harder.

I highly recommend the game for the medical value and it is just plain FUN.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What happens after "100 %" Brain Usage"?
Comment: I downloaded this for my ipod. I like it, I play it right before bed. I felt that it was a bit too easy to reach 100% and when I did, nothing happened. I continue to do the tests just for fun and my score is always 100% now. It is weird because I feel I don't know if the game is "over". I figured that once one made it to that mark, a "new rank" would be achieved. I don't know. I would like it if the company and/ or game itself said "great job, smartie, go play something else now"... or "hey dummy, we tricked you. this goes up to 1000%". Maybe one is supposed to score all "A plusses" in all the training games/ levels to beat the game...? Aside from that, I like the game. It is even more fun to play not half asleep with one eye closed! I like it just as much as 'Big Brain Academy' on the Wii. I have never played 'Brain Age'.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good game with annoying traits
Comment: The game is better than Brain Age (IMO) due to the large variety of challenges that it presents. However, it has the following highly annoying traits:

- The alarms when the time is about to end: all this does for me is stress me out and makes me miss the last few questions. Running the DS on mute helps for sure.

- The theme music: I haven't found a way to turn this off. It keeps going on and on while one is browsing the menus. Running on mute helps here too.

- The sanctimonious advice: I don't need some animated dumb bell to tell me how to live my life. I (by necessity) practice late at night and the tiresome repetitive advice about my late bedtime really sucks.

- The animation at the start of the game: There seems to be no way to skip the game maker's stupid logo animation every frikking time one starts playing. This wastes about a minute *every* time - highly annoying. I fear that one day I might stab my stylus all the way through my DS due to this stupid trait.

You can see that the above annoyances are really ruining my enjoyment of this otherwise excellent game. I really enjoy the tests and the practice but the annoyances above are just infuriating.

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