Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
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Video Game Reviews of Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
Customer Review: A Christmas Present
Summary: 3 Stars
We bought this as a Christmas present. I thought at first it was going to be fun for my 13 year old girl. She always loved her mind to be challenged. Well after about a month later it sits on the shelf collecting dust. I guess her wants were bigger than the she thought.Customer Review: okay but nothing great
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this game because I like doing puzzles and such to keep my brain stimulated. The game package in this game was disappointing. having to continually press "more" to get through ad nauseum directions before playing something as simple as sudoku is very frustrating. There should be a separate instructions button you can push for the first time users. You can't even reset the game, you have to go back to the beginning and go through all the instructions again. The running man game is extremely boring and lame. The rock, scissors, paper game is aggravating. While the word jumbles are okay, there's a very limited vocabulary and you start seeing the same words over and over. The symbols game is easy. The sudokus are very easy. The only one that was fun for me was the music game, mainly because I'm into music. If you are using this to "improve your brain age" as the game touts, you will likely be disappointed. Most of the games are so easy that improvement is hard to see. The symbols game I can do in less than a minute and I swear it takes that long just for the game to negotiate the window and for you to write the symbols and it to recognize what you've written. As well, there are problems with it recognizing numbers and letters that you write. I have problems with it recognizing my 4's. It would think they were 2's. And when I'd write an "I", it would think "L". As a result, your times increase as you have to find a way to correct it, and therefore, your "brain age" goes down. And if you miss that it didn't recognize something, it becomes an error and you get docked time. I don't have the first Brain Age, but if this game is an improvement over the first one, it still has many more bugs to work through before I'd recommend it to anyone other than a younger person or maybe someone who doesn't do puzzles regularly.Customer Review: I realize I'm in the minority here, but ...
Summary: 3 Stars
... I really didn't care for this all that much. A few of the games are kind of fun, but it's not enough to turn me into a fan.
My first issue with Brain Age 2 is the first challenge: it guides you to use "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to assess brain age. That's all well and good if you know how to play the game, but I've never played it in my life (I'm no youngster, either). Maybe it just wasn't popular where I grew up -- I don't know. But I had no idea how to play it. You start the program, it asks you if you are in a place where you can speak without telling you what's ahead, you say "yes," and there you are in the middle of "Rock, Paper, Scissors." And no where do they give you the rules, either in the program itself or in the instruction/info booklet. How am I supposed to know what it takes to "win" or "lose" if I've never played and don't know the rules? I mean, they give me "rock" and "win" or "scissors" and "lose," and I'm supposed to respond ... how???? It's not like the game actually makes any sense (I did finally go to wiki to see how it's played -- paper is stronger than rock? ?? that makes NO sense at all.) So that turned me off. I learned from that always to answer "NO" to the question about if I'm somewhere I can speak.
Next, the little cartoon "Dr. K" guy is annoying. I mean REALLY annoying. Oh, not at first -- but deal with this guy for 4 days straight and his "humor" starts grating. Miss a day and you get a scolding. Getting the same "brain tips" day after day is getting really old, too.
I enjoy the Piano Player challenge, the Change Maker challenge, and the "sign" challenge. That's about all. And I can't imagine that playing these once a day will do anything to increase my brain power which, according to my first score based on my pitiful performance with RockPaperScissors, is realllly old. (In all fairness, when I took the "alternate" brain age assessment tests, I did much better, but still ... )
Word Blend seems to test your hearing more than your brain power: you hear two words pronounced simultaneously, and you're asked to write in both words given one or two letters. I tried this with and without earphones, and found no difference in my ability to discern two separate words from the mumble presented.
Anyway, if you like disembodied heads bobbing around making faces, and games that are a mixed bag in terms of enjoyment, you might like Brain Age 2. If not, you might want to look elsewhere.
Customer Review: If you own a DS, then you should own this game too!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've got to recommend this game because it tells me not only am I younger than my birth certificate, I am younger than my teenage son (his first test humbled him with a brain age of 74)! The whole family will have fun this one. You also can link up and play a pictionary type game, and share acrostics. Enjoy!Customer Review: LAME!
Summary: 2 Stars
When I first got my DS this game was part of the present. I was really excited because I wanted a DS more for NYT crosswords and the like so I thought this would be perfect. Ugh! Not so. This game is pretty boring. There aren't that many "tests" and you can only record your scores once a day! You CAN play the tests over again to "train" but puzzles like word jumble (that's not the exact name of the test) stay the same until the next day so there is no real challenge.
There is a sudoku game in addition to all of the fake brain tests but that can only hold me for so long. I'm the kind of person that likes addictive games. The kind of games that when you close your eyes to go to sleep you are still playing it in your head. Brain Age 2 can only really be played 15 mins tops a day.
Since I bought other games Brain Age has been sitting in the corner collecting dust. Good thing I didn't pay for it.