Good whilst it lasted (Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (DS))

Member Name: Laurenashley86

Product:	Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (DS)
Date:	19/08/09 (10 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: More than one player can play

Disadvantages: Voice Recognition

This became very addictive for a while especially if you are a competetive person like me. I constantly wanted to beat my current age. Can also be a little degrading though and make you feel a little thick.

The game consists of various different games and the speaking one in particular was not very good. The recognition of voices is very bad (maybe this is just my accent) and i couldnt get it to work no matter how i pronounced the words there would always be one or two that it would not recognise.

Games include speed maths (completing various sums at the fastest speed), counting (counting how many people go in and out of a house at speed, very difficult), word memory (2 pages of words are shown on the screen and then you have to memorise as many as you can in 2 minutes and relay them back for a higher score), colour, number and movement recognition (this involves counting how many of each colour, number, sliding etc items are going across the screen, sounds easy but its very hard)

The game is easy to use however the recognition of certain letters and voices isnt great. This can mean that what you actually saying or writing doesnt come out well on the game and can make you lose points.

After time i have become very bored of it but it was fun whilst it lasted and my whole family got involved competing with one another. There is only a few spaces to do this however so one game would not be suitable for a large family.

We definately got our moneys worth out of this game. If the game is going to be used by the whole family i would say that it is very worth about £20-£25 for the game. However if it was just for myself i would not pay more than £10.

Summary: Worth the buy in the long run