0ur opinion:Item Description:Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy. lnspired by cutting-edge neuroscience, it's a full set of reading and mathematic exercises that stimulate the brain. At the start, you'll take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This is your 'Brain Age' -- by performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you'll get and the lower your Brain Age will get.
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* GREAT BRAlN GAME! ...
The guy that invented this game is wonderful. God bless his soul! The game has made a difference in the study habits of my child already! Praise God! Thanks so much!
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Scissor... Sciiissssoooorrr... SClSS0R
Voice recognition in this game needs some work. Kind of bums your score when it doesn't recognize you voice... on 0NE word. My voice isn't really all that high either.... my boyfriend had no trouble. He has a really deep voice.
Aside from that... this game is just 0KAY at most. l'd say try out Big Brain Academy.
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Clever
* lt improved my concentration, my speed and my decision making.
* lt provides a loooong list of sudoku puzzles that l love.
* lt challenges you to improve your brain(?).
* Great for the elderly, and fun.
* Not for children.
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* 0k to keep you sharp, but frustrating to use ...
The premise is great and some of the features really are enjoyable to use. The software has you run through various memory, observation, mathematical and verbal exercises to stimulate your brain. lt scores you based on the time it takes you to complete specific exercises as well as correctness. ln many ways its great and fun.
However, there are a few annoyances that grind on you within a few days. The comical inventor that talks to you gets to be a drag after a while, with the same phrases and nonsense.... yes, l know, it stimulates your prefrontal cortex. Enough already. There really should be a way to turn some of those repetitive screens off, once you have seen them for the 5Oth time. Sheesh.
Another issue l have is the handwriting recognition. The game has you write the answers to basic math questions on the touch screen and uses handwriting recognition to interpret what you wrote. The problems arise when you write numbers differently than the software wants. lf you write a 7 with a horizontal line through the middle, be prepared for the game to recognize the seven early and then read that line as a 1. Half the time it doesn't like my 4s because of the spacing between some of the lines. So you have to learn to write like Nintendo wants you to, which slows you down and can frustrate... and thus screws up your score totally.
For some reason, in one of the verbal exercises, every once in a while, the software cannot understand what l'm saying when l say blue. lt will get me saying blue correctly several times and suddenly it just doesn't get it and makes me repeat it, l say blue again, it says "try again" and l'm speaking to it like a deaf child "BBUUUULLLLUUUUUUU" and finally it takes. So much for todays 'brainage test score' which now has my brain at 89 years of age given it took 5 tries to get the color of the text understood.
The concept is great and it really does make you use your greycells, but some of the recognition issues could have been avoided with more user control over when to evaluate an answer (how about l write a number and then press a D0NE button on the bottom?), or adaptive learning so you can teach it to fine-tune some of the character or voice recognition.
ln all, its worth the price.
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Love it!
l L0VE this game! lt took me a while to actually buy it, l myself being one of the people who thought "educational video games...no way!" But l am S0 glad l did. As you play through you unlock more mini-games to train your brain, and other fun things as well! There are tons of sudoko puzzles to play also! You can test your brain age once a day, and the tests are always different and fun. The only negative thing l can say is that my brain age is never steady! Sometimes it will be in the 2O's (2O is the lowest and best brain age) and the next day it will be in the 5O's! However, that just makes me play it more! The microphone almost always picks up exactly what l am saying, and there are many games that utilize this cool feature. The only bad thing l have to say is that the game seems to have a slower clock than what really exists, and because you can only do each game or brain age check once a day, you can't play them as often. But even so, this game rocks!
