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Great game accept for one thing......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My daughter just turned 4 and got a Nintendo DS as a gift. Of course I now had to go and buy her some games. Since her handheld game skills are not developed yet I had to find a game that had her using the stylus. Since these games don't come cheep I had to know what I was buying. After a ton of research I found this one and deceided to give it a try. WOW...we were BOTH hooked. This is not one of those games that take a few days to win. I can see her growing up with it. A few of the games were to hard for her to understand. But since each game had a level setting (easy,medium,hard) she can play all but 3. When your playing each game it adjust to your level.
Example...both my daughter and I set our games on easy. I wanted to see how difficut it was going to be for her. Since it took her more time to answer the questions the each question were at her level. I played the same games (on easy) and since I answered the questions more quickly the level of difficultness jumped. After playing a game, if you have a brain weight of over 50 you get a Bronze medal. Even when the game was set on easy for me I couldn't get the gold medal all the time. Getting the medal is pretty cool, my daughter feels so proud every time she gets one, she's all smiles. Usually when it comes to playing games she wants to give up when things get too hard. With getting the medals she tells me "Mommy, I want to try again and get the coin". This game is great for kids and adults.
Now why did I give it 4 stars if I liked it so much. Well...There is one game where you have to sort though shapes to make fit in a "shadow" picture. While I was playing it there was a house, an arrow and the next thing I know there's a HAND GUN. Iknow...I know... guns are everywhere in kids games. But...this gun threw me off guard.
Overall the game is great. I just wish that gun wasn't there.

Brilliant!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is Nintendo's second "brain-training" title. I personally enjoy it more than Brain Age. I just like how it's so colorful and the atmosphere is more fun than Brain Age. You have everything it has to offer open to you from the beginning. Versus is the strongest point of this game, it's way fun if you get more than two people!

Brain Training.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There's no playing around when it comes to "training" your brain. The test mode offers a ton of different combinations of games you can play, with each test starting out relatively easy and quickly ramping up the difficulty as the questions progress.

There's also the "practice" mode, which lends itself nicely to the whole "pick up and play" school of handheld gaming.

I do wish there were some sort of tracking system. The only view of your progress is the high score. Brain Age's graph system would have been a welcome addition.

Challenging for young and old.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 7 year old daughter does struggle on some of the problems but she has managed to get bronze medals in every category and level. I also like to play and i do find some of the hard levels quite challenging.

LOVE THE GAME & IS A CHALLENGE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THE GAME HAS MANY CHALLENGES AND DIFFERENT LEVELS. IT'S A GREAT GAME TO MAKE YOU THINK. YOU USE PLAIN COMMON SENSE ON SOME AND OTHERS YOU HAVE TO GIVE MORE THOUGHT ON. IT IS A GAME FOR ANY YOUNG SCHOOL AGE CHILD TO ADULT. I'M 47 AND IT MAKES ME THINK BUT I REALLY ENJOY IT AND RECOMMEND IT FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES GAMES.

Challenging, Stimulating

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son recommended I get Nintendo DS and Big Brain Academy as a way for aging mom's (me) to ward off dementia down the road. I don't know if it'll fill the bill in that regard but I'm having a ball playing it. It's challenging and fun. Since getting the game I've noticed my performance is better at different times of the day. And I thought these hand held electronic games were just for kids!!!

Wow, wish all sequals were like this

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Though technically not a true sequel, Big Brain Academy is another strong game to test your mind. The game is unlike Brain Age in several ways. Instead of doing short, fast actions like simple math, you do all kinds of puzzles and other stuff. THe art style is alot different. Instead of the campy doctor's lobby look, the relaxed, cool look, Big Brain Academy goes for a cartoon style, with kid drawings, and a Mr. Peanut shaped worm. Big Brain Academy is a slower game, and the challegnes are based on memory and other things, as opposed to the fast thinking in Brain Age that stimulates more than makes you think.

Big Brain Academy does not measure how old your brain is, instead, it tells you how much your brain ways, and the heavier your brain is, the smarter you are. The premise is different than Brain Age as well, but instead of comparing, just read my review of Brain Age when I write it, and do the comparing yourselves (hey, I'm just a college student).

Basically, you have three modes, and you can have up to five seperate files for five seperate people. YOu can do a test that tests you on five seperate catergories supposly for the brain. These are things that involve counting math cubes, drawing lines on shapes, mapping where the dog has a bone, and other random stuff. You can do this as many times as you want, and you can also practice any event you like. It sounds like a real pain in the butt, and really sounds like the last game you would want to play. However though, the game proves that it's a great game, and passes the most important test, and it passes with flying colors. The test would in fact, be, the game is wicked fun. I hate math, but for some reason, counting coins, contrasting weights, and other stuff that normally are mudane tasks in life, become strangly, very fun. That's the best part, this game is fast, frantic, and fun. This is most important, and I really think that you should get it. DOn't listen to anybody who bashes it because of math, if you think math is fun, tell people. Don't be a sucker to sterotypes. So try this game, and it really is worth it.

As for the whole "makes you smarter" hype, I am not sure I truely believe it, but I do think it makes our brain's in better shape, that it makes it work better. And besides, doing math has never, and never will be, more fun. With the price, you should get it, and it will be a game that you will be coming back to...unless you have the brain of Stephen Hawking (and you don't).

Great Learning Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after the other brain game I have started getting boring. This game is much more fun. There are I think 15 different games to test your brain in this game and they are all fun and challenging. I highly recommend this game if you are interested in challenging your brain and competing against yourself.

More challenging than you might think.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not just for the kids. This game provides an adequate challenge to all ages. The trick is just to get the hang of it and use your smarts. I highly enjoyed it.

Fun and Educational.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I found Big Brain Academy to be much better than Brain Age. (There were a lot of small flaws in Brain Age that made me want to throw it across the room.)

-There are a wide variety of puzzles and games.
-You can improve your score as many times as you want in one day.
-Each game has the option of being easy or difficult, so even when you master the easy levels you can still be challenged.

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