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Not worth it, and pretty boring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know why people gave this game good reviews. Could it be that they are involved some way with this game?? The creators?? We found this game to be pretty boring. It is no where as fun as Brain Age. How can they compare it to that? Not even close! You don't get very much for this cartridge at all. I guess that's why it was only $15.99 compared to a Mario Cartrige that is over $30.

Mediocre Passtime

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Flash Focus about a month ago and have moderately enjoyed playing it. It seems very geared toward athletic types (of which I am not) and is definitely not the same as the other "exercise your mind" game that Nintendo has.
I do enjoy playing it, not as much as Brain Age 1 & 2, but enough. I give it three stars only because as a non-sports person, I think it could have more activities that aren't so sports related.

Like Brain Age for the eyes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 24 / 25
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you've played Brain Age, you'll know what to expect from this game. It's somewhat fun. Doesn't take long at all to do the exercises. Seems it's more of an observance teacher than something to improve eyesight.

Kills time...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 23 / 27
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know if it really "trains your eyes" that being said... it's fun. That's all that should matter when you buy a game anyway, right? It's great when you have a few minutes and nothing to do. What's nice about it is that, like the BrainAge games, it is "ageless". I'm a 21 year old female and I was never really a "gammer" but the DS brought me into it... this game is enjoyable but I think that it would also work for younger ages too. It doesn't have the rpg thing that many people are looking for so it might not work for some for that reason. I only took off a star for the fact that certain things get a little tedious. (Why can't you "skip" the lessons for example?... you can FF but only page at a time) If you like BrainAge you'll like this.

Practical but Needs a Facelift

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 28 / 29
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Flash Focus is an eye-training game which helps you improve your peripheral vision, eye reaction time and other eye related functions. It is similar to many actual eye-training exercises used by optometrists.

Set up much like the Brain Age series, each player creates a profile. There are daily activities you perform to improve your skills, and then you do a series of tests to determine your "eye age". Your aim is to hit 20 years old, representing a young, healthy pair of eyes.

The tests cover a range of eye activities. There is the peripheral vision test, where you focus on a central spot but have to see the items around that. There are quick moving tests where you have to track a fast-moving object and remember where it ends up. There are reflex type activities where you stylus-click on objects, hit a moving baseball, swat at a ping pong ball. The more activities you work through, the more training session styles you unlock.

I definitely see the value of these activities, and like that it tracks your progress over time. However, I have the same complaint with this game as I do with Brain Age - and you would think that by now they would have fixed these issues.

First, the "discussion" involved with each game is maddeningly repetitive and annoying. You have to page through every single prompt. Surely by now they should have a "discussion off" option in the options menu!

Next, when they kick you up to hard, you don't get any credit in the tracking system. So if you go from easy games to hard games, and don't do 100% on the hard games, they berate you for being less good even though you are now MORE good, i.e. beating harder tests. If the point of the game is to improve your skill and to be tracked in that improvement, they should track it properly.

Finally, I am all for concentrating on the main task at hand, but some of the graphics here really could use a designer's touch. Remember, this is a VISION game!! The whole point is how things look! I think about how gorgeous Plankton looked, and that game was a very simple game. Just a basic overhaul like that could move this game from looking like it was made by 3rd graders to making it a game that's a true visual feast. They just didn't bother.

Well recommended for its practical eye enhancement features - but I really hope someday that a person with a clue about game design takes over the Brain Age group and overhauls these games with some basic but much needed upgrades.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, if you like Brain Academy and these types of games. My 7 year old son loves the sport games. It is a great visual training. I like to play those games on trips but even at home I play it now. Would buy it again.

good for your brain and vision therapy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My husband is an optometrist who does vision therapy. These games are similar to some of the things he would have patients do to increase their focusing ability. These games are fun and on top of that will help with focus, reading comprehension and even hand eye coordination. Might as well improve yourself while having fun.

This game really works!(?)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had 20/20 vision all my life and still do, but have needed reading glasses since turning 40 (I'm 45 now). What a pain having to take them out to read things like dosing instructions or cooking directions on packaged foods. After three days of doing all the exercises in this game, I can read fairly small print without the glasses! What a wonderful game!

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When it comes to games about memory, none of them have shined brighter on any other system than the Nintendo DS. After the mammoth success of puzzle and mind games like Big Brain Academy, and Brain Age and its sequel, there have been many games that have been knockoffs that just haven't shined as vividly. Nevertheless, that hasn't stopped the people who've developed Brain Age, Touch Generations, from expanding the gameplay that Brain Age that appears to be strong to the eyes. Well, they've done it again, and it shows how fast can your sight be in your mind to catch it.

Flash Focus: Vision Training In Minutes A Day, brings the success of Brain Age, in a more visual sense. The game includes many training exercises that focus in on accuracy and timing, rather than how much your brain weighs and age. There are many mini-game exercises here that work to the test, including sports games like table tennis, soccer, baseball and football. But, it isn't just about sports at all alone here, the game also shows how fast you can memorize patterns, and sight. The graphics look good but the gameplay is just as addictive as we've seen before. Sadly, the game doesn't do enough to seperate itself from others, with a lack of multiplayer gameplay, but the game does test your sight well.

All in all, Flash Focus: Vision Training In Minutes A Day isn't a bad purchase for the Nintendo DS. The gameplay is a test of how well wew see things and observe more than meets the eye. If you've played Brain Age, you'll definitely want to add Flash Focus in as a part of your video game library.

Graphics: B

Sound: C+

Control: B 1/2+

Fun & Enjoyment: B-

Overall: B 1/2-

It's not easy!!! But I think the training pays off!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this is like a "Brain Age" for the eyes. That said, it is NOT easy albeit pretty darn accurate at least for this reviewer as it has my age right around the right neighboorhood (between 39 - 45 when my real age is 40).

Nevertheless, a good workout and I do think it is effective in training the eyes to work a little faster. After having played this over a few months, I discover myself performing better on some of the minigames in both Brain Age (low to high) and Big Brain Academy (the number memorizing game under "memory").

My only complaint (and this is only my opinoin): The new eye age check is based on the last eye age check. If a player did well on a previous eye check, the next eye check will add more difficulty. That difficulty may not necessarily be surpassed yet then the game will report that the player had results that "dropped dramatically" when the reason for the drop may be in the increased difficulty level and not necessarily in the skill. That can be misleading and can give a blow to a player's confidence level. It would be interesting to know statistically how the score is generated.

Nevertheless, with both mundane activities as well as sports activities and explanations as to how certain skills may be beneficial in certain sporting events, the game is very well done. Stick with it and don't let the game get you down if you don't perform quite as well one time than another. There are multiple factors that tie in including a player's baseline fatigue, the lighting, the time of day, et cetera.

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