ProduktrezensionenProfessor Brainium's Games (Nintendo DS, 2008)

Brainium: Nice game(s), strange interface

Amongst the games included in this N.DS title, Go was the one that caught my attention, but the others are a welcome addition to it.

Sudoku: Standard Sudoku (1-9) rules, but the interface isn’t as good as those of the Brain Age games. You don’t have the small number ability to track “possible” numbers for each square. For this, you have to use a little “scratch pad” if you want to use only the DS interface (or break out a pad and pencil). High score table is only a time for the difficulty level, not for each unique puzzle. [2/5]

Mahjongg: Standard left-right open tile matching rules. Common complaint I’m reading is that the interface makes the graphics too small to read the tiles. I have played on all of the difficulty levels and didn’t have any problems reading most of the tiles. The problem I came across was that on some of the tile layouts, the tiles in extreme corner positions are covered by interface controls. For those, the “zoom” (Y button or magnifying glass in the lower right corner) was *required* to see what the tiles were and in some cases even to select. I find the time limit for the medium (5 min) and hard (3:00) a little too aggressive for the interface. [3/5]

Mind Bender: aka Mastermind. Standard color/sequence matching rules of Mastermind and other similar games. The stylus drag of the balls was a nice touch, but I occasionally found myself “dropping” the ball in a position other than I had in mind. The interface does not forgive this, no undo or moving the ball once placed. Green pegs show count correctly selected and placed balls; red pegs count correctly selected and mis-placed balls. [4/5]

Cross Sums: aka Kakuro. Standard row/column addition with no number duplication in same row/column rules. This isn’t one that I’ve seen yet in the N.DS titles at which I’ve looked, so I count that as good. The interface here is similar in constraints to the Sudoku section, but not quite as critical until the hard difficulty. [4/5]

Go: Standard Go (Japanese, I believe) rules. Black moves first, but no komi. Unfortunately, there is no difficulty setting on this one (I would have liked to see this). The AI for this can not be stronger than 18kyu, so it’s fairly easy to beat once you have some concept of shape, life/death, and attack. I do, however, really like the interface they chose for this: Full board on top screen and zoomed section on bottom. Multiple methods of stone placement (control pad and “A” or stylus). The challenge for this one for me is simply “How horribly can I beat the AI?”, but kudos for having Go; haven’t seen enough of it yet for N.DS. [4/5]

Missing option: Ability to reset “high scores”.

Overall presentation of the games and instructions for them is done well, but there are some areas that should have been focused on a little more.Vollständige Rezension lesen...

A thinker, great game.

I am really enjoying this game. Have to stop and think but a great game.

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Very interesting games, but too small graphics

When I received inmediately played and I like the variety of games. my only complain is that the graphics in certain games like mahjong are to small and the pictures in the block are very similar.

Brain Fun

Great game with different games to challenge your brain! Great for adults and kids. Love that it has mulitplayers.

GOOD BRAIN GAME

I HAVE THIS GAME AND BOUGHT IT FOR MY DAUGHTER TOO...SHE LOVES BRAIN GAMES AND TIHS IS A GOOD ONE. I LIKE THE BRAIN GAMES BECAUSE IT KEEPS YOU SHARP AND IF YOUR OLDER LIKE ME, IT KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES. ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO USE IT SO YOU DONT LOOSE IT!!Vollständige Rezension lesen...

Professor Boring

very poor quality game. very boring. The game choices are not good. I bought it for a friend but I would feel dunb giving such an aweful game..