Video Games : Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo DS)

Rating: - MUST BUY!
This game is mint! I got it for my birthday and thought it would be easy but actually it's great fun and I get a few questions wrong! It's great fun and helps you learn how to read, draw, solve puzzles and learn answers
to questions. I'm not going to tell you what games you can play on it, so you'll have to buy it and find out yourself! Hope you'll enjoy your new game or at least think about getting it! Hannah 8 years.

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Rating: - It doesn't understand me!
Like another reviewer has said, when I say Blue, it doesn't recognise it everytime, he struggled with his Red, and like another reviewer said, as it doesn't pick up what your verbal answer is straight away, it doesn't give an accurate "brain age", but, this in turn makes you work harder to get it improved, and shouting can help you but not your "brain age"! worth perservering though - first electronic game I've ever had and I'm nearing 40 - hope for everyone

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Rating: - Work out for the grey matter
I gotta tell you I love this game. It puts fun into maths, it's very clever, and it does actually encourage you to give your brain a bit of a workout instead of sticking the telly on straight away. It's also easy to use with simple instructions.

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Rating: - Poor design in critical area.
I bought this after reading all of the hype but I find it to be of little use because the task which measures your brain age does not work for me. I would have thought the machine could tell the difference between the spoken words, blue, red, yellow and black with ease but it fails to recognise me when I say red. Perhaps because as a Scot I roll my "R's" No matter how hard I try I always get at least 25% failure rate on the word red which means I will never get an accurate brain age, and therefore the system is useless to me. I did contact the maker but they offered no help at all. Maybe they should replace red with pink.

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Rating: - Good in theory, mediocre in practice
Although I enjoy doing the puzzles, there are certain aspects of the games that render them pointless. The prog does not recognise writing consistently, (4 and 9 are often mistaken for each other), speed counting and reading are pointless exercises and you could be talking gobbledygook and it would still give you a score. It often does not recognise speech, shouting sometimes helps, but I do feel very frustrated when I have spent the time doing the games just to be sent down to the bottom of the graph because of software failure.