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Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $17.98
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Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 65
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Puzzle Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPANME
UPC: 045496739010
EAN: 0045496739010
ASIN: B000QUYHIK
Release Date: August 20, 2007
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| Features:
| • | New Activities! The title is a series of minigames designed to give your brain a workout. The 17 new, engaging activities are all designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you're playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you'll love your new mental workout! | | • | Keep training! When you start a new game, you will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old your brain is. This number is called your Brain Age. With daily training over weeks and months, you can improve your mental acuity and lower your Brain Age. Progress is charted in graph form. | | • | Expanded multiplayer! You can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows you to compete in a picture-drawing quiz or a word challenge with family and friends. You can also use DS Download Play to send a demo to friends or compete with up to 16 players in one of four fun modes. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Great Brain Training for All Ages August 28, 2007
Lisa Shea
139 out of 143 found this review helpful
The first Brain Age on the Nintendo DS spawned a whole generation of brain training games. Now they're back with Brain Age 2 - and I really feel they did a great job of enhancing the game's functionality!
First, the infamous "voice test". In Brain Age 1, it was the classic see-a-colored-word-say-the-color game that so many magazines and websites print. The big problem there was that blue and black always got confused. With this one, they changed it to rock-paper-scizzors. It's just as challenging, and we've never had any problems with it understanding us. Hurrah!
Next, the mini-games. I appreciated the challenge of the Brain Age 1 games, but they were pretty boring. They just weren't much fun to play, especially compared to some of the other games on the market.
They did a great job of revamping the games in Brain Age 2. Some of them are still on the boring side, like the 'running people' game where you try to figure out what place the dark player comes in. Most of them, though, are truly fun to play. The spinning letters game where you try to figure out what word they spell can be quite challenging. I love the piano game where you try to play along with the song.
There are the usual graphing options, so you can see your progress over time, and then the "brain age" with an ideal age of 20. Just like with the first game, I have to protest that it's a silly idea that your brain is best at 20. Your brain can easily be very slow at 20 and much better at 30! They should rate it as a 0% to 100%, rather than pushing this idea that youth is best. What's next, a diet program that gets you to weigh the weight of an "ideal 20 year old"?
Still, it is certainly valid that the more you use your brain, the better it gets. Everyone needs to keep their brains exercised and fresh. Playing this game is far better than sitting back and passively watching TV all night. Best of all, you can bring this along with you and increase your brain power while you ride the bus, wait in line, and do other boring tasks!
Highly recommended!
Addictive November 22, 2007
Christopher M. Fulton (Streator, IL United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is as addictive as the first. It is an easy way to challenge yourself without feeling like you're actually doing anything. I've had my family sit down with this and not want to give me my DS back because they are having too much fun playing this. Plus you may sharpen your memory a little. I don't know whether or not this actually works, but it's a load of fun.
Better Than The First! August 24, 2007
Jenni (M.C., IN)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Brain Age 2 has so many more exercises than the first one. There is a little problem with voice recognition in Paper, Rocks, Scissors- but don't let that stop you from getting it. There are still many, many more games to play. What I really like is that it has it's own version of Dr. Mario! If you click on "training" and scroll down to the last "???" block and click on it...you will find VIRUS BUSTER!!! That alone is worth 20.00! Get this game, it is good!
Let's call this brain age "squared"! October 2, 2007
Michaele L. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just a little humor there - look at the package, the two is a superscript so I like to call it Brain Age squared!
At any rate, this is a wonderful addition to the original Brain Age with some more brain sharpening tools. The same explanation is there at the beginning, i.e. the one where the host presents pictures of MRI images of the brain at "idle", while figuring out a difficult math problem and while reading or working simple problems. It's worth noting that the brain working simple math problems or reading aloud demonstrated more activity on the MRI scans. That said, working out the brain does not have to be difficult or super frustrating and can indeed be fun.
There are some clever additions such as identifying which mathematical symbol belongs in an equation. Again, these are not difficult problems and the goal is to recognize what symbol is needed FAST - just as jogging or doing some other form of exercise daily, these little work-outs keep the mind sharp.
The addition of "Making change" is brilliant! We need more activities like this - not only is this brain sharpening, it is something that can be used in every day life when making purchases. Of note, this reviewer does this regularly - whenever paying for something, my own little game is seeing if I can figure out the change before the clerk tells me (without cheating by looking at their computer)!
The piano playing addition is enjoyable albeit having been a musician for years, I might have just a bit of an edge over a non musician. Nevertheless, I love the connection between music and the mind and hope to see more research in this area.
Admittedly, I have not tried anything that requires the voice. I was disapointed in that regard with the first go round but since I have not tried it, I cannot comment on the quality. Another reviewer comments that it seemed to go well.
Finally, there are new Sudoku puzzles and a new addiiton, virus busters, kind of like tetris in a way. The game instructs that this is not meant for training but more for relaxing. Rather enjoyable once you get the swing of it - your mind works by strategizing where to place the "capsules" and just how to turn them.
Contratulations and kudos to the developers of this fine software - it's a wonderful addition.
I love this game October 2, 2007
Jodie Kaput (San Antonio, TX)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have Brain Age 1 and Big Brain Academy. I recently bought Brain Age 2 and really enjoy it. The activities are challenging, especially the piano player one. Twice the notes printed were not on the keys available so I had to adapt, but even having a piano background, it is challenging. The drawback to most of these "brain" games is that you have to move past the 'doctor's' comments before you can go on and they are mostly the same things over and over. I would highly recommend this game for challenging the mind.
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