REVIEW: Brain Assist

Developer: SEGA| Publisher: SEGA | Format: DS

Reviewer: Craig Jay Gallagher While grammatically incorrect and a bit bland the title Brain Assist informers gamers of what type game they're getting. While the translated text may at times be side splitting hilarious the game never promises to help with grammar, what it does hope to help improve is your usage of your “right brain”. What your right brain controls is a number of functions including your artistic abilities and your imagination.

The gameplay is pretty simple. You take a number of tests which through completion allegedly help improve your mental power, though no matter how much I try telekinesis is still not a viable option. There games are a series of mini games including Quick Numbers, Match Games and colour based games.

To be honest these can't even be classed as real games, they're more mental diagnostics which kill some time but aren't exactly challenging. Spot the Difference is the most basic of game types. Two pictures appear on-screen and you must decide if it is identical or not. As the game gets on these differences grow more and more difficult to find and you soon find that time either runs out or you keep picking the wrong option.

After completing all the mini games a few times your ready to evaluate just how capable your brain is. The tests are two fold, each featuring four games which you must complete. There are about ten problems contained in each of the games which must be completed. As is par on course for these games, the difficulty level quickly rises.

While far from a bad title Brain Assist is just a little too much of a backward step from a number of superior brain training titles already on release. As a starting point it is worth picking up and playing through till you move on to something a little more substantial.

Comments

[nintendofreak]

Got this a few weeks back and have been playing it since. While nowhere near as good as other Brain gmaes it's still an enjoyable diversion. Nice review and I hope that you'll be updating the site as regularly as you have been.