Brain Training: Dr Kawashima's How Old Is Your Brain

Another great game for the DS. Brain Training offers you a range of tasks to improve your thinking ability. From Suduko to multiplications, this game has everything to improve your thinking power within weeks!

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training has sold more then 10 million worldwide and is still selling strong because it appeals to people that don't normally play video games. The aim of the game is to better your brain age by playing the daily training tests which evolve maths, sudoku, stroop colour test, memory exercises and many more. When you do your daily test training you are given three different test and at the end you are told your brain age. I find with the stroop colour test that the DS does'nt always understand my voice and when writing things down it gets my handwriting wrong to at times. If you miss a days training Dr Kawashima will tell you that he has missed you and there are graphs where you can look at how your brain age has improved or got worse during your daily training. This is the only game in which my mum is better then me at and is great fun in multiplayer.

If your buying this and looking to play a game please go elsewhere! This isn't really a "game" so to speak. Brain training is as the name would imply a way to train your brain. The different activities and puzzles you do will improve your brains performance. After a week of using this i could really feel the difference and people in work really noticed i was performing better. You unlock new things by training every day which i found kept me interested but as good as this is i, personally, find that once i unlocked everything i just stopped training and played sudoko all the time which was ok because there are allot of puzzles but i just stoped using the training element. So if you have the commitment then this is a great tool. Just.... Don't expect a game.

A must have for any ds owner! Since ive had this i have been on it every day! When i first started ym brain age was 65 or something, im only 21! However by training with the games each day my brain is gradually getting younger :) it is now 20 the past few days so it is definitely working! I am getting better at the memory games and the calculations, you do need to be on it about 2-3weeks before you unlock all the games but by then you can try and beat your own score or even better beat someone elses score by having them play on it or against u on theirs. To be honest this is not the type of game you can be on all day, it is simply a brain trainer with some puzzles you can practice on first then when your ready test your brain with the test of three questions which will tell you your brain age for the day. This for me lasts about ten minutes to half an hour a day and then i turn it off and try again the next day. But it is fun when you can try and beat someone elses score or just wait til the next day to beat your own. It definitely trains your brain though as mine is now younger and i am quicker at answering the puzzles and memorising the numbers etc. You can play the puzzles more than once a day but it just doesnot record your times for those. It is great on the train when your bored.

My worst subject at school it maths so this game helps me get better and faster. So if you have troble with maths like me this is the game for you. x

well if you want to save your money, buy a newspaper and do the puzzles. This is basically what it is but the puzzles are moving and rubbish... The only decent part is the Sudoku but you can get them in all the newspapers and magazines anyway... Get brain academy instead, it's better!

Brain Training uses little number & word puzzles to help train your brain. That's pretty much it. Not really much to say is it? This is why I don't give it higher marks, the game uses puzzles from newspapers and early 90s school computer programs. Knowing that I don't feel this is going to train my brain when I can get a better mind workout by reading the storyline for Bioshock.
Overall I can see why this appeals so well to the older generation but for me and serious gamers your not missing much.

This game is a bit slow when you first get started as it takes time to get the games unlocked. Good game to play and always a challenge trying to beat your brain age from the day before. This was the game i got when i brought my DS and i would recommend that others make sure this is not their only game. I still play on it most days but do prefer more brain training - the games are better!!

I found the training very good although the brain check gets a bit boring as it seems to give you the same things to do. The voice recognition is not very good especially on the colours brain check. The sudoko is good i have only just learnt to do these and find them quite challenging. But all in all this game is good and looking forward to getting other games.

A first i thought this was really good and went on it almost every day and then after a while it got kind of repepative and boring but still sometimes i test my brain then my friend will test theres so we can see whos is better and stuff like that but i still think its a good game 4/5 !