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[GDJustin]

It's very late so these impressions are gonna be brief. If I have more time I'll expand on them, or another GAFFER who has played the game in the last few days can supplement my post.

-Brain Flex has been the biggest surprise of the entire show, for me. I played some multiplayer and it was fantastically fun. I didn't expect much out of the game based on the impressions from JP GAFFERs who picked it up, so I was pleasantly surprised to see how simple, and yet still enjoyable it was.

-The kanji tracing game was gone completely. Not replaced with a text tracing game or replaced with anything, at this stage.

- The professor's likeness has been removed, replaced with a kind of phallic looking... thing. I'm sure screens will surface soon enough.

-The minigames start of extremely easy, but get confidence-destroyingly hard with extreme quickness. One example is the math game that starts out with "one plus one = ?" and within about 50 seconds has become "six times ? plus 10 plus 4 = 104." Not hard math... but you're racing against a clock.

-Multiplayer was where it was at. You wanna complete each individual question as quickly as possible, but you're penalized heavily for missing, so it was cool to strike the balance between moving too fast and being too cautious.

 

[speedpop]

I shall buy this so I can catch the fad-wagon!

 

[ziran]

sounds great, can't wait to play it.

thanks for the impressions

 

[Jonnyram]

Kanji tracing is not in the Japanese release... it's in the sequel

 

[bogg]

Oh fuck yeah i didnt know they are going to release this in the U.S

 

[Tabs]

 

[Sunski]

Isn't "Brain Flex" the US equivalent of "Gentle Brain Exercises" and "Train Your Brain" is the US Version of "Brain Training"?

 

[Netrunner2k2]

Sounds cool, I can't wait to try it out.

Hey, I have that!

 

[Drakken]

Hey, I have that (too)!

Or, at least, I used to have it.

Hooray for Brain Flex!

 

[GDJustin]

Come to think of it I guess it was the gentle brain training. Because someone working on the title mentioned the removed kanji activity.

 

[Ranger X]

Anyway it's cool to receive this game in America.
Bring more obscure titles, i like to play different games on my DS

 

[sprsk]

If you hold the DS horizontally then its gentle brain training, if you hold it like a book then its adult.

 

[ocelittle]

If you hold the DS horizontally then its gentle brain training, if you hold it like a book then its adult.

Wha..?

 

[iifu]

The professor's likeness has been removed, replaced with a kind of phallic looking... thing. I'm sure screens will surface soon enough.

Sounds like Yawaraka Atamajuku. I wonder why they're bringing this one over first though, personally Adult Brain Training is my favourite.

 

[Yoshi]

Sounds like Yawaraka Atamajuku. I wonder why they're bringing this one over first though, personally Adult Brain Training is my favourite.

Maybe they think western gamers are less intelligent than Japanese gamers, as they are buying less DS'es

 

[Dsal]

Yawaraka has a bigger selection of games. I actually like that one better of the two.

 

[Soul4ger]

According to 1UP, they're bringing Brain Training first, and Brain Flex, the sequel, will be released later.

 

[Ironclad]

I will be buying these as soon as they hit our shores.

 

[C- Warrior]

Hey, I have that too (too)!

 

[soundwave05]

Sounds cool. I'm buying it.

 

[argon]

The kanji tracing game got me thinking..

They should make a "Language Training" game similar to Brain Training, where you're challenged to learn Japanese (or English) words and phrases. They could mix up reading/writing, listening and even pronouncing. As a bonus they could add a wi-fi component that lets Japanese speakers and English speakers communicate with each other through games and chatting to improve their skills.

Are there any DS games like this planned? It seems like it could be pretty easy to create just one version that would work in both regions.

 

[Yoshi]

There is an English Trainer planned at Nintendo AFAIR.

 

[cvxfreak]

Sounds really exciting. When I get further into Japanese, I'll be sure to use Yawaraka Atamajuku in order to help improve my skills. But the English ones will also be fun to use I think, and if marketed to the education market (a little like what Apple does with their products) then it can be a sure fire hit.

 

[Jiggy]

Gotta buy these... I'm interested in actually staying intelligent and/or quick. I mean, I'm only 21 and already I feel like I make typos and have occasional trouble coming up with the words I want much more often than I did when I was, say, 16.

I guess maybe both things might have to do with me getting less sleep nowadays, and maybe part of the word problem is that I just know more words than I did back then, so it's harder to search my entire brain for the one specific one I want, or something like that, but still, the last thing I want to go is spend the rest of my life thinking I peaked in high school and got slower ever since.