I got the chance to play Brain Age for the DS. It was amazing. It was one of those games I just can’t describe in words. The tasks it makes you do may seem very mundane in paper and text, but is very interesting and challenging as well. I never knew video games can help my brain.
Well, you see, one of the reasons Brain Age is fun, is because it sets no goals for you. You decide what you want to do, when you want to do it, and how far you want to go. It has Sudoku puzzles which are better than that of a newspaper. It’s got quick math, brain spinners, and logic questions.
What’s so fun about going to school all over again? Well, here’s the long answer that you’ll see.
On Sudoku, you can write in the numbers, basically it’s an actual paper almost, with awesome handwriting recognition. For those of you who have lived underground the past few years, I’ll recap what Sudoku is…. It’s a game where you fill in a grid. This grid is a 9*9 grid, with 3 3*3 grids inside. The goal is to fill in all the numbers so that each 3*3 grid has the numbers 1-9, and each row and column has 1-9.
So imagine a DS with that grid, and you being able to write in all the numbers. Cool huh?
Now the other puzzles in Brain Age are similar to this. Try reading these colors out. NOT the actual word, but the color the word is written in. Try it out.
Blue Red Orange Blue Purple Pink Red Grey Orange Green
You may be surprised how challenging something that simple can be. I was. There are tons of other things as well, but I’m providing screenshits instead of explaining them, since explaining doesn’t help. Grey Matters did a good job of making this game, and Nintendo is the best at offbeat and quirky titles.
