Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! a été édité par Nintendo sur Nintendo DS le 29 décembre 2005. Le développement a été assuré par le Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2 et le Nintendo SPD Software Development Group. Ce jeu se classe dans les genres réflexion/puzzle et quiz/trivia.
D'après le résumé fourni, l'œuvre propose de nouvelles activités destinées à mettre au défi la matière grise, sous forme d'une série d'entraînements conçus pour stimuler le cerveau. Dix-sept activités inédites et engageantes sont présentées, incluant notamment la lecture de simples mélodies sur un clavier de piano ou le suivi de l'arrivée photo d'une course à pied, composant un exercice mental varié.
Les données de complétion indiquent un temps de 4½ heures pour l'histoire principale et de 32 heures pour une approche complétiste. L'évaluation agrégée du titre est de 71,15.
S'agissant de l'accueil, la presse a salué certains aspects du jeu. Cheat Code Central a ainsi affirmé : « Brain Age 2 is a no-brainer. If you liked the original, you should be smart enough to figure out that this is an excellent sequel. » AceGamez a de son côté relevé que « More Brain Training is a game that has great lasting appeal. It might not take you more than a couple of weeks to unlock everything, but once that's done, the … ». Des joueurs sur Metacritic ont également exprimé leur sentiment, l'un précisant : « I never played the original Brain Age, but from I got from the this game, I like. The concept is original, and your brain actually feels like your excercising.… », un autre mentionnant : « I might be ten years late to the party but figured I'd give a quick review for this. I haven't played the first but this title was one of the few interesting N… ».
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Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Brain Age 2 is a no-brainer. If you liked the original, you should be smart enough to figure out that this is an excellent sequel. »
« More Brain Training is a game that has great lasting appeal. It might not take you more than a couple of weeks to unlock everything, but once that's done, the lifespan of the game continues with improving your brain age, beating your high scores on the challenges and completing the Sudoku puzzles. »
« All things said and done, Brain Age 2 is a very good sequel to an already entertaining title. »
« An interesting and entertaining way to spend 30 minutes a day, lavished with as much charm and consideration as Nintendo has ever been able to afford. »
« Brain Age 2 uses the same formula from the first game with some different variables thrown in. Your opinion of the original Brain Age will have to sort out whether that’s a good or bad thing. »
« The Sudoku mini-game is worth the entire game itself and will provide many hours of fun. »
« The challenges included are great, the more full-featured games are excellent and the multiplayer games are a must play if you have friends with handhelds. »
« Some annoying quirks remain, but the all new tasks and fun multiplayer modes keeps More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? top of the class. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« I might be ten years late to the party but figured I'd give a quick review for this. I haven't played the first but this title was one of the few interesting Nintendo DS titles that I quite enjoyed. i was decently entertained by Dr Kawashima's humour. Most of the tests make good use of the touchscreen and other hardware and I found them decently challenging. »
« I never played the original Brain Age, but from I got from the this game, I like. The concept is original, and your brain actually feels like your excercising. There are some puzzles that pretty boring, but this is a great game to pick up and play. »
« There are many good memories to be had with this game, everything from Dr. Ryuta Kawashima telling me how stupid my brain is to stressful calculations and word games. The game includes fun exercises like speedy calculations, change-making, and piano playing, but at some point, all of those little practices will get repetitive and you will likely drop your whole brain routine in maybe a month. It's a shame, too, because the game does execute quite nicely. I remember starting off with the brain of a 34-year-old to the brain of a 25-year-old, and I was 15 at that time. The game persistently tracks your progress, and even the good doctor is quite encouraging (and very quirky). Oh, and did I mention it has tons of sudoku puzzles to complete? But here are the problems with the game: exercises involving text will eventually repeat itself at some point in time, making the minigame a chore, instead. By the way, don't believe the kid that has the syllable minigame world record. He already knew what the answers were because he played it beforehand. And that's another problem: usually, exercises not involving math will not only not be recorded after doing them a second time in a day, but they will also repeat itself, limiting the play time of the game. Also, after playing all of those games for days and keeping a solid brain workout routine, Brain Age 2 will eventually get repetitive, and you will drop routine after maybe a month. But that does not mean in any way that you shouldn't get the game. »
