I tell you what, when I started using this game I was 80 years old and now with (I'm sorry to say)intermittent practice I am 57 years old. My brain age that is, the body is 65!! lol I really do like this game and am glad I got my DSi on sale at Christmas time!!
I just got this game yesterday and have been doing the exercises in it. The voice recognition works fairly well though not 100%. Like another reviewer has said sometime you say it right and it says you got it wrong. I do find this mostly when you say blue. I find the room you are in has to be real quiet. I have improved my"Brain Age" I was a 56 and now I am a 40. Good for me since I am 52!
My 10 yr old son wanted to do it and his brain age is 75. He says it is ok but not his type of game to play.
I do enjoy it though, but it isnt something that you want to play with for hours on end.
After five minutes on the initial test having my speaking "blue" misrecognised constantly, and my written "4" interpreted as either a 9 or a 0, I looked through the manual for the instructions on how to train it to recognise YOUR speech and handwriting.
It didn't have one. Because it doesn't have those features. Which renders the game next to useless. Am I prepared to alter the way I speak and write to play this, and keep that in mind constantly while I try to solve puzzles? No.
The REALLY stupid thing is that it prints the number 4 (in questions etc) the way that character is usually printed on books, on your keyboard etc, i.e. with three contiguous strokes forming a figure with a pointy top, but it seems trained to recognise only an "open" four, i.e. one with no join at the top.
Play "Big Brain Academy" instead - less famous but FAR more playable.
"I just started using this program. I don't know whether it's working, but it's fun."
"Brain age: train your brain in minutes a day! Great game, get it if you think your slippin... Lol"
