Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach (DS)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 4.9 (2.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 04/06/2007
• Released on: 03/13/2007
• Originally published on GameSpot: Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach (DS) Review

Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach is a shameless clone of Nintendo's brain-training DS game, Brain Age. Like that game, it offers tests that use shaky-looking science to determine how "old" your brain feels, along with various minigames designed to give your brain a bit of a workout. Mind Quiz has some similar tests to Nintendo's game and essentially comes off feeling like a cheap knockoff.

The main part of Mind Quiz is the mind quiz itself, which is broken into a brain stress degree test and a brain age test. Both tests place items on the screen that you need to tap in the correct order. One test has you alternate between letters and numbers, while the other test is just numbers. The game keeps track of your score in these tests over time, showing you if you've been improving or slipping. The training section is broken into a few different sections and offers different minigames, including slide puzzles, a voice-recognition test that showcases the game's truly awful voice recognition, a shooterlike game where you have to tap dogs as they run across the screen or throw bones at a running man, and so on. Whether they improve your mind or not is questionable, but what's more certain is that most of these training games aren't much fun. They're all very simple exercises without any real variety or major challenge, unless you can get excited about competing with your high scores.

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