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Brain Training Coming To The West 21

Posted by Zonk from the wacky-world dept.
Kotaku reports that Brain Training, *the* hit DS title in Japan, will be coming to Europe after some tweaking for Western audiences. From the article: "The software was developed with Japan's Tokuhoku University and uses touch and voice control to complete various tasks that aim to improve your gray matter. Nintendo has yet to announce the US release. Should be interesting to see how well this localized version will be received in the Western world." A big here's hoping on that U.S. release.
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  • Sorry (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13, 2006 @03:07PM (#14465750)
    All your brains are belong to us...
  • If they don't announce a US release sometime soon I will be picking up a copy from Europe before I wait for it to come here. I mean, I really want it to come to the states but if a version is already out in English I probably won't bother waiting. I've played around with the Japanese version and the only thing keeping me from owning it already is the whole me-not-knowing-Japanese thing.

  • Bush should be worried (Score:4, Funny)

    by luder ( 923306 ) <slashdot.lbras@net> on Friday January 13, 2006 @03:20PM (#14465886)
    "The software was developed with Japan's Tokuhoku University and uses touch and voice control to complete various tasks that aim to improve your gray matter."
    A big here's hoping on that U.S. release.
    U.S. citizens getting smarter? Now that's a matter of national security!

  • US Release (Score:4, Informative)

    by Mekabyte ( 678689 ) on Friday January 13, 2006 @04:03PM (#14466298) Homepage
    While there is no official US release date, the games definitely have been mentioned by Nintendo of America. The kids English version of the game was demoed months ago to press. Also, the names of the games, Brain Age and Brain Flex were mentioned in a NOA press release [nintendo.com] 10 days ago. Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of Australia have actual release dates listed, but do not use either of those names for their version of the game.

  • Tohoku University (Score:3, Informative)

    by mhtmartins ( 841555 ) on Friday January 13, 2006 @04:10PM (#14466347) Journal
    You mean Tohoku University [tohoku.ac.jp]?
  • http://www.revo-europe.com/screenshots.php?gid=ds b rain [revo-europe.com] has some more screenshots and well I am not exactly pushed to limits of my mental capacity to answer those sums.

    Is this just because game journalists have the IQ of a diseased rodent or is this really the limit of the game?

    Brain teasers can be a lot of fun but answering 5x5 is a bit ehm. Well lets just say that if you get that wrong the game better come with GPS so the caretakers from your mental home can find you.

    • The game isn't Brain Teasers, it's Brain Training. The point is to stimulate your brain every day with small exercises. At least I think that is the point. It's not supposed to be super hard questions. I know it has things like memorization and multistep mental math. It even has a multistep mental math hard version which might make it a little more of a challenge...but you have to have 17 stamps in your stamp book.
    • Not for kids. For old people.

      The idea is that performing these little mental activities, and trying to do so quickly, will help stave off the many neurological and psychological conditions that can arise in old age due simply to a lack of appropriate mental stimulation.

      People in their 20s and 30s really probably don't need it. The inactivity that spurs these disorders usually tends to set in after retirement.

      http://www.tdctrade.com/imn/05112204/toys081.htm [tdctrade.com]
    • There's an adult version of the game too, in Japan, though I haven't heard anything about a US/Europe release of that version. So far, it's just the Kid's one.
  • I thought it was a given that this will be coming stateside after the success of Nintendogs. Nintendo has been lauding it's selection of cross demographic appealing games, notably Nintendogs, Electroplankton and the Train Your Brain series.

    Nintendo has been lately giving the Europeans second dibs on certain games. I know they got F-Zero GP Legend for GBA before the US.
  • Brain Training is fun, but the end guy is really hard. Fortunately, there are cheat codes you can use.

  • I thought Nintendogs was THE hit DS title in Japan (Score:3, Interesting)

    by pappy97 ( 784268 ) on Friday January 13, 2006 @05:22PM (#14467041)
    "Brain Training, *the* hit DS title in Japan"

    Huh?

    I thought Nintendogs was THE hit DS title in Japan???? I know Nintendogs is popular in the US, but it was released earlier in Japan to rave reviews and reports were coming out that the Japanese were buying DS just to play Nintendogs.

    • check yer facts (Score:3, Informative)

      by muel ( 132794 )
      Not quite. From an IGN report that quotes Famitsu:

      "The biggest game of the year, according the tracking service provided by Famitsu's parent company Enterbrain, was the DS installment of Animal Crossing, which sold 1,169,757 units. Gran Turismo 4 for the PS2 placed second with 1,066,749 units sold. Nintendo took the next two slots, with Train Your Brain for the DS selling 1,011,341 units and Nintendogs, also for the DS, pushing 965,665 units across its three versions."

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