MUCH better.Įach mini-game falls into one of five categories of drills: search, planning, spatial, memory or numbers. Grubby Games did a good job of coming up with modes that would appeal to every age and skill level, but did they come up with decent mini-games? Better than decent. Like school, you can excel in one class, blow chunks in another and still bring home a decent GPA. In Test mode, you play through a random selection of five mini-games and are given a letter grade based on your performance. That’s not necessarily the case in Practice Mode, in which you can play any of the mini-games you’ve unlocked to your heart’s content with or without a time limit. In Quest mode, the mini-games are timed and scored according to the number of puzzles you solved minus the ones you got wrong. Although your mileage will vary in terms of how quickly you unlock the mini-games, in general, this process is too easy. By the time I’d completed this quest, I’d played nine of the mini-games and unlocked a tenth. Along the way, you’ll unlocking new destinations and additional mini-games.įor example, one early quest has you transporting clothespins to the friends of Ralph the Skunk, who’s feeling lonely and could use some company. This allows you to travel from one destination to another while completing missions for the various animals that populate the Fizzwizzle universe. In Quest mode, you play mini-games to fuel the titular Brain Train. I say this out of hope, not experience…īrain Train is split into three modes: Quest, Test and Practice. Once you master the 15 mini-games that come with Brain Train, you’ll be able to bid farewell to the days of smiling and nodding when you’re actually the only one in the room without a clue. If you didn’t get the clever play on words in the title, then this game is for you. Grubby Games, creators of the Professor Fizzwizzle series, tackles the genre with their latest release: The Amazing Brain Train! Now some are arguing that a new category of games can actually sharpen your acuity through mental exercises.
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From easing the pain of cancer to improving hand eye coordination, games are said to be good for more than sucking away your free time and emptying your bank account. Advocates of video and computer games have made innumerable claims about the benefits of interactive entertainment.