So, I purchased this last night and played it for a couple of hours. I have Big Brain Academy and Brain Challenge as comparisons.
Overall I enjoyed th experience for $6, but it is pretty shallow. There are only 15 different games and probably half of them are variations from games in Big Brain Academy and Brain Challenge. Therefore, if you have those other games, there are only a handful of truly new challenges. The quest part of the game seems a bit forced. You go around to the different animals who have certain requests from you, and these request require you to take the train from one area to another area (to another animal). In order to move the train, you randomly do one of the different games (typically about 60 seconds to 90 seconds) and depending on how well you do, your train moves a certain distance. It can take 10 or more games to move the train from one end of the track to the other. Solving the requests don't really seem that meaningful (example: collect a donut, false teeth and the letter Q for one animal-- so you go around to different animals that have these and bring them back-- playing the same 15 games over and over and over again to move your train from one animal to the other). You are scored on each game based on number completed and speed bonus-- the typical stuff.
The other main option is a test. This involves doing 5 of the games back to back and then getting a combined score. Unlike Big Brain Academy (which has a similar number of games), you don't get a mix of multiple games-- it's each one separately. Therefore, just like the quest aspect, it gets old pretty quick and you've seen all the content pretty quickly. Some of the new games are good and fun, but that's all there is. There is no multiplayer option.
So, again, overall, for $6 it's not bad, and if you like these brain challenge type games, it's probably worth it.
If you are trying to decide which game to buy of the 3-- it's easy: Brain Challenge is the best due to the price and content. A used version of Big Brain Academy would be my next recommendation and this game would come in a distant third.
Am I upset I purchased it? No. I'll keep playing it some, but I imagine after a week, if I want to have a brain challenge, I'll won't go back to this one very often.
Sure. What I meant is that you get a lot more for the money in Brain Challenge. There are more games, more variation and overall better games in brain challenge. Then on top of that there is a solid multiplayer experience in Brain Challenge that is completely missing from the Brain Train.
Forums
Topic: Amazing Brain Train initial impressions
Posts 1 to 5 of 5
This topic has been archived, no further posts can be added.