Following on from the recent announcement that Dr Kawashima would be returning this December in Japan, it seems we won't have long to wait in the west to get our brains back in shape. Nintendo Uk has announced that Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch will be coming out in Europe on 3rd January 2020.
Check out the trailer above for all the brain-teasing activities you'll be engaging in this time. Here are some of the details from the official PR blurb:
Test your skills with an assortment of exercises and tests in different playstyles, such as holding the Nintendo Switch console vertically and using a stylus or finger, or using the right Joy-Con’s IR Motion Camera, which detects the shape of players’ fingers. These are some of what you’ll find in-game:
Finger Calculations: Solve maths problems using your fingers. Even if you know the answer in your head, you’ll need to react quickly!
Sudoku: Enjoy the classic number puzzle game.
Calculations: How fast can you do simple sums one after another?
Rock, Paper, Scissors Test: Try to win – and lose – using your fingers in rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Word Scramble: Combine letters to form words.
Photographic Memory: Remember the photo previously displayed.
Dual Task: Leap over hurdles while choosing the biggest number.With one Joy-Con each, challenge friends and family to select kinds of training, such as:
Birdwatching: Compete to count birds the fastest.
Box Counting: Compete to try and remember the number of boxes.Calculate your overall Brain Age Score by performing a series of back-to-back exercises that challenge your information processing speed, short-term memory and self-control. Think you can do better than your friends and family? Ensure you don’t miss your daily exercises by setting an alarm, where your Nintendo Switch will notify you, even if the console is in Sleep Mode. You can also share your results with your family with Brain Training Email to let them know how you’re getting on.
We also plan to hold regular World Brain Training Championships.
There's no word just yet on a North American release - we'll be sure to update as and when confirmation comes through. We were looking forward to this returning and it's good news us Europeans won't be waiting as as long as we had to last time!
Do you reckon this will get renamed Dr Kawashima's Brain Age for Nintendo Switch in the US? Looking forward to testing your noodle with everyone's favourite floating polygonal head again? Let us know below.
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Always up for a bit of Brain Training but Sudoku again? Come on Japan you've got loads of great puzzles that you could include instead!
Really looking forward this. Always was the best brain training game.
BIG BRAIN POWER ACTIVATES
I wonder what language options will this include.
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Japanese according to Nintendo UK's website
I like that it comes with a stylus - but this is the type of game I'd want digitally.
When Brain Training was released in 2005 for DS, it uses touchscreen, handwriting and voice recognition. All these on a handheld device with a puny processor. iPhone wasn't invented yet, but later copied all the gimmicks.
Now that Switch has IR sensor, Nintendo is putting it to good use again. Facebook has recently copied the same finger recognition gimmick for their Oculus Quest headset.
Nintendo is the true innovator.
I really really hope it has Blockhead, Klondike, majong, and all the great things from the 3DS game! I'm so happy to see they've included sudoku from the old DS game! I love this series of games!
Rock, Paper, Scissors is brain training now??
Honestly, it looks like crap internet tests
Brain Ages on DS at least had an art direction
It is coming to switch?? Brilliant, my brain needs a workout
And 6 of the games aren't compatible with the Switch Lite, never mind eh
One of my most played games on 3DS.
Loved this. Especially loved the 3DS feature where you battle with other players via streetpass. So nostalgic for me right now I miss it. It will never be the same, but if I can get back to it like this, I'm definitely in. This game is important for your brain for real.
@nintendolie I remember being quite unhappy when the iPhone first came out, it was like they had just pushed the two screens of a DSi together into one tall screen
Now to bring Nintendogs, Pokemon Ranger and Rhythm Heaven, and we will have my Nintendo DS library on the Switch!
No 5 year gap between Japan and Europe? I'm utterly disappointed!
Jokes aside, I will be buying this. I was surprised how entertaining the 3DS installment was.
As someone that wanted a download version of the Brain Age b/c of this toad having many games to play on the DS, this is welcome. Will the stylus recognition be better?
OMG!!! They gave that one assist trophy from Smash Ultimate his own game!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have to import it and learn Japanese at the same time! (still trying to learn Japanese but hey).
Press F for Switch Lite owners
Do we know what the price will be? This is the kind of thing I'd happily pick up as a budget title but probably won't be dropping sixty USD on anytime soon.
@bluesdance And this is why I initially didn't think Nintendo would release a Switch lite. Because some games are really unplayable on the Lite. I'd imagine people buying this game and then being disappointed that they can't play half of it. Even though Nintendo warns about it on their website / game box.
Because if you want this on your lite you'll need to buy.
That would be (about) € 100 to just play one game.
@sanderev part of me was tempted to say that at least the €100 you’ve gotta pay is a one time deal, but honestly, it’s also the price difference between a Lite and a “proper” switch, so if things like the IR Camera and Single Joycon games are deal breakers for you, at least you’re forewarned.
Still, given the Lite is very much a “for kids” model, I doubt there’s much overlap between their target demographics.
Cool I might give this a try. I think i played the original on a gf's ds back in the day.
Aweeeeesome.
@tudsworth I'm not talking about me. I still have my original Switch next to my Lite. So this wouldn't really be a problem for me personally.
I'm talking about the thousands of people who will get ONLY a Switch lite with christmas. They will blame Nintendo for this. And rightfully so, even though Nintendo warned about it.
The Switch lite, even though I really like it, is a device to fix a problem of the original Switch which actually isn't a problem by creating a new problem.
Meaning no problem was resolved, but one problem was created.
Also the Switch lite isn't "just for kids". That is something that's never mentioned in any Nintendo's official outings about the Lite. The Switch lite is for people who want to play only portable. And this used to be a fully portable game on the DS and 3DS.
There are three things Nintendo could've done:
1. Add an IR-camera to the Lite. This would've fixed the main reason it's not compatible with this game.
2. Made the Joy-Con detachable from the Lite (with an IR camera) and add a kickstand to it. The Lite would've been a table-top and handheld device.
3. Add a "Lite" mode to new games that don't support the Lite natively. Like this one, and Ring-fit adventures. (For instance they could've made the Ring-con connect to the system without requiring Joy-Con)
Good mini game. 5$ would be a fair price for it. If its more than 15$ its a robbery... Obviously the development of the game was near completed when Switch Lite was announced. They could patch it up to add some work around it but i dont think it will have many patches
@nagash You commented on Brain Age on the DS, yet conveniently failed to mention that Rock, Paper, Scissors was a game in the original? It used the microphone, requiring you to speak your answer in rounds that asked you to win or lose. Here it looks like the same concept, except you use your hands and the IR sensor on the right Joycon.
So yes, Rock, Paper, Scissors is brain training, just like it has been from the start.
sorry @Yoshi I was referring to the original Big Brain Academy... looks like "rock paper scissors" on Brain Age 2 a few years later, but I still don't get how a random luck based game count as brain training
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