![]() ![]() A quick, unobtrusive download of 43MB from the PlayStation Network, BC offers a host of conundrums and puzzles that aim to test your mental fortitude in such categories as logic, maths and memory, in a manner that bares more than a passing resemblance to a number of DS brain-trainers doing the rounds at the time. If they’re not being condescending about your memory or reflex skills, they’re spouting facts about brain usage (before later testing you to check that you were paying attention in the first place), or pompously criticising you for being up too late if you play the game at night…īut no matter how much Brain Challenge likes to pretend that it’s less of a game and more a lifestyle accessory for casual players, I couldn’t help but like it. Then there’s the tutoring you receive from the white-coat clad virtual ‘Doctors’, whose irritating manner suggests they gauge the average player’s mental competence as somewhere between that of a toddler and a watermelon. The notion that it would act as another unashamed flag-bearer for fluffy ‘edutainment’ games probably wasn’t aided by some super-clinical menu screens, and music that carried with it the air of a tacky game show. Upon booting up Brain Challenge, I felt the grumpy purist in me beginning to surface, warning me that I was about to resent what I was letting myself in for.
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