Robert Workman of Gamedaily writes: Mega Brain Boost is Majesco Games' latest attempt to hop on the brain-training bandwagon. Users test their memorization and quick reaction skills in a number of mind-numbing puzzles. Upon looking at the box, you're given a big promise – this package features three games combined into one package. The two previous Brain Boost releases, aptly named Beta Wave and Gamma Wave, are here, along with a series of new puzzles to solve. Unfortunately, while they appear to be stimulating at first, none of these games hold up over a long period of time. We got bored well within the first hour.
To sum it up, Mega Brain Boost tries to offer more than previous releases in the series, but still comes up feeling empty. Majesco needs to work on diversifying the game's activities and options if it's going to stand a chance in this genre. Otherwise, it'll be outdone by Nintendo's far superior Brain Age series each and every time. Leaving this game on the store shelf will be the smartest thing your right brain's done all day.
Look, folks: if you really want to get smart and develop your brain, shut off the idiot box, unplug the video game console, get offline, and read something. Try Shakespeare, the nonfiction works of Isaac Asimov, the great philosophers…something.
Dig up the movie Mindwalk, or even the diptych of Before Sunrise / Before Sunset – at least they'll get you thinking about the larger issues and meaning of life, maybe start you on developing an actual personal philosophical orientation and viewpoint. Don't waste your time on this crap, or such an inefficacious theorem as Makoto Shichida's apparently is.
Jeff Shirley writes for NWR:
"You have to wonder how developers keep missing the mark when it comes to these brain-type games. Do they just read the Brain Age manual and stop there? As it stands, I wouldn't recommend Mega Brain Boost."
Mega Brain Boost is a mixed bag, offering some new mini-games, but really, it's just more of the same old crap. If you really, really like Big Brain Academy and must have more of the same, then this might be for you. Otherwise, it's not exactly a must-have, especially if you already have Big Brain Academy for your DS.
