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."
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.
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.
For those that missed Brain Boost the first time, it was a series of two titles that each had five bland minigames. There's a doctor that looks like a fish-clown-cucumber hybrid, plus a monkey boy and a robot pig. The major problem with the game was that five minigames is abysmally few, and the games weren't fun at all anyway. The game missed the point of what made Brain Age and Big Brain Academy so popular, and was the first, of many, brain game ripoffs.
