Customer Reviews

Brain Voyage

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I enjoyed this game .I have 45 DS games and I keep it w/ my top 12 games in a special case.I love the Las Vegas Poker games and I also love the memory /match type game.
You have 18 different cities in 18 different countries ,some you have to unlock and you must try to earn a bronze,silver and finally a gold medal for each game.You earn coins to buy your way into other citys.
You have World tour mode,Random play mode and your Puzzle bank.A guy even gives you coins just cause you keep trying,unless his wallet is empty.
You can learn how to make the art work safe by setting alarm system at the museum in Paris.You can go to Knossos and search for ancient artifacts.You can go to Greenland and uncover all the equipment without damaging too much ice.You can go to Cape town and track sea life.In Rio de Janeeiro you can help organize the carnival by allocating dancers to different floats.In London you can balance the accounts at the Bank of England.In Berlin you figure out how to activate the Egnima machine.In Moscow you take part in a memory testReiner has devised for the Secret Service.This one is a lil challenging,In Mumbai you do Train Spotting and keep track of where shipments are going.In Beijing you restore the ancient mosaics in the Forbidden City.And finally in Sydney you Prove that you're listening to the musicians by memorizing the musical sequences.And finally as I already mentioned play Royal Flush in Las Vegas and Be the first to play Reiners new style of poker.
The game is still a lil new to me so I have a bit trouble in Greenland,the carnival and mostly train spotting,but I'm getting there.
If you like Brain Games this is a must to your collection.

Brought to you by the team behind the wildly popular Brain Age, Brain Voyage is a clean, occasionally compelling collection of classic puzzle themes. The thin premise finds you hopping around the globe, solving puzzles loosely themed after major international cities and earning gold coins for your efforts. These gold coins--a bit of an unnecessary contrivance--allow you to purchase new cities on the map and access higher levels of the cities you've already visited. 16 distinctly different puzzles include some time-tested favorites, such as an entertaining Minesweeper update, an increasingly challenging adaptation of the classic card game Memory, a new take on the board game Mastermind, and an often frustrating set of Tangram-esque puzzles to solve. The quality of the more original puzzles vary widely: the "Carnival" mathematical challenge is a rewarding and thorough improvement on Yahtzee, while the South African aquatic counting game is a thin task indeed.

The level of performance required to earn gold medals varies widely across puzzles, and might in part diminish interest in returning to any of the challenges. Earning gold standing in Sydney's orchestral Simon clone, for instance, is nowhere near as demanding as fighting for silver in Cairo's sliding-piece picture puzzles. Also, some puzzles are perhaps overly reliant on chance at higher levels (refer to the entertaining poker-solitaire in the Las Vegas stage), while others require speed that necessitates action before much in the way of forethought when struggling for top scores (namely, Tokyo's number-crossword puzzle that closely resembles the "Challenger" found in many local newspapers). And regardless of difficulty or lack thereof, puzzles like India's "spot the number of differences in two moving pictures" will not inspire much enthusiasm.

Because of the variety of cognitive tasks involved, every player is likely to have a handful of favorite puzzles and an equal number they find absolutely nerve-wracking. It's ultimately the latter that keep me from returning to the game to up my high scores and collect the full complement of gold medals. All things told, an entertaining title that's a bit too slight for veteran DS puzzlers, but still promises a few nights of fun and frustration.

This game is a real brain teaser. You complete different tasks in each country and add countries and challenge levels as you succeed in winning gold, silver or bronze medals. Mazes, math equations, mine sweeping, picture scramble, poker hands, and other puzzles can give you hours of enjoyment. The only draw back is that eventually you run out of new countries and additional challenges.

I bought this game thinking it would end up being too childish and easy for me. HAH! The animation isn't top of the line, but you'll never notice as you struggle to figure out a variety of puzzles. Some are numerical while others are spatial; some involve logic and some just need a very keen eye. Each puzzle has 5 levels of increasing difficulty, and getting a certain number of medals unlocks new cities (each with their own puzzle), so it will take a good while to work your way through all of them. Lots of fun!

You play 16 different mini-games each with 5 levels of difficulty. Some of them are variations on well-known games like: Minesweeper, Yahtzee, Lights Out, Mastermind, Simon, Peg Solitaire, Picture Scramble, Lonpos, Spot the Difference, and Memory Card Match. Other types of mini-games are: combining colored squares to make larger specified shapes, making poker hands on a grid, choosing the correct operators to make two different equations match, counting specified items on a screen, and finding items in a limited-sight maze.

Pros:

Most of the mini-games emphasize logical thinking to develop the best strategies(as opposed to emphasizing reaction speed).
Each time you play, the level you are on is randomly re-generated.
The higher levels of difficulty often change up game play in creative ways.
The host Doctor Reiner Knizia, provides clear directions and motivation for each level of each mini-game.

Cons:

They should acknowledge that Reiner made up new variations on old games rather than implying he invented them all from scratch.

Comments: If you like games that challenge the thinking part of your brain then this is a great collection to have. Overall I really enjoyed playing it and consider it to be one of my favorite DS games.

Love the game, you work up through a point system, city by city. Some cities granted are alot more fun then others, some are a ton harder than others, but as you open the cities and the levels per city, you are so sucked in and always trying for that next city. Wheather you save your coins you earn for another city, or another level, is up to you, and thats half the challenge. SInce I bought this game, I havent had time for any of my other brain challenge games.

It's ok - I am a 50+ female who likes to use my DS for relaxing after a stressful day-which is most days. This game doesnt really relax me and i find it a bit slowm and frustrating. Better than some,not as good as others.