Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Boost Your Focus Power - Train with quick, fun activities based on vision-training programs used by top athletes.
• Put eyes to real-world tests - Take a swing at a speeding pitch, outmaneuver incoming linebackers and strike the soccer ball into the goal in fun, sports-based training activities.
• Pick up and play every day - Users complete daily training activities to challenge Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision, Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision and Eye Movement, then track their results with a calendar and easy-to-understand charts.
• Symbol Order - Three symbols flash on the screen in any of the 12 boxes. One symbol appears at a time for only a split second. The challenge is to remember each symbol and then enter all three symbols in the order in which they appeared
• Box Tap - Furiously tap a series of moving red boxes before they disappear. The more users successfully tap, the higher the score

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000TTZMCS
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 15, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,256 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #28 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Puzzle

Product Description

You've trained your brain with Brain Age--now sharpen your eye power with Flash Focus! Fast, fun activities and quick-play sports games give your eyes the challenging workout they need.

Boost your eye power! Train your eyes with quick, fun activities based on vision training programs used by top athletes.

Put your eyes to the real-world test! Take a swing at a speeding pitch, outmaneuver incoming linebackers, and strike the soccer ball into the goal in fun sports-based minigames.

Pick up and play every day! Complete your daily training activities to challenge your Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision, Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision, and Eye Movement, then track your results with a calendar and easy-to-understand charts

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

77 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical but Needs a Facelift, January 1, 2008

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Video Game)

Flash Focus is an eye-training game which helps you improve your peripheral vision, eye reaction time and other eye related functions. It is similar to many actual eye-training exercises used by optometrists.

Set up much like the Brain Age series, each player creates a profile. There are daily activities you perform to improve your skills, and then you do a series of tests to determine your "eye age". Your aim is to hit 20 years old, representing a young, healthy pair of eyes.

The tests cover a range of eye activities. There is the peripheral vision test, where you focus on a central spot but have to see the items around that. There are quick moving tests where you have to track a fast-moving object and remember where it ends up. There are reflex type activities where you stylus-click on objects, hit a moving baseball, swat at a ping pong ball. The more activities you work through, the more training session styles you unlock.

I definitely see the value of these activities, and like that it tracks your progress over time. However, I have the same complaint with this game as I do with Brain Age - and you would think that by now they would have fixed these issues.

First, the "discussion" involved with each game is maddeningly repetitive and annoying. You have to page through every single prompt. Surely by now they should have a "discussion off" option in the options menu!

Next, when they kick you up to hard, you don't get any credit in the tracking system. So if you go from easy games to hard games, and don't do 100% on the hard games, they berate you for being less good even though you are now MORE good, i.e. beating harder tests. If the point of the game is to improve your skill and to be tracked in that improvement, they should track it properly.

Finally, I am all for concentrating on the main task at hand, but some of the graphics here really could use a designer's touch. Remember, this is a VISION game!! The whole point is how things look! I think about how gorgeous Plankton looked, and that game was a very simple game. Just a basic overhaul like that could move this game from looking like it was made by 3rd graders to making it a game that's a true visual feast. They just didn't bother.

Well recommended for its practical eye enhancement features - but I really hope someday that a person with a clue about game design takes over the Brain Age group and overhauls these games with some basic but much needed upgrades.

120 of 127 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, October 28, 2007

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Taylor V. Streeter "Taylormade Review" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Video Game)

This is a wonderful game! The layout is nice. The training games are new and fresh. The relaxation eye exercises at the end of the taining is great. You can do the daily exercises selected for you in relation to your eye test or use custom training mode. If you've played Brain Age or Brain Age 2 you will notice some similar formats but in no way is this a repeat. I would highly recommend this game. It is fun and it really does give your vision a workout. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like Brain Age for the eyes, November 10, 2007

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R. Rosas (Placentia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Video Game)

If you've played Brain Age, you'll know what to expect from this game. It's somewhat fun. Doesn't take long at all to do the exercises. Seems it's more of an observance teacher than something to improve eyesight.