Mega Brain Boost on the Nintendo DS has turned out to be quite a disappointment to say the least. The only saving grace is that it is only a $20 budget game for the handheld. The puzzles here do not have enough value to really make you come back and keep playing over and over again. If you are an absolute fanatic with the brain games, then you may want to give this a look. If you aren't though and were curious about this title, unfortunately dBTechno has to advise you to skip this one. Either way considering you get the three games in one, it is not a terrible deal.
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.
