Brain Boost: Gamma Wave
Where the games presented in other recent brain games have been engaging and addicting, Gamma Wave seems to have taken the opposite approach; making them boring to the point that you never want to play them again. Lets take the number sequence game for example. In order for you to actually play to advance the storyline you must first pass a practice round to prove your worth. You are presented with a sequence of numbers such as “673″, you get to stare at the numbers for a few seconds and are then presented with a list of multiple choice answers one of them being the correct response. Every few questions, the length of the sequence will grow by one number till you’ve answered twenty questions at which point you are graded by level of memory development. Believe my by the time you’ve done this twenty times you aren’t really too excited about being graded on your accuracy. In fact chances are you’re thinking of the million other things you could be doing instead of playing this game. I guess in a sense the game works because I would have never remembered I needed to sweep between the cracks in my sidewalk or buff my kitchen floor had I not played Gamma Wave.
There is no real audio and the graphics are like pictures out of your first grade text book. If you are really hard-up for an educational game and you have already been through all the other brain games available for DS then Brain Boost: Gamma Wave is perfect for you. In the case of being a hard-up educational game player with nothing else to do you can get this game for under $20. Personally I would clean my house top to bottom before wasting my time on this game again.
PS. Don’t be fooled by the second version of this game it is equally as bad.
Not Jennie Approved 