Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch

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  • Publisher: Nintendo
  • Release Date: 12/27/2019 (Japan)
User Score
6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 40
  3. Negative: 10 out of 40
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  1. jeffory
    May 26, 2020
    2
    Frustrating and anger inducing game. The paper, scissors, rock game seems fun at first, but its trivial use of the joycon camera makes recognition slow and finicky. The sudoku game has pretty bad handwriting recognition when writing quickly and penalises you heavily if it recognises a number wrong. There is nothing redeeming on top of all the issues.
  2. DaveAus
    Mar 13, 2020
    3
    Nice presentation but its very lacking. There are only three mini games to play in multiplayer and its mostly just counting boxes and birds, not very fun. The games relying on the IR camera are very poorly done, it picks up paper and rock very easily but scissors takes time and moving your fingers around until it decides to pick them up.

    When it comes to picking up numbers drawn, it    Nice presentation but its very lacking. There are only three mini games to play in multiplayer and its mostly just counting boxes and birds, not very fun. The games relying on the IR camera are very poorly done, it picks up paper and rock very easily but scissors takes time and moving your fingers around until it decides to pick them up.

    When it comes to picking up numbers drawn, it seems to ignore the number nine, it'll think youve drawn a six or zero. I've tried drawning nine in every style i can think off and it refuses to accept its a nine.    … Expand
  3. Pepeyfrog
    Sep 26, 2020
    4
    When it works it works when it doesn’t it’s extremely frustrating and there’s a massive issue with detecting 4s and 9s and occasionally 5s

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Metascore
64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 6, 2020
    68
    Brain Training doesn’t impress as strongly as before, however, its several hundred puzzles are still interesting. It’s both a game and an exercise machine, the best one it its niche. [Issue#243, p.49]
  2. Trusted Reviews
    Feb 7, 2020
    60
    Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Switch doesn't feel suited to Nintendo's latest portable, with the awkward use of the stylus and flimsy handwriting recognition sapping the joy from sharpening your smarts. There's still plenty of fun to be hand with the brain-teasing puzzles, but limited content ensures this is a far cry from the Nintendo DS original.
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  3. The Sydney Morning Herald
    Jan 15, 2020
    65
    Unique touches like the IR games and two-player competitions give this Brain Training a fresh edge, despite how similar it is to the 2006 original. But in 2020 there's nothing here — aside from those two aspects — that couldn't be done on smartphones, and that's probably where Nintendo should have put it.
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