Challenge your mind on Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training! This Nintendo Switch game features daily exercises to sharpen numeracy, literacy and memory
Do you like to keep your mind busy with numeracy, literacy and memory games? If so, Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch could be a great way to give your brain a workout, even if you don’t normally play video games.
Whether you played the original version on the handheld Nintendo DS console in 2006 or you’re new to the series, this updated Nintendo Switch game, which was released in January 2020, offers classic and new exercises to help strengthen your mind.
The £22.99 game features a series of daily exercises that challenge your information processing speed, short-term memory and self-control to calculate your brain age.
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training could be a great way to give your brain a workout
You can also play multiplayer and challenge friends and family by using one Joy-Con each. Plus, if you’re connected to the internet and have a Nintendo Switch online membership, you can share your training results and compete for high scores with friends.
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training offers multiple play styles so you can enjoy the classic skill-building game in an all new way.
This includes holding your Nintendo Switch console vertically and using the included stylus (should you purchase a physical copy of the game) and your finger, as well as using the right Joy-Con’s IR motion camera.
One Amazon shopper wrote: ‘I bought this game as I recently got a Switch to cure my lockdown boredom and I can say that this is really good for keeping your brain thinking every day and to build up the connections between your neurons.’
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training offers multiple play styles so you can enjoy the classic skill-building game in an all new way
‘I love that I can play this game with my family docked to the TV because it means that I can laugh at them when their reaction time is slower than mine!’
‘The single player mode is very useful because it has a calendar so you can tell when you last played and unlock new game modes and ‘levels’. My favourite is the piano one because I have also been trying to learn the piano. You rack up some hours playing this game.’
Some Amazon customers have mentioned the number of exercises you can play are slightly limited if you own a Switch Lite. This is because there are a select few challenges which require a Joy-Con pair.
Nintendo say you can purchase these separately to connect with your Switch Lite console, but it seems many have been left disappointed by this play style.
Other Amazon customers don’t seem too bothered though, as most of the daily brain training exercises and brain age tests can still be played on the Switch Lite, without the use of Joy-Cons.
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