2008 Reviewer
a100indecisions
Brookfield, IL

Promising in theory, boring in practice

1 star rating

Likes to be entertained, a techie, married, daily computer user, a busy professional
Pros

    more than one game

Cons
    instructions are lacking, tiles too small in Mahjong, suduko controls are difficult

SEP
2
2008
If you judge Professor Brainium's Games by the copy on the back cover, it's awesome. If you actually play it, you'll discover that whoever wrote the copy must have been writing about a different game. The in-game instructions are horrible - for example, one of the available games is "Go," and the instructions tell you how to place pieces on the board and how to win, but they don't explain the object of the game. After 5 minutes the computer player was beating me 3-1 and I had no clue how to make a comeback.

Mahjong is OK, but there are issues there too. The board is small and doesn't take advantage of the DS's two screens. The help/zoom/hint icons are too big, and in many of the configurations, they cover a few of the tiles - so the Professor's head pops up and prompts you to choose a help menu, when you really meant to select a tile.

Suduko was clunky, the Mind Bender game is lame (guess the color combination?) and the math-suduko hybrid was not explained well enough for me to play it. I rented this game via GameFly after seeing it in the store, and I am really glad I didn't drop $20 on this game. It's not worth it.



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