Review - Big Brain Academy: Brain vs.Brain, is worth the price of a complete game?

Big Brain is an immediate reference when we think of video games that help develop the "intelligence" of the players.However, its main objective, like virtually any other video game, has to do directly with entertaining ... and what you can.I make the comment to make clear what we can find in Big Brain Academy: Brain vs...Brain, that is, a game of Party and not a title to stop going to school.

Big Brain Academy was born in that brilliant stage of launching of the Nintendo DS, under the Touch Generations seal, mainly thought of using the console's touch screen to interact with the different riddles.On the other hand, unlike a traditional Nintendo title, in Big Brain Academy, minijuegos are developed to use mathematical or memory skills in the resolution of different problems.So what we have is a kind of Mario Party for those who do pay attention to their classes and the most recent delivery represents everything that this franchise represents very well.

More slowly, cerebrito

Brain vs..Brain begins with a small data collection about us as our age and profession and ends with unveiling nights trying to move the hands of a watch to reach the gold medal.In broad strokes we are faced with a simple proposal, adorned by the classic Nintendo touch and with a lot of challenges ready to test our mental skills in 5 different categories: perception, sharpness, memory, calculation and analysis.

Of first instance, and playing individually, we can access these categories in their “normal” mode, each includes 4 different challenges, which we will have to overcome with a gold medal to access the pro categories.If you play individually, and a bit casual, the challenges offer a good amount of content to keep the game installed and resort to it in free times.From the design of the challenges, to the difficulty, everything is developed in a way that you can intrigue by the result and, consequently, that you want to repeat the game to overcome the expectations of the DR.Lobe.

If you start in the order offered by the game you will find a series of riddles that increase their difficulty gradually, so you can learn the idea behind the game or familiarize yourself once again with the series.Of course, some challenges will be more complicated than others and you will have to dedicate a little more time to get the gold meda, especially when it comes to perception and calculation.As in other video games, and in life itself, once you train enough you can exceed the level ... but at times it could be a bit frustrating.

But don't worry, Big Brain Academy: Brain vs...Brain is a very fun game, of those you want to return for more after a good beating.No one thinks that putting the time on a clock will be so complicated until they ask you to go back 235 minutes;The same goes for the perspectives, where you only have one arrow as a guide and you must imagine and dimension the space to reveal what the arrow is in front.And while everything starts quite enjoyable within the challenge, in less than a minute you advance due to different difficulties, and in many cases the idea is not only to succeed, but to do it as quickly as possible.However, it is the variety of challenges and ideas behind them that make the game time special.Of course, many times the gold medal will get it to the first, but in most cases you will be close for just a few points, at least in your first attempt.

To expand the experience, Brain vs..Brain includes online game and local cooperative, which allows you to test your mental skills against people around the world or your family.For online modes, the game takes advantage of the statistics of other players so that you always have to compete, without the need to connect at the same time as other players.This works not to stop playing and preventing the lack of a community from preventing you from enjoying experience.On the other hand, the ways to play in the company of a friend are more traditional, inspired by Mario Party's dynamics and with a level of competition that could be as healthy as mortal ... according to the available players.

So that your ghost online has enough strength to face the world you will have to pass several exams available within the offline game.These will test you with different random challenges of the 5 categories available, the more supersed exams satisfactorily or, rather, among the best score you get in your most difficult individual tests will be that they defeat you online.On the other hand, you can also test your knowledge directly with those of a friend or family, because we have the possibility to connect with other people through an exclusive friend code;Although you can also link directly with the players you have added in your Nintendo account.

What if I had left on iPhone?

In spite of everything Big Brain Academy can offer: Brain vs...Brain, it seems to me that this full price title is too much.Like Wario Ware, this mini -game format has found an incredible place in mobile devices, where Nintendo itself has already had interesting interactions.My complaint does not go against the game, not even in Nintendo's decision to launch it for switch, I just seek to point out that for the same Brain vs...Brain in switch you can find more complete games, such as Metroid Dread, Skyward Sword or the next Pokémon Legends Arceus.Big Brain Academy is an experience that today can shine in the App Store, or on Switch itself with a much more fair price;especially in Mexico where the physical version is 1,200 pesos ... and that is already a reduced price.

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Big Brain Academy: Brain vs..Brain is a fun game, ideal to spend a little while next to the switch and with a multiplayer that will help you for the occasional meeting with your friends.While the classic challenge of the exclusive Nintendo games is there and the fun is not waiting, its price could be excessive, especially when all we find are a lot of video games ... well done yes, but that work better in othersplatforms, under other business scheme or at a considerably lower price.A good game, but out there are more interesting games for a similar price.}