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| Big Brain Academy (Wii) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £32.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 43
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL-P-RYWE
Model: 90017
UPC: 045496900175
EAN: 0045496900175
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: In Stock Now , Order before 3pm for Same Day despatch by Royal Mail First Class post , Worldwide shipping by Airmail also available
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent game, shame about annoying instructions July 27, 2008
This game is a fun way to excercise the brain. The main downside is that you must endure long, tedious, repetitive and annoying rumblings in the form of instructions. This unnecessary addition to the game (what on earth were they thinking?) can put gamers, especially kids off; therefore only three stars.
You've played it on the DS now play it on the Wii July 9, 2008
It's cool. Pretty much the same as the DS vesion in terms of the puzzles. However it is quite funny to play against someone particually family members!. Not sure it would be a game i would keep coming back to on a daily basis but certainly worth a shot. To be honest i play my DS version more because its portable.
 Boreing!!!! May 31, 2008
I originaly thought that this game would be a solid addition to my games catelogue for the wii, but I was more than a little dissapointed.
It is the same old thing over and over again,as previous comments have stated it all comes down to how quick you are, and unless you have speed on your side this game will reach a certain stage were you can go no further.
In retrospect I wish i had saved my cash for another game!
Tedious May 29, 2008
I haven't played the DS Brain Training game, so this is to review Big Brain Academy purely on it's own merit.
At first the game is fairly fun, as you learn how to play the mini games and try them all. However, after finishing each challenge on easy you come to realise that the basis of this game isn't so much to asses and improve your problem solving skills, but to measure how quickly you can click buttons. None of the mini-games are particularly challenging themselves, instead to achieve the higher medals offered you need to finish the challenges at an almost impossible speed. The speed requirement wouldn't be nearly as irksome if it wasn't valued so much higher than correct answers. A 60% mark can give a much higher score than a 100% mark achieved in a couple of seconds more, which renders acquiring the medals as more relieving than satisfying. To add injury to insult, the seemingly endless amount of speech doesn't lessen.
The pages of speech are mildly irritating at first, but after about the 50th time of reading the same inane congratulatory notes you dream of the option to skip them.
Big Brain Academy is quite entertaining as a party game (as long as it's not played for too long), but can become quite repetitive and doesn't measure up to the 'fun factor' of other games that are intended for party play. Overall the game seems to act best as a way to allow families with small children to play together in a slightly more intellectual way than sports and party games do, but anyone wishing to be challenged or stimulated should just pick up a puzzle book.
Way, way too much chat to sit through April 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The brain training games themselves are quite fun and varied, but there's way too much written 'chat' to wade through each time you play.
The instructions are very neat and concise, it's the blasted 'professor of the academy', a peanut like animation that goes on and on between the games. Considering you can complete a game in under a minute you continually have to just sit there and let Professor Peanut run through his pages and pages of 'well done' speech every single time. It's truly painful. And there's no way to skip through it...
Without Professor Peanut this game would've been great, as it is it's just too frustrating to use for any length of time.
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