A series of tests for ambidexterity. This is a minigame collection that's a poor excuse for a brain trainer.
Left Brain Right Brain DS consists a series of tests for ambidexterity. This brain trainer is a minigame collection that, according to Majesco Games, will train both the left and the right hemispheres of your brain. There are 15 mini-games that will supposedly improve the use of our left (or less dominant) hand.
Left Brain Right Brain is played with the DS on its side. You are asked which is your "good" hand, but you spend your time in the game playing with the other hand. You play for a while with your good hand and then once you set a high score, then you spend the rest of your time attempting to match or better it with your weak hand.
These minigames test your reflexes and hand and eye coordination by tapping objects with the stylus. Little circles are called "balloons". The art-style is very bland and the colors used are dull tones. You just pick off squares, or crunch up gray matter that covers animal icons. The gameplay is the same thing over and over. There isn't any variety once you've done the simple mazes, tracing, connect dots, drawing letters, once. It doesn't have the same simple charm that the original Brain Age games have. Even in the mini game where you are supposed to save Earth from a meteor shower, all it is are more colored circles that are called "planetoids"
It seems weird that ambidexterity rating is the goal of training your Left Brain or Right Brain hemispheres. The game doesn't have the sopohisticated evaluation under the hood. It simply averages the scores you get. Any score over 80 percent makes you a "master."
The game seems unfinished in several regards. The art work could have been mush better. It doesn't have the deptht that you would expect from a game about the brain hemispheres. You'd think that there would be a bunch of math quizzes for the left brain and several ESP tests for the right brain. This was a good concept, for a future game. This one doesn't cut it. I give Left Brain Right Brain DS a disappointing and don't bother 4 out o 10.