Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training
Planned for release in 2013 close to the North American release date, the game was put on hold after being localized with no reason given. It was finally released on July 28th 2017, 5 years after the original…
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training is a puzzle developed by Nintendo SPD, released 28 July 2017 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training is
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training is a puzzle game developed by Nintendo SPD and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo of Europe. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Planned for release in 2013 close to the North American release date, the game was put on hold after being localized with no reason given. It was finally released on July 28th 2017, 5 years after the original Japanese release date. Developed in cooperation with neuroscientist Dr Ryuta Kawashima, the idea behind Devilish Brain Training - the third game in a franchise which has sold more than 15 million copies across Europe to date - is to train your grey matter by completing a series of challenging exercises. The gameplay puts emphasis on concentration skills and training your working memory - an important brain function based around the temporary storage of information for manipulation…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training launched on 28 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania and Splatoon 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania, Splatoon 2.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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