Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima App Reviews

Excellent way to spend time. There are so many choices of what can be played. I am glad I have it. The only improvements I would suggest are to be able to listen to my music while I play and when I am playing Sudoku, let me save the game instead of exit and it is gone!!!! I do not like that!!!!

This is a great and addictive game and helps developing the brain instead of just keeping you busy or so it says. The design of the UI is however disappointing. Heres what I think about the game: PROS: Great games in the title. Online profile. Compare results with other players. Keeping track of progress. CONS: The interface is not well designed. It takes 4 taps and close to 15 seconds to just get to the main page, and 12 menu items of which 3 is only visible. The game asks every time it starts whether I want to use sound instead of saving it once in each user profile. I feel like Im working with a TV remote instead of an iPhone app. Every time I start a Quick Play game, it takes 4 taps to start the game and theres no way to disable those training and introduction pages of games go away. Namco could combine it all in one page. Also if they could make the progress bar in the game horizontal instead of vertical, some more space is freed up for the game itself. I cannot save Sudoku game to continue later. Online scores dont tell me how many people are there in total, I just see 20 people around myself. Help doesnt explain what letters H and E beside score icons stand for. I hope Namco will improve the UI with next updates.

The games are good, but not very challenging at all. The layout is the major problem. Its very easy to hit the incorrect button, and unlike other similar applications, this one accepts your answer immediately upon button press. The keys are also in a layout that is not common, so it slows response time. The absolute WORST part, though, is that if there is any interruption to a game (for example, from a text message), its locked out for the rest of the day, unless you delete and recreate your profile.

I too, like some of the other reviews, am baffled by the controls. I imagine its a Japanese thing, but the controlled are laid out 0-9, This is really confusing as we expect it to be 1-0, just like a keyboard. It causes a lot of errors while trying to respond quickly (As all games are time based). Strange for a company like Namco to do such an error. At least it would be cool if this could be changed in the options. The second and REALLY strange thing is that the game wont let you play it more than once a day ?! It really takes itself seriously as an Exercise tool. And prefers that you follow a strict regimen of playing it once a day. Are they afraid well pull a brain muscle or something?! You can play quick games when locked out, but these arent added to your score or wont allow you to unlock new games. Quite strange.

The exercises are not bad. Some are not challenging enough as a "brain training game". Biggest problem is that the games get easily interrupted by a push notification or wrongfully pressing the x button, and the training is locked for the day.

It looks like the latest version corrupted my profile. Every time I click on my old profile the app crashes. A new one works just fine. Ive had to delete the app and reinstall to release my old profile name, since you cant manage profiles from the start screen. Luckily I only lost two days of data. The rating is based on my previous experience with the app.

The new update crashes app when trying to open old profile

New update wont allow me to access my profile. Crashes when I choose.

iPod touch 5thでも、すぐに落ちます

The game wont load after the last update

iPhone6plusやっと使えるようになりました！

Ugly pixels ! I love this game, but pls add Retina support!!!

Dear Sirs, app is crashing on the start. Ios 4.1.3, iphone 4s. Dont buy until fixed. Ребята, не покупайте: вылетает при запуске.

I am lost on how to play the dice game due to the one dice with a red pit. Whats its value?

I enjoy using this daily, specially the sudoku... But the serious downside is being unable to listen to my own music at the same time.

Ive had this app for about a week, and am enjoying it. I have received the Sudoku bonus game. I dont necessarily have time to finish a Sudoku puzzle in one sitting. It would be great to have an option to save a Sudoku game to my profile to finish later. Also, since some of the games are not so familiar to me, I would like the option to turn off the timer when doing a quick play of a game. That would let me study the game to learn how it works. For example, Id like more time to figure out the 3D aspects of Pipe Connection (how to make the pipes cross over each other to complete connections), but that darn timer keeps putting a big red X across the game! :-) Thanks.

You wont get addicted to this app because they only allow you to play once a day. I also like the fun games.

Ive purchased several products from Dr. Kawashima, and theyre all proven to be effective in terms of brain exercise. The results was that I see improvement on my focus and speed of thinking. These method and exercise are based on years of research from Dr. Kawashima and that really works..

My version has a bug so Ive yet to get it to work. A keyboard or another device is supposed to appear so that I can select my answer, but it doesnt happen.

I was looking for a brain game and when I saw that Dr Kawashima had one I knew Id buy it. The games are simple yet difficult and, more importantly, enjoyable. Navigation can be cumbersome, but its certainly not a deal breaker. Good times!