A hugely disappointing 'educational' game. It's shallow, repetitve, and extremely lacking in variety.
User Rating: 1 | Best of Tests DS DS
Don't let the title fool you into thinking this game is the 'best' of anything. This lousy collection of tests is uninspired to say the least, and is often simplistic to the point of idiocy. The game is separated into three types of gameplay: Intelligence test, Memory test, and Training, which are also separated into easy, medium, and hard modes. You can't choose the difficulty level, so you must play in easy mode first, which doesnt matter much since the test questions are ridiculously easy all throughout. For example, many of the questions go like this: "12, 13, 14, 15, ? Complete this number pattern". Then there's ones like this: "Clock, Bird, Night, Month. Which word means the opposite of Day?" In one of the memory questions, the number 14 appears on the screen, untill you select 'ok'. Then it disappears, and it asks you to enter the number. It's completely moronic. The questions where you have to figure out what the missing shape is on a nine square grid are all solved in the exact same way every time, no kidding. It's a total waste of time. There are a few questions here and there that are either super hard or a glitch in the game, and no one you show it to will know what the heck it's supposed to be. And It doesn't give you the answers to the questions you miss either, so you can't even learn anything new! To put it simply, this game is uninspired, repetitive, stupidly simple, and pretty boring too. I was about to say how glad I am to have only paid $10 for it, but I'd be just as mad if I'd found it on the street.