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Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day.
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Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day.
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"Following the massive success of both Brain Training and More Brain Training across Europe, Nintendo has now decided to unleash the Bandai-Namco developed Sight Training over here as well. But whilst it is possible to engage your brain by testing it out everyday, just how well does it work when it comes to training your eyes? Is ‘Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising and Relaxing Your Eyes’ really one training game too far?"
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Cubed3
"You need your eyes tested. Once a day, if Nintendo has anything to do with it. Now our brains have been trained they're out to improve our looks with Face Training, our bodies with Wii Fit and our vision with Sight Training. Who knows what'll come next - blood pressure, lung capacity, vaginal elasticity?"
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Eurogamer
"Well, eGames 2007 has now wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean our coverage of the event has finished. We still have a small number of previews and other features from the event that still have to go up onto the site. One such preview is for Nintendo’s Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising and Relaxing Your Eyes, the next release in their successful Touch Generations range. Sight Training won’t be available until early in the New Year for Australians, but with the game having seen retail release in North America, we suspect very little to change in the final release."
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PALGN
"Between Brain Age, Brain Age 2, Big Brain Academy, and a dozen clones of the concept, DS owners' minds should be feeling mighty sharp these days. But what about your eyes, those underappreciated squishy spheres that you're so reliant upon for your gaming needs in the first place? Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day -- the newest entry in Nintendo's Touch Generation series of edutainment games designed to keep you fresh and youthful from head to toe, inside and out -- aims to exercise them."
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1up
"If your brain has an age, then why not your eyes? I suppose that's the premise behind Flash Focus, the new self-improvement game designed to pump up five areas of optical talent: Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision, Eye Movement, Peripheral Vision, and Hand-Eye Coordination.
Noting that many people think videogames in general already provide practice in some of these areas, what's done in Flash Focus to warrant having a whole game dedicated to training your eyes?"
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Gamepro
"Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is the next in Nintendo's line of training games. With Brain Age and Brain Age 2, your goal is to work on developing a faster, more efficient mental response. The goal with Flash Focus is to help you increase your visual capacities and learn to see things better. Much like the Brain Age series, the game tracks your progress over time and encourages you to train daily."
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Advance Media Network
"Despite a somewhat different title, Flash Focus is a blatant imitation of the Brain Age series. The good side of that comparison is that fans of brain training will like eye training just as much. The bad side is that Brain Age 2 was released just two months ago, so if you recently played through that game (or are still playing it), Flash Focus is probably too much of a good thing."
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Nintendo World Report
"October 22,2007 - With the astounding amount of success the various Brain training games like Big Brain Academy, Brain Age, and Brain Age 2, Nintendo's goal to expand their gaming audience has been working like a charm. Nintendo has gotten people into believing that games are indeed making them smarter, but is there anything else such games can improve? Nintendo believes so, and they've gotten Namco Bandai to help out with a new game called Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day."
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Gamer 2.0
"OK, so between the Brain Age games and Big Brain Academy, your mind is super sharp. Your noggin can cut glass, but what about your vision? It's probably a total mess. That's probably why Nintendo and Namco have teamed up to take the Brain Age concept to a new series of minigames with a focus on hand-eye coordination, as well as other visual concepts, with the release of Flash Focus. OK, so the science is probably just as shaky as it was in Brain Age, but either way, this collection of quick and easy minigames is still pretty good."
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Gamespot
"Some gamers may complain, but it seems as though videogames created for the casual player are here to stay. A couple of the more popular entries in this growing genre have been Nintendo's two Brain Age titles. Continuing this trend is Flash Focus, a sort of Brain Age spin-off. Instead of claiming to boost your brain power, however, this game hopes to train your vision."
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Gamespy
"Casual, ‘Minutes a Day’ training continues on the Nintendo DS. After the tremendous success of brain training games worldwide, Nintendo takes a stab at a new gaming approach; vision training. Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is intended to enhance your perception and observation skills through short daily exercises, much like the Brain Age titles aimed to train your brain. If you have played either Brain Age title you should know what to expect, seeing how extremely similar this title is to them. Unfortunately, this means that Flash Focus shares the downfalls that the brain training games suffer from. Continue reading to find out just how Flash Focus is like Brain Age for your eyes."
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Gonintendo
"Adult training is a big market for Nintendo and its Nintendo DS handheld system. After it struck gold with its brain strengthening games Brain Age and Big Brain Academy, it seems that Nintendo won't be content until there's a training program for every part of the body. The latest aim is eyesight in the form its newest release: Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day. I can certainly appreciate what Nintendo's trying to do, and certainly partially enjoyed some of the tests that are in this product, but it definitely doesn't give that same sense of accomplishment that the Brain games do."
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IGN
"Hoping to build on the phenomenal success of the Brain Training series, Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day takes a side-step from the little grey cells to work on your eyes.
The newest addition to Nintendo's Touch! Generations series of titles mixes mini-games and vision tests intending to expand your visual perception and acuity. But while we're not entirely confident that the science behind Flash Focus will actually improve your vision, from what we've seen at the recent Penny Arcade Expo, it definitely has gaming appeal. (And we're not alone: the game was declared Best of GC on DS by the jury at the Games Convention last week.)"
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Pocketgamer.co.uk
"I'm done training my brain. Training my eyes is the way to go, I think. With Flash Focus on Nintendo DS I feel that I can develop my eyesight into something super-human. Like an owl, or a cat. Check out the two levels on display at PAX:"
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Wired
"It’s been 2 years since Brain Age the first “non-game” was released in Japan for the DS and it shows no signs of dropping out of the top 10 titles whether in the East or West, selling over a massive 4 million copies in Japan alone. However, while Western shores are pretty much stuck with that one non-game title at the moment, the Japanese have been receiving many more training games covering all sorts of activities but none have really managed to achieve the same success as Brain Age until now. The latest craze to beat Brain Age 2 in the charts is “Practical Observation Training DS” topping the Japanese sales charts for several weeks now."
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Gamebrink
"At the E3 Business and Media Summit in California this month, Nintendo revealed it was adding yet another game to the Touch Generations lineup here in the US. Known as Miru Chikara wo Jissen de Kitaeru: DS Mejikara Training (Observation Training) in Japan, Nintendo of America has renamed the title, calling it Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day.
The premise of Flash Focus is quite simple, the game utilizes the same concept as Brain Training in that it uses a battery of routine exercises to maintain and even enhance the accuracy of your hand-eye coordination and visual acuity. This game, jointly developed with Namco Bandai, will be home to a number of tests that range in difficulty. A playable demo was available at E3 which featured two playable modes, Quick Play, and Training. In the final game two more modes will be available, Daily Training and Download play."
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Nintendo World Report
"They say focus is what makes Lewis Hamilton the driver that he is. Well that, masses of talent, access to a £10 million driving simulator, and a car that probably cost about £300 million to develop. But other than those things, yes, it's all about being able to see clearly.
So after sharpening our brains with Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, Nintendo's now moving on to help us in areas such as hand-eye co-ordination, peripheral vision, dynamic visual acuity, momentary vision and eye movement (whatever those all mean)."
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Pocketgamer.co.uk
"If your mind is in shape, you’re smart. If your body is healthy, you’re fit. And if your eyes are sharp, well, is there even a word for that? Maybe not, but there is an upcoming Nintendo game for the Nintendo DS that will make your eyes feel like new again and help you develop dynamic visual acuity called Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day. We know that doesn’t sound as cool as giant pectoral muscles or a brilliant sense of humor, but if you don’t think having good eyes is good for gaming, well, you’re blind."
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Gamespot
"Nintendo is clearly on a mission to turn gamers into super-humans. From focusing much of its (and our) energy on increasing activity in various corners of our brains with Brain Age to the physical challenges of the newly announced Wii Fit, it's clear that Nintendo is going to continue its string of expanded-audience games for a long time.
And why not? Confirmed for US release at E3 2007 today, Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day has already made a huge splash over in Japan. Under the equally unwieldy title Miru Chikara wo Jissen de Kitaeru: DS Mejikara Training, Flash Focus has already rocketed to the top spot of the Japanese sales charts since its debut at the end of May (source: Famitsu Data Service, June 2007)."
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IGN
