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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $17.00
You Save: $2.99 (15%)
New (17) Used (8) from $12.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 367
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPAG3E
Model: NTRPAG3E
UPC: 454967392560
EAN: 0045496739256
ASIN: B000TTZMCS
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Sealed. Usually ship within 24 hours with USPS delivery confirmation.
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 Very challenging January 12, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this "game" for my husband for Christmas and we have both been using it. It really isn't a game, but more of a training tool, similar to Brain Age, in that it is meant to test your eye age and help to improve it. It takes you through various different exercises, which get more challenging as you go. As you get better, more exercises are unlocked and added to your training. It is really quite interesting to be able to see how well you really focus and how much you improve as you use it. It's great for us older folk, but even my 10 year old grandson enjoys playing it when he is here. Even though kids would enjoy using it once in awhile, I wouldn't recommend getting it for a child because it is not a game.
Great for all ages January 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed this "game" and would recommend it and when I took it to my son's house at Christmas. Our 9 year old grandson loved the sports feature and so did his 5 year old sister. She was so engrossed in hitting the pitched ball that she formed holes in the protective covering. By the end of our stay our grandson had surpassed my "eye age" in all games and I had to give him some money so he could buy his own even though he owns a Wii.
Excellent January 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just got this game from my boyfriend for Christmas because his friend got one for his girlfriend (and for himself too!) And this game is so much fun! It's rather like the Big Brain Academy type in that you're kind of solving puzzles but with less thought and more instinct.
The graphics in the base training aren't anything to write home about but I was very surprised to see that the graphics during the sport training (i.e. boxing, baseball, etc.) were very well done and almost realistic looking!
I just loved the eye cool down exercises, it is very relaxing after a 20-minute eye training workout.
Fun keeps coming... January 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are three games that I HAVE to play every day and that is: Brain Age, Brain Age 2, and of course... Flash Focus. This game is very challenging and gets extremely hard as you go through the levels and different activities! It is a really good way to pay attention to detail and train your eyes to look for certain things. I enjoy the sports games that the have... baseball, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong, etc, but all are fun. You get different activities every day based on your eye age check so it isn't as repetitive as some of the brain age games. Great game.
 Practical but Needs a Facelift January 1, 2008
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
Flash Focus is an eye-training game which helps you improve your peripheral vision, eye reaction time and other eye related functions. It is similar to many actual eye-training exercises used by optometrists.
Set up much like the Brain Age series, each player creates a profile. There are daily activities you perform to improve your skills, and then you do a series of tests to determine your "eye age". Your aim is to hit 20 years old, representing a young, healthy pair of eyes.
The tests cover a range of eye activities. There is the peripheral vision test, where you focus on a central spot but have to see the items around that. There are quick moving tests where you have to track a fast-moving object and remember where it ends up. There are reflex type activities where you stylus-click on objects, hit a moving baseball, swat at a ping pong ball. The more activities you work through, the more training session styles you unlock.
I definitely see the value of these activities, and like that it tracks your progress over time. However, I have the same complaint with this game as I do with Brain Age - and you would think that by now they would have fixed these issues.
First, the "discussion" involved with each game is maddeningly repetitive and annoying. You have to page through every single prompt. Surely by now they should have a "discussion off" option in the options menu!
Next, when they kick you up to hard, you don't get any credit in the tracking system. So if you go from easy games to hard games, and don't do 100% on the hard games, they berate you for being less good even though you are now MORE good, i.e. beating harder tests. If the point of the game is to improve your skill and to be tracked in that improvement, they should track it properly.
Finally, I am all for concentrating on the main task at hand, but some of the graphics here really could use a designer's touch. Remember, this is a VISION game!! The whole point is how things look! I think about how gorgeous Plankton looked, and that game was a very simple game. Just a basic overhaul like that could move this game from looking like it was made by 3rd graders to making it a game that's a true visual feast. They just didn't bother.
Well recommended for its practical eye enhancement features - but I really hope someday that a person with a clue about game design takes over the Brain Age group and overhauls these games with some basic but much needed upgrades.
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