Dr. Kawashima's Infernal Brain Training Program is back! Talkative and in French, Dr. Kawashima will train you in a series of exercises where concentration, memorization and speed will be required. He will give you no respite to force you to give the best of yourself. Everything is done to push you to success without disgusting you after a few minutes, you will gladly come back to improve, or simply for some relaxation games that are not part of the infernal program. Forget about aging graphics, music (which you won't hear in this test), and discover our hellish test!
The diversity of modes and exercises!
There are 5 modes of the game, 4 of which have sub-modes that are only accessible after a certain number of days of presence! If you are not diligent…You won't be able to unlock everything.
– Concentration test: Accessible only after reaching the 2 deviation in the infernal calculation. In short, cubes will be displayed, they will have to be remembered. When the 3rd image arrives with the cubes, you must note the number of cubes in the first image, while retaining those in the3rd image…So on. At the slightest error, the test is finished. It is only possible to perform the test once a day, be careful!
– Relaxation: Yes, you have a relaxation mode, with 3 mini-games that should pass the time, including one called "Lipid Explosion", that says a lot. In short, you have to explode 3 squares of identical colors to earn points… There are no real issues, and you will quickly go your way.
– Brain training: It has 9 different modes, these are rather enjoyable mini-games. The first three are for gentle reflection, without imposed time. The goal is to solve the mini-games in the best way. You will first have a Duel of squares against the Doctor, where you will have to jump on squares to earn points, the one with the most points wins the game. Patience Klondike is practically a solitaire, you win the mini-game after winning a game, not all games can be won, you may need several attempts. Music lover is the3rd mode, every day you will have the right to a different melody to reproduce. A piano keyboard will be offered with a score, at first, it's a bit laborious, and then you will easily take the rhythm and it's even rather fun to be synchronized with the music. All exercises can be replayed.
– Infernal support: 9 exercises are also available, they unlock over time, and offer to increase your speed of reflection. Calculus 20 is the very first mode that you will unlock, you will have 20 calculations to perform as quickly as possible, it is usually subtractions, additions or multiplications quite simple, but which will require a little effort if like me, you use the calculator of your phone for everything and nothing. Mental arithmetic is something that we lose a lot and I admit it easily, the game proved it to me and reminded me to order! Explosive words will follow closely, a word (and not necessarily the simplest) will appear very short and disappear, you will have to write it correctly, the faster you go, the better your time will be, there are no real difficulties here, just be attentive!
The mode, Multiples is more complicated, a number will appear, you will have to check whether or not, it is part of the multiple displayed and if it contains this or that number. Sometimes it's rather simple, and sometimes you will get completely confused, the goal is to be as fast as possible with as many correct answers as possible, again, it requires to still have a good feeling with the numbers! Baston d'additions will be your 4thand last mode that I will detail here, yes, you need a little surprises that hell! The fighting mode is rather fun, you are a character who has to type the enemy additions that arrive, and to do this, you have to solve these additions. In short, if a character with 5, 3 and 4 on his outfit, you will have to write 12 to destroy him, you only have 3 lives, and your enemies sometimes move very fast! Either way, all these modes will push you to be fast. You have no room for doubt, so these are excellent exercises to gain self-confidence and speed of execution.
Dr. Kawashima's infernal training
Infernal training, we are finally there, it is the last mode to present. This one unlike the other modes offers you a learning note with a letter. Currently, I am at the beginning of rank B. The more you perform in the 8 different exercises , the more your rank will climb, on the contrary, if you regress, your rank will pull down. It will therefore be a question of being in shape when you attack them. Indeed, all these exercises are done in 5-minute increments. So you will have to focus on the same exercise all this time, and sometimes, it's long! Especially when you are not very fit and you do anything! All these exercises are demanding and will require more intense concentration than for the rest. They can only be done once a day, which is why it is better to be on top to make them profitable.
You will start with Infernal Calculus, and there from the beginning, it's the drama! This mode is very complicated for me! You will need to make 85% or more correct answers to move to the next level, 65% to 84% to stay at the same level, and below 65% to go down a level.To tell the truth it is about addition or subtraction, at the beginning you start with 1 gap, which consists in retaining the previous result of the operation, and to write it when you are offered the 2ndoperation, while retaining the result of the latter…So on. If 1 gap will not cause you real problems, it spoils when you level up, you will go to 2 slow gap (2 gap, 2 fast gap, 3 slow gap … ect), and there you will have to retain 2 results, and register the 1stto only the 3rdoperation that will appear, while retaining the result of the 3rd. The difficulty lies in the fact of having to make calculations while you retain the results of previous operations, you must associate in addition the speed of execution since if you do not respond fast enough, you automatically pass the operation that will count as an error. Sometimes you will be totally lost, and it is very difficult to be able to concentrate again after a mistake. A session contains about twenty calculations, so you will have to perform more than one during the 5 minutes allotted. Your last score will earn you points (or lose some) for your infernal rank.
Infernal cards, will be the second mode, it is a memorization exercise. Cards flipped, you must find each pair that is there. The higher you level, the more cards you have. It is a very pleasant exercise and that I particularly appreciate, I easily admit that it is for me more of relaxation than real exercise!
Infernal mice will be your worst nightmare. It is an exercise in speed and especially memorization. You have to solve two problems to level up, win one to stay the same, if you miss both, you will go down one level. In short, you have a grid with cats, and mice hidden in this grid. The squares turn over and you have to rely on your memory to remember where the mice are…Simple? This was until cats come to push back the squares, thus making the mice move from their initial place, sometimes to the point of making them come out of the grid, but be careful, they always come back to place, so you have to have an eye.
Infernal reading will also confront you with two problems (you know the principle): you will start at level 2, a sentence will be displayed, you will have to read it aloud and memorize the underlined word. At level two, you will have 2 sentences… After reading them, you will need to write down the words you have kept in memory. This is an exercise that I particularly appreciated, we go up quickly if we find mnemonic ways to remember said words! Personally, I form a sentence with the words, which creates relatively comical sentences, which will undoubtedly make you have a good time.
I will not go further in the descriptions, you will have to discover the game as you go. But each exercise is different, and varies the way you approach things. There is of course a lot of speed to have, but it will train a lot your memory, which we know, becomes particularly lazy with all our mobile phones (if you know more than a dozen phone numbers, I take my hat off to you!) or other technological gadgets! Moreover, we will not talk about graphics or music, because this is not the goal of such a game, the only defect to blame it would be that tactile recognition is sometimes hazardous with the numbers or letters you enter, which makes you waste time, or counts as an error.
With the 8 exercises of the infernal mode, it will keep you in suspense 40 minutes a day, but you are free to do the exercises you want in each mode, you can easily pull on about 2h a day if you wish. Nevertheless, this is a game that requires a lot of concentration and it will be time to stop the moment you start doing anything… In fact, the lifespan is very long, you will need about a good month of presence to unlock all the modes and it is very pleasant to train while having fun, the exercises adapt to your progress so as not to disgust you, it's a big plus. I particularly enjoyed my experience, between relaxation, and work! If like me, you suck at retaining information while doing something else quickly, and your memory tends to tell you, it's high time to buy Dr. Kawashima's Infernal Brain Training Program.
