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Essentially a cross between DS mega hit Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training and a school text book, Junior Brain Training 2 asks your child a variety of questions related to English and Maths in it's aim to train their brain. While Nintendo's Brain Training stuck to simple arithmetic and related mini-games, Junior Brain Training 2 is much more complex, covering some fairly advanced concepts for the young age their aiming at - long division anyone?
If your child's just started learning long multiplication, and does it in the same way as the game, then this would be a great way for them to practice. Not just testing multiplication, you'll need to know addition, subtraction, and long division as well (we still can't do that...)
. On the English side of things, with mini games that have you highlighting the tense of certain words in a sentence, along with identifying the adjectives, determiners, and other various words in a sentence - this will likely challenge your child's lingual skill too, if they're in the right age range.
If you're buying the game for a young child, you can expect them to keep popping to you with questions, as the puzzles they'll be being set will most likely be about things they haven't yet touched on in school - the questions don't adjust themselves to reflect your child's age in the slightest. For people with children towards the top-middle of the age range, this should be a game you can just leave your children to play, as after all, it's their brain it needs to be training!
As a Brain Training game, the only questionable content in here is the decision to not tailor the questions to your child's age. There's no bad language, blood or anything else remotely offensive whatsoever.
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Format Reviewed: Nintendo DS
