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How many times have you miss judged something when playing sport or when driving the car?
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The Nintendeo DS Lite is a dual screen portable games console created by Nintendo. The DS Lite features a touch screen, microphone and Wi-Fi. The DS is available in a range of colors specific to region. Click Here FOCUS FOCUS… How many times have you miss judged something when playing sport or when driving the car? If it frustrates you and you own a DS the answer is here. Don’t be fooled though Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day or simply Flash Focus is not a game but a training program for your eyes on a gaming console.
This is one of the best selling games on the DS, not quite living up to the 18.67 million copies of Nintendogs, but at 2.52 million copies is no light weight and, for the lack of what people view as necessary in a game (e.g. Fighting, Driving and Cuteness) holds its own nicely. As in the other games in the training series this game when in Daily Training mode does in depth eye age checks, determining the work out for that day based around the results of your performance in this test. After you have completed your eye age check each day you can then go back and access your recommended training from Today’s Recommended Training. Or if you’d prefer you can select the activities to do by selecting Custom Training and then choosing between Core Training and Sports Training. What’s that? Oh I didn’t tell you all about the Sports Training well…
… Sports training is based on certain activities in one of seven different sports: Baseball, Boxing, Table Tennis, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer (Football to the British) and Gridiron (Football to the Americans). In Baseball the focus is on batting, Boxing on punching and dodging, Table Tennis on rallying, Basketball on identifying teammates quickly, Volleyball on spiking, Soccer on passing and goal scoring and finally Gridiron focuses on Advancing the ball. All these make for quite enjoyable games (and they’re helping train your eyes) and use the stylus very well indeed for the different sports.
Core training however is filled with 10 activities which all help build various eye skills that we all use in day to day life such as: Hand Eye Coordination (HEC), Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA), Peripheral and Momentary vision and Eye movement. Some of these activities are based wholly and solely around one of these skills while some combine two or more of these together. Core Training Activities are: Box Track, Number Flash, Symbol Order, Middle Match, Box Tap, Letter Count, Circle Spot, C Count, Fast Match and Number Tap. The Sports training activities are definitely more visually appealing and impressive but the simplicity of the graphics in the Core training is better for concentrating.
There are two levels of difficulty Normal and Hard. To unlock hard you must score in the top percent on each game on normal difficulty. Each day you do the training you place a stamp on the calendar and the more of these you acquire the more games you unlock in sports and core training.
I have found this game to be quite enjoyable but some activities are not challenging. I have noticed my results in the various activities steadily increase as all results are graphed so you can, at later dates, go back and see your progress. So go and find your car keys and then use your vision skills (or lack of) to hunt this game down and then to find the checkout. Hmm I swear it wasn’t there when I came in…
Game play: 3/5
Re-Playability: 3/5
Use of DS Hardware: 3/5
Overall rating: 3/5
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