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Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Namco Bandai Games
Genre(s): Edutainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Summary
(Also known as "Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising and Relaxing Your Eyes") You've trained your brain with Brain Age--now sharpen your eye power with Flash Focus! Fast, fun activities and quick-play sports challenges give your eyes the challenging workout they need. The first time you play Flash Focus, you'll complete a short series of activities to evaluate your Eye Age. Train every day to lower your Eye Age and challenge your Focus Ability in the five major categories: Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision, Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision, and Eye Movement. Flash Focus is designed to be played a little bit every day. Like the Brain Age games, it features a calendar that tracks the days you have completed your training by giving you stamps. By playing each day, you'll unlock more activities and sports-based tests. Each time you complete an activity, your results are added to line charts so you can easily follow your progress. [Nintendo]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Gamer 2.0
With the plethora of options waiting to be uncovered after every passing day, it's hard to not enjoy playing Flash Focus. The game offers the player a lot, and at the same time, limits what can be done day by day.
Read Full Review >Gameplayer
Sight Training has no story at all, and no context beyond the potential to improve skills useful in your everyday life. It is simply a tool – a good one. If you want to improve your vision, it’s an affordable first step.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
Even though Flash Focus is neither a masterpiece nor a highly anticipated title, it may draw some good sales. The game is cheap, innovative, interesting, and well designed.
Read Full Review >NintendoWorldReport
Although it's not very original, the content found here is compelling and fun, and the sports twist proves to be inspiration for several addictive mini-games.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
For a simple little collection of fun minigames, $20 sounds just about right. If you've enjoyed other games of this ilk, you'll find Flash Focus to be a refreshing alternative.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
Extra goodies aside, Flash Focus doesn't fall far from the Brain Age tree, so anyone who gets a kick out of using their DS to put their bodies and minds to the test will enjoy this.
Read Full Review >1UP
The presentation is straightforward and functional, but it doesn't pull any punches about what it is -- a training application with a very specific purpose. It accomplishes that perfectly well -- just make sure that you're expecting gratification through progress and not just mindless enjoyment.
Read Full Review >Official Nintendo Magazine UK
It may well improve your coordination but no more than any other game. [Christmas 2007, p.92]
Games Master UK
It does what it says on the tin, but it's not really a game as such. [Feb 2008, p.82]
Zentendo
The game is simplistic at best; it doesn’t come with a lot of bells and whistles, and in some cases lacks what Brain Age set up as the fundamental training video game.
Read Full Review >Pocket Gamer UK
A brave effort to bring vision training to the masses, Sight Training won't appeal to most and is undone by the blind spot of dullness.
Read Full Review >GamePro
Despite the cute retro-styled characters, cheery music, and narrated post-work-out relaxation exercises (which I actually skipped after the first time because they felt like more strain than comfort), I can confidently say this is not the next must-have brain game.
Read Full Review >Maxi Consolas (Portugal)
A limited exercise plan for the eyes with little challenge that fails to give us the perception that we’re making any real progress. It’s not even close to Brain Training. [Dec 2007]
IGN
Brain Age is far more believable as a brain trainer than Flash Focus is an eye strengthener, even if neither will really make you smart or see clearly. Flash Focus just seems like it's just more quick reflex and memory retention challenge…and there's just not that many of them to make a full Nintendo product.
Read Full Review >GameDaily
Nintendo simply grabbed a bunch of corny challenges and copied Brain Age's presentation, and the result is an average game that probably does nothing to replace our coke bottle lenses.
Read Full Review >Games Radar (in-house)
For those who are truly desperate to gain any advantage they can in their vision - all the moneyed falconers and old men crossing the street out there - well, play it for a few weeks, but don’t be surprised if you spot an unwanted space in your wallet where twenty bucks used to be.
Read Full Review >PALGN
Sight Training is an okay title, those who want to feel better about their eyesight will probably get a bit out of the game, but the exercises do become repetitive, which is not a good thing when you'll be doing the exercises every day.
Read Full Review >Modojo
Flash Focus: Vision Training In Minutes a Day is cheap, checking in at $19.99, but even that doesn't seem to justify what you are actually getting here.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
Sight Training is no fun. There's not enough to do and what there is to do is tedious. It's hard to believe it improves your visual abilities any more than eating carrots makes you see in the dark.
Read Full Review >games(TM)
If you’re truly worried about your vision we recommend spending the £20 on an eye test instead, as Sight Training will offer you nothing but prolonged boredom and headaches. [Jan 2008, p.127]
Game Revolution
Cocked to the side of intellectual myopia, Flash Focus is a blurry and beady exercise that wants you to keep it one foot away from you – but you’ll probably do that and more.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark Reule gave it a5:
From the creators of Pac-man comes a title that is hard to classify as a game: Flash Focus Vision training in minutes a day. Flash Focus is in the vein of the new casual brain training games offered by Nintendo such as Brain Age. The idea behind these games is that if you do these brain exercises everyday, you will improve your thinking, comprehension, and memory down to the optimal age of 20. I did not have much confidence in this game after I read on page 5 of the manual, “This software is not intended to improve your focus ability.” Then what is it supposed to do?
Tom A. gave it a3:
This is basically brain training, except you only get to see your question for 2 seconds and call it "eye training". and that 2 seconds is how long it will take you to realize that you've been ripped off.
