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Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 371
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.8
EAN: 3307210257710
ASIN: B000RK2P8I
Release Date: November 16, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 nice puzzles shame about daily objectives July 7, 2008
at the start this game was really good fun to play, meeting daily objectives was fun but with everything unlocked there is little left to comeback to or encourage you to keep going.
the increasing of your daily objective results in you having to play each game at least twice which is makes daily training grow dull quick.
the games themselves are good but are overshadowed by the need to meet objectives, unlocking them all doesnt take long either, at least brain train doesnt require you toplay the same games multiple times.
Creeping Americanisms June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun game, especially if there is someone else in your household with whom you can compete to get the high-score for each game. However, as others have pointed out, the Americanisms that permeate it can be pretty irritating (I've nothing against American English, in America, but lazy software companies really annoy me). For example, the game insists that homoeopathy should be spelt homeopathy. The spelling tournament mini-game is frustrating as the accent of the person reading out the words is American, so make sure you check the meaning of the word rather than just relying on what it sounds like - for instance, "chorale" was pronounced like "corral". "Ampoule" was pronounced according to the American spelling, ampule, so that it came out sounding like ampYule.
These are just a few examples of the American English seeping through into this game, but if you can live with this, you have a dictionary to make sure the "correct" spelling it has given you is actually the correct one, and you don't mind your children possibly learning incorrect spellings, then this game is worth buying.
 Warning to UK users : American vocabulary! April 30, 2008
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
For me this game is ruined by the use of the American spellings of words. For example:
'jewelry' rather than 'jewellery'
'program' rather than 'programme'
'traveling' rather than 'travelling'
...and so on.
Also the game includes several stereotypically American words such as 'condo'. This wouldn't be so bad, but it doesn't explain that it is actually an abbreviation. One more example- I don't think I have ever heard a British person use the word 'peewee' (with the exception of it being part of the name of Peewee Herman).
The game has an option for selecting the user's country which includes the USA, Canada and the UK but this doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the spellings used.
Of course it would be easy to argue that American spellings are becoming the dominant form, and if you can agree with this then the game is reasonably enjoyable and some of the games are quite fun (but then some are a bit annoying), but as I am British I would not give this to a child growing up in the UK.
 my word game April 20, 2008
This is one of the best educational games in the DS range of games .
My Word Coach March 11, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was really intrigued with this game to start with and played it regularly. However, unlike Brain Training and Sight Training I have found it to be very limited and repetitive, irrespective of whether letters sink in the soup! Trying to get through the requisite number of words in order to "stamp" the day becomes very tedious.
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