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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree   Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Amazon Price: $29.99
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Release Date: June 12, 2007
ESRB: Everyone
Publisher: Nintendo
User Rating: (270 Ratings)
Amazon Customer Rating: (67 Ratings)
User Status: 83 currently playing of 410 owning the game
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14 Miis
oky but it gets old fast.
So far, a really fun game. Better with more than one person
This game is pretty cool and fun... if you played the DS version, then this is the game for you to get!
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8 Miis
Very fun and competative, keeps you on the edge of your seat, trying to crush your opponents!!!
Excellent game controls. Same winning recipe as in DS. Too expensive, since DS is a $20 title and this one is almost the same thing.
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30 posts
4 Miis
one of the best games ever. im trying to choose between mario party 8 and this
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75 posts
8 Miis
This game is great. It is a perfect party game for the Wii. Players compete in a series of minigames that are more intellectual than anything WarioWare or Mario Party can throw out. Players are timed on a series of quizzes that involve identifying, computing, visualization, and other genres in order to score a larger "brain weight", thus determining how smart you are. My friend and I had a lot of fun playing against each other. It is another great game for the Wii.
Very addictive. A "smart game", needs better multiplayer though
Very addicting, great use of WiiConnect. Be my friend and check out my scores!
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A good game. I can only play it for about 15 minutes at a time before I get a bit bored, though. I don't have anyone to play along with, so the solo play gets dull quickly.
Real fun game great challenge and fun for 2 people too play
This game is fun for the whole family, from young to old. I thought this game was awesome because it really puts your mind to the test and kind of makes fun of you at the same time when you dont do so well. The challenges are fun and it is especially excellent when you play with teams.
That was it? The game features the same thing over and over again.Cool at first but gets real old real fast.
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34 Miis
it's a great multiplayer game... unless you're friends are smarter than you. It's also fun to play by yourself, but like mario party 8, you can't play it for long without using multiplayer.
yeah




cool
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108 posts
2 Miis
its a good game mostly when you compete with someone else
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25 Miis
big brain academy: wii degree is a fun game for everyone to play, you start off by enrolling into the school, from there you take a test to see how smart your brain is, after that you can play and practice various game modes to train your brain, you can also compete against another person in a race to see who finishes first, in the end big brain is a simple game that provides lots of fun for everyone
1 posts
it was cool the begining was too long!
Decent game, but "smartness" was all about how fast one can move the remote and click on stuff.
I thought this was a great game but should have been online. My friend and I have a lot of fun comparing brain weight and playing against each other. The graphics are comprable to a flash game on a computer. The real fun only lasts so long. My overall thoughts are that it was a great improvement compared to the DS game but Nintendo should have included Online play and much better quality graphics.
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Great to see who is smarter. Lots of fun challenges, but not all of the games are offered in practice challenges. Also the game is realy only fun you have four or morew friends over.
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4 Miis
Great game to play against someone. Because you want to out do them so BAD! LoL
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42 posts
70 Miis
It's a great game to play with friends and family, but with only 15 minigames and 3 multiplayer mode (only 2 being competitive) the excitement doesn't last too long.
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1 Miis
good
Great game, different levels and competetions. Disadvantage is the startup and all the text screens you can't skip.
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A game that the whole family can get into no matter the age.
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352 Miis
Now I have Big Brain Academy for my Nintendo DS Lite and that game is way not as fun as Wii Degree...

Brain Age and Big Brain titles have combined sold more than one-hundred ga-trillion copies on the company's dual-screened handheld. All right, a slight exaggeration, but these games were unpredictable hits, appealing to all types of buyers with mental challenges that could only loosely be described as gameplay by traditional standards. And unlike so many of the graphical powerhouses that are here Monday and gone Tuesday, these simple brain puzzles -- designed to "expand the audience," says the Big N whenever it possibly can -- have legs. Their appeal doesn't thin and disappear with age because, like Tetris, their mechanics are timeless, and as a result you may still find a DS brain game in the Top 25 best-sellers list a year after its release. Not bad for a series of projects inspired by someone at Nintendo who didn't technically work in development; he merely suggested that the publisher create something that would hold the attention of adults. Somebody give that man a raise.

Nintendo's Brain Age and Big Brain titles have combined sold more than one-hundred ga-trillion copies on the company's dual-screened handheld. All right, a slight exaggeration, but these games were unpredictable hits, appealing to all types of buyers with mental challenges that could only loosely be described as gameplay by traditional standards. And unlike so many of the graphical powerhouses that are here Monday and gone Tuesday, these simple brain puzzles -- designed to "expand the audience," says the Big N whenever it possibly can -- have legs. Their appeal doesn't thin and disappear with age because, like Tetris, their mechanics are timeless, and as a result you may still find a DS brain game in the Top 25 best-sellers list a year after its release. Not bad for a series of projects inspired by someone at Nintendo who didn't technically work in development; he merely suggested that the publisher create something that would hold the attention of adults. Somebody give that man a raise.
The unique make-up of the DS has helped foster efforts like these. Whether you're using the stylus to simmer some food in Cooking Mama, sewing up a patient in Trauma Center, washing off your puppy in Nintendogs or frantically solving math problems in a brain game, these genre-breaking undertakings have succeeded partly because they are easy to understand and even easier to control. But what works for DS may not always translate to Wii. Trauma Center made the transition to home console with few hitches, but the same could not be said of the sloppier-controlled Cooking Mama, whose utilization of Nintendo's innovative remote felt uninspired, if not forced. Let's face reality: there are certain games that are just more suitable for a handheld, right? At first glance, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree -- a console-ified take on the DS title of the same name -- seems like a gimmick. If you're a cynic, you'd call it a cash-in, which may not be that far off the mark. It's not as though the game really branches out from its DS predecessor, after all. You enroll in the Big Brain Academy, a virtual college complete with a very basic graphical hallway and doorways that lead to a series of challenges designed to really put your mind to the test. And if you played any of the brain titles on Nintendo's handheld, you will notice immediately a very similar presentation, not to mention puzzles and mind twisters that seem familiar in some fashion.
But Wii Degree is also unmistakably redesigned for the Big N's home system and in contrast to a game like Cooking Mama, using the Wii remote to solve the puzzles never feels awkward or clunky. Rather, it feels great -- it's incredibly tactile and responsive. In addition, Big Brain on Wii comes complete with some very engaging mental challenges (many of them completely original) and a highly enjoyable multiplayer mode -- arguably one of Wii's best, particularly if you want a Wii Sports-like experience. It only takes a few minutes with the project to discover that it's not just the DS game with a new cover, but a smart console interpretation of a winning handheld phenomenon.
Wii Degree's interface -- we're referring to everything from the design of the college to the menus -- is intentionally designed to be ridiculously simple. You won't be booting the game up to show off its graphic prowess -- there are, frankly, very few visual accomplishments to speak of here. The main hallway of the Big Brain Academy looks like something out of an Internet Flash game -- in other words, basic to the point of being archaic. It's a strange thing to note, then, that it doesn't qualify as poor and it certainly doesn't offend. In fact, it looks very colorful and clean in the same way that Wii Sports does. The game automatically pulls your system's Mii characters and you will see them walking around the hallway in the foreground, which adds a welcomed touch of personality. As an aside, Wii Degree is compatible with WiiConnect24 and auto-imports your Wii system friend codes so that you don't have to manually implement dozens of stupid random numbers in order to re-add your buddies -- we love this and hope it's a sign of the future for all Wii titles.
The Wii game features only a disappointing handful of modes and you will inevitably learn that the title is best played with friends. If you've got none, you can still go solo and test your brain on a daily basis, which is still fun, but you'll be missing out on one of the console version's biggest advantages, which is the two-player simultaneous play or up to eight-player trade-off play, both robust and addictive. You'll begin the game with a test, which ranks your brain in five categories, from identify and visualize to compute, memorize and analyze. You're scored an initial brain size for your (hopefully stunning) performance and it's this early ranking that is used as a base for all your follow-up endeavors; the game constantly judges how you've improved over time with easy-to-follow stats. From there, you can wander the very small hallway of the academy, where you can take solo tests or go into group mode to play mind sprint, mental marathon and brain quiz, which are together the meat and potatoes of the effort.


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29 posts
7 Miis
Great minigame based game. Good if you like repeating the same games and getting quicker and better at them. Also improves intelligence
So far it's a good and trivial game
Big brain training is definetly better than the ds version.
it is a good game with multiplayer on there to
pedazo de juego adictivo y super divertido
MULTI PLAYER QUITE AWSOME
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6 posts
7 Miis
hiya this is a great game if you choose to play against other wii friends.

great fun when you are just sate up late at night.
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Exactly. A little disappointing. My sister wanted to get it, since she wanted to test out her brain power , that's exactly why I didn't put as 1 - awful, because it really does test out your brain. It was kind of disapointing because why get it on Wii for like 50 dollars when you can get it on your DS for like 20?
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Eh it's kinda fun when ya start but then it starts getting boring.
Fun when you first start but it gets REALLY reppetitive
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23 posts
3 Miis
A ok Wii game to train your brain and also uses wiiconnect24 but would of been better to play wi-fi battles but i mainly bought this game because it has miis to play with and the wiiconnect24
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1 Miis
This is definitely a game worth renting if you have a weekend with nothing to do, but if you're just plain antisocial, this game isn't for you. The exercises and such are fun for a little while, but get old after a couple of days. Still, I find myself coming back to this game a few times a month, and it is overall a good game.
Theres only one word to describe it......Rubbish

It never was good and never will be........
i really like the big brain games. i liked it on ds, and now i really like it on wii. the thing is, it can get a little repetitive, because sometimes you see the same puzzles over and over. don't get me wrong, there's alot of puzzles, but sometimes it's just the same one almost back to back. now, as far as multiplayer, it's a great challenge your friends game, and that's what i like. my friends and i constantly see who's smarter, which is really fun for us. the next one just needs more and more puzzles.
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5 Miis
One word. Addicting. If you have more then one person playing this game it becomes a competition of the minds. Very fun actually, I was impressed.
good for a while.. wouldnt play hours at a time..
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1 Miis
a good game... but i find it hard to keep faithful to the... "train your brain daily" concept

like most wii games its best with friends...
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10 posts
8 Miis
this game is a load of fun, it improves your brain and is a bargain. this is definetly a great game.

it fun with friends, its fun with family, it is really a superb choice. the game pin points at your weaker categories which is excellent because theres always room for improvement.

the five categories identify, analyse, compute visualise and memorise are used to improve your' reflexes and thinking. the makers makes it help you and they make in a fun way.

if you have friends who have this game, you can exchange scores and compare brain weight (which is the score measurement).

it fun and competetive. a really great game.
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1 posts
1 Miis
me hubiese gustado que fuesa mas variado.
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1 Miis
We all love this, although I find some of the screens a little slow moving. Much better for a variety of ages than it's DS counterpart.
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32 Miis
This game is okay. But I am also doing very good in it. It can be fun sometimes. But can get very boring.
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12 Miis
This game is a WarioWare-Style Brain game... Kinda weird and hard for the first time, but the more you play it, the more you get into this game and after some time you just can't stop playing!
It's very addictive, there is lots of stuff to do, like collecting medals, and powering up your brain. The multiplayer mode is absolutely gorgeous, but even then only if you have some friends over...
But even if it looks somehow perfect, at some parts its just.. Strange. The graphics look like straight out of a flash-game (I'm not a GFX-*****, but Nintendo, please..) and it even wouldn't be so hard to make such a flash-game. It absolutely also lacks some depth, after you played all the minigames... There's just nothing left to do! Not like Brain Age, where you have daily activities and so on, no! Big Brain Academy also lacks a full statistical view. What's my progress? Where do I suck, where do I have to improve?
Well, it's certainly something you can show to your parents and say "hey look, it's a game even you can play", but after half an hour your dad will scream "gimme back my WiiSports!"...
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86 posts
27 Miis
Very fun, AdDiCtInG!! it's very competitive if you have more than 1 person playing..........
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21 Miis
(Big Brain Academy Wii Degree)Is One Of The Best Games I've Played Since Wii Sports! Big Brain Academy Wii Degree Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat All The Time When You Play It. Once I Played It 10 Times In One Day and Got My Dad(Who Hate's Video-Games)To Play It+My Sister. Big Brain Academy Wii Degree Will (And Nintendo Is Right!!)Get Non-Gamers To Actually Play Wii And It's Games. So My Advice Is For Gamers+Non-Gamers To Get This Masterpiece! That Is Why Nintendo And The People Who Made This Possible Should Get 5 Stars For This Game And Be Proud Of It!