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Brain training games are a dime a dozen on Nintendo’s platforms. With the prospect of getting smarter while playing games so attractive to so many players The Amazing Brain Train tries to make the experience of learning a little more fun than the reality most of these puzzle games bring.

If the visual style (chock full of cartoon animals and the cutesy Professor Fizzwizzle) isn’t a good indication, The Amazing Brain Train is designed for kids. There isn’t a whole lot of detail in the animated characters and things feel pretty generic, but for an unlicensed learning game it’s about as interesting as it can get without distracting kids from actually playing. Moment to moment the images look fine, but with the Wii’s low-resolution the blown-up 2D critters seem a bit blurry and lose their sharp lines in the haze.

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