For some time now, we have been witnessing the arrival in force in Europe of games that have a scientific vocation, so that young and old, men and women find themselves around a single game. Thanks to this new era of casual gaming, the DS has made a name for itself around the world and not only thanks to a few titles from the "Touch Generation" range, but also thanks to the triumphs of the two brain training programs of Professor Kawashima, of English Training: Progress in English without Stressing or Cerebral Academy. Since then, several other video game players have embarked on the quest for the Grail with achievements, either superficial (Become a Genie with Dr. Makato Shichida: Logic), or inappropriate as was the case for Point Blank DS. Needless to say, no one has Nintendo's know-how in this area. And it is therefore obvious that the publisher was not going to concentrate its efforts solely on its portable console, given the spectacular results of the Wii in the four corners of the world. Neither one nor two, while waiting for Brain Training to join the line-up of the console, it is Cérébrale Académie which opens the ball with Cérébrale Académie on Wii.
An IQ of Thousands
What more could Cerebral Academy bring us on Wii? This is the question that we can ask ourselves when discovering the same outdated and simplistic graphics engine of the DS version. We like it or we don't like it, but this choice allows you to better understand the events without the screen being overloaded with useless information. But all the same, there is enough to remain hungry, especially for a console that claims to be more powerful than a GameCube. But the arrival on Wii of the series is beneficial for one thing, or rather for several small beings who wander shamelessly in the Megabytes of our console. Your Miis, which have been gathering dust since you carefully put away Wii Sports last February, will be put to work here, as they will become students of the academy. By registering a personalized avatar, you will then have access to your file, your statistics, your records and your evaluation, because the principle of this Cerebral Academy on Wii remains the same as on DS, namely to measure your speed, your logic, your memory or your perception through a multitude of tests. But here, we swap our stylus against the Wiimote which will act as a pointer to validate, select, choose a good answer. It is sure that level gameplay, difficult to make simpler. You point with the remote control and only use the A button, even when navigating through the menus. And to help or encourage you, a small voice will escape from the speaker before each challenge. Fun but quickly boring because of the monophonic sound quality.
Who has the biggest?
Let's talk about these challenges. They are divided into 5 categories: identification, memory, analysis, math, perception. They can be played separately in "Stretching" mode or as a block in "Exam" mode. It is this last mode that will tell you the weight of your brain according to the correct answers given, but also your speed to answer. It is better to start by reading the rules of the 15 exercises one by one before jumping into the bath, because once in the game, you have to be concentrated to the maximum, have a seasoned eye and a formidable flick of the wrist to select the right ones. answers. For example, in the Identification category, you will have to knock moles according to the images displayed in a diagram, discover a photo that appears little by little or illuminate a room in order to designate which animal is the most represented. On the contrary, in "Memory", you have to visually memorize certain faces or objects, or repeat a sound sequence backwards. As for those who pay attention to detail, they should shine in "Analysis" mode, where they have to designate two identical identical blocks, reproduce a geometric shape by destroying colored bricks, or answer a question by selecting one or several pictures. Simple, fast, but things get tricky with the Maths and Perception options. The first features additions, equalities and counts through three mini-games, while the last requires you to carefully observe a scene in order to visualize the answer. Thus, you will have to drive a train to its destination by selecting its trajectories, paste objects on an image so that it looks like the sketch and finally find the intruder among four sequences. All these events offer three to four difficulty modes. But when you are in "Exam" mode, they will evolve according to your answers. Five categories therefore with three events each, which makes 15 challenges in total, which is exactly the same as on DS. If at the time this number could pass, on a home console it's a bit light, even if we find some new tests in multiplayer mode and more particularly in "Quiz Neurone" mode where the tests and the difficulties are random. Playable up to 8 with a single controller, this option allows you to create four teams. Team play is also invited in "Mental Marathon" mode, except that here, players can cooperate to go as far as possible by accumulating the correct answers. If a wrong answer is given or if the timer drops to zero, it's over. The third and final multiplayer game available in Brain Academy on Wii is "Brain Dash" where you can race against a friend or the computer. Only the fastest can win the game. But again, that's not enough. And after half an hour of play we went around this Cerebral Academy on Wii, even if the principle of the game is to improve your results by practicing it regularly.
