Brain Quest Games For Nintendo DS Review

I have had the awesome chance of reviewing the Brain Quest games from EA for the Nintendo DS. I was pleasantly surprised by these games. They are great teaching tools for your children, and I as a homeschooler rely on these games to make my 4th grader really use her brain.

This game has over 6,000 questions which means your child can be tested in a lot of different areas. The categories range from English to Math and Geography. The 3rd & 4th grade Brain Quest is set up like a jungle safari type adventure. In the Quest Mode you move from location to location with people to meet and quests to fulfill your child will be constantly learning. Puzzle are solved in unique ways using the stylus. Some have you crossing out an added letter to a word, some have you placing things in alphabetical or chronological order, and for not wanting to spoil the rest for you I will keep it at that. Trust me when I say your child can play this for hours.

My daughter started out going through the 3rd grade things just to be sure she knew it and then moved on to the 4th grade stuff. Now let me also say that times have changed since I was a kid. 3rd and 4th graders need to know things that I myself didn’t learn until 5th and 6th grade. When I picked this game up a few of the 4th grade questions stumped me. Of course it has been a long time since I have been in school, but all I can say is wow. At least my daughter knew it!

The only differences in the 3/4 grade and the 5/6 grade is the level of difficulty and the theme of the game is more surfer/skater type atmosphere. My daughter tried this game and struggled some questions in the 5th grade arena, which is fine seeing as she is only in 4th grade and some of these topics have not been touched on yet. BUT, this is a great tool to teaching those topics and introducing some new things that she is interested in learning about.

I am so very pleased at EA for offering a standout educational series for the DS. There are so many others out there and I have tried most of them, but none compare to the level of learning for these grade levels as these two games do. I am happy I got the chance to review them and will use them everyday in my daughter’s homeschool environment.