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Love it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a senior citizen, I am concerned about retaining my "quick vision," memory, etc. Flas Focus is a fabulous tool in exercise for the eyes, and in my opinion, also helps in maintaining our alertness. I felt reluctant to get it as I thought of it as a "kid" game, but I did get it, and I really enjoy it. It is helping to improve my alertness. "If we don't use it, we lose it!"
I will be buying more of these exercises, games, etc. for my Nintendo DS!

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, if you like Brain Academy and these types of games. My 7 year old son loves the sport games. It is a great visual training. I like to play those games on trips but even at home I play it now. Would buy it again.

good for your brain and vision therapy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My husband is an optometrist who does vision therapy. These games are similar to some of the things he would have patients do to increase their focusing ability. These games are fun and on top of that will help with focus, reading comprehension and even hand eye coordination. Might as well improve yourself while having fun.

This game really works!(?)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had 20/20 vision all my life and still do, but have needed reading glasses since turning 40 (I'm 45 now). What a pain having to take them out to read things like dosing instructions or cooking directions on packaged foods. After three days of doing all the exercises in this game, I can read fairly small print without the glasses! What a wonderful game!

Finally, A Game That's Good for Your Eyes!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Flash Focus is an outstanding game because the minigames are fun and it gives you an idea of how your eyes are doing. I'm not sure if the games really help your eyes, but it uses graphs to make it easy to determine the strengths and weaknessses of your vision. For example, my eye movement is superb, but my momentary vision isn't so good. The graghs also show how you have improved and how you've gotten worse. It also gives you an eye age check. If you're eye age is the same as your regular age, your vision is normal. If it's above your age, then you have a lot of room for improvement. If your eye age is lower, then your vision is good. The minigames are fun, quick, and pretty easy. The only bad part is that there aren't many minigames. If you play this game once a day for about 10 minute for 8 days, you'll be almost finished with the game. Anyone can play this game!! My sister (who HATES videogames) likes this game! The first day I got this game, I had 3 save files for 3 people!! Flash Focus is a great game for a great price!!!

Great for all ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have enjoyed this "game" and would recommend it and when I took it to my son's house at Christmas. Our 9 year old grandson loved the sports feature and so did his 5 year old sister. She was so engrossed in hitting the pitched ball that she formed holes in the protective covering. By the end of our stay our grandson had surpassed my "eye age" in all games and I had to give him some money so he could buy his own even though he owns a Wii.

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game from my boyfriend for Christmas because his friend got one for his girlfriend (and for himself too!) And this game is so much fun! It's rather like the Big Brain Academy type in that you're kind of solving puzzles but with less thought and more instinct.

The graphics in the base training aren't anything to write home about but I was very surprised to see that the graphics during the sport training (i.e. boxing, baseball, etc.) were very well done and almost realistic looking!

I just loved the eye cool down exercises, it is very relaxing after a 20-minute eye training workout.

flash focus

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved the game from the time that i loaded it. Great game for agility especially for those of us who are fighting the effects of aging.

It's not easy!!! But I think the training pays off!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this is like a "Brain Age" for the eyes. That said, it is NOT easy albeit pretty darn accurate at least for this reviewer as it has my age right around the right neighboorhood (between 39 - 45 when my real age is 40).

Nevertheless, a good workout and I do think it is effective in training the eyes to work a little faster. After having played this over a few months, I discover myself performing better on some of the minigames in both Brain Age (low to high) and Big Brain Academy (the number memorizing game under "memory").

My only complaint (and this is only my opinoin): The new eye age check is based on the last eye age check. If a player did well on a previous eye check, the next eye check will add more difficulty. That difficulty may not necessarily be surpassed yet then the game will report that the player had results that "dropped dramatically" when the reason for the drop may be in the increased difficulty level and not necessarily in the skill. That can be misleading and can give a blow to a player's confidence level. It would be interesting to know statistically how the score is generated.

Nevertheless, with both mundane activities as well as sports activities and explanations as to how certain skills may be beneficial in certain sporting events, the game is very well done. Stick with it and don't let the game get you down if you don't perform quite as well one time than another. There are multiple factors that tie in including a player's baseline fatigue, the lighting, the time of day, et cetera.

fun, fun, fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am not a gamer by any means but when it comes to educational games, I'm for all the way. The kids have allowed me to participate with them and this is truly a fun game.

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