| Brain Age: Concentration Training | |
|---|---|
 North American box art | |
| Developer(s) | Nintendo SPD |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Noriko Kitamura Yuichiro Ito |
| Producer(s) | Kouichi Kawamoto |
| Designer(s) | Tadashi Matsushita Katsuhiko Kanno |
| Artist(s) | Kazuma Norisada Yuri Adachi Akira Koizumi |
| Composer(s) | Minako Hamano Shinji Ushiroda Megumi Inoue Shinobu Nagata |
| Series | Brain Age |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle, Edutainment[1] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Brain Age: Concentration Training,JPN known in Europe and Australia as Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training: Can you stay focused?, is an educational puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo. It is the fourth major entry in the Brain Age series and the first made specifically for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan on July 28, 2012, in North America on February 10, 2013, and in South Korea on September 5, 2013. It later came to Europe on July 28, 2017, and Australia on July 29, 2017, five years apart from the initial release. Dr. Kawashima presents the game's purpose as being to counter prevalent subpar concentration skills onset by social media and other aspects of modern life.[2][3][4]
Brain Age: Concentration Training features a selection of activities and minigames that are designed to stimulate and improve the player's concentration and working memory interspersed with brief lectures by Dr. Kawashima. Improvements to mental strength supposedly happen as the player advances to levels of higher challenge reflective of the player's current concentration subskill.[5] Amidst training activities, Dr. Kawashima mentors the player.
Aggregate review scores put the game at about 70/100.[6]
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