Brain Games - Left vs Right

I enjoy apps that keep my brain active and stimulated, and me busy when I want to pass the time. This app does just that. So far, this app is entertaining, and also gives my brain a bit of a workout. It’s not just another mind-numbing app. Of course, I enjoy those, too, but with a brain injury, I like to find things that fight the damage, that may stimulate new pathways, and help my focus and memory. It’s also an app my kids can play, which is always a bonus. On the downside, it only lets you play three games on the free edition before it shuts you down for the day. It says that you can watch a video to unlock another game, but so far that doesn’t seem to work. So I’m not sure you actually can. I may give the free trial a go to see if it’s actually worth paying the (IMO) steep price. I usually don’t spend that kind of money on an app, not when there are so many free to less-expensive ones out there. So, I also will keep looking at other apps. I wouldn’t mind unlocking everything for a low price, but $40 a year is a bit pricey to me. I’d rather spend my money elsewhere. I deducted one star for the price, and one for the fact I can’t get the video to work, so I can only play three games a day, which isn’t much. If it weren’t for that and I could play more, I would have given it 5 stars.

Although the game provides a challenge it has some problems. The first is an issue on its ability to be replayed. Although you can buy your way into training more it has no real way of actually effecting it’s ability of your newly gained skills being translated into the real world. The app even says so in its about page. This problem is further stimulated when you can just replay the apps games before its sessions are over(sorry to the guys who have exploited this) increasing the margins of newly played to newly advanced in a seeming time of well , 10 minutes. I would recommend making a retry limit of 2-5. The second problem was the progression in terms of standardized points. In the memory grid game I tested the session and got every part correct until the 12 part was given.(final part)on this I had made sure to miss one correct grid in to detail the difference. It had said that I was highly Normal and it was ranked as 129 in standardized points but I had reached the 97th percentile through the exploitation of another problem and the retry feature. I hope this is a bug. And if not then don’t fix it I guess. The last issue was the fact that if you can take screenshots on your phone you can automatically get a highly rated score in one of these timeless arbitrary yet fun games. This is an issue in most “brain games” such as elevate, lumosity etc. overall if you are an honest person who knows that cheating would be hurting your real scores then this game is a fine try.

When it comes to strengthening your brain it is very important to hit the “just right challenge”. If games are too difficult, players get frustrated and do not want to come back on a regular basis to continue. If games are too easy there is not really any point to playing them, other than wasting time. The program appears to starts you at a reasonable level of challenge and based on performance continues to give the player harder, the same, or easier activities. This allows for growth and improvement at a pace that allows the player to feel successful. I highly recommend Left vs. Right! My only problem is when I let the day slip away without doing it, then my “consecutive days of training” goes back to zero. But that is a matter of my time management and setting priorities, not a fault with the game. Try it for a few days and see how much you improve in a short time.