Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training European release date confirmed

Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training will launch across Europe - as a packaged game sold at retail or directly available to download from Nintendo eShop - for the 3DS and 3DS XL on April 12th, Nintendo has announced.

Developed in cooperation with neuroscientist Dr Ryuta Kawashima, the idea behind Devilish Brain Training - the third game in the franchise - is to train your grey matter by completing a series of challenging exercises with an emphasis on concentration skills and focus to train your working memory.

Devilish Brain Training offers 30 exercises and minigames, including 18 which are brand new, with the core exercises dynamically adapting to create bespoke training programmes for all abilities. For example, Devilish Calculations challenges you to recall the answer to a previous mathematical problem while paying attention to the next one in line. The questions come thick and fast and you have to concentrate hard while remembering specific information to make sure you don’t make any mistakes.

Devilish Mice challenges you to simultaneously track the path of several mice while they are being chased by cats. It sounds simple but the exercise requires much concentration. If you find one of the exercises too tricky and perform poorly then it will dynamically adjust the difficulty based on your real-time results. By offering a stiff challenge and shifting the difficulty to match your performance, Devilish Brain Training will constantly push you to stay focused and access short-term memories.

For further insight into the upcoming launch of Devilish Brain Training, you can check out the latest Iwata Asks interview, which explores some of the inspiration and mechanics behind the game, as well as talking to Dr Kawashima himself.