Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day
2007 video game
Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (known as Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising and Relaxing Your Eyes in Europe and Australia) is a Touch! Generations puzzle video game developed by Namco Bandai Games and Nintendo SPD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was released in Japan on May 31, 2007, as Miru Chikara wo Jissen de Kitaeru: DS Medikara Training and released in North America on October 15.
The software was developed with the supervision of Hisao Ishigaki of the Aichi Institute of Technology. The game trains players how to relax their eyes and trains them to be better.
Reception has been lukewarm. Critics were unimpressed with the training exercises. It was chosen as the "Best of Nintendo DS" games at the Games Convention in Germany in August 2007.
Gameplay
The interface of Flash Focus was compared much to Brain Age in the sense that it retains the same calendar interface, requires the player to sign his or her name in a box, and allows the player to design the calendar stamps. It also has a "check" program and a list of exercises, and players gradually unlock further exercises as they accumulate stamps, like Brain Age.
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