You track your progress with a handy calendar, marking off the days. The game even has four save slots, the goal to get family and friends involved. There's also more than 100 new sudoku puzzles, a cool puzzle game that plays like Nintendo's old school NES classic Dr. Mario, the ability to send a demo to someone else's DS and finally, the following four multiplayer modes: Vs. Picture Drawing, Vs. Word Scramble, Vs. Number Memory and Vs. Change Maker. All in all, this is one yummy brain package.

What we dislike, however, is the wonky touch screen and microphone recognition. That plagues the original Brain Age, and to Nintendo's credit, the developers improved this with the sequel. But it still crops up. Sloppy hand writers will curse as the game fails to recognize correct answers, while the microphone sometimes misinterprets responses. In fact, during Rock, Paper, Scissors, we scored four right answers by saying the words "win" or "lose" instead of saying rock, paper or scissors. That's not cool.

These issues notwithstanding, Brain Age 2 still manages to shine, offering plenty of content at a very attractive $20. The fact that it may keep one's brain in shape is an added bonus. So give that pile of mush inside your skull a workout.