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Home Articles Reviews Videos App Store Book Shop Forum Germination: Platform Puzzles Review By Adam Sinicki Check Out Germination! Brain training games have been around for a while now – and things like Luminosity and Nintendo Brain Age have helped to make them both pretty popular. However with both these sets games there is a distinct 'test' feeling that comes with them: you're doing maths, recalling numbers and generally testing your brain in a very black and white fashion. That's where Germination comes in – a brain training game that's also designed to be fun and to make brain training something you don't even notice. This is a game just like any platformer or puzzler, except it will really push your ability to plan ahead and think outside the box. Call it the 'thinking man's Mario'. How to Play Germination The idea behind Germination is that you control a 'friendly bacteria' (BeeBoo) who has crash landed on a meteorite on Earth and on each colourful level you're tasked with cleaning up all the germs that came with you. You do this by navigating around maze like levels which take you from the beach to the mountains (the Zakopane mountain range in Poland to be precise) to the home and through the computer in a Tron-styled segment. Through all of it the difficulty comes not from the platforming itself – BeeBoo can't jump and has no moves other than 2 dimensional movement – the problem is planning the order that you're going to collect the germs in as each tile affects you in a different way. Collect a germ and a gaping hole is left on the floor behind you meaning you can't backtrack. Walk over a spring and you get catapulted over chasms, walk on a swirly tile and your controls are reversed, walk on an ice tile and you slip over it. The challenge then comes from working out the order that will allow you to navigate around the whole area without getting stuck, but also from remembering what each tile does (and working it out in the first place). This is the kind of logic that chess players use to plan their moves ahead and that has been demonstrated to help prevent age-related cognitive decline. You have to think outside the box, think creatively, but also be able to store a lot of ideas in your short term memory as you plan ahead. This challenges all kinds of areas of your brain and studies into brain plasticity suggest this could actually permanently improve those areas. Ultimately though this is just a fun game that is highly rewarding when you complete it and that has vibrant colors and music to keep you happy playing even when you're close to banging your head against the wall. Check Out Germination!  Copyright 2012 The Biomatrix.Net

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