Other than most 'braingames', Brain Assist focuses on the right side of the brain (the hemisphere that engages in among others creativity, intuition and imagination). Four modes are available: Single game lets you practise, Evalution tests your abilities, Compatibility compares your skills with those of a friend and Multiplayer puts two to four players at work.

Single game allows you to make any exercise for as long as you want. However, after each exercise you are brought back to the main screen, which is quite annoying if you want to make multiple exercises. The Compatibility mode allows you to play with two players but also with only one DS, which is very nice.

In general the difficulty level is well balanced: it is not too easy, but also not so hard that it becomes frustrating. If you do get too easy through the exercise, nurse Eva shows up and gives you a challange. If that still is too easy, the difficulty level is heightened once more. During an evalution, Eva sometimes predicts your resultus, which is an encouragement to do better just to prove her being wrong.

That is one of the advantages of this game: humour. Everything is served in a light way, and that is what makes it so fun to train your brain. Making sums all the time or solve word puzzles or other similar activities will also train your brains one way or another, but often becomes very boring.

After each evalution an elaborate report is made, with points and advice. Per exercise you find what your exact sore is, what was good or bad and eventually which skills need to be trained and which exercises are useful for that. Unfortunately only the last report and the best ever is available, so it is not possible to compare with the very begining. The only way to follow your progress is via the little figures that appear in each braingame and that are available per exercise.

The music is rather a distraction than that it adds atmosphere, so I usually played this game without sound. The flashy backgrounds are a pain for the eyes, but luckily they only appear in the menus.