Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been posting blogs lately. Today I've got a brand new game to show you guys. Here is a brief descripion from the offical Australian website (http://cooking-guide.nintendo.com.au/)
Revolutionise the way you cook, with Cooking Guide: Can't decide what to eat? on the Nintendo DS. Providing you with the assistance of a friendly Chef to talk you through the finer points of every recipe, you'll soon be serving up delectable dishes from all over the world! With voice recognition technology that lets you navigate through each cooking session by simply speaking into the Nintendo DS microphone, Cooking Guide couldn't be easier to use. Helpful tips and demonstration videos ensure expert advice remains close at hand in the kitchen, while a huge range of recipes ensures you'll always find something to suit your tastes. Decide what to cook based on how long a recipe takes, how many calories it contains, the specific cooking method and more! Add a handy Shopping List facility, calculator and Kitchen Timer into the mix and it's easy to see why Cooking Guide is you all-in-one culinary compass! 
I hope that this DS game will help you explore your cooking skills in the kitchen.

Imagine: Pet Vet

Imagine: Pet Vet is part of the Imagine series. With this game, you are a vet and you must take care of the animals that you are caring for. Many of your tasks that you have to do through the game are:

Diagnose and cure various animals

Deliver fast and accurate diagnosis using the stylus as a stethoscope, X-Rays, syringe, microscope and thermometer

Cure dozens of illnesses and bugs such dehydration, broken legs, inflammations, bronchitis, fleas etc...

Cure the animals to make sure your reputation increases.  

Take care of and play with the animals: interact with them, and understand their behaviours

Manage the hospital: Build, improve and repair the facilities

Expand the hospital and buy new furniture in order to attract more patients

This game is perfect for children who want to become vets in their future.

New Blog

I have a new blog that I've started. It's about the books that I'm reading for the MS Novel Challenge. I'll be reading books through out August, so please check out my blog and it will have a link to my offical MS Novel Challenge site so you can donate.

http://shellysmsnovelchallenge.blogspot.com/

Sudoku Gridmaster

Hey everyone. I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately. Busy with school and stuff. So lets get our brains wake with Sudoku Gridmaster.

The Sudoku Gridmaster is for sudoku lovers. The game holds over 400 sudoku puzzles and four different settings (practice, easy, normal and hard). And you'll be able to take a sudoku test that will calculate your sudoku skill level. Other than the DS, there will be a Sudoku Gridmaster coming out for the Nintendo Wii. So if your a sudoku lover, then buy the Sudoku Gridnaster.

Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth

You all might be thinking "Why would a game about Doctor Who be educational?" Well, the answer to that is it's full of PUZZLES!!!!!!! The puzzles that Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth include jigsaw puzzles (either a piece of a machine or trying to fit objects into a container), lock picking (mostly done by Amy Pond), mazes, finding objects for other characters in the story, picking out which picture is the odd one out and many more. The story is that the 11th Doctor and Amy Pond arrive at a spaceship that's still on Earth and is about to take-off because the Sun is soon going to explode and roast the Earth. It turns out that one of the human's who are part of building the spaceship found the TARDIS and built it into the ship, so the Doctor and Amy try to get the TARDIS back. 
I own the game, and I think it's okay. In some puzzles (mostly the jigsaw) when you try to move an object, you sometimes end up move another object you didn't want to move. But I still think it's an okay game.




 

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Hey everyone. Today's educational game is Professor Layton and the Curious Village. The game is part of the Professor Layton series; which involves the main characters, Professor Layton and his assisstant Luke, who solve puzzles that are part of the mystery plot. With The Curious Village, Professor Layton recieves a letter from a lady whose husband, who was a millionaire or a lord, die and left a riddle in his will. The riddle will lead anyone solves it to his treasure, The Golden Apple. You have to guide Professor Layton and Luke around the village and solve many different puzzles. While solving these puzzles, you will earn points and at the end of the game you'll recieve a prize.
I own this game and I think it's really good. I have fun when I'm doing the puzzles, and feel happy when I solved them and I didn't need any hints to help me. Through out the game, there will be animated videos that play out through the story.
So I would suggest to buy Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

My Japanese Coach

The My Japanese Coach is a game that's part of the My Coach series. With this game, you'll learn to say Japanese words properly by speaking into the DS's microphone, write the Japanese characters with the Touch Screen and stylus. The game's activities include flash cards, multiple choice questions, hit-a-word, fading characters, write cards, memory, word search, etc. I'm planning to buy the game myself soon, cause I'm learning Japanese at school this year; so this came might help me a bit more. So if you want to learn Japanese, go for the My Japanese Coach.

Art Academy

The Art Academy game is a portable tutor that teachs you painting and drawing techniques that you would in real time. Through the game, you will take ten lessons that will teach all different techniques in painting and drawing. 

 

100 Classic Book Collection

The 100 Classic Book Collection is reading game, that holds over 100 books by famous authors. The game lets you select a book you would like to read and change the font size. There are many versions of this game. There is a US version, UK version, French version and a German version. But I'm going to list the titles that are on the US version.

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tales from the Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
• The Napolean of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
• Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard
• King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
• Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Four Million by O. Henry
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Iriving
• The Apern Papers by Henry James
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• White Fang by Jack London
• The Pricess and Curdie by George MacDonald
• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• King Lear by Willam Shakespeare
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Othello, The Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Walden Henry David Thoreau
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Other than those books, if you have a DS the has Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, you can download these titles as well:

• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
• Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• The Happy Prince anf Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

So the 100 Classic Book Collection is a great game for you to take with you when you go on really long trips to places, or to just read a classic story, or for a school assignment. 

Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?

The first game that I have chose to post is Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?. I own the game and I really enjoy it. There are many different training exercises. There is sudoku, syllable count (which you have to count the syllables in a sentence in the quickest time), reading aloud, stroop test (say the name of the colour the words are in), word memory, speed counting (counting 120 out loud as fast as you can, but not sluring the words together), connect maze (draw a line from the letter of the alphabet to the number), calculation, head count (count as many people who enter and left the house), triangle maths (solving the math problems in a certain way. This exercise I don't understand) and low to high (you have to remember where the numbers were before and touch on the lowest number to the highest number. The Brain Training is really fun, and its really funny when you compare your brain age to other people's brain age. So if you buy this game, I hope you'll enjoy it.