We're used to playing Brain Age games on the Nintendo DS, and video of heavily Botoxed celebrities teaching themselves basic skills on the system have been used to sell the Nintendo DS to women and older gamers with great success. Dr. Kawashima and his theories on mental age are back in Namco Bandai's Body and Brain Connection, but this time the game is coming to Microsoft's Kinect, exercising your entire body as you complete challenges in math, logic, and reflexes.
The problem is that the game seems to be on the Kinect because it's a hot new thing, not because playing these games with your arms and legs adds a needed layer of complexity to the gameplay. Remember, we want motion controls to be better than the alternative, not just different.
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