Big Brain Academy is getting revived and introduced to Switch owners this holiday season via Brain vs. Brain.
We currently live in a time where any IP, no matter how forgotten or obscure, is off-limits when it comes to a remaster or a revival. Nintendo keeps trying to prove that and has done so yet again by bringing back a short-lived series from more than a decade ago and debuting it on the Switch just in time for the holidays.
Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain will be here on December 3. You can check out the launch trailer, which Nintendo decided to drop on a Thursday morning out of nowhere, below. The first Big Brain Academy game was released on DS in 2005 with a follow-up, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, on the Wii two years later.
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The series has remained dormant since then, due in some part to its first installment being overshadowed by the far more popular Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training launching that very same year. Nintendo has clearly seen some worth in the old IP however, probably for some of the reasons on show in the announcement trailer above.
Big Brain Academy no longer needs to be a game you sit and play by yourself as was the case on DS. While Brain vs. Brain can be that, the focus by Nintendo is the ability to play it with others. Whether it be two people using the same Switch in handheld mode, or up to four people playing Brain vs. Brain while the console is docked. You can also play online against the ghost data of fellow players all over the world if you ever do want to play Brain vs. Brain alone.
The game feels a lot like the Switch's 51 Worldwide games. A bigger game made up of multiple mini-games that can be played alone, but is ultimately designed to be played with others. It will actually be slightly cheaper than 51 Worldwide Games when it launches on December 3, retailing for $29.99. It should also prove as evidence that any series, no matter how long it has been since the last installment, is ever off the table when it comes to a sequel.
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