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Review on Cortex by Leon Hart
All of the Cortex challenge cards have a symbol on the back corresponding to…
All of the Cortex challenge cards have a symbol on the back corresponding to which challenge it is so you always know what the next challenge is going to be. The top card gets turned over and then you check out the challenge on the card. When you think you have the answer you put your hand over the card and give your answer. If you get it right (which you likely will) then you get to keep the card towards a trade in for brain pieces. To make the game a little more of a challenge (and it really needs something) you can only have 4 cards in front of you at one time.
Pros
- I tested Cortex out with my kids first and they enjoyed it, and it makes me think that perhaps they’re around the right age range for it, but I have also tried it with a couple of adults and we managed to complete a game within about 6 minutes feeling less satisfied than if I’d just walked out of an M Night Shyamalan movie. For me, this is the card game equivalent of Jar Jar Binks. It’s the game which probably shouldn’t have happened and no-one will acknowledge for very long.
Cons
- My biggest issue is that considering the word “Challenge” appears a lot in Cortex, it’s not a challenge. I have put some thought in to how I could change it to make it a challenge. What I came up with, was playing the game whilst doing a plank over some burning coals. Now that would be a challenge! Maybe trying to do the memory challenge while simultaneously having a pair of ferrets running up your trousers, but then I decided that was a little too Japanese game show for my liking. I have since decided the biggest challenge Cortex has to offer is going to be convincing me to go back and play it again.
