for the cross exercise;
if it deviates left you have to counter it by pushing the joystick right, its very much like flight sim or flying a plane. i.e. if the plane gets pushed left by the wind you want to keep it straight so you have to counter it and push right. pushing the joystick forward makes the cross go down and pulling back makes it go up.
for the shape exercise; do you mean the one where you have to find a shape in two puzzles? if so yes this is a timed exercise i think it was 30 seconds? but thats more then enough time, i didnt bother using the whole 30 seconds, the shape is only in the picture ONCE so as soon as you see it you press your answer (thats what i did). choices are in the left picture, right picture, nither, or both. so its pretty simple. i wouldnt waste time on it. if it doesnt stick out it probably isnt there.
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jason