Poll: Your three favorite DS games

1. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (technically mine is Gyakuten Saiban, as I wanted the LE version)
2. Animal Crossing Wild World
3. Mario Kart DS

The only reason Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten (the new Japanese<->English dictionary) isn't my number one is because you said "games" and not software.  That thing gives my DS more on time than any game does.  I use it all the time at school/work and whenever I need to look up a kanji at home.

Edit: Before anyone crucifies me, I do have and love Ouendan, but I am SO BAD AT RHYTHM GAMES... you guys always talk about all these game modes that I have no hope of ever actually seeing for myself considering normal mode destroys me. 

Last edited by Qui-Gon Joe (Jul 08, 2006)

1) Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
2) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
3) New Super Mario Bros.

These three always travel with me.  Dawn of Sorrow comes in at a very close fourth, though, and Mario Kart, Super Princess Peach and Sonic Rush are all in the top tier.

Joe, I do hope you'll be able to progress further in Ouendan, since you're really only experiencing half the game with Normal Mode.  I believe even the least proficient of folks with rhythm games have the capability to become extremely good.  It just takes practice.

GoldfishX wrote:

and I read that Ouendan was made by the Parappa guys...

Actually, I had heard it was by the Gitaroo-Man people...? Oh well.

For my part, it currently goes like so:

1. Phoenix Wright
2. New Super Mario
3. Super Peach

Peach is sort of in there by default, because Brain Age is OK but not great, and I have yet to plug in my copy of Dawn of Sorrow (still working on Aria, you see). As for Ouendan, I share Qui-Gon's malady, i.e. stinking at rhythm games. An UmJammer-Lammy-took-me-a-week level of stink. Still, I may pick up a copy for my sister, who's a great deal better than me at 'em. She'll need a DS first though, and there's an awful lot of others that have my eye in the meantime (VJ, Kirby, Lost in Blue, Wario, Tetris, Mario Kart...it goes on and on).

Well, I haven't played a tremendous amount of DS games, but from what I've played, my favorite (in no particular order) are:

Trauma Center -it's like your childhood dream of being a doctor without the blood

Lost in Blue -very unique game.  It's like Robinson Crusoe without death at every corner.

Phoenix Wright -it's like your childhood dream of being a lawyer without being a scum (no offense to the 2% of you honest lawyers out there

I also really enjoy Rub Rabbits! & Feel the Magic.  I've yet to play Princess Peach, SMB, and Tetris -all of which I believe are high quality games.

cheers,

-avatar!

1) Advance Wars: Dual Strike
2) New Super Mario Bros
3) Tetris DS

(and my fourth and only other DS game I own is Mario & Luigi Partners in Time)

GoldfishX wrote:

And Peach...You'll never hear me complain about getting quality 2D platformers and I had a ball with this one.

Peach is something neat.  I've been playing it again since exhausting NSMB into something funny, and somewhat surprisingly, I think Peach has a lot more lasting power than said game.  There's oodles more to unlock, and there a wonderful feeling of constant progression, what with coin collecting, Toad rescuing, and ability-upgrading.

I have to rank NSMB a bit higher, though, for its magnetic pick up and play factor.  I mean, it's just so much fun to tear through an entire world in a ten or fifteen minute run.

On that note, does anyone else think that NSMB would've totally benefited from a time trial mode?  I mean, I'm not much of a time trial gamer, but this game sure feels apt for it.

Datschge wrote:

You mean like in Kirby's Magic Paintbrush/Canvas Curse? I'm surprised that game didn't make it into anyone's top three here.

Quite like Kirby, yes.  Well now, inquiring minds would like to know; what's in your top three, Dats?

Angela wrote:

Well now, inquiring minds would like to know; what's in your top three, Dats?

I hate to admit that my sample set of played DS games is currently too small to form a decent top three, so it's like 1. Kirby DS, 2. Mario Kart DS, 3. Nintendogs atm. I expect only Kirby DS to stay in there once (next break) I get my fill of more decent DS games through importing I still can't get here and are far cheaper elsewhere anyway...

I'm kind of disappointed there are no more Kirby DS alikes tho (unless I didn't look hard enough). I'm considering importing Kaitou Rousseau for being able to play another fun drawing based game, but impressions so far point to it being a rather short fun.

Picking up a year and a half later, I'm wondering: what does your DS favorites list look like nowadays? 

Here be mine, although there's just too much good stuff for me to relegate it to a top three..... so after three, I'm sub-dividing it into a continuous top ten:

1) Contra 4
2) Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2
3) Phoenix Wright: Trials And Tribulations
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4) New Super Mario Bros.
5) DK: Jungle Climber
6) Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
7) Elite Beat Agents
8) Nanostray
9) Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales
10) Picross DS

Contra 4, Ouendan 2, and PW: TAT are my current, interchangeable go-everywhere companions, and to me, show off what makes the DS so damned good.  Contra 4 proves that old-school sensibilities can work on current generation hardware, nailing a game that uses conventional d-pad/buttons down pat, while Ouendan 2 is still the picture-perfect poster child of touch-screen functionality.  Trials And Tribulations, unquestionably my favorite of the three current Ace Attorney titles, makes for a great chill-out game, allowing me to cool my hand-eye coordination jets for a while. (And I still see the series' leap to the DS as a great boon; the cleaned up interface, menu-driven touch screen, and the remedying of the GBA's sound glitch programming are head and shoulders above their previous incarnations.)   

I still hold New Super Mario Bros. in very high regard, and I continue to dig Jungle Climber's simple yet engaging gameplay.   Elite Beat Agents and the first Ouendan hold a steady sway in my top ten, and are, to me, part of iNiS's current masterpiece package.  Nanostray might be knocked down a notch once the sequel hits, but currently remains a gorgeous shooter.  Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales still wins me on pure charm and its bevy of things to do in the game -- and though I've exhausted Picross DS into something funny, it's enjoyable partaking in the occasional puzzle every now and again.

Last edited by Angela (Jan 13, 2008)

Etrian Odyssey = awesome awesome RPG

Haven't really played many other DS games, but I do think the DS is pretty rockin'!

cheers,

-avatar!

XLord007 wrote:

Hmmm... my top 3 DS games?  I'm going to have to go with:

1. Brain Age
2. Mario Kart DS
3. Metroivania: Dawn of Sorrow

New SMB, Peach, Phoenix Wright, and Ouendan are all great too, but those three would be my favs so far.

If I had to redo my above Top 3 DS games as of now, I would go with:

1. Mario Kart DS
2. Picross DS
3. Brain Age

Currently, it looks like this:

1)  Taiko no Tatsujin DS
2)  Dragon Quest:  Rocket Slime
3)  Advance Wars (can't wait for the new one!)

Taiko no Tatsujin was a really nice surprise (what's even nicer, is that they announced a sequel!).