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Dear flist:

What are your favorite DS games? I am not really interested in the pokemans, more in rpg or puzzle games. I can neither read nor write in Japanese, so translated only.

PLEASE RECOMMEND ME THINGS.

eta: due to your AWESOME recs, o my fantastic flisters, i have picked up the following:
Disgaea
Elite Beat Agents
Phoenix Wright-Justice for All (still working on getting the original)

aaaand am definitely going to pick up:
Scribblenauts
TWEWY
Suikoden Tierkreis

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The Phoenix Wright series is excellent. I am incredibly biased, but they're kind of point-and-click games where you have to gather evidence, talk with people, and piece together stuff. The writing is top-notch and it has some really great characters. The first game is still my favorite in the series (again, bias), but they're all generally very strong, with four or five cases per game. There's currently five games out, too, so they'd keep you busy for awhile!

Phoenix Wright is awesome. I actually have the first two games if you want to buy one off me, I promised one to my friend L. and keep forgetting to do the transaction.

I would LOVE to buy the first one off you, yes. How much do you want for it?

Let me look and see how much I paid for it-- I think maybe twenty bucks would cover it and shipping.

Sounds good to me! I can paypal, if that works for you.

The early PW games are definitely on my list! As a new DS owner i feel it is my obligation to see the derplawyers in action.

They are amazing games and you really can't go wrong with any of them! Also I'm replaying them so if you want to PM me on IRC as you play, that's totally fine! |D

I-it will probably happen. Especially since I am possibly the last person on the PW bandwagon ;; JURI JURI ZOMG THING EVERYONE ELSE PLAYED THROUGH YEARS AGO THIS IS SO EXCITINGGGG!!!1!

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. But totally, totally wait until you get the original and then start playing because JFA will have a bigger impact on you.

Ooh, I hope you get some good answers to this! I would also be interested in people's recs. :3

I had a lot of fun with Suikoden Tierkreis, which is like a full-size Suikoden game shrunk down for a handheld. It's not in the same universe as the console titles, so you don't really miss out if you haven't played any of them (but if you have, it will feel really familiar).

I have started (but not gotten very far with) Hotel Dusk, which is a visual-novel sort of detective noir adventure about an ex-cop searching for his missing-in-action traitor partner. It looks really neat! Gameplay is mostly conversation based, with point-and-click puzzles as well.

Less compelling on the story front, but more just because I find repetitive tasks soothing, I've been playing Rune Factory, which is a Harvest Moon game with dungeoncrawling added to it. Not terribly complicated! But very cute.

I posted this on LJ and DW, and have gotten a lot of repeated recs, which i think is pretty awesome. Many readers agree!

Seconding Phoenix Wright and Suikoden Tierkreis and adding Final Fantasy IV-- I liked Final Fantasy III as well, but found gameplay more difficult with less replay value. And also adding Scribblenauts, because it is worth mentioning more often. You write things and they appear to help you solve puzzles! \o/ That will never not be awesome to me.

Oooh FF games. And I'm absolutely getting Scribblenauts, that sounds so amazing.

Elite Beat Agents is hard to find but well worth it. It's rhythm-action and basically COMPLETE AND UTTER CRACK. You are a team of AWESOME AGENTS who sing and dance to help people with their problems. No, really.

I am still playing The World Ends With You, an action-y RPG where what clothes you wear help determine your success in battle. No, really! Some people find the combat system hard, but I do okay with it-- I am normally really crap at this stuff so it baffles me slightly that I'm not bad at it.

The Castlevania games are also supposed to be really good.

I actually found Elite Beat Agents really easily on ebay, and picked up a copy for pretty cheap. Let's hoping i didn't get ripped off! It sounds like crazy fun.

I FORGET ABOUT EBAY SOMETIMES because mostly I get things at GameStop.

The GameStop and EB in my mall both had mostly used super-kiddy games, like the ones where you have ponies or make fashion or whatever, pokemans, or first-person-shooty kinds of things, none of which really hit my buttons. I'mma have to keep an eye on their stock though.

I would've liked kiddy games this weekend, my daughter was looking.

I'll switch with you! You can have nintendogs and etc. and i will take rpgs. They were super cheap, too.

ALSO what is your paypal? I would definitely like the first PW game if you can still sell it.

Edited 2010-02-24 03:33 (UTC)

Ugh, not Nintendogs, the voice recognition is jank.

OH YES PAYPAL I'll pm you. Probably tomorrow 'cause I'm about to go to bed BUT I WILL.

\o/

Seconding The World Ends With You! It's one of my fave ever games.

Scribblenauts is my favourite puzzle game, where basically you have to solve the puzzle or traverse the landscape using items you write in (there's an insanely huge database, so you can use anything from "rope" and "gun" to "Cthulu" and "Large Hadron Collider".)

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass isn't the best Zelda game I've ever played, but it's still a pretty freaking awesome game. Requires no knowledge of the series or universe. There's an RPG element, but lots of puzzles to solve along the way, and it makes really good use of the DS stylus screen, imho (like, you can draw on the map! and mark important points!)

People keep saying Scribblenauts. I am definitely going to have to try that one out! Especially if it has Cthulu. And TWEWY looks awesome as well.

SECONDING SCRIBBLENAUTS, it's so great. and Phoenix Wright. and Elite Beat Agents. also Ragnarok DS just came out, which. is a pretty good RPG for what it is, but gets 3049830984309 times awesomer on the off chance that you played Ragnarok Online as an MMORPG back in the day. the nostalgia factor is pretty amazing. BUT even if you didn't play RO, RDS is still great.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is actually really great and not a typical (boring to some) side-scrolling Mario game with coin collecting and whatnot. it's like a legit RPG.

PUZZLE QUEST PUZZLE QUEST PUZZLE QUEST PUZZLE QUEST. not Galatrix or whatever the shitty sequel is, just normal Puzzle Quest. buy it now, thank me later.

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