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What are the best ds games in the market?

Classic Nintendo DS games?

  • What are the classic games for the Nintendo DS? And, bonus, what are the best games that can be played in five minute increments? So I just got a Nintendo DS for Christmas, and now I need GAMES. I'm starting from absolute zero here, so I want to know which games are the ones that are considered the classics for the system, whether they came out last year or five years ago. Note that I'm asking for something slightly different from the "best" games for the DS. It looks like Mario Kart is rated very highly, for example, but that seems more like a retread of the game that first came out for the Super Nintendo/N64, rather than a classic unique to the DS. Second, I'd like to know about games that can be played for about 5-10 minutes at a time, and then turned OFF. So platforming games with shorter levels, puzzle games with 10 minute puzzles, that kind of thing. In terms of what I like, I tend to like platformers, adventure games, and rpgs. The various iterations of (2D) metroid are among my favorite games of all time. I tend to dislike games without a plot (like racing games), and any games based strictly on reflexes (like Guitar Hero). About the only game I know I'm getting so far is one of the Professor Layton games, which sounds like it combines short puzzles with an adventure setting, making it a good fit for me. What else is out there?

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    Phoenix Wright and Trauma Center might be up your alley. And while they're not unique to the DS, I think it's the platform where they're best.

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One game that meets the five minute qualification (and uniqueness to the DS) would be Scribblenauts. You have a problem where you can use over 20000 different words to try to solve it. Is a bee guarding a hive? Why not have cthulhu come and kill the bee.

drezdn

Professor Layton! I think there are 2 of them out now. It's a puzzle-slash-story-exploration game that can definitely be played in 5-minute chunks (although that could depend on how good you are at puzzles). And I think it's a DS original.

Xany

New Super Mario Bros. It is not a "retread of an existing game." Hence "New Super Mario Bros."

John Cohen

Also: New Super Mario Bros is a giant pain in the ass regarding saving. Seriously, you can't save mid-world until you achieve certain requirements. I think saving-anywhere is an unlock you get for beating the game. (Great game, though.)

griphus

I would probably try to do the DS Castlevania games in chronological order (of release). They're all good, but they do innovate a little with successive games; you might get a little bored with an older ones if you play it after a more recent one. I think the games may also get progressively harder, but my memory is a little fuzzy on that, since I played them as they came out.

strangecargo

Classic titles that sound like they'd be perfect for you: Planet Puzzle League PuzzleQuest Both Advance Wars titles New Super Mario Bros. If you've ever played starcraft, warcraft, you'll love the Advance Wars series.

teriyaki_tornado

The original Scribblenauts is great too, and I just got Super Scribblenauts as a gift today and I think I've already played half the game. The first one had a few flaws but nothing game-breaking; don't count it out.

IndigoRain

If you like tactical strategy war games, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_%28series%29 is insanely good. The two DS versions, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009XEC02/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0012NWBH4/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ are well worth it, and use the second screen fairly well, if not the touch controls. So they don't quite match your "unique to the DS" criteria, but in America it's basically only been released on GBA (which are also fun) and DS.

skynxnex

Definitely get Puzzle Quest! Everyone I know who has played it has found it addictive, even a friend who doesn't game often. And as many people have said, the Professor Layton games are great. I also liked Final Fantasy III--it's a remake, from what I understand, not a straight-up port of the original Japanese game.

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