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So, what games do you have for your DS?

42 replies · 6,199 views · Started 06 December 2005

ONeilcool 06 Jan 2006, 06:11

I have:

Advanced Wars: Dual Strike
Mario kart DS

and My sister has:

Animal Crossing WW
and like every nintendogs

Its not much but its enough

Vagla 07 Jan 2006, 00:25

No. NO! Please don't get Burnout Legends. Here's why. It got awful scores from IGN, as well as 3 of the other places that reviewed it that are shown on Gamestats.com, and the only reason the average is as good as it is (4.2) is because of a single reviewer who gave it an 8.5. 4/5 reviewes gave it poor scores, and the gamer score doesn't seem all that great, either. And take a look at the videos; they don't look good at all. Seriously, I think your money could be much better spent on a different game; this game looks awful.

J Burnz 13 Jan 2006, 20:24

Can anybody say how trauma center is?
Im getting my DS in whenever the next shipment comes to my town.
This game will be my first buy!

Vagla 13 Jan 2006, 23:11

Trauma Center is one of my favorite DS games. Although the whole touchscreen interface can be a little wonky at times (as in, you stitch someone up and it doesn't recognize it or you do something perfectly and the game claims you did it wrong and penalizes you...over and over and over until you've been penalized some 10 or more times 😉), the surgeries are really fun to do and it's incredibly challenging at times to complete an operation. There are a lot of operations to complete, along with a story to tie them all together, but be warned that this game gets really, really hard. There's an operation I'm stuck on right now because it seems pretty impossible to complete, though I'm sure I'll get it eventually, just like the last operation, which was also incredibly hard and took me a very long time to complete. They really test your skills at times in Trauma Center. To be fair, it's sometimes the fault of the game that things are so hard; I found magnifying and demagnifying to be a pain because the game didn't always recognize my little circles (though I had better luck drawing C's than circles), and sometimes I'll do something perfectly and it'll claim I made a mistake, but you can't really expect this game to be perfect; it's a pretty complex kind of game.

Overall, I really like it. You'll probably enjoy quite a bit. 😊

Vagla 14 Jan 2006, 05:15

I thought that SM64DS was much better than the original, but the issue is that I really don't want to play through SM64 again. I stopped at something like 60 stars and simply collected all the minigames so I'd have something new to play. 😊 The controls also drove me a little crazy; I can't even count the number of times I died in Bowser's second level as a result of the control. It was frustrating.

I got a chance to play Metroid Prime Pinball's single-card multiplayer mode, so I think I'll mention a little about that. You get to play in Magmoor Caverns, which seems to be unique to single card multiplayer. It's not as featureful as the standard 2 boards (there are no missions and the wall jump takes place on the board itself without you even controlling it), but it's still kind of neat. The objective is to reach a target score before the other player, and neither you nor your opponent can affect one another at all.

For those willing to import games, I highly recommend Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Jump Superstars. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is a neat music game where you tap hit markers in time with the music (as well as drag along a few spots and spin some things) as you try to help people who are having trouble with any number of things (for example, in one the objective is to help a horse catch a thief). While there are only 15 songs, there are several difficulty levels which change the hitmarks you have to hit; easy is incredibly easy, though sometimes the hitmarks are timed very oddly with the music to make it so there are fewer things to tap, I guess, but it makes it a bit difficult on the first run through, in my opinion. I've definitely been having a lot of fun with the game and look forward to playing through hard mode.

As for Jump Superstars, the game has a bit of a slow start and is very Japanese-heavy, but it gets a lot better when you start doing more fighting. Each round has some sort of objective to clear it, though this is commonly something along the lines of 'get the most KOs' or 'defeat a certain player.' Sometimes there will be objectives such as bouncing around a treasure chest or breaking walls, so you'll need an FAQ for this kind of stuff if you're not proficient in Japanese. Most missions also have special objectives you can complete to get koma pieces for the bottom screen, which you tap during play to do special attacks and other such things. You'll likely need an FAQ for these special objectives, too, but if you know katakana, you should be able to figure out most of them. Without ANY Japanese knowledge, you'll probably be able to figure out a few special objectives, specifically the ones that ask you not to use certain buttons. Those with limited or no Japanese knowledge will also have trouble constructing koma; you win pieces for completing objectives, but you have to put them together, and I've been finding this incredibly difficult so far (I've not yet constructed a single piece, and if you make a mistake, I think you lose the piece). The game isn't Smash Bros calibur so far, but I'm starting to really like it.

Overall, I prefer Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, but they're both quite good, and they're also the perfect games to import, since neither will likely ever make it to the US.

Masamune 14 Jan 2006, 05:33

Mr. Driller
Super Mario 64DS
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Mario Kart DS
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Nintendogs
Kirby: Canvas Curse
Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Mehh... I want Animal Crossing.