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Already have Rhythm Tengoku Gold in mind and Professor Layton.

What else is there forumites?

Pokemon Platinum would keep you occupied, if you've time to import. (Or, indeed, "import".) I've put about thirty hours in so far, my wife's getting close to 200.

GTA Chinatown Wars I'm going to get when I go on my holidays.

Oooh, yes, that's a fucking awesome game. Perfectly playable with sound off, too, if that's a factor.

I like Retro Game Challenge.

I don't.

I don't much like the first game and haven't managed to get 200,000 points on it to unlock the next one.

Got GTA CTW and it's not hit the spot tbh. A fantastic technical achievement but too fiddly for a handheld.

Did I spell it wrong, or something?

Yeah I liked the sound of that. Good one.

I hit submit too soon. I have edited my post to have some content now.

Also, if you've not played Slitherlink yet, play Slitherlink.

I'll play Slitherlink because I haven't played Slitherlink.

i'm still a massive fan of the Advanced wars games.

The World Ends With You is a bit marmite, but good fun (kept me happy over my vacation last year)

42 All Time Classics is a must.

The DS is by all accounts a fantastic machine. I know there were a few snide 'lol the DS is my tetris machine' style comments on this forum a few weeks back, but dig deeper than the shelves at Tesco and you'll find a wealth of gaming experiences. It's sucking up all my gaming time at the moment. I can't even remember the last time I fired up Xbox Live.

Every game listed above is worth a play (except Retro Game Challenge, I'm afraid - ugh), but here are some more:


Tokyo Beat Down: ace side-scrolling beat-'em-up in the Streets of Rage mould, with a great sense of humour

Ouendan 1 & 2: Probably the best games the DS has to offer, for reasons that have been picked apart on every other website on the internet, ever. Elite Beat Agents is destined to disappoint, however.

Illust Logic: Picross. If you don't like Picross, you're broken.

Rittai Picross: or 'Cube/3D' Picross. A bit more random and you'll have to make the odd logical leap, but never less than entertaining (and has anti-aliasing, fact fans).

Phoenix Wright/Apollo Justice Games: Utterly flawed nearly to the point of being broken, but so affectingly endearing that I wish I could play nothing but these games for all times

Kirby: Power Paintbrush: Fun little platformer, a good buy if you're keen to make use of the stylus, but tails off at the end.

Nervous Brickdown: WarioWare meets Breakout. Game quality varies, but this is one of the most underrated games ever, IMO. From the makers of Big Bang Mini.

Animal Crossing: born to be on DS. It seems like too much of a faff on Wii/GC

Sonic Rush: The only good Sonic game of the naughties. Watch out for the inferior sequel, Sonic Rush Adventure, although that's certainly not a bad game.

Chrono Trigger: Hey, guess what? You don't hate JRPGs after all! It's just that 95% of the ones on the market have been made by morons!

Peggle: Dual Shot: A bit of a comedown if you've played it on any other format, but it's Peggle and it's more than serviceable.

Honeycomb Beat: Tile-flipping fun. Such a small concept to cause such large hair loss.

Ninja Gaiden DS: Yeah, I know. I'm surprised too.

Space Invaders Extreme 2: Natch.

Bangai-O Spirits: Requires a lot of patience, but an infinitely rewarding game once it clicks.

Pic-Pic: Tragically obscure set of picross-y slitherlink-y puzzles. I wrote the world's first ever review of this game, fact fans (84%, NGamer, May 2007).

Soul Bubbles: The sort of action-puzzler you thought they didn't make anymore.

Namco Museum DS: The rest of the compilation can best be described as 'squalid', but it only costs a tenner or so, which is a laughably cheap price to pay for a copy of Pac-Man Vs (supports multiplayer with just a single cart).

The Castlevanias: None of them as good as Symphony of the Night, but to play that on PSP, you have to jump through fire-y hoops made out of used syringes, so what they hey.

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: I think it's great, personally. Some people get a bit tired going back to the same dungeon again and again, but canny gamers will notice that their new powers allow them to cut through already-completed floors in seconds.

Trackmania DS: Don't listen to Stu. I bet he just wants all the TrackMania DS to himself.


One day, I'll start that gaming blog I've long promised myself, and do a 'Top 100 DS games' list, thereby crushing the myth that the DS has no good games on it.

Tokyo Beat Down. Terrific game that one.

Finished them all. Top stuff.

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon would be a logical next step for you then, Zardoz. It's an updated NES game, so you're playing with a much more basic rule set, but I think it's better for it.

Pah, I really loved Elite Beat Agents, but couldn't get on with Ouendan 1. I never played the sequel.

But... but... but... it's RUBBISH.

I think Ouendan 2 is miles better than Ouendan 1, but that's a little against the tide of general public opinion, there. Much smoother difficulty curve, better songs and the ability to skip the intros. If you didn't like the general vibe, however, there's no point in you trying it. I thought the counter placement was a little too random in EBA for my liking, but it was worth the tenner I spent on it for Walkie Talkie Man alone.


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What didn't you like about Ninja Gaiden DS, Rev? I'm not saying it's amazing or anything, but I thought it was pretty epic for a DS game.

That's a Zoo Keeper machine, thankyou very much. And it wasn't intended to sound snide, it's just a fact that Zoo Keeper is overpoweringly, unfeasably awesome.

I <3 my DS.

I don't like stylus controls, they hurt my hand in seconds. Besides, it's to annoying to have parts of the screen covered by my hand. I wished Zelda had traditional controls.

I wish people would stop mentioning Zoo Keeper. I'm going to end up replacing my copy otherwise and still not get close to Mr Grannell's scores.

Does anyone with a flash cart have a zoo keeper save with the hardest difficulty open, there's no fucking way I'm ever going to do it and there's no point going for high scores in time attack without it.

I managed to do it within a few goes. You just have to get lucky, sadly.

Hello!

It's got all my high-scores on it as well, though. If you can live with that, then there you go.

[edit] Ack, won't let me attach a .sav file. PM me an email address, I'll bung it across. [/edit]

[edit edit]Or better yet, I'll stick it up somewhere. Give us a tick.[/edit edit]

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http://www.rodafowa.co.uk/Zoo%20Keeper%20(E).sav

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It will now.

[edit] Too late

Congratulations, you're my hero for the day.

All praise Roda!

Les Mings.

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