Heads Up: Buy Two, Get One Free on DS Games @ TRU

maximumzero

Basically, starting tomorrow, the Week of June 24th, Toys R Us is having a sale on DS games. Buy 2, get 1 free.

Here's a scan from the flyer:



So let this now be the recommendation thread. What are you getting, if anything?

In addition, a number of DS games are being dropped to $9.98 on Monday, the 25th.

DS
Alex Rider Stormbreaker
Bubble Bobble Revolution
Black Bass Fishing
Bust A Move
Dino Champ
Freedom Wings
Garfield Tale of Two Kitties
Golden Nugget Casino
Gunpey
Madagascar
Nanostray
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest
Quad Frenzy
Tak 3
Texas Hold Em
TMNT 3
Tomb Raider Legend
Tony Hawk Sk8land
True Swing Golf
X-Men Official Movie Game

Eteric

Is the buy two get one free thing for all games in Toys R. Us?

meatflower

The ad scan linked in the OP clearly states in giant white letters on a red background that it is on ALL Nintendo DS games. Not 360, not PS3, and not the Okama Game Sphere.

captaink

You have to double click the thread title in the topic list to retitle it.

Eteric

Ahh, okay.

This might be a good time for me to pick up Elite Beat Agents... Hmm...

MHYoshimitzu

Why do you guys know about clearance stuff before me?

I have Kirby, Diddy Kong, and the DS Browser on hold for me tomorrow. I may pick them up.

maximumzero

Honestly, I'd pass on Kirby. It's a fun game, but entirely too short and too easy. When you're finished you very much have a feeling of "That's it?"

MHYoshimitzu

I seriously have like... thirty DS games, but I want the browser and I want to take advantage of the sale. Is Elite Beat Agents really that good? My store has like... fifty thousand of them.

Eteric

MHYoshimitzu wrote: »

I seriously have like... thirty DS games, but I want the browser and I want to take advantage of the sale. Is Elite Beat Agents really that good? My store has like... fifty thousand of them.

It's one of the best DS games made thus far. But, if you don't like music and rythem games, you may want to stay away.

I have a question, though. Is Planet Puzzle League any good?

Woodroez

It's...neat. My tastes aren't really directed toward that sort of thing, but I like it plenty, and if can't think of anything else to get, i'd say EBA isn't a bad choice at all. This is probably the most sober recommendation of that game you'll ever, ever read in this thread...or the forum, for that matter.

Anyway, I'm a bit torn.

I'm thinking right now I'll be getting New Super Mario Bros and Pokemon Pearl (what's the alt-code for the "e`" again?), but I don't know if the free one should be Star Fox Command if they have it, or maybe Pokemon Diamond so I can sell it to a friend for maybe 15 bucks.

MHYoshimitzu

I have no idea about Planet Puzzle League... we just got it in the other day. The back of the box makes it look like Meteos, especially with the symbols they choose to use for the blocks.

I love music and rhythm games, I was just worried about the song selection being shitty. I loved Ouendan, but I have a feeling it was because it was in a language I couldn't understand, and were songs I weren't familiar with.

I think I may pick up Trace Memory and drop Kirby and Diddy Kong, but that still leaves me with one game... ideas?

Woodroez

By far, my favorite song on EBA was Canned Heat...after that, there's a Village People song, then uhh...sk8er boi. bleh. Nothing that could ruin the game for me. Generally, once i'm into the game, I'm worried about hitting the beats more than the song.


I highly, highly recommend Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. I'm playing it right now, in fact. Fuck, if they Dawn of Sorrow, I'll get that as my third game.

MHYoshimitzu

We haven't had Portrait of Ruin in since November. I did end up getting it as a present from now (now not so) girlfriend when I went to visit her for Christmas. I believe my game collection in my sig is semi-updated, at least with DS games. I really do have over 30 DS games... 33 in fact, by my count. I basically own all the must haves in the library.

If we happen to magically get NY Times Crossword in the mail on Monday, that's my sure bet for a third game.

DarkPrimus

Gunpey for $10? How is that game?

tardcore

I still need to pick up Phoenix Wright, Hotel Dusk, and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

I guess it's off to Toys R Us tomorrow.

maximumzero

I'm going through my list of wanted DS games now. I'll post my choices for feedback from you guys.

maximumzero

Already, seems like I'm getting Tamagotchi Corner Shop 2 for my girlfriend, and I'm deciding between Elite Beat Agents, Mario Hoops 3 on 3, Diddy Kong Racing DS, and Custom Robo. (And possibly Super Mario 64 DS)

Here's hoping my TRU didn't get slammed too badly. I stopped by last night to see what was up, but the next time I'm available to actually stop and buy my games won't be until Wednesday.

Fireflash

Planet puzzle league is the same thing as Tetris Attack on snes and Pokemon Puzzle League on N64.

And I can comfortably say that it's one if not THE best multiplayer puzzle game there is.

DevoutlyApathetic

Dude, edit your own damn title. It isn't fucking hard. Take like five seconds when you're editing your post or at least don't be so lazy as to not PM a mod.

Edit -> Go Advanced -> Look, an editable title!

That or stop bumping this thread with it's very incorrect title.

maximumzero

DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »

Dude, edit your own damn title. It isn't fucking hard. Take like five seconds when you're editing your post or at least don't be so lazy as to not PM a mod.

Edit -> Go Advanced -> Look, an editable title!

That or stop bumping this thread with it's very incorrect title.

Well excuse me. Someone told me that I could just double click on the thread title to change it, but when doing this it says I have to be a mod to do so, so I sent a report, but never got one back.

Damn. Bitchy tonight ain't we.

Iceman.USAF

So I just got a DS this past weekend with New Super Mario Bros...

I want FFIII and Sonic Rush, but what else should I be looking for?

Side note, if anyone has any of the Advance Wars games (GBA or DS) and would be willing to part with them, please get in touch with me.
Iceman.USAF@gmail.com

maximumzero

Iceman.USAF wrote: »

So I just got a DS this past weekend with New Super Mario Bros...

I want FFIII and Sonic Rush, but what else should I be looking for?

Side note, if anyone has any of the Advance Wars games (GBA or DS) and would be willing to part with them, please get in touch with me.
Iceman.USAF@gmail.com

Honestly, try to stick with all $30 games, that way you don't end up getting a $20 game for free when you could get a $30 game for free.

DevoutlyApathetic

maximumzero wrote: »

DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »

Dude, edit your own damn title. It isn't fucking hard. Take like five seconds when you're editing your post or at least don't be so lazy as to not PM a mod.

Edit -> Go Advanced -> Look, an editable title!

That or stop bumping this thread with it's very incorrect title.

Well excuse me. Someone told me that I could just double click on the thread title to change it, but when doing this it says I have to be a mod to do so, so I sent a report, but never got one back.

Damn. Bitchy tonight ain't we.

If you hide your ignorance nobody will hit you and you'll never learn.

More to the point, you're sowing confusion and possibly disappointment to your fellow gamers. It took me all of 20 seconds to discover how to edit the title of a post. When we have a correctly titled duplicate thread vying for attention not bumping the thread you're unwilling to fix the title in is only courteous.

BahamutZERO

You actually can't edit the title of your threads after a certain amount of time, I think.
Stop being so pissy.

eelektrik

While I was at TRU picking up Mario Kart DS finally, along with Planet Puzzle League and Yoshi's Island DS, I noticed that they are still selling Polarium there, for like, 4.98... At that price I would highly recommend anyone that sees a copy and doesnt have it, to pick it up as a 4th title. Just make sure they dont ring it up as your Free game.

Iceman.USAF

maximumzero wrote: »

Iceman.USAF wrote: »

So I just got a DS this past weekend with New Super Mario Bros...

I want FFIII and Sonic Rush, but what else should I be looking for?

Side note, if anyone has any of the Advance Wars games (GBA or DS) and would be willing to part with them, please get in touch with me.
Iceman.USAF@gmail.com

Honestly, try to stick with all $30 games, that way you don't end up getting a $20 game for free when you could get a $30 game for free.

Indeed, but I need more suggestions.

SimCity DS?

I kinda struggled with SimCity 4, though, so would that be a good idea?

I'm thinking of grabbing Pokemon Pearl or Diamond for the gf, knowing nothing about Pokemon, which should I get for her?

DevoutlyApathetic

BahamutZERO wrote: »

You actually can't edit the title of your threads after a certain amount of time, I think.
Stop being so pissy.

Ooo...it's a misinformation party!

I just did it to a thread I started over a month ago.

BahamutZERO

(re: pokemon versions) either one, differences are negligible.

BahamutZERO

DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »

BahamutZERO wrote: »

You actually can't edit the title of your threads after a certain amount of time, I think.
Stop being so pissy.

Ooo...it's a misinformation party!

I just did it to a thread I started over a month ago.

Note that I qualified my statement with "I think."

Ha-ha! Parry! Riposte! Counter-argument! Ad hominem! Thwack! Stop being so pissy.

Iceman.USAF

BahamutZERO wrote: »

(re: pokemon versions) either one, differences are negligible.

Do you know some of the differences perhaps? I'm vaguely curious.

Also, do they have the transformers games? I feel like that'd be entertaining.

maximumzero

Iceman.USAF wrote: »

BahamutZERO wrote: »

(re: pokemon versions) either one, differences are negligible.

Do you know some of the differences perhaps? I'm vaguely curious.

Also, do they have the transformers games? I feel like that'd be entertaining.

Historically the only difference in the Pokemon versions has been what monsters can be caught in either.

I did see the Decepticons version of Transformers yesterday but not the Autobots.

DevoutlyApathetic

Don't make me quote Bradbury again.....

Do you honestly not see the basis for my complaint? Do you not know more than you knew before? Is the only cost of that knowledge that somebody was abrasive to you on the internet?

Also, he mocked Kirby which is one of the few games I've really like the touch interface's usage on the DS so far. It is short but it's a unique experience. (Not actually the reason I brought it up, just something I'd meant to comment upon.)

Edit: Would be helpful if I actually typed fast enough to follow Bahamut's post that I was replying to.

maximumzero

DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »

Also, he mocked Kirby which is one of the few games I've really like the touch interface's usage on the DS so far. It is short but it's a unique experience. (Not actually the reason I brought it up, just something I'd meant to comment upon.)

We're talking about Kirby Squeak Squad, not Canvas Curse.

I loved Canvas Curse.

Squeak Squad, while not a bad game, was easily the worst Kirby game I've played.

BahamutZERO

The main differences between diamond and pearl are which one of those legendary monsters that are in the box art you can encounter, and a few pokemon that can appear in one version but not in the other, or appear in different places or at different rates. The gameplay, plot, world, and so on are identical.

Iceman.USAF

BahamutZERO wrote: »

The main differences between diamond and pearl are which one of those legendary monsters on the boxes you can encounter, and a few pokemon that can appear in one version but not in the other, or appear in different places or at different rates. The gameplay, plot, world, and so on are identical.

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly the kind of information I was looking for.

DevoutlyApathetic

maximumzero wrote: »

DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »

Also, he mocked Kirby which is one of the few games I've really like the touch interface's usage on the DS so far. It is short but it's a unique experience. (Not actually the reason I brought it up, just something I'd meant to comment upon.)

We're talking about Kirby Squeak Squad, not Canvas Curse.

I loved Canvas Curse.

Squeak Squad, while not a bad game, was easily the worst Kirby game I've played.

Whoops. Totally my bad. I've never even given Squeak Squad a second glance.

The problem with this sale for me is there aren't 3 DS games I really want. Which is just because I buy pretty much anything that interests me when it comes out....

ArmyOfPie

Damn, I wish I had a DS still!

shyguy

If anybody is interested, I just got back from the Toys R Us in Times Square and they have a pretty decent selection at the moment.

Picked up Mario Kart, Planet Puzzle League, and Tetris. I'll probably go back later this week for Elite Beat Agents, Rocket Slime, and Animal Crossing. I'm on the fence about Super Princess Peach and Yoshi's Island. The only game I really wanted that they didn't have was that recent Konami arcade collection.

xWonderboyx

My local TRU is always fucking dead. I think i'm gonna swing by there and see what I can snag.

NofrikinfuN

I was just developing a backlog of games to buy, too... Maybe now is my chance? I don't have $40-60 to spare, though.

Bullio

I went to the local TRU and picked up Starfox Command, Metroid Prime Hunters, and Pokemon Pearl. I really wanted to get Etrian Odyssey, but the local store doesn't have it and it's already sold out online. I'm thinking of heading back tomorrow and picking up DQH: Rocket Slime, but I'm having a hard time deciding between:

Trauma Center - I don't know what it is, but I'm apprehensive about getting this game. I think I'm just apprehensive about real life sim-like games (bad past experiences).
EBA - Really not a fan of rhythm games at all (haven't played either of the GH's though). The only reason I'm even considering it is because of all the praise it gets around here.
Custom Robo Arena - I hear the RPG campaign is pretty dull, and I'm not sure how often I'd play it online. Is there really any point if I won't be playing online much?
Yoshi's Island - Well, I'm not really sure why I'm debating getting this. I'll probably end up getting it unless I have a change of heart and decide to get one or two of the above instead.
Final Fantasy III - See above.

I'd really like to try something different, but it's hard to go that route with Yoshi's Island and FFIII as choices.