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So the DSi launched and I bought one (It's Blue ), along with Chinatown Wars, TWEWY, and Ninja Gaiden DS thanks to the recommendation of this thread (thanks gents).
So I figured we could keep going since there are so many damn gems on the console (I skipped over Civilization Revolution, Soul Bubbles, Drawn to Life, and a few others just yesterday alone at EB).
So we know about all the awesome games made by Nintendo and the larger third parties, but what about the smaller, lesser known games? I read a thread today about a game called Air Traffic Chaos that i'm gonna hunt for next. Anybody have a little known game that they just swear by?
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Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ was pretty decent for being a bargain title ($14 new). It's a top down shooter where you hold the stylus where you want to shoot, and you can tap along the bottom of the bottom screen to move your character left and right.
Ninja Town was pretty fun for a while too if you like Tower Defense games. I got mine during black friday when it was $9.99 at best buy. More than worth it for that, now it'll cost you $30, I'm not sure I'd pay that, but it's very polished for what it is.
Teenage Zombies: Invasion fo the Alien Brain Thingies was a quirky little platformer. It felt more like a flash game than anything, but I had picked it up for $7, and it wasn't terrible.
I had picked all three of these games up based on their titles alone.
Zombie BBQ is 15 bucks? I may just check that out.
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It's basically Choplifter, but much expanded. Great soundtrack, but after the first 5 or so missions, the game bumped up the difficulty and became almost impossible for me.
It's basically Choplifter, but much expanded. Great soundtrack, but after the first 5 or so missions, the game bumped up the difficulty and became almost impossible for me.
Yeah this game is a lot of fun, I've seen it available everywhere. I forget if it's budget, it should be.
HH is another game that I just don't "get". Is it a concurrent puzzle/action game? Do you switch between one or the other? How do they mesh together?
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It's basically Choplifter, but much expanded. Great soundtrack, but after the first 5 or so missions, the game bumped up the difficulty and became almost impossible for me.
Jesus christ yes. Having to remember to buy tanks and men while destroying legions of enemies who have enhanced armor or some bullshit is impossible. And it was mission 5 of 9 or something.
HH is another game that I just don't "get". Is it a concurrent puzzle/action game? Do you switch between one or the other? How do they mesh together?
From what I understand there are two things going on at once but you can only do one at a time.
You kill monsters and they go to the bottom screen as colored blocks. They gradually rise up like a Tetris wall or something and if they reach the top they revive and pester you again. So periodically you pause the top screen and go kill the baddies again in touchscreen puzzle mode.
Doesn't sound all that special from a description but it has a lot of style.
HH is another game that I just don't "get". Is it a concurrent puzzle/action game? Do you switch between one or the other? How do they mesh together?
From what I understand there are two things going on at once but you can only do one at a time.
You kill monsters and they go to the bottom screen as colored blocks. They gradually rise up like a Tetris wall or something and if they reach the top they revive and pester you again. So periodically you pause the top screen and go kill the baddies again in touchscreen puzzle mode.
Doesn't sound all that special from a description but it has a lot of style.
There's a bit more to it than that. First off, the platforming section is quite well done and bursting with style. There are hidden exits to find, you can juggle enemies with your attacks to earn more money, it's very well paced as far as introducing new concepts/enemies/whathaveyou, etc. It would be a damn fine game by itself.
And then there's the bottom screen. True, you need to clear out the defeated baddies before they come back, but by matching blocks you can activate power ups that help you in the platformer. You can also fire a shot, go to the puzzle world (which freezes the platforming), match some blocks and come back to the platformer to find the shot you fired has gone from a wimpy bullet to a mammoth blast. You can also heal yourself, make yourself younger or even activate tea time, which transforms you into a giant robot.
I think it's one of those games that's more than the sum of its parts. Also, it's hard. If you go in expecting a cakewalk, you'll get your ass handed to you a couple hours in.
I just watched a trailer for Glory Days 2 and now my mouth is watering. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for that one
Anyone play and base command TBS' for the DS? Something like Metal Marines for the SNES.
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While I doubt it really applies here, because it's not really a small dev., but Elite Beat Agents is $4.99 used this week at GameStop. My brother bought a copy, I borrowed it and beat the whole thing, and I'm really debating getting one of my own now. Part of me says I beat it - it's over. Nothing left to do. Save your $5.
Another part of me craves "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire at any moment, without having to haggle with a 12 year old to borrow his cart.
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While I doubt it really applies here, because it's not really a small dev., but Elite Beat Agents is $4.99 used this week at GameStop. My brother bought a copy, I borrowed it and beat the whole thing, and I'm really debating getting one of my own now. Part of me says I beat it - it's over. Nothing left to do. Save your $5.
Another part of me craves "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire at any moment, without having to haggle with a 12 year old to borrow his cart.
You haven't beaten squat if you haven't beaten it on its highest difficulty with the
Elite Beat Divas, and then after that, you unlock Commander Kahn to dance with the Divas
There's also unlockable songs based on your combined high scores among all difficulties.
You'd really turn down something as infinitely replayable and fun as Elite Beat Agents when it would only be $5? Can you even buy all the songs individually for $5?
Buy that game already! If there's anything that justifies the existence of the DS and its two screen/touch screen design, it's Elite Beat Agents.
Shiren the Wanderer is not exactly huge, but is the best game on the DS.
I know this is shallow, but i've always been turned off by the poor animation of roguelikes.
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And let me just throw in, although Sega is a big company, "Feel The Magic XX XY" and "The Rub Rabbits" get no love at all, and are the best mini game compilations I've ever seen on the DS (honestly, never played Wario for the DS, only Wii...). The music, art style and just overall fun of the titles deserves a mention.
Sorry my only 3 contributions to this thread have been by large devs, but EBA is a must-play, and these 2 titles I'd never even heard of until I snagged "Feel The Magic" for $3 used because I had just gotten a DS, only had Brian Age, and $5. EBA was not on sale at this time ;-)
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Not sure how small it would be considered, but Puzzle Quest: Galactrix really is what the DS was made for.
I love the first puzzle quest, but galactrix takes the very worst parts of the first game and forces you to do it repeatedly. Another annoying thing is you basically have to find schematics for every new "spell" you want to learn and then play a crafting minigame. I played for about 10 hours and still only had one attack ability.
It was so frustrating that I traded it in and picked up a copy of the original, which is still awesome.
Shiren the Wanderer is not exactly huge, but is the best game on the DS.
I know this is shallow, but i've always been turned off by the poor animation of roguelikes.
That's an interesting comment. I can understand it in the context of something like Rogue or Nethack where it's all ascii, but Shiren is a good looking game. It's a SNES game originally, but the sprites look very nice on the DS so I'm sure Sega did some work to clean it up. Could you elaborate on your feelings?
Shiren the Wanderer is not exactly huge, but is the best game on the DS.
I know this is shallow, but i've always been turned off by the poor animation of roguelikes.
That's an interesting comment. I can understand it in the context of something like Rogue or Nethack where it's all ascii, but Shiren is a good looking game. It's a SNES game originally, but the sprites look very nice on the DS so I'm sure Sega did some work to clean it up. Could you elaborate on your feelings?
It's not the graphics I have a problem with, but the 2-3 frame animations for everything from walking to attacking.
That and aside from the character sprites, I see no difference between Shiren the Wanderer, Pokémon and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. They all look like reskins of the same game.
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Shiren the Wanderer is not exactly huge, but is the best game on the DS.
I know this is shallow, but i've always been turned off by the poor animation of roguelikes.
That's an interesting comment. I can understand it in the context of something like Rogue or Nethack where it's all ascii, but Shiren is a good looking game. It's a SNES game originally, but the sprites look very nice on the DS so I'm sure Sega did some work to clean it up. Could you elaborate on your feelings?
It's not the graphics I have a problem with, but the 2-3 frame animations for everything from walking to attacking.
In many ways they are. Shiren is a bit more complicated but it's still nowhere near Nethack levels. Or even Castle of the Winds.
I have to say I am really disappointed with the Japanese Mystery Dungeon series, they're just no replacement for the PC roguelikes that have been around for ages. It's like they aren't sure what sort of game to make it, they try to balance it too much and remove much of the fun randomness, and they feel more arcadey. They're full of very specific mechanics that simplify things too much.
Yes, even Shiren, which can have some interesting random occurences...it just doesn't grab me.
Also the fact that you can't equip everything under the sun ala Diablo.
And let me just throw in, although Sega is a big company, "Feel The Magic XX XY" and "The Rub Rabbits" get no love at all, and are the best mini game compilations I've ever seen on the DS (honestly, never played Wario for the DS, only Wii...). The music, art style and just overall fun of the titles deserves a mention.
Sorry my only 3 contributions to this thread have been by large devs, but EBA is a must-play, and these 2 titles I'd never even heard of until I snagged "Feel The Magic" for $3 used because I had just gotten a DS, only had Brian Age, and $5. EBA was not on sale at this time ;-)
Rub Rabbits? That reminds me of the rumored Ubisoft title that was basically a masturbation trainer for girls. I think "blue" was in the title and it had to do with rabbits as well.
Vastly under appreciated survival-horror/fps on the DS. Great atmosphere and controls. This is one of those fun games to play at 10:00 at night with all the lights off and your headphones on. I have to stress the head phones because the small sounds in this game add some great creepiness to the game. The only problem with this game is a pretty ghetto save system. Overall a great game, and a surprisingly good survival horror game considering the graphics/system.
Vastly under appreciated survival-horror/fps on the DS. Great atmosphere and controls. This is one of those fun games to play at 10:00 at night with all the lights off and your headphones on. I have to stress the head phones because the small sounds in this game add some great creepiness to the game. The only problem with this game is a pretty ghetto save system. Overall a great game, and a surprisingly good survival horror game considering the graphics/system.
Yeah, it's not without its issues but I did enjoy it. It's not too great if you're expecting an FPS like Quake, it feels too stiff, but all things considered it's not bad.
Shiren the Wanderer is not exactly huge, but is the best game on the DS.
Until you accidentally shove your +45 moded to hell Firebrand in a jar of change halfway through Tainted Path without a storage jar to save your ass kickingly good shield. At which point screams of rage echo across the land which can still be heard to this day.
EDIT: As someone who's played both Pokemon MD and Shiren MD I can say they play nothing like the same. Shiren is infinitely better for a start.
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Vastly under appreciated survival-horror/fps on the DS. Great atmosphere and controls. This is one of those fun games to play at 10:00 at night with all the lights off and your headphones on. I have to stress the head phones because the small sounds in this game add some great creepiness to the game. The only problem with this game is a pretty ghetto save system. Overall a great game, and a surprisingly good survival horror game considering the graphics/system.
Yeah, it's not without its issues but I did enjoy it. It's not too great if you're expecting an FPS like Quake, it feels too stiff, but all things considered it's not bad.
I've heard it was basically a development team of just about 3-5 people, so I have to give them props for actually doing anything, much less making a fairly decent game in a genre/style no one thought could work on the system.
Anyone play any good adventure games for the DS recently? I own Hotel Dusk, but I was horribly bored by it, and I plan to buy Broken Sword for the Wii.
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Anyone play any good adventure games for the DS recently? I own Hotel Dusk, but I was horribly bored by it, and I plan to buy Broken Sword for the Wii.
I suppose Phoenix Wright doesn't count as an "adventure game", does it?
Trace Memory comes to mind but I can't see that interesting you if you didn't like Hotel Dusk.
Anyone play any good adventure games for the DS recently? I own Hotel Dusk, but I was horribly bored by it, and I plan to buy Broken Sword for the Wii.
To be honest I don't think any have come out besides Broken Sword. It's been a long time since Phoenix Wright.
Anyone play any good adventure games for the DS recently? I own Hotel Dusk, but I was horribly bored by it, and I plan to buy Broken Sword for the Wii.
I suppose Phoenix Wright doesn't count as an "adventure game", does it?
Trace Memory comes to mind but I can't see that interesting you if you didn't like Hotel Dusk.
Sidenote, how do you like TWEWY?
Phoenix Wright is great, which is why I've played every one (I just finished Apollo Justice a month ago).
As for TWEWY, I did a stupid thing and bought it as one of 3 games in one day, the other being Ninja Gaiden DS (for 15 bucks ) and GTA: CW, which means i've only cracked the surface of each so far. From what I have played though, I love the combat system, (though it looks like I may have to break open the instruction manual to fully understand it) and the artstyle and music are great (i've been humming the main tune for 2 days now and I last played the game on Sunday, so i'm not blowing smoke.) Neku is an ass, but I've read that he lightens up over time, so that's cool.
It's a nice change of pace, especially since I'm noticing i'm starting to get tired of the traditional grind 'em RPGs.
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Ninja Town was pretty fun for a while too if you like Tower Defense games. I got mine during black friday when it was $9.99 at best buy. More than worth it for that, now it'll cost you $30, I'm not sure I'd pay that, but it's very polished for what it is.
Teenage Zombies: Invasion fo the Alien Brain Thingies was a quirky little platformer. It felt more like a flash game than anything, but I had picked it up for $7, and it wasn't terrible.
I had picked all three of these games up based on their titles alone.
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It's basically Choplifter, but much expanded. Great soundtrack, but after the first 5 or so missions, the game bumped up the difficulty and became almost impossible for me.
Yeah this game is a lot of fun, I've seen it available everywhere. I forget if it's budget, it should be.
Edit: Also only six or so people actually bought it, so it certainly counts.
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Jesus christ yes. Having to remember to buy tanks and men while destroying legions of enemies who have enhanced armor or some bullshit is impossible. And it was mission 5 of 9 or something.
From what I understand there are two things going on at once but you can only do one at a time.
You kill monsters and they go to the bottom screen as colored blocks. They gradually rise up like a Tetris wall or something and if they reach the top they revive and pester you again. So periodically you pause the top screen and go kill the baddies again in touchscreen puzzle mode.
Doesn't sound all that special from a description but it has a lot of style.
There's a bit more to it than that. First off, the platforming section is quite well done and bursting with style. There are hidden exits to find, you can juggle enemies with your attacks to earn more money, it's very well paced as far as introducing new concepts/enemies/whathaveyou, etc. It would be a damn fine game by itself.
And then there's the bottom screen. True, you need to clear out the defeated baddies before they come back, but by matching blocks you can activate power ups that help you in the platformer. You can also fire a shot, go to the puzzle world (which freezes the platforming), match some blocks and come back to the platformer to find the shot you fired has gone from a wimpy bullet to a mammoth blast. You can also heal yourself, make yourself younger or even activate tea time, which transforms you into a giant robot.
I think it's one of those games that's more than the sum of its parts. Also, it's hard. If you go in expecting a cakewalk, you'll get your ass handed to you a couple hours in.
Woohoo I am one of six.
If you want a damn hard platformer / action adventure with a twist then Henry Hatsworth is by far the way to go.
Anyone play and base command TBS' for the DS? Something like Metal Marines for the SNES.
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I've either made threads for all of them, or at least mentioned them lots of times. I do my part to make sure everyone loves them. I really do.
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Another part of me craves "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire at any moment, without having to haggle with a 12 year old to borrow his cart.
You haven't beaten squat if you haven't beaten it on its highest difficulty with the
There's also unlockable songs based on your combined high scores among all difficulties.
You'd really turn down something as infinitely replayable and fun as Elite Beat Agents when it would only be $5? Can you even buy all the songs individually for $5?
Buy that game already! If there's anything that justifies the existence of the DS and its two screen/touch screen design, it's Elite Beat Agents.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
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Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
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You're right. But my lunch break is now over. Why didn't I read this before I left?! I hope my GameStop still has a used copy tomorrow...
And I spent $7 at Taco Bell. DAMMIT THAT'S LIKE EBA RIGHT THERE! I can't enjoy these nachos now.
You can enjoy the nachos today. You just won't be enjoying the nachos tomorrow because you'll be buying EBA tomorrow. :P
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More Friend Codes!
Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
I know this is shallow, but i've always been turned off by the poor animation of roguelikes.
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Sorry my only 3 contributions to this thread have been by large devs, but EBA is a must-play, and these 2 titles I'd never even heard of until I snagged "Feel The Magic" for $3 used because I had just gotten a DS, only had Brian Age, and $5. EBA was not on sale at this time ;-)
I love the first puzzle quest, but galactrix takes the very worst parts of the first game and forces you to do it repeatedly. Another annoying thing is you basically have to find schematics for every new "spell" you want to learn and then play a crafting minigame. I played for about 10 hours and still only had one attack ability.
It was so frustrating that I traded it in and picked up a copy of the original, which is still awesome.
That's an interesting comment. I can understand it in the context of something like Rogue or Nethack where it's all ascii, but Shiren is a good looking game. It's a SNES game originally, but the sprites look very nice on the DS so I'm sure Sega did some work to clean it up. Could you elaborate on your feelings?
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It's not the graphics I have a problem with, but the 2-3 frame animations for everything from walking to attacking.
That and aside from the character sprites, I see no difference between Shiren the Wanderer, Pokémon and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. They all look like reskins of the same game.
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I have to say I am really disappointed with the Japanese Mystery Dungeon series, they're just no replacement for the PC roguelikes that have been around for ages. It's like they aren't sure what sort of game to make it, they try to balance it too much and remove much of the fun randomness, and they feel more arcadey. They're full of very specific mechanics that simplify things too much.
Yes, even Shiren, which can have some interesting random occurences...it just doesn't grab me.
Also the fact that you can't equip everything under the sun ala Diablo.
Rub Rabbits? That reminds me of the rumored Ubisoft title that was basically a masturbation trainer for girls. I think "blue" was in the title and it had to do with rabbits as well.
Lord, please let someone else remember this, too.
Vastly under appreciated survival-horror/fps on the DS. Great atmosphere and controls. This is one of those fun games to play at 10:00 at night with all the lights off and your headphones on. I have to stress the head phones because the small sounds in this game add some great creepiness to the game. The only problem with this game is a pretty ghetto save system. Overall a great game, and a surprisingly good survival horror game considering the graphics/system.
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Yeah, it's not without its issues but I did enjoy it. It's not too great if you're expecting an FPS like Quake, it feels too stiff, but all things considered it's not bad.
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Until you accidentally shove your +45 moded to hell Firebrand in a jar of change halfway through Tainted Path without a storage jar to save your ass kickingly good shield. At which point screams of rage echo across the land which can still be heard to this day.
EDIT: As someone who's played both Pokemon MD and Shiren MD I can say they play nothing like the same. Shiren is infinitely better for a start.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
It may be due to the fact that it is buttock clenchingly hard and most people feel humiliated by it. I know I do.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I've heard it was basically a development team of just about 3-5 people, so I have to give them props for actually doing anything, much less making a fairly decent game in a genre/style no one thought could work on the system.
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I suppose Phoenix Wright doesn't count as an "adventure game", does it?
Trace Memory comes to mind but I can't see that interesting you if you didn't like Hotel Dusk.
Sidenote, how do you like TWEWY?
To be honest I don't think any have come out besides Broken Sword. It's been a long time since Phoenix Wright.
Phoenix Wright is great, which is why I've played every one (I just finished Apollo Justice a month ago).
As for TWEWY, I did a stupid thing and bought it as one of 3 games in one day, the other being Ninja Gaiden DS (for 15 bucks
It's a nice change of pace, especially since I'm noticing i'm starting to get tired of the traditional grind 'em RPGs.
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