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Posted: Jan 05 2009 12:54 am

Currently I have New Super Mario Bros., Chrono Trigger DS, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin amd Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. What else should I get?

And should I beat Castlevanian: Aria of Sorrow before I play Dawn of Sorrow or does it matter?

Posted: Jan 05 2009 01:22 am

I'd advise playing AoS first but it's not all that necessary to figure what's going on in DoS. You could just read up on it in wikipedia before you play Dawn.

Posted: Jan 05 2009 01:48 am

The rest of the CV games, like Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia are also good.

Want a fighter? Get Bleach: Dark Souls (even if you don't like the show, the game's just too awesome) or Ultimate Mortal Kombat. anything else is shit.

RPGage? There are a hell of a lot of games, like the Final Fantasy remakes (and FFCC), The World Ends With You and others like Disgaea, Front Mission, etc. (if you're into SRPGs)

Action games? Metal Slug 7, Legend of Kage 2, the classic Contra 4, Bangai-O Spirits (robots and missiles flying everywhere... what's not to like?), Kirby Super Star Ultra, Trauma Center, Space Invaders Extreme ('nuff said), the 2 Sonic games, Zelda: PH, Megaman ZX's/Star Force, I could go on all night, but I'm too lazy.

FPSes? There's COD4 and COD: World at War (with online), Metroid Prime Hunters, Dementium: The Ward,

Wanna make music? Jam Sessions (guitar) or Korg DS-10 (synthesizer) are good.

Sports, maybe? there's 3 Tony Hawk games (avoid Motion at all costs), Skate It, the usual Maddens, MLB Power Pros, and not much else.

There's also adventure ones like all 4 Ace Attorney games, Time Hollow, Jake Hunter, Trace Memory...

There's more I'm probably missing and others would mention, but here. Sorry if I droned on too long.

Posted: Jan 05 2009 02:52 am

WarioWare Touched
Mario Kart DS
Kirby Canvas Curse
The Final Fantasy remakes
Trauma Center

Posted: Jan 05 2009 07:07 am

I'll always suggest the Phoenix Wright games, especially so if you dig interactive novels. In that same vein is an underrated gem called Hotel Dusk that was also great.

If you like logic puzzles, the newly released Professor Layton and the Curious Village is fantastic and fun.

Posted: Jan 06 2009 12:43 am

anorexorcist wrote:

Currently I have New Super Mario Bros., Chrono Trigger DS, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin amd Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. What else should I get?

And should I beat Castlevanian: Aria of Sorrow before I play Dawn of Sorrow or does it matter?

If you've never played Chrono Trigger in any of its incarnations, GET IT NOW. I got it for my DS eight days ago, and I've already logged over 28 hours into it because it's so freakin' addictive.

The World Ends With you is equally amazing; it literally has THE most fun battles of any RPG I've ever played.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney if you're into adventure games.

Kirby: Canvas Curse is probably the best use of the touch screen that you're going to find.+

Posted: Jan 06 2009 05:04 am

Cam-win wrote:

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney if you're into heavy text, yet awesome story games.

Fixed, also they're best enjoyed in sequence due to revisited characters in just about every sequel (even Apollo Justice).

I've been playing FF IV for the DS and restarted after having played over 20 hours due to saving past the point of no return, missing some nice abilities I could've gotten after the fight with Cagnazzo. The game is really great and feels like a much better version than the first one. I thought the character designs would bother me (hoping they would've handled it like Chrono Trigger [unchanged]), but the cut scenes coupled with full voice acting really turned me around on it.

Lastly, Aria and Dawn of Sorrow actually have a connection bonus. If Aria's in Slot 2 when you create a new file in Dawn, you begin play with the ring that increases the frequency of rare item drops.

Posted: Jan 06 2009 02:57 pm

I played, finished, and enjoyed Dawn of Sorrow before I even knew there WAS an Aria of Sorrow, so I guess there's no real problem with playing them out of sequence.

Posted: Jan 06 2009 04:40 pm

Thanks for the advice guys.

Thanks lordsathian, I have AoS just havn't finished it, that will be a nice bonus.

Posted: Jan 07 2009 09:45 pm

I didn't play AoS before DoS and it didn't ruin it for me.

Custom Robo Arena
Tetris DS
etc, etc.