Now that the Nintendo Switch has effectively dominated both the handheld and home console markets, it seems unlikely Nintendo will return to the Dual Screen format anytime soon. Of course, when taking size, brightness, and button quality in mind, not all DS remodels were created equally. The DS Phat truly is too unwieldy for a handheld, but it actually looks nice and Nintendo released some really nice color schemes for the DS.
Coupled with the worst brightness of the handhelds on this list, and the DS Phat looks nice but is hard to return to. While stereoscopic 3D is incredibly well implemented with most first party titles Ocarina of Time 3D is downright stunning with 3D turned on, it was a feature that went grossly underused even by those that actually liked it.
With many different endings too! This is a game for people with a lot of time who want to truly delve deep into the roleplaying aspect of Harvest Moon. HM: Another Wonderful Life came out a year later to fix that issue, allowing you to play as a girl and fixing a couple of other things with minor additions. Both games are great and both will please the same target audience. Trio of Towns also achieves what I consider to be the perfect pacing for such a game, letting you get accustomed to each new feature before giving you something new.
Which also makes it one of the most loved games of out every Harvest Moon title, period. This design choice seems to have been the right one, especially to market the game to new players rather than longtime fans. You can get a lot done with just minutes of gameplay in HM Animal Parade is the second entry on the console and it features highly customizable clothing and very cute graphics.
All of the core game elements are beautifully executed in this game, and a lot of them are also expanded upon from older titles. For example, you can have two kids rather than one after marrying. These children will take on some personality traits and looks of their other parent, which makes them much more of a character and less of a glorified pet.
So having kids here is actually an adventure itself rather than just a gimmicky gameplay mechanic. The main feature of the game, however, is the enormous amount of animals to interact with and have as pets. The story follows the protagonist as they try to re-connect the village and its population with nature.
You need to create magical rainbow bridges with different ingredients to access more areas, which greatly streamlines progression into an orderly well-paced structure. This also encourages foraging and generally dabbling in every activity the game has to offer to get said ingredients. Graphics are pretty solid, music is great, and the farming element is not lost in the shuffle. It was made for the GBA following the same setting as HM: Back to Nature, but with a ton of extras and re-built specifically for the handheld.
It features some of the most beautiful sprites that the Harvest Moon franchise had seen to date. Still, Friends of Mineral Town somehow managed to find the perfect balance. Take that and couple it with its bouncy personality and endearing characters, along with the framework of a classic title Back to Nature and you get an experience that truly feels like classic, yet also fresh, Harvest Moon. And even though newer titles offer a lot of newer awesome stuff I still have to rank FoMT as the best Harvest Moon experience.
Nelson Chitty is a Venezuelan expat living in Argentina. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is a game that is best played with a strategy guide, as a lot of the side quests are either extremely difficult or poorly explained. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords has been released on numerous consoles since its debut. When the Nintendo DS port of the game came out, it was the only iteration of the game that offered touch screen support, making it the superior version.
If you have things to do in life, then do not buy this game! Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is the video game equivalent of heroin. Puzzle Quest takes the matching blocks gameplay of Bejeweled and wraps it in a fantasy RPG, where you can level up, train monsters and take over the world.
This portable version of the classic strategy game offers hundreds of hours of gameplay, with almost limitless replayability. The only real issue the game has is its shoddy visuals. The Nintendo DS was capable of so much more.
In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, you play as a soldier, who is sent as part of an international task force to investigate a portal that has appeared in Antartica.
Once you pass through the portal, the mission goes to hell, and most of the operatives are killed by supernatural beasts. It is your job to continue the mission and discover what is behind the appearance of the portal. Like other games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, Strange Journey offers you the chance to control the beasts and gods of mythology, as you explore dungeons from a first-person perspective.
You will need all of the help you can get, as Strange Journey doesn't mess around. If you are looking for a challenging RPG with a deep story, then Strange Journey is the game for you. Honourable mention - Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor and its sequel are two other excellent games in the series. The reason they don't appear on the list is due to their outright unfair difficulty. You can expect to die a lot in those games. The makers of Kirby Mass Attack decided that the best way to improve the Kirby series was to add more Kirby.
In Mass Attack, an evil wizard named Necrodeus uses a magic staff to split Kirby into ten different beings. It is up to Kirby to become whole again. You control the game and the multiple Kirbys with the use of the touch screen. In a lot of the ways, the gameplay more resembles Pikmin than it does a traditional Kirby game. You have to guide the multiple Kirbys through each level, and use the power of their numbers to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Kirby Canvas Curse was a touch screen game that mainly involved building bridges for Kirby to roll across. Kirby: Squeak Squad was similar to the other Kirby games and didn't bring anything new to the table.
The Animal Crossing games are all about creating a relaxing atmosphere, as you build your own town for the other villagers to live in. When playing the older games in the series, you might wonder why you are bothering to build this awesome town, if there is no one around to see it. Animal Crossing: Wild World was the first game in the series to offer online functionality. Not only was the game now portable, but you could visit the towns of other people and play games with them.
This game set the template for the other Animal Crossing titles to follow. They are essentially Harvest Moon, with the addition of dungeon crawling and weapon creation. These games are highly addictive and offer more of a purpose than Animal Crossing does. The adventure game genre was considered to be dead by many fans, until its revival by Telltale Games. Nintendo fans knew that the genre was still alive and well on the Nintendo DS, with the adventures of Phoenix Wright.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney follows the titular lawyer, as he solves a series of criminal cases that involve a cast of wacky characters. The game has incredible writing, with an amazing job done on its localisation. You must help Phoenix keep his clients out of jail, despite the fact that it seems like the whole world is against you.
It is up to you to gather evidence and prepare a case for the defence. While these are all great games, you really need to start from the beginning in order to get the full effect of the story. Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a strategy game that takes the concept of a modern war and adds colour and character to the proceedings. You play as different commanders from a series of countries, who join forces, in order to defeat the evil nation of Omega Land.
Don't let the light-hearted visual style fool you into thinking this is a simple game. Advance Wars: Dual Strike offers a complex strategy experience, as you juggle your finances in order to choose which units to build and send into combat.
There is also the CO powers to take into consideration, as every commander has a unique ability that can change the course of a battle in a heartbeat. Known as Panel De Pon in Japan this gem of a title from Intelligent Systems requires you to match colored tiles into groups of three or more before your bin fills up. Blocks can be moved with a simple swipe of the stylus and there are a number of different gameplay modes to enjoy as well that range from clearing all the blocks above a Clear line to scoring as many points as possible in a set time limit.
Throw in some fantastic multiplayer modes and a fun selection of Daily Challenges and Planet Puzzle League becomes incredibly hard to put down. Filled with twists and turns and requiring multiple playthroughs in order to reach its true ending, is a slice of brilliance that shockingly never received a European release. Granted this collaboration from Square Enix and Jupiter is available on iOS and Nintendo Switch now, but neither can fully replicate the uniqueness of playing it on DS.
Aside from its modern-day setting, highly stylized characters, and energetic soundtrack, the thing that really sets TWEWY apart from its peers is the utterly unique combat system it uses. Wild World took everything that was great about the GameCube game and introduced online aspects to make visiting the villages of friends and family even easier.
While the loss of classic NES games was a bitter pill to swallow, its solid online aspects and high level of customization meant you still had plenty to keep you busy.
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