Just bought myself a DS lite!

[Asher]

You should get the R4DS and download every Nintendo DS game ever made for free.

[Maquiladora]

Most of 'em are disturbing JRPGs and puzzle games though.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Asher
You should get the R4DS and download every Nintendo DS game ever made for free.

Can't do that. As a law student, I can't do anything that would jeopardize my good name and character.

Next thing I'm going to buy is shotguns and napalm.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia


Can't do that. As a law student, I can't do anything that would jeopardize my good name and character.

If you scan the horizon carefully you can see that ship. It seems to have set sail some time earlier.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by DrSpike


If you scan the horizon carefully you can see that ship. It seems to have set sail some time earlier.

QFT!

Listen carefully. Do you hear that strange creaking sound? Hear it? Yeah, right there.

That's the sound of my credibility, stretched to breaking point!

I bought "Brain Age" last night and have been playing it. I was never a big fan of Sudoku, but this game has converted me!

My brain age is currently 25, which is actually two years younger than my real age. Woohoo!

[Unspeakable Horror]

The R4DS is verily good
You can also play mp3s and watch videos with it. That's how I get my daily dose of anime when I'm visiting my parents for a day or two
The screen is a bit small but it looks surprisingly good including the sub fonts.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Woah, this thing also plays GBA games! I didn't realize this until just now.

I have a load of GBA games and have completed them all except for Harvest Moon (which I don't have the time to really get into).

I'm thinking of taking Maquiladora's advice and getting Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Seems like a more mature themed game to a previously cutesy franchise.

Phoenix Wright is entertaining but I'm getting stuck at quite a few places quite often and having to read FAQs to get past them. Several of the solutions feel fairly arbitrary, to be honest. I've only got Justice For All, but I'll still splash out for Ace Attorney (the first game) for completeness' sake. I can't guarantee I'll buy all the sequels though.

I don't like the Zelda games. They're entertaining enough to begin with but the puzzle elements irritate me immensely and prevented me from enjoying Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. Like Phoenix Wright, the problem was all in the arbitrary problem solving.

I liked Link to the Past and other top-down Zelda games because the simple puzzles solutions there fit in with the setting. But Ocarina pissed me off a lot because I kept overthinking things and getting too involved with the realism of the world... only to realize that the solution was still just a basic lateral-thinking geometric 2-D puzzle solution at heart.

(Speaking of which, I never finished Link's Awakening for the original Game Boy. I'd better keep ahold of my GBA to play that, as the DS doesn't appear to like original GB games. )

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
But Ocarina pissed me off a lot because I kept overthinking things and getting too involved with the realism of the world... only to realize that the solution was still just a basic lateral-thinking geometric 2-D puzzle solution at heart.

You sound like me playing Phoenix Wright. There is some pretty ambiguous clues in PW2 though.

Also, if you get AWoR don't be put off by the murky look of the game like the gamespot reviewer seemed to be, it looks a bit like SMAC to begin with but it does vary more than other AW campaigns.

[DrSpike]

Link to the Past.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Given how much I dislike OoT (Ocarina of Time), I was very pleasantly surprised by the N64 sequel, LMM (Labia Majora's Mask). That game had not only a darker feel to it, but the puzzles really made more sense. There were a few quirky puzzles, but they were strictly optional and it didn't matter if you couldn't get them. You could just ignore them.

OoT ground to a complete shuddering halt at many places because I couldn't figure out what the hell Shigeru Miyamoto thought I would logically do next. When I finally caved and GameFAQed it, I would come away bemused instead of inspired.

"So I'm supposed to visit a place as a child but play a song I learned as an adult? WTF!"

etc.

[DrSpike]

I am a fan of Labia Majora too.

[halfapple111]

it's definitely funny

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Get yourself Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (or any Advance Wars game), best in the series now IMO.

I got 3/4 through Justice For All then got kinda bored with it when AWoR came out.

My son bought Advance Wars: Days of ruin, so I took it for a test drive last night/this morning. Since it's one of them games had me considering buying a DS and all.

About 15 battles in the campaign or so.

Does this thing ever become anything even resembling a challenge? never played any advance wars before.

(the AI doesn't seem to comprehend losing the HQ = defeat and keeps letting me capture it with a flanking move while the armies are engaged elsewhere, the maps would take longer due to the point bonus the AI seems to get, but wouldn't be any more DIFFICULT if you played more "normally")

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx

My son bought Advance Wars: Days of ruin, so I took it for a test drive last night/this morning. Since it's one of them games had me considering buying a DS and all.

About 15 battles in the campaign or so.

Does this thing ever become anything even resembling a challenge? never played any advance wars before.

Not really Usually they include a hard campaign once the normal campaign is over, but they didn't include one this time for some reason. Which basically only leaves you to get S-ranks on all maps to extend the game, or Wifi.

If you're thinking about trying another AW game then get AW2(GBA), if you can find it.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Phoenix Wright 1 and 2 appear to have an "extra" case at the end that doesn't fit in well with the progress of the story.

I heard that PW1 and 2 were originally just GBA titles, so the graphics were fairly simple. But the absence of Mia Fey and the introduction of the new 3D animated "scientific evidence" method in the last case of PW1 is apparently purely a DS-generation addition.

They also seem to have gotten new writers for it too. The last case of PW1 is waaaaaay longer than any of the other cases.