The Nintendo DS

**Nice** · 02-16-2010, 04:58 AM

So I've had my DS for over a year and I have to admit, I can't live without the smurfer. Do you own a DS? Why'd you get it? Why do you play it? What games do you have?

I've got
Dragon Quest IV
Final Fantasy IV
Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum
Chrono Trigger

And recently I just ordered like 5 other games that I can't wait to play

Pheonix Wright Ace Attorney
Castlevania Order of Ecclesia
Final Fantasy III
Knights in the Nightmare
Front Mission

So yar share you views folks.

**RedPouch** · 02-16-2010, 05:01 AM

Get Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume. It's an easy tactics-style game, but it's really fun.

**Jessweeee♪** · 02-16-2010, 05:47 AM

My grandparents gave it to me as a middle school graduation present back when the bulky gray DSs were shiny and new :3

Games I own or have owned:
Trace Memory
Nintendogs
The Sims 2
Hotel Dusk
FFIII
Ace Attorney (entire series :</D!)
The World Ends With You
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Tetris DS

**VeloZer0** · 02-16-2010, 05:54 AM

I HATE THE DS SO MUCH!!!!

...had to get that out of my system. What makes it so unbearable is that it has such a lineup of titles that I really like, forcing me to play it all the time.

- The D-Pad and Buttons are WAY too small. I can't play for more than an hour or two without pain in my hands due to fingers cramping up. For something like Mega Man it is a half hour tops, and even then I can't play close to as well as I can on an emulator with a proper game pad.

- The low batter indicator is terrible. Way up in the right hand corner it is completely out of the field of vission when playing. Is it too much to ask that something pop up on screen when the battery starts getting low? I don't know how many times it has crashed and I have lost everything I've been doing.

- The PSP goes into a hibernate mode when the battery becomes critical, saving your game until you can get it plugged in (in addition to warning you on screen when the battery gets low). Why couldn't Nintendo spring for something like this? It makes the console soooo much more usable.

- The touch pad is just a huge gimmick. I have yet to see a single use of the touch pad I have liked. Fortunately the games I do like don't make use of it, so it isn't a huge negative for me, just a useless feature that adds cost. Which is a shame, because I would exchange the DS's two screens for the PSP's one anyday.

Well, after getting that out of my system, I'll touch on some of the positives.

- Obviously the DS is well bellow the PSP in terms of graphics rendering ability, but that isn't something I really hold against it. I don't think it has hurt the ability to develop quality games for the console.

- As I mentioned up top, it has many games I like, including:
Final Fantasy III & IV - both of which I think are amazing, and exactly what remakes should be.
Mega Man ZX & ZXA - Though the story is incredibly stupid the game play is solid, certainly an improvement from the MMZ series.
Castlevania DoS & OoE - DoS is a good metroidvania entry, while OoE did an excellent job of innovating while keeping the good.
Sonic Rush - I was so pleased to find a Sonic title I could actually enjoy, since in my opinion Sega hasn't made a Sonic game worth playing since Sonic 3.

**RedPouch** · 02-16-2010, 06:34 AM