20 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time 

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0:28 Sonic Rush 1:33 WarioWare: Touched 2:34 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 3:29 Kirby Super Star Ultra 4:23 Advance Wars: Dual Strike 5:19 Animal Crossing: Wild World 6:24 New Super Mario Brothers 7:26 Super Scribblenauts 8:11 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story 9:16 Tetris DS 10:12 Super Mario 64 DS 11:04 The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks 12:01 Pokémon Black 2 & Pokémon White 2 13:00 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials And Tribulations 13:55 Mario Kart DS 14:44 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow 15:40 The World Ends With You 16:27 Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 17:34 Professor Layton and the Lost Future 18:17 Pokémon Heartgold & Pokémon Soulsilver

I remember being a kid at my grandmother's house on christmas with all my cousins and our DS' playing Mario Kart DS and talking on Pictochat. Miss those days

Hotel Dusk is incredible, a hidden gem. It's basically a noir thriller novel, but the gameplay makes you use the DS in ways that you never thought were possible - mind blowing and because of the unique gameplay it can never be on any other console.

Why are videos being edited to removed pauses between punctuation? It's making affected videos sound like one giant run on sentence.

Okamiden? Mario Kart DS? GTA Chinatown Wars? M&L Partners In Time? Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes? Fire Emblem? Dragon Quest IX? Resident Evil Revelations? Chrono Trigger? 999? Elite Beat Agents? Spirit Bubbles? The Trauma Centre Games?

999 and Ghost Trick needed to be here.

HeartGold is definitely my favorite DS game, and I love Super Scribblenauts too. Personally, I would've also included Drawn to Life and Nintendogs.

I was just talking to my brother of Phantom Hourglass the other day. I was talking about how long we were stuck on that puzzle that the solution was to close the DS. I forgot what it was about. I just remembered thinking how clever that was and the whole blowing into the mic.

Elite Beat Agents didn’t make the list?!

I get the feeling that this video is like 2 or 3 years old and just now posted. Jess talks about waiting for Advance Wars to come out on Switch(been out for almost a year now) and mentions the next Castlevania collection being the GBA games(Castlevania Advance Collection came out in 2022).

My 2 favs aren’t there. The Suikoden game on it and I think it was called Radiant Historia.

I recently revived my DSi.I'll be sure to try out some of the games on this list.

I've been lucky enough to play most of the game in the list, definitely will check out the ones I'm missing

Fossil fighters Championship is a fun little gem. It's ofc overshadowed by pokemon, but it's a nice take on the poke-like games.

I remember TeamFourStar playing through The World Ends With You. Sadly they stopped playing once it was revealed to be a time loop game.

Pokemon could easily have 4 of this top 20 with Platinum, HG/SS, B2/W2, and MD: Explorers of Sky. That's (in my opinion) the 3 best mainline Pokemon games ever and the best Pokemon spin-off game ever, and they were all together on one system!

thanks for the video its a nice list perosnally would also add megaman starforce 3 thats such a gem on the nds

Okamiden and golden sun 1 and 2 love them games still have them today

Great video and great recommendations!

Happy to see the greatest at #1! This year is the 25th anniversary of Gold & Silver! Desperately hoping to see another remake announced on Pokemon Day 😍

Seeing TWEWY and Dual Strike get some well deserved love is great. And as much as I love Order of Ecclesia, my favourite handheld Castlevania game is always going to be Portrait of Ruin.

No Chrono Trigger DS?

legend of starfy was underrated

Drawn to life and drawn to life the next chapter is another pair i strongly recommend i was surprised by the story and gameplay as a kid and even more as an adult. Also smt strange journey

Why is Rune Factory 3 never mentioned in these type of videos?!😭

Ghostrick phantom detective, 999, SMT Strange Journey, Advance Wars Days of Ruin and Sonic Colors should've been on the list.

0:56 LMAO ahahahaha calm down Dr eggman

0:54 and if ya don't know, now ya know...

18:43 No that’s completely false there was plenty wrong with these games they didn’t bother to fix the horrible level curve or the horrendous distribution of Johto Pokémon Which were the two biggest issues The point of a remake is to fix things from the original HGSS didn’t do that, it failed as a remake and people need to take their nostalgia glasses and realise that

Played phantom hourglass, new super Mario Bros, black 2 and white 2, and Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver. That's it of these 20 lol

Actually Sonic rush was the game that introduced the boost to the series 🤓☝🏽

"World Ends With You" DS... shows an image from NEO Also, we already have a Castlevania GBA collection. That was released back in 2021. There are some good picks on this list, but I just wanted to bring these things up.

Ok the joke about eggman was hilarious btw😂

CHRONO Trigger! 😅

Recently I’ve been playing my 3ds again and bought TWEWY..probably one of the best games I’ve ever played..I absolutely loved the original more than NEO, i highly recommend it if you’re a kingdom hearts fan or looking for something new.

Part of me feels sad that none of the Megaman Starforce games were mentioned because they’re all amazing, especially Black Ace/Red Joker. At least a little acknowledgement of them would’ve been nice.

I was crushing it. I currently own every have in this list. Then they got to the top fort and I didn't own any of them 😅

Call it skill issue, but as a Mario 64 veteran, I hated SM64DSs controls. Also, X&Y were amazing, don't say that every game after gen 5 is bad. They just weren't great at launch. Mario party DS was the last great mario party games until superstars. Finally, the pan flute in spirit tracks was absolutely stupid. My athsma cannot compensate for the precision requirements of that.

I miss the pokewalker soooooo much. I actually bought heart gold specifically cause I lost the pokewalker that came with soul silver (I also lost that pokewalker)

Wow! I'm really happy that finally someone recognizes that Zelda: Spirit Tracks is WAY superior to Phantom Hourglass!!!

For me, Heart Gold/Soul Silver and Justice For All are the best of their respective franchises on the DS. The former two make full use of the DS and brings out the qualities of Pokemon to its strongest form, while the latter has the best story and character work in the original trilogy. But I'm pretty stoked to see The World Ends With You on this list.

If you do a commeners edition of this topic I would say Lost in Blue deserves to be on it loved that game

Advanced Wars was so good on the Gameboy Advance

You are showing some weird footage rendered in high definition on an emulator. I wanted to see what these games look like on a DS!

Happy to see Phantom Hourglass that’s what I always think of when I think of my first DS. My first LOZ game ever played at the age of 13 🥹

I would say Lost Magic deserves to be on this list. Underrated Gem!

"The composer that's famous on Twitter" That somehow sounds both insultingly dismissive and incredibly accurate 😂

How do we even get folium?

16:53 She's not the first. Sonia Belmont was the first female protagonist if you don't include side characters like Sypha Belnades. Sonia Belmont isn't canon but you didn't say it needed to be.

16:53 Sonia Belmont was in castlevania legends on the gameboy

I’m currently playing the Castlevania ds collection and I’m loving every second of it. Sadly one of my cousins stole every Mario ds game I had so I can’t play any of those ):

Also, love the animations!

So, Order of Oclisia isn't the first Castlevainia to have a female protagonist. There was also one in the N64 game, and even back during the SNES and Genesis era I believe had a game with a female character.

No Chrono Trigger is criminal!

This is what happens when you write a script without punctuation!

Im sorry but you mention great ds games and you dont mention lego battles??? I mean you get to play 3 different eras of lego in a rts type battles where you can find blue studs and minikits to unlocks maps and characters to use in a multiplayer fight it was such a fun game

Order of Ecclesia is sooooo good. It's basically the "prototype" for Bloodstained, but I like the aesthetic of OoE better than Bloodstained's. Mario Kart DS is still my preferred version, just a shame that hackers ruined the online experience.

Can’t go through one minute without dissing Sonic. Crazy.

Sonia Belmont is rolling in her non-canon Original Game Boy grave right now. I love Order Of Ecclesia, but Shinoa wasn't the first. Sorry Igarashi doesn't like Sonia, but she WAS there first.

Why no Mario Party DS?

10:24 Isn't that the fan-made Mario Galaxy DS? And yeah, Nintendo should make a definitive edition of Mario 64 by mixing elements from the original and the DS version. That was what I wish was included in Super Mario 3D All Stars.

Good job

the only reason I played heartgold and soul sliver over the OG gen 2 games (ie Crystal) IS..... THE ABILITY TO FINALLY RUN IN JOHTO. I admit its not as big a problem when ure on emulator but my word is it a pain to WALK SO FREAKING SLOW IN CRYSTAL.

no way you didn't include Pokémon mystery dungeon explorers...

5. Tetris DS 4. Super Mario 64 DS 3. Metroid Prime Hunters 2. Zelda Phantom Hourglass 1. Pokémon Platinum

I thought you'd snubbed ecclessia when dawn of sorrow appeared. But you're right they're both the best games ever.

Pretty safe list but good

How could you not include fossil fighters.

Sick and tired of people downplaying Castlevania portrait of Ruin

Chrono trigger?

" Dr eggman NEGA " 😂😂

Not a bad list. No Fire Emblem and no Mystery Dungeon hurts tho

Recomendation: Magaman Starforce ❤

Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver Pokémon Platinum Pokémon Black and White Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Bowser's Inside Story Pokémon Ranger Sonic Rush Sonic Chronicles Super Mario 64 DS New Super Mario Bros Mario Kart DS Thats all the DS games I played

A VERY average and safe list, but there are SO MANY other DS games way better than many if the ones here. This list is almost all Nintendo 1st party games. If you want a great DS game I would recommend any of the Elite Beat Agent games, Rune Factory, 999, Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, Red the Hunter, or if you want to play what might be the MOST GAME on the DS, Infinite Space

*Sonia Belmont left the room

i hope smt strange journey us here, it is a fuckin amazing jrpg

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 are better than HGSS.

Pokémon black 2 is soooo damn expensive now. OMG

A lot of miss information in this one.

So it's less than a minute discussion for each game? Lol

Man that was a hot take to say Ecclesia is better than Symphony, its up there alright, but better? She wilding

Shanoa is NOT the first Female Castlevania Protagonist!!! That was Sonia Belmont in Castlevania Legends for the GameBoy.

No Ghost Trick?!

So you have Advance Wars, but not Fire Emblem on this list?

I regret selling my Ds and games

I have to say, I like The World Ends With You, but to say it’s the best JRPG on the DS feels like a bit of a stretch. Any game where you need a journal to even understand the story, needs a more understandable story. Same reason why I like Kingdom Hearts’ gameplay , but actively mock the nonsensical story. And it may not have originated on the DS, but the DS is where I first played Chrono Trigger, so that’s my vote for true best.

I watched this video and thought I could sell my copy of Advance Wars Dual Strike and retire. The game is selling for less than $20!!

Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana jones should be on there

TWEWY definitely is peak DS JRPGs

Sonia Belmont was the first female Castlevania character

YESS CHILDHOOD

thanks for the spoilers of the end fights of the Zelda game :'(

don't want to say the shortened version of "negative"? Nega?

one of the best damned systems ever made. I wish bought far more ds titles than I did. including dawm of sorrow ;/

Advance was the one for me

This Delta App got me tripping

Mega man ZX Advent!???!???!?

Meh, you don't have contra 4 ,megaman starforce 3, final fantasy tactics advance 2, pokemon mystery dungeon, rhythm heaven, megaman zx, Radiant Historia, Devil Survivor 1/2, Strange Journey, The World Ends With You, Okamiden, Dragon Quest IV, V, VI, IX. This list would have been good a few years into the release of the ds, but many of these should not be on the list. You're telling me. Professor layten series should have gotten 2 spots instead of pokemon, and it didn't even include the best pokemon game.