Good Games Stuck On Nintendo DS 

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I know its a minor detail, but i love that you have the game title in the corner. Was watching another channel and his accent made things hard rk understand AND he didnt have the game titles. So, thank you

Castlevania? not anymore dude =-)

DQ9 was the first game I played that had full party customization in it, and since then, I've loved playing other games like it.

My only issue with Golden Sun: Dark Dawn was the *_MASSIVE_* cliffhanger of an ending which has yet to be (and likely will never be) resolved.

Hotel Dusk room 215 is soo good. I beat it last month. Highly recommend if you like unique visual novels/ detective games.

Solatorobo not being here is CRIMINAL (But the Lunar Knight's recognition kindof makes up for it ❤)

I'm collecting ds games right now, maybe hundreds. I found Scribblenauts, it's blow my mind. Very creative. I never gotten into puzzle games before, now i'm interested.

All the DS Castlevania's are worth playing and they all play differently.

Thank God the Castlevania section aged poorly

I really want DQ9 to make it off the DS, mostly so I can play it online again with people 😂. That was peak gaming. I was in college i would walk around town with my DS and come home with 50+ street passes. And sometimes play it at a coffee shop and people would ask what you are playing and play multiplayer with you. Not just DQ but whatever was the big new release the past few months. Nintendo brought people together… I really really hope the era of handhelds is not over.. Switch is cool and all but I want a handheld with battery that can fit in your pocket like GBA-3DS… I’m sad that it may be over

Welp looks like Dawn of Sorrow is coming to Switch

Glad to be able to say that this video is alredy outdated.

Pokemon Platinum, Dragon Quest IX, The Legendary Starfy, and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin to name a few.

did you play Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure? i loved that game so much

In Lunar Nights, you could put one of the Boktai games into the GBA slot on the DS or DS lite and use it as a solar sensor. It also unlocks tracks on the in-game music player. Using the Boktai game as a solar sensor really drained the system battery though

I hope ther's a boktai/lunar knights collection someday, with some gameplay mechanic to replace the sunlight integration.

Lunar Knights looks sick! I should definitely try it.

Omg launch on the thumbnail

So many great gems stuck on the DS, I'm happy that I've managed to hold onto a lot of the titles mentioned here along with so so many others.

Monster Racers is pretty good too. It's like Pokemon but its racing. Also pretty sure its stuck on the DS

I never knew i had Monster Tale on my DS it was on one of those DS cartridges with 100ds of games on 1 Cart from Ali express….Nice 🙏🏽

I'm glad there are good games "stuck" on specific platforms, that makes it worthy going back to those consoles/handhelds and finding something new and/or interesting to play, I've been picking up games from your lists, currently playing Magical Starsign and lovin' it.

If they did a remake of super mario 64 but had the extra content of ds with the controls of the original id be so happy.

Monster Tale was a peculiar one. I don't even think retro metroidvanias made a comeback yet

Monster Tale was a good game made by Dream Rift, but their magnum opus was Henry Hatsworth for the DS.

At least we can take Castlevania off the list now.

I really want an affordable dual screen emulation handheld soo bad

Nds!!😭😭😭❤

I will always mention Avalon Code and Magical Starsign when anyone mentions the DS. There are quite a few great games for the DS, it's got such a massive library of games people never got to play lol

Sands of Destruction! Nice RPG with a solid cast, some off the beaten path mechanics that work well, a damn good story and nice presentation. Only negatives I can think off are that some dungeons are really complicated and might be impossible without a guide for some and the early game being harder than a lot of RPGs. Nevertheless one of the highest quality to obscurity ratios I know of when it comes to video games. :D

Order of Ecclesia > Dawn of Sorrow, imo. It was literally the prototype for Bloodstained. Rub Rabbits is the sequel to Feel the Magic, which released just after the US launch of the DS, but yeah, clearly inspired by Warioware. Aliens: Infestation is sooo good. Crazy hardcore mechanics like perma-death. Gorgeous game all around.

I liked that cute girl with the pixie cut hair in your thumbnail.

The Golden Sun series definelty needs its time to shine again, such a great series that ended at the worst possible moment. The orignal 7th dragon game is one i recommend people try but it does have a bit of a learning curve and the difficulty can be high at some points but its worth it

Some more great hidden gems: Boing! Docomodake Freshly Picked - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland Legendary Starfy, The Lost in Blue Orcs & Elves Picross

Fossil Fighters!!!!

Timestamps 0:00 intro 0:16 Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow 1:46 Lunar Knights 3:17 the Rub Rabbits 4:44 Aliens Infestation 6:20 Monster Tale 7:51 Dragon Quest IX 9:21 Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver 10:51 Mario & Luigi Partners in Time 12:25 Dragon Ball Origins 14:00 Golden Sun Dark Dawn

Covenant of the Plume should have been in here.

9:34 DeSmuME spotted, lmao.

I've been binge-watching your content lately! Thanks for everything you do

Metal Max 2 and 3 bro

Need more games about the original Dragonball

The Rib Rabbits looks like a game I would love.

I love The Rub Rabbits and the sequel ,Feel the Magic!

Pokémon Conquest

Thanks for the suggestions😊❤

Monster tale looks great ❤

I want to play Castlevania but i don't get it iknow it's skill issue but my angry issue i can break my ds hahaha

Lunar Knights takes me back. I had an R4 and was looking for games to play and stumbled across Lunar Knights. Had alot of fun playing the game. Nice to see it again

Man I voted for a GBA video, but this was great

i want kingdom hearts 358/2 days re-released in higher graphics

Okamiden

Lunar Knight is new for me, have to solve this problem as soon as i arrive home, just need my micro sd card and my laptop, Alien Infestation is a true masterpiece, is in my sd card since day one, Monster Tale is pure fun, need to go back to this one cause never managed to beat it 😅

Going with the none big names, cause obviously it's a shame to miss platinum and dragon quest. Phantasy Star Zero, Sands of Destruction, magical star sign, digimon world dawn and dusk.

Nora and the Time Studio - The Witch of the Mist Forest is an interesting rpg publish by Atlas, you play as a necromancer and also the game have mechanic like festival in some months just like rune factory i thought it was unique and fun try it maybe you will liked it.

I miss these vibrant pixel art games. I miss developers making truly genuine and adventurous gameplay

What's the game on the thumbnail?

Aren't the DS Castlevania games on the Switch?

Ouendan 1 & 2 and Elite Beat Agents

i spend more time looking for games and never play

I've been quite interested in Dragon Quest XI because of the character creation. I imagine it'll be quite expensive now. I was more of a Soul Silver guy over Heart Gold but the sentiment is the same! I got myself a copy on day one but I haven't finished it yet. Been trying to rebuild my team from the original because my save got deleted years ago. Dragon Ball Origins I never had as a kid but I recently got it and its sequel for my DB game collection. My buddy helped me get this first one as a birthday gift.

Not many people can appreciate sims cast aways playspeed transitions

Solatorobo The Red Hunter

I love the DS ❤

Sad that even old DS games are deemed controversial now

Huh, if I had to say, Dawn of Sorrow is by far the easiest of the 3 DS Castlevanias. If this video's comment on difficulty makes curious players second guess if they'd enjoy it, I believe anyone can play and beat the game. I had troubles on one boss as a kid because I didn't read the dialogue explaining how he copies your soul powers used on him (Dmitri) and if you fight him without using that to your advantage, he starts out with a really strong power that can stunlock you for tons of damage. Dawn of Sorrow's difficulty can be easily mitigated by just tanking all damage and using potions from the menu since you can buy them infinitely for cheap, and there's very few other items or weapons worth purchasing because you can make the same stuff or better through the weapon fusion mechanic. I'd argue the first boss in Portrait of Ruin exceeds the difficulty of most bosses in all of Dawn of Sorrow. And then Order of Ecclesia pretty much only has super tough bosses and buying heals to tank damage is out of the equation without absurd grinding because they made healing items really expensive. It's the closest to the Classicvania style of boss fights where you kinda have to learn their moves to win. I absolutely adore the entire trilogy for different reasons though. The Soul System in Aria/Dawn of Sorrow is one of the greatest mechanics of all time imo.

Yeehaaa

Yay, more DS please. Thank you!

0:12 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow 1:44 - Lunar Knights (Boktai's Spiritual Successor) 3:16 - The Rub Rabbits! 4:42 - Aliens Infestation 6:19 - Monster Tale 7:49 - Dragon Quest IX 9:19 - Pokémon Heart Gold 10:49 - Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time 12:23 - Dragon Ball Origins 13:58 - Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Wasnt partners of time remade/rereleased on 3ds?

Thank you for video. I ask you to divide your video to chapters.

Avalon Code and Solatorobo

Tao's Adventure Curse Of The Demon Seal is a game I thoroughly enjoyed on the DS

I loved The Rub Rabbits! Weird but fun game. Pokemon has always been epic too.

Great video. I'm interested in playing Monster Tale, and Dragon Ball Origins. Can't wait for part 2

Dragon ball origins looks really nice! Never heard of it before

The main one of DS for me is Okamiden. Despite Okami HD being ported to every platform last and current gen, Okamiden has yet to leave the DS in any form.

The og dragon ball game is good but it kinda gets old with the Bulma fetch quest. I personally think Dragon ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans is a greater rpg experince as all the og dragon ball cast are actually good and feature unique combos.

Monster tale is so underrated

I'm sad Etrian Odyssey isnt here

Oh, hey, I don't mean to act like a know-it-all, but the proper pronunciation of "Djinn" in the Golden Sun Series is literally just like "Gin" as in the liquor. It's actually from Arabic, and we usually call them Genies in the west. Also, SoulSilver was my jam on the DS...

Soma Bringer

DS have the best catalog of all times : Lunar knight, kingdom hearts re:coded & 358/2 days, chrono trigger, all Zelda, the world end with you, Mario and Luigi 2 & 3, Mario basket, all castlevania, all professor Layton, all shin Megami tensei devil survivor, age of empire age of kings & mythologies, okamiden, Ragnarok ds, all luminous arc, black sigil, bleach the 3rd phantom, valkyrie profile covenant of the plume, contact, all pokemon ranger, gta Chinatown wars, final Fantasy fable chocobo tales, final Fantasy 4 heroes of Light, final Fantasy chronicles ring of fate & echoes of time, final Fantasy 12 revenant wings, final Fantasy tactics advance 2, jump ultimate stars, from the abyss, might and magic clash of heroes, orc & elves, all bomberman land touch, summon night twin age, all draw to life, 9 hours 9 persons 9 doors, time hollow, all rune factory, all lost in blue, all lunar, soul of darkness, draglade, Rondo of swords, full metal alchemist dual sympathy, Hoshigami, all advance wars, all digimon world ds, all dragon quest monsters joker & rocket slime, solatorobo, lost magic, spectrobes, blue dragon plus & awakened shadow, sands of destruction, mystery dungeon shiren the wander, all izuna, all pokemon mystery dungeon, dokapon journey, looney tunes cartoon conductor, hero's saga laevatein tactics, heroes of mana, children of mana, another code, suikoden tierkreis, all inazuma eleven, magical starsign, avalon code, golden sun 3 dark dawn, Naruto path of the ninja 1 & 2, phantasy star zero, pokemon conquest, sonic chronicles the dark brotherhood, radiant historia, Nostalgia... And this list don't include all Japanese only game that have fantrad like : Ore ga Omae o mamoru, Cid to chocobo no fushigi na dungeon, SaGa 2, and many more...

The Aliens Infestation sprite animations are amazing

Mario kart , Pokémon , fucking Kirby super star ultra

Dawn of sorrow only difficulty was the touch screen requirements. Lucky there is a mod to ditch that. Personally i would love to see them modernize Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks like links awakening...new actual Zelda game will be awesome

I think I played through Dragon Quest IX at least 3 times. I could propably still find new stuff today if I would replay it again, that's just how much there is to do in this game. I remember at a pokemon day (for some reason), they even distributed a special dungeon map for this game.

I miss the DS badly, the greatest portable ever made. Switch will never be a portable to me when it's not pocket sized, no way I'm taking it out of the house, too big and awkward.

I pray every day for a rework um 2d-hd or 3d for the Golden Sun trilogie

Monster tale is amazing. I have the cartridge and finished it last week.

GSDD was hardly good - taken on its own, it has some solids, but they're mainly passed down from its predecessors, and it's definitely the weakest of the series. I do hope Nintendo notices the interest in the GBA ones on Switch and gets a studio to continue these properly,

Brain Age, Rhythm Heaven, and Pokemon Conquest would have been tops on my list.

Dark Dawn description is a bit wrong. You play as their children, not descendants. The game also failed to really live up to the original feelings that the gba games truly brought

There are alot more good games then the ones you mentioned like cing games and some disney games, and alot more actually

Buttercup look'n thumbnail.

That DS can probably be seen from space.

Nice collection, please add the second screen next time. Thanks

Thanks for videos like this. There are a lot of cool little games that were passed over or unnoticed through the years. Better than what passes as AAA nowadays. No charm anymore

What is the music used at 1:50 from? Sounds familiar, i feel like I heard it in some game I played years ago but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Dawn of Sorrow is not that hard. It's the second Metroidvania I ever finished (the first was Aria of Sorrow on GBA.)