New Generation on the GameCube), and now only make fashion games. Although I do find it funny the developers use to make wrestling games (including Ultimate Muscle: Legends VS. Without spoiling the game too much, I think the second one has the better cases, while the 3rd one had better have played Style Savvy, and honestly couldn't get into it. It's more like playing through a movie, but you control where to go. So it's not too surprising they have made the list, but I can understand this "game" isn't what a lot of people would want to play. I'm not the biggest fan of point and click games, but the presentation, music, and clever writing make for a very good "visual novel" game. It fact, why didn't Polarium get any Phoenix Wright series is really good on the DS. Personally Panel De Pon / Planet Puzzle League is the much better puzzle game. It must have some fans if it made the top 50. I played Metoes once and had no idea what I was meant to do. I can only guess people don't like the emotions mechanic, or Peach isn't taken seriously. Now Super Princess Peach not making the list is such a shame. I think people forget the two Zelda DS games used the stylus to control link, and not many people enjoyed that control system. Now I enjoy my share of RPGs, but when that was nearly all that I found interesting in the DS library, is it any wonder that I skipped the DS and waited until I got a 3DS to retroactively try out the DS library? ![]() You've got "New Super Mario Bros.," the (arguably inferior due to the D-Pad) remake of "Super Mario 64," "Mario Kart DS," "Metroid Prime: Hunters," a couple Zelda games, some Castlevania, the "Sonic Rush" duology, and very little else. However, it's library is very light on quality games in popular, more action-oriented genres like platformers, fighting games, beat 'em ups, any kind of shooters, other action and/or adventure games, sports (including racing) games, etc. Over 90% of its library consists of RPGs, puzzle games, casual touchscreen games, inferior handheld ports of console games, and games with lame controls that overuse the touchscreen ("Star Fox Command," "Kirby Mass Attack," etc.) While the DS may have an overall good library, I still say it's way too narrow for many core gamers' tastes, including my own. This list can still evolve as games receive new user scores, so don't worry if you missed out on 'voting' - simply scroll down and rate them now! Be sure to check out our feature on the 50 best Nintendo 3DS games if you want to compare this console's lineup with its successor. It's a very fine selection, but not one that's set in stone. We asked Nintendo Life readers to score for their favourite Nintendo DS games and, thanks to those User Ratings, the following ranked list of 50 games steadily congealed into existence. Perhaps the biggest compliment we can pay the Nintendo DS is that it made us forget entirely about the retirement of the 'Game Boy' brand - it's got one hell of a library! Gamers' favourite franchises continued to arrive in fresh forms while games like Animal Crossing: Wild World found a huge new audience, too. Software like Brain Training and Nintendogs sat alongside core RPGs and classic games on a system that could be as wacky or as straight-laced as a developer desired. ![]() ![]() With its approachable touchscreen input and huge breadth of software to appeal to audiences old and young, gamer and non-gamer alike, the DS helped bring handheld gaming to the masses which had felt 'excluded' from the Game Boy phenomenon for whatever reason. The gamble paid off, though, and the Nintendo DS became the first movement in a blue ocean strategy that Nintendo President Satoru Iwata would soon employ on the company's home console line with the Wii. ![]() How was an ugly dual-screen Game and Watch-alike going to win a console war?! Nintendo seemed to be grabbing at straws, and inexplicably jumping off the good ship Game Boy, scuppering its flagship handheld for no good reason. There was a nervousness from fans that Sony's arrival on the handheld market was the death knell to Nintendo's dominance in the same way it had been with the home console market nearly a decade earlier. The early reveal model Reggie pulled from his pocket looked undeniably clunky, especially up against the sleek elegance of Sony's PSP. The original prototype and even the initial 'Phat' version of the hardware certainly didn't look like much of a threat. That was until it promptly slayed the Boy king and took his throne. It's strange to think back to a time when the Nintendo DS - that odd-looking folding system - was positioned as a 'third pillar' alongside GameCube and Game Boy Advance.
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