![]() ![]() Why it was chosen: At their heart the Ace Attorney games are little more than fancy visual novels: although the aim is to defend numerous clients and help them avoid prison sentences, you don’t actually have much room for experimentation here and the story follows a strictly linear path. As their popularity grew global, more DS-specific entries were released. What it is: Capcom’s lawyer ’em up series originally started in Japan with the Gyakuten Saiban trilogy on the Game Boy Advance but fans enjoyed them so much they were ported to DS, complete with English localisation. ![]() The list *drum roll* 1) Ace Attorney series There’ll be a special list for DSiWare and other eShop titles later.Īnd remember, all these games work on the 3DS too. Don’t be surprised, then, to see some DS games still going for around £20 despite their age.įinally, just a note: this list only counts retail titles. We’re past the point where shops were selling DS games off at dirt cheap prices to clear stock in preparation for the 3DS: now we’re at a point where everything is out of print and therefore costs a little more. In the New & Used section you’ll often find it far cheaper.Ī warning, though: many of these games will now be more expensive than they used to be. Be sure to check the New & Used sections after clicking the link though: often the main price shown is some indie store charging silly money. It doesn’t cost you any extra, so it’s a win-win situation. This means if my list has tempted you to buy a game, if you do it through Amazon by clicking my link then I get a few pence (literally) of Amazon’s revenue for referring you to them. I won’t bullshit you: these are affiliate links. Everything in this list was deemed good enough to make the cut, so I recommend them all with similar enthusiasm.Īlso, where possible, I have included links to buy these on Amazon if you’re interested in a particular game. Much like it’s pretty pointless deciding whether a game’s getting a score of 72% or 73%, it doesn’t really matter if Mario Kart DS is my 23rd or 24th favourite DS game. So trust me when I say these 30 must have done something special to get in here. In the six years I spent at Official Nintendo Magazine I reviewed hundreds of DS games, arguably more than any multi-format journalist (since their publications wouldn’t have touched half the shite we covered). So, since it celebrated its 10th birthday in the UK yesterday, and since it was where my career began, it’s only fitting that my first ‘best games’ article should celebrate the best Nintendo DS games I’ve ever played. Granted, it was the abysmal Dragon Booster, but the DS will always hold a place in my heart for that reason regardless. The first game I ever reviewed professionally as an employee of Future Publishing was a DS game. With over 154 million units sold worldwide, it’s the best-selling handheld of all time and was around a million shy of overtaking the PS2 as the best-selling video game system ever. Offering significantly better graphics and games that could pass as slightly low-res PS2 titles, the PSP was far more appealing to gamers than the DS’s N64-era visuals and its touch screen, which appeared to be no more than a gimmick.Īnd yet, a decade later, nobody can deny the DS’s eventual impact on the gaming world. The best handheld ever? That’s a debate for another time Many gamers, feeling Nintendo was losing steam with GameCube sales slowing to a crawl, were more focused on Sony’s upcoming handheld, the PSP. On 11 March 2005 Nintendo’s chunky flip-case handheld arrived in Britain to a relatively muted response. The Nintendo DS turned 10 years old in the UK yesterday. These are my lists, paying homage to the games that I personally had a great time with. But I’m not going to add a game I’ve never played just because it’s widely considered a classic. The eventual result will be a number of platform-specific articles that, when combined, will list my personal favourite games ever, something I’ve never been able to share in such detail.īecause of this, there will be blatant omissions and odd decisions. These articles are also important to me in a personal sense because they mark the first time I’ve ever been able to write my own definitive ‘top games’ lists, rather than contributing to collaborative lists on ONM, CVG and the like. ![]() This is the first in a series of shameful SEO-milking articles that should hopefully still at least be helpful to you. ![]()
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