Recommended DS games

[EBHughsThe1st]

I have an extra $30 laying around and I just NEED a new DS game. I have both Zelda and Professor Layton games, so anybody know some good games I could get?

 

[Lunepyre]

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia. Best Castlevania on the DS yet!

 

[Wakefield]

Hotel Dusk Room 215 is a good one. I also enjoyed Advance Wars: Days of ruin.

 

[MetaKnight19]

The DS games that I can recommend, simply because I thought they were awesome are

Kirby Super Star Ultra
New Super Mario. Bros
Mario and Luigi : Bowser's Inside Story
Mario Kart DS
Contra 4
Rhythm Paradise (or Rhythm Heaven in the US)
Final Fantasy 3
Phoenix Wright

 

[dthvirus]

Try Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift. I threw 80 hours into that.

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia. Best Castlevania on the DS yet!

I found the difficulty to be like running into a brick wall. But that's just me. If you want something just as good, try Dawn of Sorrow.

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

Funny that I have almost all of those.

 

[Acidwell]

The world ends with you is a good game.

 

[FoolKiller]

Kirby: canvas curse.... some of the most fun stylus gaming without it seeming forced. And I usually hated Kirby games.

 

[LeonLethality]

New Super Mario Brothers

Chrono Trigger DS

My top two recommendations.

 

[koriantor]

Chrono Trigger DS. Not only is it Chrono trigger, they enhanced it just a tad bit, so it still feels like the original, but with some nice polish.

 

[Phoenixlight]

Hmm I'm really enjoying final fantasy III at the moment, however if you don't like the idea of turn based combat you should look for something else. Games like mario kart DS and sonic rush seem to be liked by most people.

 

[link141]

The world ends with you is a good game.

This that game is amazingly fun.

 

[compensating]

Chrono Trigger
Metroid Prime Hunters
New Super Mario Bros.

 

[thepopeofatheism]

Sands of Destruction
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Hoshigami
Glory of Heracles
Phantasy Star [s/]0[/s]
Nostalgia
Avalon Code
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Disgaea DS
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
Suikoden Tierkreis

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

cooking mama is the only acceptable DS game!

 

[DarkSaber]

If you can hang on until about the 3rd week of March, Infinite Space is being released, awesome looking spaceship/rpg game. Design your own cruiser! Command a fleet! It looks freaking awesome!

 

[Craftybonds]

Kirby: canvas curse.... some of the most fun stylus gaming without it seeming forced. And I usually hated Kirby games.

Yup, this is still one of the most fun stylus-based games to exist on the DS.

As for my own recommendations:

-Meteos (i still play this every once in a while, nearly 5 years after buying it)
-Planet Puzzle League
-Elite Beat Agents (probably the best sound-based game i have ever played if not second to Amplitude, though it is very campy. which is only a plus for me)
-Any of the Castlevania games (Dawn of sorrow is probably the best, but the other two are quite enjoyable as well)
-Tetris DS(i still frequently play this game, four years later)
-Sonic rush. this is the only sonic game released in the last 10 years that i found to be actually fun. it's got all of the style of the original 3, but with a few additional tweaks that make it quite fun. the sonic advanced ones weren't too bad either. you can probably find this game for 10 dollars now too.

I think all of these games other than the castlevania ones are on the 10 and 20 dollars racks for being so old, so you could probably get multiple games off this list.