A quirky DS classic that shines in countless ways
With the Nintendo 3DS coming out soon Paranerds.com wanted to show that the Nintendo DS offers something else for everyone. We all know that Nintendo DS offers games like New Super Mario Bros., Brain Age, Nintendogs, Metroid and Tetris, but what about the games you walked by and ignored that were in bins for half the price? What about games you wanted to try but were too afraid to do so. What else does the Nintendo DS offer? They told you what games to play for the Nintendo Wii that was third party, and now they are telling you to try these hidden gems for the Nintendo DS. These are games that are not other wise known or have been highly looked over, so no Metal Slug 7 and no Contra 4.
Paranerds.com presents the Top Ten Nintendo DS Hidden Gems.
Nice article! The DS is chock full of awesome game. I think it's scientifically impossible to play all of the good ones in a lifetime.
Hubpages: "RPGs have gone through quite a metamorphosis over the past five years. Console RPGs are almost uniformly giant, big budget affairs. For those whose heart yearns for the classic, low-fi role playing games of the past, there's good news: the Nintendo DS has become one of the great repositories of JRPGs. Featuring both remakes and highly original content, these top Nintendo DS RPGs are enough to win over any fan's heart."
Most consoles struggle for a "Top 10" of any genre. Even PC. The DS, on the other hand, could easily manage a "top 20" list for RPGs, there are so many.
Contact is immediately recognisable as a product of SUDA51’s eccentric design, beginning with a retro stylised monitor asking you to configure your save data through virtual F Keys on the Touch Screen before refusing to give the player any indication of how to start playing the game. Only upon tapping our friend the professor will the game react, and immediately the fourth wall is broken. The player is not playing a game, but responding directly to that which is asked of him or her. Contact then takes things an inch further, reminding the player that it is in fact a game, and that the conversation they just had was one of entirely predetermined consequence.
The majority of the games Grasshopper Manufacturer develops go unheard of by the mainstream audience