DS "Must Buy" Games

[Synergy1]

Ok I need an opinion.


I need a game that is going to take me a while to complete. I beat NSMB in like 6 hours of playtime. I have Yoshi's Island and Diddy Kong Racing that I play every now and then when I'm bored.


I need an RPG type game that won't complete in a 3 hours >_<;;.


Is FFIII any good? I have heard alot of people have it, but I few weren't very happy with it.

FF3 is meh, at first its cool but you have to lvl for hours and hours and hours and hours! Graphics are great for a DS game and the job changing is quite fun at first til you get drg and well thats pretty much it for the end game you really dont have to change jobs after that. I mean you can but meh there isnt really a point. Takes about 30 hours or so to beat the game . I unlocked the "hidden job" Onion knight and thats pretty much crap til you get to lvl 97 and get the stat bonus stuff. Story is pretty good , not the best one that ive played. Ending sucked really really bad it was a total let down, i wasted so much time playing it. Was it worth the 40 bucks.... No
(Only Buy it if you want to say you've played all ff games ....)

If your lookin for a rpg you could get umm FF6 the remake thats a really good game to begin with and im barely into it so far. Im dying to see whats been redone (Its the best ff imo)

Lunar Knights looks ok, havent played it yet
Also you could wait til 5/1 and get
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles -- Ring of Fates
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales 4/3 (card type ??)

I personally wish they would just come out with a MVSC2 Game for DS that might work

[Julian]

here's a question for those of you in the PKMN D/P know-how:

i heard you have to beat the elite four in D/P to get to pal park, but to access monsters from your Ruby/Sapp/Emerald game, do you have to beat the elite four in those versions? i'm asking cos i have a version of emerald that deletes the save file after you beat the elite four (sucks too =/ i got rayquaza with a timer ball too ; ; )

No.

You need to beat the elite 4 and see all 150 shinou pokedex pokemon (to get national dex) to open pal park in diamond/pearl.

99% sure you don't need to do anything in the GBA game you're putting in.

[Helpoemer]

here's a question for those of you in the PKMN D/P know-how:

i heard you have to beat the elite four in D/P to get to pal park, but to access monsters from your Ruby/Sapp/Emerald game, do you have to beat the elite four in those versions? i'm asking cos i have a version of emerald that deletes the save file after you beat the elite four (sucks too =/ i got rayquaza with a timer ball too ; ; )

No.

You need to beat the elite 4 and see all 150 shinou pokedex pokemon (to get national dex) to open pal park in diamond/pearl.

99% sure you don't need to do anything in the GBA game you're putting in.

yay thanks, i'll still be able to get rayquaza again, but no kyogre makes me sad ; ;

[Priran]

I read the first 2 pages of this thread, all I could think of was "holy hell, people actually liked Jump Ultimate Stars?"

fucking christ I played that shit through the ultimate muscle world, fucking boring as hell, it's a collect-the-coins game where you punch people

it's not good ?

Each manga has its own theme world. Each world is divided into like 3 stages. Basically, you have to complete several objectives per stage (most of which are displayed as ??????'s until you complete them). By completing these objectives, you obtain various little jiggies you can use to upgrade your panels, and usually you'll get a new panel as well. You have no way to find out what the rewards for these objectives are, or where to find a character you want, except that in general the character will be located in the theme world of their manga. A lot of these objectives are fucking ridiculous and tedious, like breaking the sides of the stage in less than 15 seconds with a complete shit character that they force you to use.

Fighting is just annoying. Either characters are shit, or they're awesome. I was able to zerg pretty much every match with one character who had like a laser arm that almost always shot people out of the stage if it hit them. On the other hand, every time I found a character I wanted to use, they were shit, and their specials were easily interrupted, which wastes your energy regardless. There's support panels but either they do nothing useful until you find some magical omgtheyweremadetobetogether<3 combo, or they're active support, and do shit like throw out health powerups at the low, low price of half your energy, which your enemy can then pick up at their discretion.

Someone compared it to SSB? It's nothing like it. The closest thing I could compare it to would be Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers.

[Syn]

I read the first 2 pages of this thread, all I could think of was "holy hell, people actually liked Jump Ultimate Stars?"

fucking christ I played that shit through the ultimate muscle world, fucking boring as hell, it's a collect-the-coins game where you punch people

it's not good ?

Each manga has its own theme world. Each world is divided into like 3 stages. Basically, you have to complete several objectives per stage (most of which are displayed as ??????'s until you complete them). By completing these objectives, you obtain various little jiggies you can use to upgrade your panels, and usually you'll get a new panel as well. You have no way to find out what the rewards for these objectives are, or where to find a character you want, except that in general the character will be located in the theme world of their manga. A lot of these objectives are fucking ridiculous and tedious, like breaking the sides of the stage in less than 15 seconds with a complete shit character that they force you to use.

Fighting is just annoying. Either characters are shit, or they're awesome. I was able to zerg pretty much every match with one character who had like a laser arm that almost always shot people out of the stage if it hit them. On the other hand, every time I found a character I wanted to use, they were shit, and their specials were easily interrupted, which wastes your energy regardless. There's support panels but either they do nothing useful until you find some magical omgtheyweremadetobetogether<3 combo, or they're active support, and do shit like throw out health powerups at the low, low price of half your energy, which your enemy can then pick up at their discretion.

Someone compared it to SSB? It's nothing like it. The closest thing I could compare it to would be Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers.

It's not hard to unlock most of the missions requirements in one shot instead of repeating it for n times if you manage to pick up the trends. Besides, they won't be ??? after you complete the previous requirement, ie, beating requirement 2 of stage X would change the ??? of requirement 3 to the actual requirement. If you are JP illiterate there's always guides online.

You play the whole damn game with Allen Walker and you complain about characters being shitty, did you even try experimenting with their moves and excuting combos? I used to think Ichigo was a piece of shit, until Milydksj tore me apart with a unblockable combo. The support characters all have description of what they do in the deck maker, they don't "do nothing useful", same thing, if you can't read, get a guide.

[Miltani]

wtf syn why am i mil-random letters no..

fyi that combo is not unblockable. There is no unblockable moves combo in the game. If someone block too much you can break his guard that's all and combo from there.

Allen Walker is not even that broken. If you've played online enough priran there's other characters out there worst than allen. It's basically how you build your own deck and have a strag for your own deck. Regarding support panel being useless? I would like you to meet trunks 3koma support panel. Or even 2 koma sanji support GG:DS is the worst gg port to DS that it's not even funny. Nothing can be as crappy as ggds

[Kenai]

here's a question for those of you in the PKMN D/P know-how:

i heard you have to beat the elite four in D/P to get to pal park, but to access monsters from your Ruby/Sapp/Emerald game, do you have to beat the elite four in those versions? i'm asking cos i have a version of emerald that deletes the save file after you beat the elite four (sucks too =/ i got rayquaza with a timer ball too ; ; )

No.

You need to beat the elite 4 and see all 150 shinou pokedex pokemon (to get national dex) to open pal park in diamond/pearl.

99% sure you don't need to do anything in the GBA game you're putting in.

yay thanks, i'll still be able to get rayquaza again, but no kyogre makes me sad ; ;

Ok, one more question for Pokemon D/P people, I just can't seem to find info on this.

I see that if you insert a particular older version into your GBA slot (like Emerald or FireRed), some Pokemon are unlocked to catch in the wild for as long as that game is in the slot. My question is, is there a pre-requirement to doing this, like getting the National Dex unlocked or something, or can I simply put a GBA game in and catch these right away? (some of these Pokes get unlocked on the very first route it looks like)...

[Julian]

here's a question for those of you in the PKMN D/P know-how:

i heard you have to beat the elite four in D/P to get to pal park, but to access monsters from your Ruby/Sapp/Emerald game, do you have to beat the elite four in those versions? i'm asking cos i have a version of emerald that deletes the save file after you beat the elite four (sucks too =/ i got rayquaza with a timer ball too ; ; )

No.

You need to beat the elite 4 and see all 150 shinou pokedex pokemon (to get national dex) to open pal park in diamond/pearl.

99% sure you don't need to do anything in the GBA game you're putting in.

yay thanks, i'll still be able to get rayquaza again, but no kyogre makes me sad ; ;

Ok, one more question for Pokemon D/P people, I just can't seem to find info on this.

I see that if you insert a particular older version into your GBA slot (like Emerald or FireRed), some Pokemon are unlocked to catch in the wild for as long as that game is in the slot. My question is, is there a pre-requirement to doing this, like getting the National Dex unlocked or something, or can I simply put a GBA game in and catch these right away? (some of these Pokes get unlocked on the very first route it looks like)...

...what?

The only way to transfer old pokemon is through PalPark, which only opens after obtaining the national dex(after elite4)

[Kenai]

I guess I worded it wrong. This is what I mean here: http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/gbapokemon.shtml

Do I need to have the national dex unlocked for this feature? This site, like every other, just won't tell me, and I'd rather not make an account there to ask, if I can help it...

[Julian]

I guess I worded it wrong. This is what I mean here: http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/gbapokemon.shtml

Do I need to have the national dex unlocked for this feature? This site, like every other, just won't tell me, and I'd rather not make an account there to ask, if I can help it...

I've actually never heard of that... orz@drawbacks from using a flash cart -_-

I'm guessing you might need the National Dex, cause most of those Pokemon aren't in the Regional Dex.

[Boyiee]

friend forced me to import the new bleach and jump ultimate stars :D cant wait till they come in this week!

[evilbau]

if you have slot 1 and slot 2 devices you can use the things which take advantage of having gba game in slot 2 (i.e. castlevania) i don't know if it works for pokemon though

[Maguspk]

wtf syn why am i mil-random letters no..

fyi that combo is not unblockable. There is no unblockable moves combo in the game. If someone block too much you can break his guard that's all and combo from there.

Allen Walker is not even that broken. If you've played online enough priran there's other characters out there worst than allen. It's basically how you build your own deck and have a strag for your own deck. Regarding support panel being useless? I would like you to meet trunks 3koma support panel. Or even 2 koma sanji support GG:DS is the worst gg port to DS that it's not even funny. Nothing can be as crappy as ggds

If I don't know any japanese I'll still find JUS enjoyable right? The upgrade paths can be fully unlocked right, not like I'm going to screw myself over by doing something dumb right?

[Kenai]

I guess I worded it wrong. This is what I mean here: http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/gbapokemon.shtml

Do I need to have the national dex unlocked for this feature? This site, like every other, just won't tell me, and I'd rather not make an account there to ask, if I can help it...

I've actually never heard of that... orz@drawbacks from using a flash cart -_-

I'm guessing you might need the National Dex, cause most of those Pokemon aren't in the Regional Dex.

I guess I'll have to register on some random poke-fan site then to find out for sure if I wanna know before release, lol. It seems like it would since most are in the national Dex and not the local one, but at the same time I was able to easily trade and use National pokemon in Ruby and Sapphire early in the game, they just didn't have descriptions in the dex until the National was unlocked. I'm hoping you don't need to unlock it, some of those pokemon types are really hard to come by normally that early in the game (wild Fire type Growlithe on the first route ftw!!!)

[Maguspk]

I guess I worded it wrong. This is what I mean here: http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/gbapokemon.shtml

Do I need to have the national dex unlocked for this feature? This site, like every other, just won't tell me, and I'd rather not make an account there to ask, if I can help it...

I've actually never heard of that... orz@drawbacks from using a flash cart -_-

I'm guessing you might need the National Dex, cause most of those Pokemon aren't in the Regional Dex.

I guess I'll have to register on some random poke-fan site then to find out for sure if I wanna know before release, lol. It seems like it would since most are in the national Dex and not the local one, but at the same time I was able to easily trade and use National pokemon in Ruby and Sapphire early in the game, they just didn't have descriptions in the dex until the National was unlocked. I'm hoping you don't need to unlock it, some of those pokemon types are really hard to come by normally that early in the game (wild Fire type Growlithe on the first route ftw!!!)

arcanine has the highest stats for a non legendary. It's too bad his movepool sucks

[Kenai]

Well, non-Legendary/Uber, it's not as good stat-wise as stuff like T-Tar, Dragonite and Slaking. I can't remember all the Pokemon in the different tiers of power, high legendaries with good stats are tier 0-1 and it trickles down, Arcanine is at the top of Tier 4 or 5, which is really good, maybe 15-20 pokemon are higher, and they are the hard to level/legendary ones. Arcanine actually got some good moves, like Thunder Fang and the new 120 power 100% acc. fire attack (it's like Volt Tackle but Fire). The starters and Ninetales and such still have better movepools, but Arcanine is getting up there (he's my fav ) Fire types normally can't be found in the game before the 3rd gym or so if you didn't pick the fire-starter, that was always kind of annoying to me.

[Miltani]

If I don't know any japanese I'll still find JUS enjoyable right? The upgrade paths can be fully unlocked right, not like I'm going to screw myself over by doing something dumb right?

Yes you'll find JUS enjoyable. All paths can be fully unlocked and no you won't screw yourself over for doing something dumb.
If you need a guide, head over to gamefaqs for the guides. They translated all the menus and such. I think i'll provide you a link anyway here (copy and paste it into the address bar or you won't be able to access it)
Here's a tip, go to online mode. Fight someone online whether you lose or not doesn't matter. Save that guys deck hopefully it's good. Head back to the J arena (unlocking mode) use that deck you saved in J arena to power lvl your way thru the game. Well some mission wants you to use the default deck but that shouldn't be a problem. Fyi you can't use the deck you saved online as your own deck and play it online. You need to build your own deck to go online meaning unlocking stuff and such.

I forgot to mention, nothing beats the online version of JUS

[Maguspk]

If I don't know any japanese I'll still find JUS enjoyable right? The upgrade paths can be fully unlocked right, not like I'm going to screw myself over by doing something dumb right?

Yes you'll find JUS enjoyable. All paths can be fully unlocked and no you won't screw yourself over for doing something dumb.
If you need a guide, head over to gamefaqs for the guides. They translated all the menus and such. I think i'll provide you a link anyway here (copy and paste it into the address bar or you won't be able to access it)
Here's a tip, go to online mode. Fight someone online whether you lose or not doesn't matter. Save that guys deck hopefully it's good. Head back to the J arena (unlocking mode) use that deck you saved in J arena to power lvl your way thru the game. Well some mission wants you to use the default deck but that shouldn't be a problem. Fyi you can't use the deck you saved online as your own deck and play it online. You need to build your own deck to go online meaning unlocking stuff and such.

I forgot to mention, nothing beats the online version of JUS

Can I go online and use the DS Mic and say stuff like, "I'm an American! LOL" or "OMG Naruto Uzumaki!"?

[Huggo]

I'm addicted to Hotel Dusk right now. I assume it's a 1 play thru only type of game.

[Miltani]

If I don't know any japanese I'll still find JUS enjoyable right? The upgrade paths can be fully unlocked right, not like I'm going to screw myself over by doing something dumb right?

Yes you'll find JUS enjoyable. All paths can be fully unlocked and no you won't screw yourself over for doing something dumb.
If you need a guide, head over to gamefaqs for the guides. They translated all the menus and such. I think i'll provide you a link anyway here (copy and paste it into the address bar or you won't be able to access it)
Here's a tip, go to online mode. Fight someone online whether you lose or not doesn't matter. Save that guys deck hopefully it's good. Head back to the J arena (unlocking mode) use that deck you saved in J arena to power lvl your way thru the game. Well some mission wants you to use the default deck but that shouldn't be a problem. Fyi you can't use the deck you saved online as your own deck and play it online. You need to build your own deck to go online meaning unlocking stuff and such.

I forgot to mention, nothing beats the online version of JUS

Can I go online and use the DS Mic and say stuff like, "I'm an American! LOL" or "OMG Naruto Uzumaki!"?

you can use the mic for frens battle only not battle with random pple.