i dont think nintendo will ever recapture the DS magic. the split screen is such a big brain development that i dont think anyone will be brave enough to try again. the tough screen, microphone, turning the thing on its side, all introduced endearing little quirks to its games. the IR wireless connection capability made the social gaming possible anywhere. pictochatting, playing pokemon or mario cart at school or on the bus home with your friends or at the park with a stranger, it really opened up where and how we played with eachother. probably the best gaming handheld ever made, from a hardware perspective.
as fas as games go, 999 is a DS banger. escape room mystery drama with interesting sci-fi concepts and hilariously insane dialogue. kirby superstar ultra is 7 cute fun small games in one. scribblenaughts was a weird little madlibs puzzle toybox that, while pretty trivial in terms of difficulty, is charming and silly. etrian odyssey seems great but i never played much of it bc i lost my ds shortley after i got it :.( im a lifelong zelda liker but i did NOT vibe with phantom hourglass or spirit tracks and to this day theyre the only zeldas that ive started but never beaten, i got stuck in both of them and even with a guide i couldnt unstuck myself lol.
looking at a list of all the ds games, its weird to thing how much low effort and licenced shovelware there used to be in the 2000s compared to now, or even the 2010s. i guess games got prohibitably expensive for those smalltime studios to pump out janky games on the newer consoles. i know janky games still come out, but i feel like less and less of them are strange movie tie-ins or memorably bad platformers. perhaps this is just some old good new bad talking but i think that has a lot to do with how Diffrent(tm) the games industry feels now
as fas as games go, 999 is a DS banger. escape room mystery drama with interesting sci-fi concepts and hilariously insane dialogue. kirby superstar ultra is 7 cute fun small games in one. scribblenaughts was a weird little madlibs puzzle toybox that, while pretty trivial in terms of difficulty, is charming and silly. etrian odyssey seems great but i never played much of it bc i lost my ds shortley after i got it :.( im a lifelong zelda liker but i did NOT vibe with phantom hourglass or spirit tracks and to this day theyre the only zeldas that ive started but never beaten, i got stuck in both of them and even with a guide i couldnt unstuck myself lol.
looking at a list of all the ds games, its weird to thing how much low effort and licenced shovelware there used to be in the 2000s compared to now, or even the 2010s. i guess games got prohibitably expensive for those smalltime studios to pump out janky games on the newer consoles. i know janky games still come out, but i feel like less and less of them are strange movie tie-ins or memorably bad platformers. perhaps this is just some old good new bad talking but i think that has a lot to do with how Diffrent(tm) the games industry feels now