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What's your DS top 5?


The lesser fanboys over at our sister-site, PSP Fanboy, came up with a great little question to ask all the PSP owners: What are the top 5 PSP games currently available? In the spirit of showing them who really has the best games, we thought we'd let the DS fanboys take a shot at listing out their all-time DS faves (one thing is for sure, the DS has its fair share of great games. And, with today's announcement, there are plenty more just around the corner).

So, what's in your DS top 5? It's certainly all a matter of opinon, but we'll go first to get things going.

DS Fanboy's Top 5 Faves (or Ed's anyways)

  1. Advance Wars DS - sweet tactical combat with a sense of humor.
  2. Nintendogs - chicks dig it!
  3. New Super Mario Brothers - one word: Mario!
  4. Meteos - take that, Tetris!
  5. Ultimate Spiderman - yeah, I'm a big Spidey fan.

Now it's your turn to add yours to the comments below. Make sure you tell us the name of the game and why it's on your list of all-time DS faves.

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1. Animal Crossing - Most addictive, and the most replayable
Brain Age - Has me hooked.
Advance Wars DS - Fun, too bad I can't get past Mission 12
Mario Kart - DS Wifi Leader
Final Fantasy 3 - Because I love it and it's not even out yet.

Posted at 9:16PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Aaron 0 stars

2. So many good games, yet only 5 to choose, let's see:
1. Kirby Canvas Curse- Any platformer this pink puff ball sucks up and spits out is amazing, and this is no exception.
2. Animal Crossing Wild World- A terribly fun game while it lasted, and it lasted a LONG time.
3. Castlevania: Curse of Darkness- Incredible gameplay and incredible fun; never played a Castlevania game before this, and this will get me to buy Portrait of Ruin.
4. New Super Mario Brothers- A great game that gets you back into that Mushroom Kingdom platformer mood, that is just a great game.
5. LostMagic- Loved this game, until the ultimate Dragon missions were just so hard that I wanted to break my DS in half, although it might still have worked :O.
There are plenty of great DS games, which made it hard to choose my favorites, but these WILL be replaced with the upcoming DS games.

Posted at 9:22PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Zuko 0 stars

3. Yay for not having mario kart, animal crossing and kirby canvas curve, three games I feel are overrated.

My list would be:
1. Advance Wars DS - countless hours of addicting strategy. I've played for 50+ hours already (or so it says) and still have only half the medals.
2. Castlevania - The most absorbing game on the DS. I sat down one afternoon to try it and didn't stop playing for hours on end.
3. New Super Mario Brothers - The new abilities are really neat and the chance to play new levels make this an addicting game. If only I could reach the two worlds that seem to be optional, I'd be in true bliss.
4. Meteos - Because for the first 8 months or so that the DS was out, this was the only game I had to show people at Best Buy in order to convince them the DS was fun.
5. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time - What can I say, the game is damned funny. Well worth playing.

Posted at 9:23PM on Jul 25th 2006 by student 0 stars

4. 1. Animal Crossing - Beyond the addictiveness of the basic gameplay, the WiFi opens up a massive community for creativity and fun. There's so much to do, so much to collect, and there's such a strong camaraderie amongst players.

2. Mario Kart DS - I've been a fan of the franchise since the SNES days, and MKDS feels like a culmination of all of its predecessors into one awesome package. It's damn near flawless for what it is.

3. Tetris - It's freaking Tetris. The only way you can beat a classic round of Tetris is to add all kinds of wacky, fun play modes and allow you to play with three friends across the world at the same time.

4. Metroid Prime: Hunters - Incredibly fluid controls, multiplayer that rivals most PC first person shooters, and graphics so beautiful they almost have no place being on a handheld.

5. Tony Hawk's American Sk8land - Most people will think this is an odd choice, but I've been enamored with the series since day one (aside from THUG2 and Wasteland), and the concept of playing a good-looking, 3D sequel on a handheld, along with the ability to challenge people the world over, was and is very appealing to me.

Posted at 9:30PM on Jul 25th 2006 by D.T. 0 stars

5. 1. Mario Kart DS
2. New Super Mario Bros.
3. Metroid Prime Hunters
4. Kirby Canvas Curse
5. Ultimate Spiderman (Yes I'm a fan of spiderman aswell... and platformer games)

Posted at 9:35PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Adam 0 stars

6. 1. Trauma Center
2. New super Mario Bros.
3. Mario Kart DS
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I only have three games, but the two games I'll be buying are FFIII and either Starfox or MechAssault

Posted at 9:40PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Daren 0 stars

7. 1. New SMB - Best multi player ever
2. Warioware Touched! - Wario ware has a special place in my heart
3. Advance Wars - The General in my loves the war but the kid in my loves the cartoons
4. Bust A Move - Best action puzzle game. Hands down
5. Trauma Center - Innovative. We need more of this

Posted at 9:49PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Captain Skull 0 stars

8. Mario Kart- mario's goes wi-fi for the first time

Kirby Canvus Curse- ITS KIRBY!!!

New Super Mario Bros- reliving the clasic

Metriod Prime Hunters- look its hunter

Nintendogs- PLAYING = BELIVING

Posted at 9:52PM on Jul 25th 2006 by linkds 0 stars

9. 1.) Osu! Takatae! Ouendan! (A must buy for a rythym game fans)
2.) American Sk8land (Very solid Tony Hawk game)
3.) Animal Crossing (Fun but gets old)
4.) Meteos (Hurray!)

(Runners up: Mario 64, Rayman DS, and Metroid Prime Hunters)

Posted at 9:54PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Sangokyu 0 stars

10.
5.Super Princess Peach - Mario style platforming, nice to be the heroine for once :)
4.Trauma Center:Under the Knife - How can you say no to cutting people up,while at the same time saving their life?
3.Brain Age - I think i can do better than 32, but that damn BLUE keeps screwing me up
2.New Super Mario Bros. - its MARIO, and LUIGI platforming like the good old days, plus the added gameplay kept things fresh
1.Mario KartDS - Still play this often, racing online, or wasting time with Battle mode

Thats my list...
cant wait for what's next

Posted at 10:01PM on Jul 25th 2006 by braulio 0 stars

11. 1. Advance Wars - Hours of great strategy gaming.
2. Magnetica - Absolutely addictive, and the best use of the stylus yet.
3. Age of Empire - More good strategy gaming.
4. Mario & Luigi Partners in Time - As close to Zelda gameplay as we've gotten on the system so far...
5. Super Mario 64 - Classic 64. Now when do we get ActRaiser?

Posted at 10:01PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Debbie 0 stars

12. 1. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! (one of the best rhythm games ever)
2. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (fantastic gameplay with classic controls)
3. Electroplankton (my favorite live performance instrument)
4. Nintendogs (the reason I knew the DS would survive)
5. New Super Mario Bros. (yes. yes. yes.)

You know, five games seems far too short. There are a massive number of games that I can't get enough of for the DS.

Posted at 10:04PM on Jul 25th 2006 by T. Holbrook Walker 0 stars

13. Jason Wishnov's Top 5:

1. Phoenix Wright: Attorney At Law
2. Mario Kart DS
3. Trauma Center: Under the Knife
4. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
5. Metroid Prime: Hunters

Posted at 10:19PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Jason Wishnov 0 stars

14. Oh, this is hard!

1.Advance Wars DS, fun addictive strategy
2.Mario Kart DS, all i have to say is, WIFI MARIO KART!
3.New Mario Bros., MARIO FAN
4.Animal Crossing Wild World, sooo fun
5.MP Hunters, Even though i can't win in multiplayer

Posted at 10:26PM on Jul 25th 2006 by That1guy95 0 stars

15. 1. New Super Mario Bros.
2. Mario Kart DS
3. Metroid Prime Hunters
4. Meteos
5. Animal Crossing: Wild World

Posted at 10:26PM on Jul 25th 2006 by fcodc :: Exploding Barrels 0 stars

16. 1. New Super Mario Bros.
2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
3. Mario Kart DS
4. Trace Memory
5. Super Princess Peach

Posted at 10:39PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Lee 0 stars

17. 5. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney / JPN-style humor that I love, and good characters. I wanted to love it more but there wasn't enough character development. Still stuck on case 3...

4. Mario Kart DS / It's been a long time since my last MK game (N64) so I fell for this hard when I was trying to beat it. I don't have enough people to play multiplayer with this but it's great when I do.


3. Bleach DS [JPN] / Great fighting game that reminds me of the Versus games (MvC, MvC2, etc.). A lot of unlockables, great download play, and wifi mode to challenge yourself against others all over the world. I also like the Bleach manga so I fell for it even more.


2. Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan! [JPN] / Great rhythm game on the DS and it can get extremely hard. The music is good to pretty good for the most part and it's just so fun to play or watch friends/family play. The "plot" for each song is nonsensical but I'm used to this kind of humor. I watch a ton of anime and read two tons of manga...

1. New Super Mario Bros. / Can't say I loved the powerups as much as the ones in SMB3 but I loved double; triple-jumps and walljumping. I *did* love the mega mushroom in Mario vs. Luigi, though. Everyone I play with after getting that starts screaming loudly and the other player is running scared.

Posted at 10:46PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Hostile 0 stars

18. My Top 5...

1) Mario Kart DS - the perfect version of Mario Kart
2) New Super Mario Bros - Mario!!
3) Tony Hawk: American Skateland - Awesome portable skating
4) Animal Crossing - So addictive and yet so simple
5) Brain Age - love it!!

From everyone elses list's it seems like I need to go out and pick up a few more games. In particualar, Advance Wars, Castlevania, Trauma Center and Phoenix Wright...

Posted at 11:02PM on Jul 25th 2006 by BLarz 0 stars

19. 5. Advance Wars: Dual Strike
4. Lost Magic
3. Meteos
2. Animal Crossing: Wild World
1. New Super Mario Bros.

I still haven't played Mario Kart DS, Mario 64, Ouendan, Phoenix Wright, Castlevania, and tons of others. Rawr.

Posted at 11:27PM on Jul 25th 2006 by limerick 0 stars

20. 1. Castlevania
2. Mario Kart
3. NSMB
4. Tetris
5. Super Mario 64

Still am desperate to find Meteos, Bust-A-Move, Trauma Center, and Pheonix Wright. Would anyone recommend Sonic Rush, too?

Posted at 11:31PM on Jul 25th 2006 by Kat 0 stars

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