DS Daily: Games you wanted to like, but didn't

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DS Daily: Games you wanted to like, but didn't

Posted Jan 26th 2008 10:30AM by Candace Savino
Filed under: DS Daily

We saw this topic on NeoGAF and thought it would be interesting to see what you guys thought, in the context of DS games. So tell us -- what DS titles did you want to like, but just couldn't? Maybe it was a game that you heard people say bad things about, or read negative reviews for, but you stubbornly wanted to like it anyway? Or maybe it was just a game that you wanted to like, but found it to be over-hyped? And, what were the reasons for you not enjoying said game or games?

Share your thoughts, folks. That's what the comments are here for.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

1-26-2008 @ 10:34AM

Basman said...

All Advance Wars games. They start too easy, then suddenly become really hard. Bad learning curve.

1-26-2008 @ 10:42AM

Metal_Link said...

Phantom Hourglass... I really did get bored of the damn Ocean King Temple before I finished the 3rd of 4th normal temples.

1-28-2008 @ 8:59AM

1p5v said...

thank god, it's not just me. that was such a cop-out on their part. i can imaging meetings going like this:

"instead of adding more actual design, let's make players do this 823423 TIMES and people will call it revolutionary!"

"GENIUS!! IT PRINTS MONEY ETC. ETC. ETC."

1-28-2008 @ 5:06PM

Metal_Link said...

Oh, I also didn't like StarFox Command too much, as I thought I would.

1-26-2008 @ 10:52AM

heartich0ke said...

Trauma Center. As much as everybody said how amazing it was, I just found it boring. It couldn't keep my interest at all and got quite difficult for no reason at times.

1-27-2008 @ 8:39AM

Kaiser Tia said...

Yup - Trauma Centre has the most irritating difficult curve. A brilliant idea for a game, but the superhuman level you're expected to play at early on is just bad design.

Also:

Another Code: Two Memories (I played this after Hotel Dusk, which was probably a mistake)

Puzzle Quest (Not Puzzle-y or Quest-y enough for my tastes - hypnotically boring)

1-27-2008 @ 1:50PM

Brello said...

@Kaiser

Puzzle Quest being hypnotically boring is right. That game put me right to sleep. So stagnant...

1-26-2008 @ 11:06AM

FoliathR said...

Children of Mana.

Loved the series but the feel of a huge world is just gone. What's left was just endless random dungeon-exploring and hundreds of monsters with HP so high it's unbalanced.

1-26-2008 @ 11:07AM

Very Metal said...

M&L: Partners in Time...I loved the gba version; even played through it twice. The DS version has never fully captured my interest and I can't put my finger on why that is...

1-26-2008 @ 11:36AM

chris said...

The game holds your hand too much. You can't figure out anything on your own.

1-26-2008 @ 5:44PM

Setai said...

People will probably hate me for this, but for me it was the other way around. I played Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time first, and loved it. Then I played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and beat it, but I just didn't have as much fun and I didn't think the story was as good.

1-26-2008 @ 11:22AM

THe Shit said...

All the mana games. After Legend of Mana on PSX they all turned to fail.

1-26-2008 @ 11:30AM

Stephen said...

Defintaly Jump! Ultimate Stars.
I have no idea what it is, But the game doesnt apeal to me.

2-03-2008 @ 6:17PM

Filler Doiski said...

Just becuase you don't know what it is doesn't mean you shouldn't like it. -_-

1-26-2008 @ 11:50AM

MrTyzik said...

Dementium - great art, great sound, bad level design and annoying bosses.

1-26-2008 @ 11:54AM

Rockel said...

I constantly hear mixed things about that game and still have an insatiable desire to try it.

1-26-2008 @ 2:51PM

Nigeria said...

Yeah that game was so overrated. I sold a week after buying it.

So many grey corridors, and even though I was progressing forward the level design was so bland that I felt I was constantly back-tracking.

And it's a real shame because the graphics and sound - of what sound you could hear - were so good.

If you like monotonous asphyxiation you might like Dementium.

1-26-2008 @ 11:52AM

Rockel said...

Resident Evil:Deadly Silence. I loved that game on a PS1, and it will always hold a special place in my heart as the game that introduced me to survival horror.

But playing the same game with the same clunky control scheme and the same clunky graphics just felt like a waste of my time.

Also, an honorable mention for Metroid Prime Hunters. I don't know what it was, though.

1-26-2008 @ 11:53AM

Lanceh said...

Pokemon Pearl; possibly my fault for anticipating something amazing. Something about it just wasn't right for me; perhaps the new Pokemon, or it didn't compare to the others, or it was too easy to blast through. I'm not sure.

1-26-2008 @ 12:02PM

ozroller said...

Elite Beat Agents. Just never got into it the way you guys did.
Oh! And Puzzle Quest.

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