Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time.

The one before it was amazing, but this time around, they just fucked up.
I hated the linear exploration, I mean there's NOTHING else to do, I hated the baby's inclusion, and I especially hated the use of all 4 buttons to control 4 characters, I could NEVER master is and it was just annoying as hell.

I tried to enjoy it, I really did, but at point I just totally stopped playing it, I mean, bah...

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Contact. Just plain boring all around.

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Animal Crossing: I should never have bought it. I played the Gamecube version long enough for it to feel completed, but the Wild World is just the exact same thing to me.

Pokemon Diamond: I really want to like it, but I can only play it once every long period of time.

Star Fox Command: Shit sux

Lunar Knights: Too much action, not enough sneaking like the first Boktai games.

SBK DS: Noses too small.

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I have a reasonably long list:

Children of Mana
Etrian Odyssey
Dementium
Advance Wars Dual Strike (though I'm lovin' Days of Ruin)
Trauma Center
Contact
Metroid Prime: Hunters

I actually really enjoyed Dementium until I realized that I'd spent five minutes going backwards and not realized it due to the repetitive art and map design. Advance Wars was because the new characters sucked and the powers were way unbalanced. Metroid Prime was the same problems as Dementium.

I went into Etrian Odyssey thinking that the cartography aspect would be really fun, and then got pissed when I lost the first battle. Even the original Final Fantasy had a better difficulty curve than that. I hate grinding, but if the game is so unbalanced that I don't even get a chance to do that then there's a problem.

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Spider-Man 3- I don't like the almost entirely touch screen controls. There should be some things that can be left to button mashing. LOZ:PH bucks that reasoning, but they did it well. On the other hand, I love Spider-Man:FoF for the DS, a short game, but I could play it again and again.

MySims- When I started this it felt like more Animal Crossing, I just was not in the mood to build all that up again, so I put this away until I would be. Part of me is still hoping the DS might continue the Sims: Bustin' Out and Urbs feel that the GBA game held. Castaway came close, but I just didn't have the survival skills to last long on that.

Jam Sessions- I pray my brother doesn't see this, I did and still do tout this as something wonderful, I just am rubbish at it. And continue to be, sadly.

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If this were over on Wii Fanboy, I'd be dissing Mario Galaxy in this space.

Since this is a DS site, though, I guess I'd have to go with Atari Anthology. Yes, Tempest controls a lot better with the touch screen than with just a D-pad. Yes, they came closer to getting Asteroids right than any previous handheld version.

I also stopped playing Elite Beat Agents after 3 or 4 levels, but I wouldn't quite call it disappointment that made me stop. I was using my DS a lot in doctor and hospital waiting rooms, and EBA with the volume turned down or off just isn't that great.

But it was rushed out, and it showed, and the ghetto skins really detracted more from the gameplay than they added. Wish Taito would get that paddle control out over here and wish Atari (what's left of them) would put out a proper collection that would optionally take use of the paddle, even if they couldn't advertise it that way because the paddle was made by a different software company.

The first Spyro game for the DS would have been at the top of my list, but all the bad advance reviews I saw lowered my expectations quite a bit.

And then there was Yoshi Touch'n'Go. Oh my god, what a ripoff. Yes, there was a chorus of people going, "You should have known it would be a short game going in", but in truth, the screens and stuff I saw showed what looked like a traditional platformer with unique controls and a sort of obstacle course intro sequence, not a game with three brief stretches of different terrains repeated endlessly. At 15 or 20 bucks I wouldn't have complained, but that was a full-priced game at its release.

I had similar complaints about Pac-Pix, but at least when I finished that in 2 days I felt like I'd accomplished something. And it was cheaper to begin with.

So basically, I guess most of my DS disappointments came early in its life. Maybe I'm more inclined to trust online game reviews now, or there are more of them (Nintendo was largely either ignored or reviled in those Gamecube days, don't forget) but I just don't seem to be buying much that disappoints me anymore.... on the DS, anyway.

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Phantom Hourglass
Yoshi Touch n Go
Goldeneye - Rogue Agent
Mega Man ZX

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The second golden sun. I loved the first one though.

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Aside from Dementium, the main game that sticks in my mind is Drawn to Life.

I've never completed a game, got to the end, and realised I wasn't having fun but rather I was waiting for the fun to occur.

It was just so...tedious.

Though the characters you were supposed to save were cute and cool.

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