Throw some DS games at me

[greed]

Well keeping in mind your love of RPGs and that you probably already have the two DS SMT games, Strange Journey and Devil Survivor (if you don't well I don't have SJ yet, but Devil Survivor is a decent SRPG, the gameplay's not great it shows that the SMT team hasn't made one before, but it has excellent character development, writing and a very open ended storyline atypical for JRPGs, there's 5 very different endings stemming from the ways you can progress through the game) I can recommend the following.

Contact - fun, funny, fourth wall breaking game with a strange sense of humour, admittedly a lot of grinding and a unusual combat system.

Atelier Annie - Don't have it myself yet, but the Atelier Iris games for the PS2 weren't bad, so it could be worth a look. If they're anything to judge this by, expect cheesy anime humour, bizarre characters and an extrme focus on item creation (I heard somewhere it's the series that introduced the idea to JRPGs).

All three Castelvanias are good, I enjoyed Portrait of Ruin the most however. Ecclesia's combat system just wasn't as fun and Dawn of Sorrow was too easy even on hard mode.


Going way back, the first DS game that I really enjoyed and ate up a lot of my time, was Kirby's Canvas Curse. It's an unusual platformer relying exclusively on the stylus but done very well. It's also really old, I've seen copies going for $4.


Also yeah, the only really good thing about the DS Zeldas are the boss fights, which are extremely fun and very innovative ( the invisible boss whose location you determine because you see through it's eyes on the top screen particularly impressed me).