Topic: The DS RPG Diet

[Crimm]

I'm working on a project - the general public is going to workshop it for me.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/blog/30858

I've played a seemingly innumerable list of DS RPGs (17), and in trying to consolidate my thoughts on the system I decided a quick inventory was in order. What follows is the list of every DS RPG I recall playing, what my thoughts were initially, and what they were at the conclusion of the title. For the sake of brevity (it's the soul of wit, you know) I'm limiting my "thoughts" to four words. 

Note: these may not relate to the game's quality - they are just my quick thoughts.

I plan on using this list for a future feature. This blog post is more of a workshop for the idea. Just doing this list has already been enlightening. I advise you try it with your gaming history. It has created an interesting mix of memories that historically had no reason to blend together.

Game	Release	Initial Thought	Post-game Thought
Mega Man ZX	September, 2006	I love Mega Man	I need map
Front Mission	October, 2007	Fond memories	Crushing depression
Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts	February, 2008	Generic-looking	Generic-everything
The World Ends With You	April, 2008	Neon-goofiness	MORE BADGES
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time	April, 2008	Kid's game	Sadist's game
Disgaea DS	September, 2009	Challenging	Impossible
Fossil Fighters	August, 2009	Generic	Insane
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island	October, 2009	No Comment	BUT SHE LOVES HIM!
Glory of Heracles	January, 2010	Interesting	Not interesting
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	March, 2010	What?	WHAT?
Infinite Space	March, 2010	I'm a master tactician	I'm a terrible failure
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light	October, 2010	So pretty	Still so pretty
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals	October, 2010	Heresy!
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn	November, 2010	Anticipation	Disappointment
Radiant Historia	February, 2011	Tears of joy	Tears of sadness
Inazuma Eleven	August, 2011	STAND UP STAND UP	IF YOU LOVE FOOTBALL
Solatorob: Red the Hunter	September, 2011	Furries	Delightful but unFURfilling*

* Sorry

[NWR_Neal]

Well, that was FURbulous. I've pretty much blocked Solatorobo from my mind except for the fur puns.


I think it's a testament to the quantity/quality of RPGs on DS that I also played a bunch of them and had little overlap with you.

[famicomplicated]

That Inazuma song neither rhymes nor makes sense, in any way shape or form.
Quite an impressive musical feat. (read: travesty)

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

All those RPGs, yet no Bowser's Inside Story, the best of them all. Boo-urns.

[Kairon]

That Inazuma song neither rhymes nor makes sense, in any way shape or form.
Quite an impressive musical feat. (read: travesty)

After looking that up on Youtube I... now want to...is there an anime of this I can watch?

[C-Olimar]

Dark Dawn is fantastic and not at all a disappointment. So there.

[Chiramii]

If you ever decide to watch the anime watch the Ryuu-Rogue fansub, the dub is horrible.

[oohhboy]

I have technically only have "Played" one on the list Infinite Space on the DS. Initial thoughts "**** yeah, Spaceships". Post game "That's not a moon" or "Mine is longer, bigger".

I finished Front Mission on the SNES, but it was after I played and finished Front Mission 3 twice which did spoiled me a bit. Initial thoughts would be "Yay, more Front Mission". Post game "This isn't very Tactical". Had they ported FM3 to DS, I would have been so happy, but they cheapened out on everybody. Porting the excellent untranslated FM5 to the 3DS would be amazing. It's Squares love letter to Front Mission.

Off list games:

Dragon Quest Heros: Rocket slime: IT "Looks like fun". PG "Short, Shallow, want refund".
Izuna 2: IT "Why pay for Roguelikes?" PG "It was OK".
Custom Robo Arena: IT "Robot fight!" PG "Personal miniature Gundam".

Anything else isn't much of an RPG. I don't count the Castlevanias as one.

[ShyGuy]

This was pretty funny

[TeaHee]

All reviews in the future should be written this way.

[broodwars]

This list is distinctly lacking in the excellent Mario & Luigi 3: Bowser's Inside Story and the terrible Mario & Luigi 2: Partners in Time.  Considering they're first party DS RPGs, I'm surprised James missed them.

[Fatty The Hutt]

weird list, likely mostly not of your choosing/ i.e., you got stuck with the review for most, if not all, of the listed?
 
anyway, you seem to be asking for a "workshop" of the list, but I am not clear what you are asking us to do.

[Crimm]

I picked most of it.


I'm actually just looking for people to reflect in in a way that is conducive to them. It'll help me when I get down to writing.

[ejamer]

The Infinite Space comment only makes me sadder that it's not part of the current Retroactive poll.   

[Zup]

Is this like the twitter of game reviews?


Well, here goes nothing, in no particular order.
(Title - Initial Thought - Post Game Reflection)




Golden Sun:Dark Dawn - More fun! - Less charm.
Dragon Quest IX - Traditional RPG - Frickin' addictive.
Etrian Odyssey III - Far too old school - Incredibly deep
Pokemon Black - Nostalgia time! - Bored after 20 hours
Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - Better than Superstar Saga? - Nope!
Radiant Historia - Interesting mechanics - Awesome battle system
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - Fun sequel - 24 hours straight...
Chrono Trigger DS - About time - Not revolutionary as promised




Looking over these, I still have to finish most of them. I get distracted a little too easily... now, back to Xenoblade...

[Hey Einstein!]

Just realised that the only RPG I played on the DS was Pokemon Soul Silver so here goes:


Initial thoughts: Grinding while I walk!


Closing thoughts: What was I doing?


I made the fatal RPG error, I left it for 6 months and when I tried to pick up where I left off I had no idea what to do.
Something about training monsters to fight I think...

[Lithium]

• Final Fantasy Tactics A2

          Initial thought: enjoyed the prequel
          Final thoughts: enjoyed the sequel

• Mario and Luigi: Bowser's inside story

          Initial thoughts: i like paper mario
          final thoughts: Bowser is Hilarious

• The World ends with you

          Initial thoughts: heard good things
          Final thoughts: lived up to hype

• Pokemon Platinum

          initial thoughts: haven't played since yellow
          final thoughts: nostalgia
 

• Pokemon Black

          initial thoughts: more nostalgia
          final thoughts: right, it never changes -_-

• Chrono Trigger

          initial thoughts: Apparently the gold standard
          final thoughts: It's the gold standard

• Radiant Historia

          initial thoughts: James Jones liked it
          final thoughts: i liked it to

[HellsAttack]

What did you think of the game "Contact" from 2006?